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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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Submitted by Bubbly-Incident t3_10hun1f on January 21, 2023 at 4:09 PM in todayilearned

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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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Submitted by Bubbly-Incident t3_10h1mqk on January 20, 2023 at 4:43 PM in todayilearned

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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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Submitted by Bubbly-Incident t3_zukh8j on December 24, 2022 at 10:32 PM in todayilearned

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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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Submitted by Bubbly-Incident t3_y0sptr on October 10, 2022 at 10:57 PM in todayilearned

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