As a kid I was so stupid that I thought the Beatles' guitars had speakers. You?

I had friends who thought Led Zeppelin was the name of a single person.

 

As a wee Lad, I used to look at the Red and Blue Beatles comps and think that they had changed one guy for another one with a beard and glasses...

 

But she'd never seen them or knew of Ike & Tina Turner...and until around '65, when I found "A Fool In Love" in a 3 for$1 bins as a cutout, hadn't heard of 'em, either.

My thought, watching the early 'lip syncs,' was that everything seemed more loud, more FUN, than the record I had been playing. I swear, watching the short-lived, Milton Berle Show, that the Assocation and "Cherish" were the best thing in the world--that night. And still sounds cool--in mono. But I don't remember everyone playing the right instruments, or seeing any amps, or even mics...

 

I thought the title of "Trouble Child" on Court & Spark, was "Truffle Child," supposing that if you're going to be a kid who loves truffles, you might just be "Breaking like the waves at Malibu."

 

Reading liner notes, (Supertramp albums) I used to think that an acoustic guitar was a special kind of electric guitar.

 

Yep.

When I was six (1966) a local radio DJ did this "introduce" The Beatles each by name into the studio schtick on the air before playing a song and for a moment I thought "wow, I wonder if they're really there? Let's go see 'em!"

Hey, I was six.

Dale

 

Yeah, in the fifth grade, trying to impress a girl, I mentioned that I liked Ned Zeppelin. (It goes without saying that I hadn't heard a note of their music at the time.)

 

I use to believe that all those massive stacks of marshalls that Eddie VanHalen would have on tour were all used. I was a little crushed to find out only a few were used and the rest were for show.

 

I assumed that all big sounding rock/pop recordings were made in giant rooms. Neil Diamond's Holly Holy is one that comes to mind as my having thought that.

 

When I was a kid, I was so impressed that pop groups could go on TV shows and get the exact same sound they did on the record......





Dan

 

Don't feel bad. I sell guitars for a living and I had a mom come into the store a few years ago with a small acoustic guitar with burn marks on the top of it.
Her kid decided that he wanted an electric guitar, so he attached a wire to the high "E" string and a wire to the low "E" string and he plugged the wires into a wall outlet at home. The mother was laughing about it , but I'll bet he was surprised.

 

For about 3 or 4 years I was convinced I had seen The Beatles because as a 5 year old at Disney World (summer of '73) we walked past a band playing "I Want To Hold Your Hand".

Lip Syncing used to baffle me. I remember seeing Neil Sedaka on a variety show singing "Bad Blood" and I thought Elton John must be back stage providing the second vocal.

 

The Monkees really did live in that beach house. I also thought that Mike Nesmith used a quarter to play his guitar (didn't know what a pick was at the time). So, I strummed the hell out of my guitar with a quarter and begged my parents for new guitar strings every day.

 

At the beginning I believed that Def Leppard were German, purely because of the name.

 

When I was 5 or 6 and saw Help! for the first time, I assumed The Beatles really lived together and had zany adventures...

 

I used to wonder how bands managed to fade out while playing the end of a song.

 

When I acquired a relative's Elvis LP collection, & saw that this particular Loving You album was made in France, I was surprised & a bit disappointed to hear him sing in English.

 

Another thing that always threw me for a loop was British singers. Absolutely no accent in the song and then when they spoke it was like "huh"?

Cheers.

 

Reading the liner notes to Face Value I thought Phil Collins played a "Prophet" by dressing up like an old preist and singing In The Air Tonight in a very deep voice.

I was an imaginative child

 

I thought the lead guitar on The Guess Who's American Woman was a synthesizer.

 

When I was 5 or 6 the actual thought of overdubbing perplexed me greatly.

I was listening to a James Taylor recording (I forgot which) & noticed that another "James" was singing the background vocals. How was that possible?

I don't think I got "it" until the Buddy Holly Story...or the Davy Jones episode of The Brady Bunch (reruns of course).

 

What I "learned" about musical instruments whilst listening to Nirvana as a kid: The big crunchy sound (i.e., overdriven guitar) is a bass. Guitars only do crazy solos and stuff.