― emekars (emekars), Saturday, 29 April 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― alexandeer (advanced-stathopoulos), Saturday, 29 April 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― maybe the times, Saturday, 29 April 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Saturday, 29 April 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Saturday, 29 April 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Blue Filters (Gilkannon), Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
... so many.
Gotta realise though that if actually do meet some of these people (the more famous) that what y're bringing into it plays a role, ie. Do not let Mr Thomas stand around like a lemon.
― elizabeth anne marjorie, Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― bendy (bendy), Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― van igloo (van smack), Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Saturday, 29 April 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Washable School Paste (sexyDancer), Saturday, 29 April 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 29 April 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 29 April 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
My cousin ran into him in an elevator in a hotel in Oslo once, and at least from the impression she got she had nothing bad to say about him. :)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 29 April 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link
(all of whose music i kind of hate, oddly enough.)(okay, i'm slightly less sure about matthews i guess. but he seems nice in interviews.)
david yow, the one time i hung out with him (back when he was in scratch acid) was indeed extremely friendly.
― xhuxk, Saturday, 29 April 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
I've met Thurston Moore once and he was very nice even as I was drunk and a bit delirious.
― strom (strom), Saturday, 29 April 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
also my friend met thurston moore and kim gordon, and said they were assholes, but i think she met them by breaking into their house or something, so that sort of nullifies her opinion.
― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Saturday, 29 April 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― nique (nique), Saturday, 29 April 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
"Oh, hey, thanks, yeah it is a nice hat. I got it over at Urban Outfitters on sale when I was shopping for clever novelty t-shirts that feature states. Did you ever see the Oklahoma one, you know with the palm tree? That cracks me up. So yeah, do you want it? The hat...hey man, it's yours. Looks better on you anyway. Yeah, so if you have a pen I'll give you my e-mail. Those were some great ideas...I mean I was holding off of New Jersey becasue of The Boss and Bon Jovi and Sinatra and Whitney Houston and everything...oh man, I almost forgot Yo La Tengo and the Misfits, they're awesome too. But now maybe I'll put Delawho? Delawhat? Delaware on the backburner."
― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Saturday, 29 April 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
(someone upthread mentioned nelly. a friend of mine has met him and, yes, he IS a really nice guy IRL.)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 29 April 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― musically (musically), Saturday, 29 April 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 29 April 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― ratty, Saturday, 29 April 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link
the hold steadybjorkdavid byrnemark mothersbaugh
― Emily B (Emily B), Saturday, 29 April 2006 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Saturday, 29 April 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 29 April 2006 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 30 April 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 30 April 2006 00:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Sunday, 30 April 2006 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― davelus (davelus), Sunday, 30 April 2006 03:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 April 2006 05:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Going only off the Thurston clips in We Jam Econo, dude seems like a douchebag, but mostly in a full of shit way, I guess, as opposed to a specifically mean.
Speaking of which... The Minutemen, of fucking course.
Also, Wu-Tang Clan, especially RZA, Ghostface, Method Man, Raekwon.
― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 30 April 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Sunday, 30 April 2006 06:30 (seventeen years ago) link
you're joking, right?
― elizabeth anne marjorie, Sunday, 30 April 2006 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 30 April 2006 08:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Sunday, 30 April 2006 09:29 (seventeen years ago) link
also, all three of Saint Etienne seem like they're really nice
and if I was presenting a graduate thesis to New Order, I would expect to get torn apart by all of them except Stephen Morris, who would find some really positive, constructive things to say...
― hank (hank s), Sunday, 30 April 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― huygyug (scarlet), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris Wright (DrFunktronic), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― cop shoooooot, Sunday, 30 April 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― jason. (jason.), Sunday, 30 April 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Sunday, 30 April 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
that's not rude, it's called "the traditional way of doing business."
― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 30 April 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 30 April 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
sarah mclachlah looks like she would be kind of a bitch, but i'm not really sure what i'm basing that on.
― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 30 April 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Sunday, 30 April 2006 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Ghostface and Devendra Banhart.
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 30 April 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 30 April 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 30 April 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Monday, 1 May 2006 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link
David Thomas protocol is OTM. I have met him a few times - and if you're asking him questions, he's very cool. If there's an awkward silence, there's no recovering.
I'll bet John Doe is a good guy...
― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Monday, 1 May 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Robert Smith (Shy but friendly)Neil Tenant (Well mannered)Elisabeth Fraser (Sweet)Lisa Gerrard (Soft)Céline Dion (Down to earth)
― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
AH hahahahahahahahaha, so incredibly OffTM I can't believe it.
― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 1 May 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Monday, 1 May 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 1 May 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 1 May 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 1 May 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
But yeah, Alice Cooper makes me want to pat him on a shoulder and say "oh, wrinklepaws" "aww it's gonna be alright"
― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Monday, 1 May 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Monday, 1 May 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Bruce Springsteen seems like he'd be a cool guy to run into and chat with for a few minutes.
― mike a, Monday, 1 May 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― mike a, Monday, 1 May 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
She would offer me some tea and cakes, and we would talk of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings.
― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Monday, 1 May 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jubalique (Jubalique), Monday, 1 May 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
I've never met any of New Order as I would probably wet myself if I did (and that is so not a good look for a 40 year old) but from accounts of friends they're nice enough, esp 'ooky.
It's difficult to know really what these people are like, catch any of them on a bad day and your view of them is tainted forever.
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Aw, sweet! It's awesome that they live up to that kind of expectation. :)
The one time I met Robert Smith he was really nice, the fellow i was with was horrible to him and he was still really nice and even ended up writing to him, so i gotta think he's alright.
Aw, I would love to meet Robert Smith then! I'd love to give him a big hug and tell him The Cure are geniuses but would probably just end up blabbering semi-coherently to him.
FYI: Nick Rhodes and John Taylor? Nary a negative story regarding fan interactions with either one of them. And Simon Le Bon is nice to you if you're a slim, attractive young female in your early 20s, though he'd probably be attempting to get in your pants.
― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― white album - is it, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― mike a, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
What about Lionel Ritchie? Bizarrely I saw him play at a private function and he was stupendously nice to the audience and I wondered what he was like backstage. I couldn't imagine he was all "right, give me my fckng money now motherfckrs" but i suppose he might have been.
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
I met them all bar Bernrd at a J&MC gig, 1986 or so. Yep.
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link
well, interviewing people probably isn't the same as meeting and/or talking to them informally. I interviewed Suggs and some other dude from Madness in 1984 and they pulled the classic "cheers mate" for forty five minutes then when my time was up, boom it was like I wasn't there anymore, they just looked and talked right past me. I was young & naive enough to be offended but learned my lesson. journalists aren't your friends, really can't blame Madness.
conversely, I just hate it when a reviewer -- usually the indie-rock cheerleader type -- allows that artist X is an absolute sweetheart IRL. an admission of corruption/mediocrity in my book. lots of great art/music/film/literature comes from total assholes.
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― sonofstan (sonofstan), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link
though Kingsley Amis & Philip Larkin called him Prickarso
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Jonathan Richman totally just asked me for a ride home
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Hitler
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Friday, 3 July 2015 05:24 (eight years ago) link
ban 2006 ilx
― 2 jazz boys 1 jazz cup (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 July 2015 06:16 (eight years ago) link
I have told that Madness interview story (not as if it was me), as a cautionary tale about the 'niceness' of celebs. It doesn't mean Suggs and Chas aren't nice, but there's professionalism and sociability, and friendship is something else.
I'd also like to say, off topic, that this David Thomas document is still awesome.
http://www.ubuprojex.com/protocols.html
― Mark G, Friday, 3 July 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
Alex Lifeson
― 29 facepalms, Friday, 3 July 2015 14:42 (eight years ago) link