Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract. And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.
So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.
Thesis: the real reason there was a falling-out between the high elves and the dark elves is that the high elves are stuck in the Baroque era while the dark elves have discovered glam rock.
The question I have is this: at what point in musical evolution are the dwarves?
Both the mountain dwarves and the duergar/gray dwarves are into excessively dramatic choral music, but in their case it’s the other way ‘round, and it’s the creepy, allegedly “evil” ones who are stuck in the past. Gray dwarves are all about ponderously chanted hymns in the Gregorian mode, while the musical traditions of the mountain dwarves most closely resemble Appalachian ballads – you know, the really grandly morose kind that are all about mining disasters and the kids who didn’t come home from the War.
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