― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:04 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:07 (twenty years ago) link
My band opened for Pony.My band opened for Versus.My band opened for Silkworm.My band went nowhere.
― earlnash, Friday, 11 June 2004 13:11 (twenty years ago) link
We started up in Fulham and somehow (I have absolutely no recollection of how) ended up at The Captain's gaff somewhere in Brighton.
I suspect that the reason we got invited to join in was because Lemmy fancied my gf.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago) link
Rob, the problem here is that if you removed the words 'before a solo gig in 1992,' this would describe every conversation with Paul Weller ever.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link
I was there, when Michael Stipe called me in 1995, having wrote the letter later referred to in "E-Bow the Letter."
I was there at the Von Bondies first show, when they were called the Babykillers, at a house, in Ypsilanti.
I was there, backstage when Momus opened for Belle & Sebastian in Chicago in 1998, I swear Isobel was flirting with me.
I waaaaassss theeere......
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:50 (twenty years ago) link
I saw them six months earlier at Mercury Lounge, opening for VHS or Beta?, playing disco nu metal to the Chelsea boys.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:03 (twenty years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:04 (twenty years ago) link
at Pavement's first-ever show at the Court Tavern, New Brunswick, NJ. I bought a copy of "Slay Tracks" at said show for $2.00.
at a Butthole Surfers show, also at the Court, at the height of their underground popularity (1986 or so)
at what I believe was Neutral Milk Hotel's first show with their classic lineup at Brownies, NYC.
at a Go Team/Yo La Tengo double bill at Maxwell's
at the Pixies' first NYC show at CBGB, with some friends of mine from NJ who opened the show
friends with a girl in college who put up Faith No More, the Meat Puppets and Tex & The Horseheads at her apartment
― mike a, Friday, 11 June 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link
I know. It *is* incredible.
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago) link
Please don't, they're horrible.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a, Friday, 11 June 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link
I ran into George Clinton on the street during my lunchbreak once. He was lost and looking for his hotel, as he had spent the night elsewhere after a gig the night before. I brought him up to the mailroom of my then job to use the phone. The bike messengers who recognized him were trippin'. This is a highly cherished memory.
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a, Friday, 11 June 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago) link
Four on One might be my favorite Matador record.
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago) link
I chatted with Mike Watt for 45 mins before a fIREHOSE gig in Edinburgh.
I've fleetingly met Paul McCartney, James Iha, Dave Navarro, Brian Eno, Syd Griffin, Genesis P Orridge, Boy George.
I've shared a chinese takeaway with Lionel Ritchie.
I've mixed the sound for some ads with Brian May.
I was at Sugar's first London gig.
And Dark Star's.
I saw NIN not long after Alex In NYC in a little club in Glasgow.
I went drinking with Lynnrd Skynnrd (sp?) and Sweep The Leg Johnny.
I made an album at the Who's old studio with Simon from the Cocteau Twins.
― mzui, Friday, 11 June 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link
― boldbury (boldbury), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago) link
Context please.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
m.
― msp, Friday, 11 June 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:54 (twenty years ago) link
or is that the point of these?m.
― msp, Friday, 11 June 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
etc etc
― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link
oh, and we saw trent reznor at universal studios in orlando with an elderly couple. he looked bored.
ah, and james gandolfini (sp?) sat next to us at ihop in nashville.
nashville is a starfuckers town for sure. it's small enough that anybody's that's been there for a decent length of time is easily one degree of separation from somebody.
― msp, Friday, 11 June 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago) link
Nooooooooooo.....!!!
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link
woot! we missed mark e. smith together!m.
― msp, Friday, 11 June 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― nick.K (nick.K), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
post of the week!m.
― msp, Friday, 11 June 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link
― autovac (autovac), Friday, 11 June 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago) link
― briania (briania), Saturday, 12 June 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link