What's the most "losing my edge"-like accomplishment you can boast?

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at Flipper's last show, with Live Skull and Die Kreuzen. It was good.

at the first US show by The Sugarcubes/Jesus & Mary Chain. They were not so good.

at a show where Dinosaur Jr. & MBV played so loud I couldn't hear that well for a while.

at a Ride show at Maxwell's, NJ, flirting with Miki from Lush the whole night.

at an amazing AR Kane show at said Maxwell's with only about 30 other people.

Ah, youth.

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No, I'm not jealous.

Being in the same circle of friends as 1nf1n1t3 L1v35 and fairweather indie-dance types 50uth.

(Both encounters within a 4-month period in '91 at the same Toronto club.)

Rick Lee or Steve Calhoun?

God, I saw NIN on this tour, also, but at a little dive bar called DJ Freak's in Newark. Turd-O-Licious. All the Wax Trax/PIAS/TVT folk used to play at DJ Freak's. I saw The Young Gods/ Meat Beat Manifesto (dinosaur-suited dancers phase)/Severed Heads/MC 900 Ft. Jesus & DJ Zero there.

i'd be stoked to be in Pam's sitting room, whether it was the Clientele or fluff fluff fluff fluff and cuddlyness playing

1.Bumped into Phil Lynott in a restroom doorway at the 688 Club in Atlanta.
2.Took a swig from a can of beer that Iggy Pop handed me after a show, on the sidewalk outside 688.
3.Seen REM open for BowWowWow at the Agora Ballroom, Atlanta.
4.Been in a band that opened for Full Time Men & Plan 9 (two different shows, not together) at the 688 Club.
5.Let Johnny Thunders use my cap as a windscreen because the mic was shocking the flying hell out of him, once again, 688. It had a ton of his spit on it, and I never washed it again.
6. seen the Only Ones open for an Atlanta band called the Restraints, Atlanta Agora.
7. Gotten shitfaced with Nikki Sudden & Drivin' & Cryin' (his backup band for numerous Southeastern gigs while recording the Jewel Thief in Atlanta) before, during, & after their gig at the Point, Atlanta, and at the Chameleon Club, Atlanta. Nikki is partial to white russians, and a really cool cat.

ok most of this is whatev but I would have been pretty thoroughly undone by a sparsely attended 10,000 Maniacs gig and a slightly perplexed Natalie Merchant

^ found the GenXer

I was walking to a bar to see Mark Eitzel play and a guy on the street asked me for directions. The guy was (you guessed it) Mark Eitzel.

I asked D4vid Newg4rden, who was stepping out of a West Village bar with a few other people, if he was headed to the Yo La Tengo show down the street... after a pause, he motions to the guy standing next to him, and says: "Yes... here, meet James, the bassist."

saw jeff rosenstock perform solo in 2005 (?) with his ipod as bomb the music industry at an ethiopian restaurant with three other kids and an accompanying dad. i absolutely would have never thought he would end up p4k famous in any way

after playing a festival i got to sit around back stage with peter lang as grant hart stood around waiting for the fest manager to show up

waited in line behind laurie anderson at big ears for a beer

...knew the guy who put out the first 7" EP by Ragady Anne (before they changed their name to the Donnas) and went to a couple of their early gigs.
...drove the band Kirihito across the SF bay in my tiny Toyota Corolla and ate Thai food with them.
...had a conversation with Anthony Braxton in a tiny Canadian hotel bar while Thurston Moore was hanging out with members of Wolf Eyes nearby.

Of more signifance in my personal canon was the first Telepathic Fish party in Dulwich where Mixmaster Morris set up CD decks and a DAT player in the Kitchen and played through to the late morning to the assembled few stuck to the floor. Satellite Serenade was a moment.

best downtempo gigs in the worst spaces, always

Flew back 1st Class from Brazil in 1998 (partner worked for BA; this was her Christmas trip) and Nick Cave was one seat over from me. 12-hour flight and I didn't once pluck up the courage to speak to him. He drank about 3 bottles of red wine and smoked a ton of cigarettes.

Had better seats than Lou 'n' Laurie at a Richard Foreman play and a screening of Ladislaw Starewicz animation.

I was onto Shamir very early, from soundcloud before their first EP came out. Did a song together that they were on uncredited, and I still have some post-album Shamir demos on my hard drive (songs that never came out).

I helped my roommate lug his electric piano up to Bill Berry's dorm room and sat around while they attempted to jam.

i crashed The Big Bopper's plane

I saw Perfume Genius play at a little basement all-ages venue called the Healthy Times Fun Club, looking somewhat terrified to be performing at all. Several years later saw him commanding a festival stage probably 500 feet from the long-gone venue, looking supremely confident.

I saw the first ever Silverfish gig when they sounded like they had been together for like ages. Camden Falcon.
Also saw fuzz's previous band the In-Stinks quite a few times. Should have taken over as singer.

I saw Nirvana on their first UK Tour a few times, still with Chad Channing drumming

I saw the 2nd Nick Cave & the Cavemen gig. Wish I'd heard about the first one supporting Nina Hagen at the Fridge before it happened.

I saw the London debuts of both Sonic Youth and the Swans not sure how many people did. SY were really p-ed off that they had to go on so early cos the audience hadn't arrived and definitely not the press who were supposed to be coming to see them. Very intense though short set during which i think they blew up a bass amp. Swans supported the Fall at Heaven and i think the bar was in a different part of teh club so I think more people went there rather than face the barrage of sound.

lol Neanderthal

Saw Jewel at the San Diego Music Awards in like 93 or 94

I guess that’s not a coffeehouse.

there are few bands who I was an early adopter of, closest I can get is having seen Dillinger Escape Plan on the Calculating Infinity tour and buying my actual shirt off of Dmitri, but by then they were already a big deal.

I did see Foo Fighters first world tour and met/got Dave Grohl's autograph in 1995, but he was already a well-known star then, and this was well after "i'll Stick Around", "Big Me", and "This is a Call" were all over radio.

if you're a fan of The Drag Race, I knew Ginger Minj before she did drag, and did a production of Grease with them in 2002 (I was Roger, they were Doody).

I saw the first ever Silverfish gig when they sounded like they had been together for like ages. Camden Falcon.

That reminds me I ended up at a party at (I think it was) Fuzz's place on new year's day a while back. Thank for the glass of port, Fuzz.

Also not so long ago I was at a new year's eve thing where there maybe 15 people including me, C0lin Newm4n and M4lka Sp1gel. I don't know them and didn't talk to them so this just sounds creepy. Although I suppose this only really works if it's people you don't know.

This also sounds creepy and I'd met her a few times pre-fame but the future cap'n Phasma wearing something very small and gold in a burlesque club can't help but make an impression.

i don't have any of these, but this happened today:

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