I go through this everytime I work, I work in a kitchen, and we take turns with music selections. I'm not listening to their crap, so I listen to my stuff and it's like mixed reactions for the next hour. I don't really say anything about what I listen to unless someone genuinely asks me, then I'll try inform them to my best knowledge, and fill them in a bit. without shoving it down their throats. I don't mind sharing music with others.

I work with metal guy, only he listens to shitty metal core. i hate working with metal guy.

Peripatetic wrote:

My eyes are burning.

Mpls People, do you feel like talking about being in a band with strangers/co-workers will inevitably lead to them asking if you have ever been on TC Muzique?

(For the non-Minneapolitans, TC Muzique is a terrible cable-access show that has been on constantly for 15 years that has never had a good band on the program once, aside form the time that Babes In Toyland were on and Kat B kept flashing her beaver at the camera.)

akinks wrote:

that damned fly wrote:

horsewhip wrote:"Do you guys play covers or originals?"

"How much money do you make at your concerts?"

"Do you play lead guitar?"

"Why can't you put the same passion into your work as you do in your guitar?"

"Do you get a lot of groupies?"

"What does your T-Shirt mean?"

CRAP.

perfect.

crap.

Seconded.

Also:

"What/who do you sound like?" Followed by you spending ten minutes trying to come up with a band/genre that you vaguely sound like, that this person might have heard of.

Brilliant! This happens to me nonstop....every fucking day....


Fuck, the people I work around are nice enough, but when they ask "who do you sound like" or "who do you like" I don't even know what to say.....because they wouldn't have heard of anybody....and I always make the mistake of saying "oh, we are kind of punkish, I guess, and poppy" and that leads to a whole other set of problems....

I don't know if it's because they're teachers or not (which means... at some point in their lives..... copious pot use), but my colleagues at the schools have always been supportive in a completely non-annoying way. They'd come out to shows, buy merch, ask how tour went, etc. It was always a pleasure.


Not Crap.

Eierdiebe wrote:i've never worked alongside people dumb enough to assume i'd like barenaked ladies cuz i'm a rocker.

Please!

Send a postcard to me!

I am an avid collector of missives that bear the postmark of Planet Totally Fuckin' Awesome.

P.S. Is the English language is your native tongue? I am legitimately curious!

Bradley, your internet wit is truly beyond my comprehension. i can only but bow before you! here's to nepotism!

hey, by the way, what do you think of the whole "lawyers are assholes" thing? crap or not crap?

Kind but Sheepish Colleague: You might be interested in this, Brett. I hadn't been to a concert since my college days, but recently my wife and I went to Nashville to see one of my all-time favorites: James Taylor.

Brett: Wow. What was that like?

Kind but Sheepish Colleague: Really great! He played all of his best songs, and his voice sounded perfect! [He begins rhapsodizing, not unconvincingly, about the soothing qualities of James Taylor's voice, only to interrupt himself in mid-sentence] . . . but you probably don't like James Taylor at all, do you?

Brett: I think "Fire and Rain" is a fine song. Gregg Allman does a really nice version of it.

Kind but Sheepish Colleague: C'mon, now, be honest. You wouldn't be caught dead at a James Taylor show, would you?

Brett: You're right, I wouldn't. I fucking hate James Taylor.

Crap because people think you want to be a RAWK STAR. They don't get the idea of rocking as therapeutic proletarian recreation. It makes you realize how aesthetically retarded all of your co-workers are.

In the little minds of my co-office monkeys I've been visualized as a wannabe: Bon Jovi, Bruce, Folkie, Black-Metalist (real quote "you don't wear makeup do you?"), or like that douchebag on the Bowflex commercial who's "living the dream" playing in a rock band with a leather vest and rad moves that make the honeys moist.

vockins wrote:The head of the IT department here got sick of touring with his rock band and started working here full time in the mid 70s. He was a temp before, working to make ends meet between recording and touring.

The head of my division got sick of touring with his rock band and started working here full time in the mid 80s. He was a temp before, working to make ends meet between recording and touring.

I got sick of touring with my rock band and started working here full time three years ago. I was a temp before, working to make ends meet between recording and touring.

It's like a goddamn rock and roll halfway house over here.

Nobody talks about music.

For my last job I started as a temp through an agency, then went full time/permanent, so had to apply for the job I was doing. Anyway, because it had that I was in a band on my CV they asked me in the interview what I'd do if my musical career took off. What do you say to that?