Pet Peeves | Page 194 | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

Curiosity. At first you’re probably thinking what’s wrong with that, being curious is a good thing and it can be, learning can be fun but the problem is that it can easily get out of hand. If curiosity really killed the cat then cats would be extinct. I’ll be honest, I often overly curious about things, I really enjoy learning if I’m interested in the subject, learning is fun, it’s nice to know stuff like who played what on a Beatles song, DOB’s, stuff like that but it can make me look like a creep and or a pervert. For example, I know someone else’s social security number because they briefly had their social security card out, stupid choice as it gave me just enough time to memorize it. Fortunately, I only learn this stuff for my personal interest and have no intention on using it to steal money or anything immoral like that and since simply knowing someone else’s SS number isn’t illegal or wrong, I didn’t do anything wrong.

Since this segues well into the next topic, I hate how shock value is so fun to do despite it also being able to piss off people. For example, good shock value would be something like Starr Shine? telling us that she won the Nobel Peace Prize. On the other hand, bad shock value would be like if I told you that I killed my mother because she ate the last chocolate chip cookie.

When people feel the need to detune their guitars to sound heavier. This isn’t the case at all, bands like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Metallica, and even Slayer used or have used standard tuning.

Think of it this way, Slayer’s Raining Blood is only a half step down whereas George’s guitar in Rain is detuned to a low open A which due to The Beatles slowing the song down a full step makes the lowest note on George’s SG a bass G, the same note that you would get by plucking the 3rd fret of the E string on a standard tuned bass guitar, yet Raining Blood is a hell of a lot heavier.