Losing My Edge "I was there" poll

fuck james murphy and fuck you

well that escalated quickly

http://i.imgur.com/F5xK4wL.gif

imago otm except for the "fuck you brio2" because i like brio2 as a poster.

Going with the Jamaican sound clashes.

Paradise Garage, although I think we've had a relatively recent thread about historical concerts we've been to. Lj, settle down.

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

Lol

yeesh

ha, nothing personal Brio2, had to be done tho. i mean cmon. anyway i was at the six.byseven reformation gig in 2007

Suicide was formed in 1970 (i wasn't there)

i was at the six.byseven reformation gig in 2007

least "losing my edge"-like accomplishment thread, stat

shut the fuck up louis

I was there when fun lovin criminals opened for U2

lol

:D

Ah well, it seemed like a good idea.

Paradise Garage, Jamaica and Ibiza beach all sound like the most fun. Feel like I'd be on good drugs for these.

First Can show and Suicide and Beefheart practices - pretty awesome in theory, possibly major bummers in real life. Feel like I would be on bad drugs for these.

Went with Jamaican soundclashes.

i was at the six.byseven reformation gig in 2007

This is somewhere just above the opening of a new Starbucks and just below being first in line to see Transformers 4.

Voted for the one I most wish I could actually claim which is duh Jamaica + soundclashes

fuck dude i don't know, jamaica was basically a war zone in the 70s, you could've been shot just hanging out at a sound system

i'd probably go w/ ibiza in 88.

playing daft punk to some rock dudes seems like the worst of these imo

I was there when Dave Matthews went baritone.

I sold Mraz his first fedora at a Minnesota Goorin Bros.

when living in an espcially crappy part of the country, I once cut & pasted the entire band catalog from this song into the "favorite music" section of an okcupid profile, looking for someone to join me in awkward hipsterish self-loathing.

either nobody got it, or the rest of the profile scared 'em off....

this song is funny

Still a greal track. Fuk the haters

I saw the debut London gigs of Sonic Youth & the Swans in December '83 and April '84.

I saw the guy who went off with the shopping trolley Neubauten had had onstage with them get stopped from taking it onto a nightbus at Trafalgar Square in '85.

Was at one of the lesser JAMC riots at the Electric Ballroom.

Wow gosh isn't that impressive.

you never made a dime

Kiss at Varsity Stadium in 1976--not historical, just stupid fun I'm proud to have witnessed.

Neil Young debuting Rust Never Sleeps in 1978--that was kind of historical.

Seeing R.E.M. at Larry's Hideaway in 1983 for $5--I guess they'd already been around for a few years by then.

A Beastie Boys club show before Licensed to Ill came out.

Greil Marcus once filled out his Pazz & Jop ballot in this fashion, and his list was a little better than mine--Beatles' last show, Woodstock, Sex Pistols' last show, etc.

i saw blink 182 open for skankin' pickle

http://instagram.com/p/rzQIobru3z/

i'll probably never top this though:

i saw harvey play a beach party here in hawaii just three days ago. a half hour before sunset he put on E2-E4. about 25 minutes in i went up to him and asked, "are you going to play this one all the way through?" he smiled huge and replied "of course, man!" it was dark by the time the song's 58th minute rolled around. the mixture of an epic sunset with an epic track orchestrated by such a master selector created something hard to describe. it will probably remain one of my top 5 musical moments for the rest of my life.
― grady (grady), Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:18 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i saw jewel at the san diego music awards in the early 90s, she gave a shout out to the brand of bottled water she drinks.

I saw simon and garfunkel, reunited for the first time in decades. a very drunk eddie van halen stumbled on stage and played along to bridge over troubled waters

I was at the Jane's Addiction show included in the Cabinet of Curiosities box.
I was at Pussy Galore's last L.A. show in 1989.
I was at the GG Allin show that opens the movie Hated.
I was at Patti Smith's NYC comeback show at Irving Plaza in 1996.
I was at the first NYC show by the reunited Stooges in 2003.
I was at 2NE1's first East Coast concert in Newark, NJ (their second US performance ever).
I was at Fushitsusha's last NYC show in 2003.
I was at Sonny Rollins's 80th birthday concert when Ornette Coleman came out and they played together for the first time since, like, 1960.
I think that's all I got.

i got wasted for the first time ever in a bar across from cbgb, but did not go any nearer to cbgb, in 2005

I was probably at a cool show once, but I was too drunk to remember.

^^^

I was at the Jane's Addiction show at the ICA when the smoke machine set off the fire alarms and everybody had to go and wait outside on a cold November Mall.

I once helped a singer from a not very good indie band find his mate's phone at a gig in Dundee

I don't remember the name of the band

Right after moving to Seattle in spring 1990 I was riding the bainbridge island ferry with my friend who had already been there a few months and he introduced me to Chad Channing; looking at the timeline I guess he must have just left Nirvana (who of course I'd never heard of at the time).

My other ones are all from art fields other than music so nm

I was there when Rage Against The Machine didn't play Lollapalooza, instead opting for several min utes of feedbacking unplayed instrument while standing on the stage with PMRC on their chests.

Oh, and they were totally naked.

http://www.festivalsherpa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rage_against_machine_400-naked.jpg

I wasn't there. Ever.

Ned you and I were there when sonic youth played their first show after having all their gear stolen

Was that "This Ain't No Picnic"?

I drank a beer with a guy who drummed for Travis Morrison

I saw Sister Hazel perform a show when they were just breaking on the circuit, before they were popular.

by the end of the set I attempted suicide

succeeded

I've been to your mom

I was there at passerby when James Murphy told me he was recording a song about how impressed he was with all the hip young bands and how much they know.

I was there after the outhud show in the back of passerby when Thomas or Eric played Losing my Edge and Beat Connection and nobody I was with had any idea what it was.

I was there on ILX dropping names still in 2014.

I was there at James Murphy's DJ set last year in Philly
I shook his hand at the end, felt a real connection

I was there at Stuart Murdoch's film premiere last week in Brooklyn
I asked him a deep question afterwards, felt like he really understood me

I ate Guy Mann-Dude's asshole at a Pizza Hut in 1997

I was there at James Murphy's DJ set last year in Philly

where was this? morgan's pier?

Was that "This Ain't No Picnic"?

It was indeed.

where was this? morgan's pier?

It was at the "Lodge at Waterfront Winterfest"

i was at the first Islands show
i saw arcade fire open for the unicorns

the edge was lost right away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGDKTTNXH2w

^ I did actually once see the Palace score 4 goals away from home.

not ashamed to say i just went looking for crystal palace 5-4 defeats. tbf i couldn't find any haha

You should've looked harder. Blackburn away 1988. How we all laughed.

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I saw Dave Grohl play drums for the first time since Nirvana at a Foo Fighters show. OI also once got a rly nice hug frm Derrick May after he played an amazing set

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-I saw George Strait open for Eddie Rabbit at the Houston Rodeo
-I was there when George Jones first opened Jones Country Music Park in Colmesneil, Texas.
-I was at the Wynne Unit band's show at Huntsville Penitentiary Rodeo
-I rode the bull at Gilley's