― Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:00 (twenty years ago) link
I thought that 'air guitar' was something people actually played
I called Metallica "metal-issa" for a day until I was "corrected"
I believed until I was 18 or so that if you had your pictures in glossy magazines, had your stuff playing on college radio all over the country, and your CDs were available at Tower Records and Amazon, you were 'famous' enough to make a living doing music. Oh the irony!!! Some days I wanna pack it up and go get a job at fucking Microsoft. But now, having misspent my youth playing the 'air guitar' and collecting Unwound 45s, they'd never have me.
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:22 (twenty years ago) link
I sure play it.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:33 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:36 (twenty years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 12 May 2003 20:30 (twenty years ago) link
So did I. BOY WERE WE WRONG!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 May 2003 20:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 May 2003 20:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 12 May 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 May 2003 21:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 12 May 2003 21:26 (twenty years ago) link
― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Monday, 12 May 2003 21:28 (twenty years ago) link
"Once there was this world competition for all the best beat bands and Poland's Czerwone Gitary took the second place there, whereas the Beatles only came third. Everybody had expected the Beatles to win real easy but they didn't, for they didn't sing properly, they just screamed and screamed and screamed. Moreover, all of them Beatles weren't even there, half of them were already in the army."
vow. i was impressed. even despite the fact that my friend's exceptional piece of knowledge 'bout pop history didn't reveal who was the winner then...
now, i'm not entirely sure where exactly he picked up this story, though i suspect that his elder sister, who was studying in a nearby town and was going out with geetar-playing hairy geezers, may have imported it into our village
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 12 May 2003 21:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 12 May 2003 21:34 (twenty years ago) link
(Sorry, couldn't resist the shameless allusion to great, nay downright AWESOME Frehley-penned track).
― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Monday, 12 May 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick H, Monday, 12 May 2003 22:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Monday, 12 May 2003 23:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Poppy (poppy), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 00:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 00:23 (twenty years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 00:42 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 09:09 (twenty years ago) link
("Younger" here = "until last month")
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 09:19 (twenty years ago) link
I didn't know that "Van" was a first name. I thought "Van Morrison" was the guy's last name, like "Van Halen."
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 09:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 09:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 09:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 09:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 12:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 12:15 (twenty years ago) link
I thought the same thing, but about the pianist Van Cliburn.
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 14:33 (twenty years ago) link
― ss, Tuesday, 13 May 2003 14:49 (twenty years ago) link
Saxophones in rock songs = cool
Leather=cool
Sci-fi videos=cool
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 14:51 (twenty years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 14:56 (twenty years ago) link
― John Hunter, Tuesday, 13 May 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 15:04 (twenty years ago) link
There was a grossest man in the world contest and Alice Cooper took a S-H-I-T on stage and said, "I'm the grossest man in the world!"
Then Gene Simmons came out and ate it.
(It wasn't until 15 years later that I would hear about GG Allin.)
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 16:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 18:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 18:17 (twenty years ago) link
― goodnight gracie, Tuesday, 13 May 2003 19:20 (twenty years ago) link
This reminds me of a story I once heard Robert Forster tell about his parents calling R.E.M. "Rem"..
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 22:31 (twenty years ago) link
Back when I was twelve I thought:
later on, I mistakenly believed that
Sad, No?
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 02:16 (twenty years ago) link
I thought Jimmy Somerville did the low vocal on "Don't Leave Me This Way" and the girl did the high one.
I thought Chris de Burgh was a poet of some reknown.
I've since thought better.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 03:57 (twenty years ago) link
It's a common urban legend, also told of Frank Zappa. See here.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 06:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 11:02 (twenty years ago) link
Ya mean they don't?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 14:07 (twenty years ago) link
― cis (cis), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 14:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link
I'm guilty of this one too.
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link
― rexJr., Wednesday, 14 May 2003 18:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 19:26 (twenty years ago) link
― bklynbee, Wednesday, 14 May 2003 19:42 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 19:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 21:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 21:31 (twenty years ago) link
By the way, life would be FAR cooler if this was ACTUALLY how guitars worked.
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 15 May 2003 09:02 (twenty years ago) link
funniest thread *ever* btw
― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 15 May 2003 19:34 (twenty years ago) link
I thought Paul Stanley and/or Ace Frehley might possibly have been women.
I thought the scream on "Love Rollercoaster" was a woman being killed in the park where the song was recorded. I since realized that the song was not actually recorded at an amusement park, and that no females were harmed during its recording.
The first time I heard Bruce Springsteen (my brother in the room next door playing "The River"), I thought it was a new Kiss album, with Peter Criss singing.
Yes, I was a wee bit obsessed with Kiss.
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Thursday, 15 May 2003 20:17 (twenty years ago) link
Nothing wrong with that.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 15 May 2003 20:27 (twenty years ago) link