cwileyriser wrote:

Chapter Two wrote:There's a whole thread on here somewhere of what to say when your friend's band sucks, without actually saying "you sucked". But I'm damned if I'm trawling through the 977 threads that come up when you put the word 'suck' into the search function. If you can find it though, it's a goodie.

I think I found what you're referencing:

http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9840

Is that the one?

johnnyshape wrote:I am going to add a 'nice' anecdote to this list, about the time my band were lucky enough to open for Fugazi. I know stories are legion about their conduct and geniality; this one's mine.

It's 11pm, and we are in the wings with our jaws on the floor watching Fugazi finish their hurricane-force set. Guy Picciotto is on the deck, bathed in sweat, wrapped in mic cable doing his electroshock therapy thing.
They finish and walk off into the wings. About ten seconds later, Guy comes up to me and our singer standing by our gear, and says: "Hey. Thanks so much for playing. Do you need a hand with your gear? Where's your van? I'll give you a hand." We barely get the chance to reply when he says "Oh sorry, we're doing an encore." He dives back on stage for two songs with the crazy freak dance setting on full. 2000 people go ape. They finish for good, and fifteen seconds later Ian and Guy, calm and pleasant as you like, are helping us load out. I also remember each one of them making sure they shook hands and introduced themselves individually to everyone in our band.

This incident caused me to re-think my behaviour at shows and on tour. Extraordinary band, extraordinary people.

choppy wrote:What do you mean?

Hosoi wrote:

choppy wrote:What do you mean?

Still is gone.

tmidgett wrote:
Someone asked about Godspeed You Blackened Catfish on the other thread. I think Dianogah would agree with me on the following:

No matter how grand their aspirations, the first band on a bill should probably not start 45min late. I mean 'for real' late, not after-the-doors-open late.

And a 90min set is too long.

Especially when they have to be asked to stop and their breakdown time is about half an hour.

I don't want to tell tales out of school, and it's feasible certain people wouldn't want to be involved in the tale-telling, so I won't go into the myriad other shitty things I know them to have done

tmidgett wrote:
Dianogah cut their set to 15min so Silkworm could go on only 1hr late.

j_harvey wrote:Also, they are just not very friendly. Our drummer tried to engage a few of them in hockey talk (the man loves hockey) and they said something like "You are american...you can not like hockey." Then they walked off. Did I just tell a tale out of school?

j_harvey wrote:

tmidgett wrote:Dianogah cut their set to 15min so Silkworm could go on only 1hr late.

We did this? Wow, we are really nice. When was this?