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TIL Germs and Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear appears as one of the dancers in Prince's 1985 video for "Raspberry Beret." Dave Grohl in the book "I Want My MTV": "Pat can't dance so they sent him home (...) Prince whispers in the bodyguard's ear. Bodyguard says, 'You can stay. He likes your hair.'"
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TIL Daryl Hall's (of pop duo Hall & Oates) first solo album produced by King Crimson's Robert Fripp was initially shelved by RCA in 1977, leading outraged Hall and Fripp to pass copies of the record to journalists and DJs. Hall's fans started a letter-writing campaign requesting its release.
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TIL one of the first use of avant-garde technique of tape manipulation in music was the 1955 hit "Jingle Bells" by The Singing Dogs. Using a razor, Carl Weismann cut, then spliced sounds of dog barks together, correcting speed, pitch and melody of the resulting tape. It reached #22 on Billboard.
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TIL the band Yo La Tengo once reenacted the entire "The Chinese Restaurant" episode of "Seinfeld" live. This was part of their 2011 tour where the first half of every show was decided by a wheel of fortune spun by an audience member. Link includes a video of this moment.
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Reply to TIFU : Bought two fireplaces at auction, now my dad wants the nice one. by Lunchable-Toast
TIL about the existence of electric fireplaces.
Who do you think will understand the situation and handle it better? You or your father? Do you think it is important for your dad as much as it's important to you?
I personally would let my dad have the one he liked... I don't know, you'll be able to buy another one in the future, I'm sure, and your dad will have something new to brag about it, something that his son indicated for him to buy it and he liked the idea, the hype!
Take care.