Not music related and it's the opposite situation, but Alec Guinness was paid a fee of $150,000 for Star Wars, but also negotiated a 2% cut of the box office takings.
I wanted to do the same. When I was 16 I went to an RAF information day. I was a year too young to join. By the time I was old enough, I'd gone off the idea. I'd wanted to that from about the age of six and suddenly I had no idea what I wanted to be and still don't.
You just know that, as Ugg was crouched over, using a piece of sharp flint to whittle the first spear, someone was standing watching over his shoulder saying "Ugg, not want do like that..."
I always wondered... toolmakers use tools to make more tools, so what did the first toolmaker use to make the first tool? And that's how religions start! 😂
Once I get the room sorted, I'll have to put my bass on a stand. I can't remember the last time I played it. I have my guitars on stands and play them all the time, because they are there and I don't have to drag a case out from under the bed to get at them.
She's electric,
She's from a family full of eccentrics,
And the circles they are all concentric,
In Casablanca, Ilsa liked to say 'Rick'
In my head this rhyme did stick...
Welcome to the site Eddy.
Pshaw, nobody remembers the name of the guy who played the second ever Fender bass. Now, the guy who played the first ever Fender bass was... give me a minute, it'll come t me. It's on the tip of my tongue...