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

i've (not) met him, and he (at least according to alex) does. and i'm your...

fuck washing a hat.

I was there, Spring 1981, when an unknown Soft Cell played Rock City to a sea of blank faces, the week that Memorabilia came out.

I was there, Nottingham Garage, Summer 1986, when Graeme Park started playing Chicago house imports to the indie kids.

I was there, The Cock Live, Summer 2003, when The Scissor Sisters played rock music to the electro kids.

What?! I would have KILLED to see those three bands!!! Marillon...sheesh...

my sister was going out with the drummer of marillion at the time so i remember thinking i was pretty cool being on the guest list. needless to say, marillion were awful and no doubt what was going on upstairs would have been life changing!

d'oh!

Er, oh yeah - I saw them play to about 20 people in Cardiff last year. A location that makes it a bit difficult to add much to this thread (especially as it's mainly populated by Americans)

I asked Kim from The Muffs to marry me after a CBGB's gig.

I snuck backstage at a Cheap Trick Concert.

Joey ramone moved out of my way so I could put my amp down at the continental.

I hung with Pop Will Eat Itself after they played the stone pony in '94

My band opened for Pony.
My band opened for Versus.
My band opened for Silkworm.
My band went nowhere.

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.

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.

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......

I saw them six months earlier at Mercury Lounge, opening for VHS or Beta?, playing disco nu metal to the Chelsea boys.

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

I know. It *is* incredible.

Please don't, they're horrible.

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.

Four on One might be my favorite Matador record.

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.