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

I was there at the Bull & Gate watching Suede with no more than nineteen other people on a at least two occasions. Manic Street Preachers and Blur at the Camden Falcon, Ride at the LSE quad, Stereolab at the White Horse in Hampstead. Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Freebutt in Brighton. Divine Comedy like ninth on the bill at some all-dayer at ULU, I bought the first LP off them. Verve might have headlined. Radiohead supporting Cardiacs at the Astoria. Smashing Pumpkins at the Venue in New Cross. Carter USM everywhere.

Nothing particularly edgeworthy - just catching a lot of shows and some of the bands got more popular. 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.

I was there at my university dining cellar at lunchtime when a guy named Tim Dog got on stage and talked shit about Compton over a beat.

My closest is probably seeing Kyuss open for Dinosaur Jr.

One of the only times I've been rude to a band onstage was seeing the Black Keys in a small bar abt 2002. My friend and I found the singer's affected over-the-top 'grizzled bluesman' voice hysterical, and yelled "wooo, BluesHammer!" at them a few times. They were not amused. Not extremely proud of it but I stand by it.

I saw Dead Can Dance in 1990 and they asked for requests and I was the "Free Bird!" guy. I mean, come on, you're Dead Can Dance. You don't ask for requests.

I saw the Replacements and they asked for requests (after playing about 25 songs)--I yelled out "I Don't Know." Paul and Tommy shrugged at each other and launched into "I Don't Know"

Saw 10,000 Maniacs play a sparsely attended show at First Avenue and afterwards Natalie Merchant walked up to me and asked if it was always like this.

Me and two high-school pals had front-row seats to Lou Reed's "Magic & Loss" tour in 1992 (not quite front-row center... the guy who got to the record store window before us, on the Saturday morning the tickets went on sale, had those seats for himself & a date).

My buddies and I were going crazy for much of the show, yelling dumb stuff at Lou, etc. He looked over at us a few times – most notably, when he sang-spoke the line "He was turning into his parents" (in "Harry’s Circumcision (Reverie Gone Astray)"). After the last song, after Lou set down his guitar, it looked like he started taking a few steps toward us; then changed his mind and walked offstage.

I just remembered one exchange (to give you an idea of how dumb we were) –

Lou: "This next song is about something that's very important to me... does anyone know what that is?"

Us: "HEROIN!!"

Lou: "...No. Revenge."

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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