Frankie99 wrote: Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:10 pm

indiegrab_360 wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 11:52 pm

Anonymous37 wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:45 pm

I don’t get it. Is there some reason I’m missing why it would be embarrassing to tell Kim Deal you have all her albums?

Up until that point it's what... all 2 of em? Last Splash and Pod?

Safari EP! RIght?

Not an album, but whatevs.

He suddenly recalled he was wearing an Amps visor and Pixies shirt.

Emo’s in Austin, 1997. I got to a Dirty Three show ridiculously early. I went and sat at the bar. Next to me was Warren Ellis. The bartender gave me my beer. I sat for a moment, took a sip, turned to Mr Ellis, and said something like “How long have y’all been on tour” or “How’s the tour going.” He turned to me and gave me a look that said get away from me, you pathetic small-talking cunt. I grabbed my beer, stood up, and walked away. Far away.

They were really good that night.

Dave N. wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 3:25 pm Emo’s in Austin, 1997. I got to a Dirty Three show ridiculously early. I went and sat at the bar. Next to me was Warren Ellis. The bartender gave me my beer. I sat for a moment, took a sip, turned to Mr Ellis, and said something like “How long have y’all been on tour” or “How’s the tour going.” He turned to me and gave me a look that said get away from me, you pathetic small-talking cunt. I grabbed my beer, stood up, and walked away. Far away.

This reminds me of when I was at Big Ears fest last year, and I went to see Xylouris White. Jim was talking to fans before and after the show. I didn't have the guts to go up and ask him about the status of Dirty Three (I know they've since released an album, hoping they play some shows here in the states).

Anthony Flack wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 4:56 pm Haha, what was it that fm steve called me? I don't recall exactly, but it was from the opposite side of an argument. It wasn't meant to be an argument but steve was passionately wrong about something. I can relate.

I once came up face-to-face with the drummer from Shihad backstage at at show, said "oh, hi" and he just stared at me with this look of total contempt on his face which I guess is the face he uses on his fans. I don't give a fuck about Shihad and only said hi because he was right in my way. Whatever. What a surly man. Yeah, I guess I'll judge his character on that five second interaction, but what a face.

On the other side, my band played an opener for John Halvorsen (The Gordons, Skeptics, Bailter Space) and his new band just yesterday, and he was very nice and friendly and normal. The audience was more aloof and chin-strokey than we're used to though, a reminder that the music snobs of the '90s are still out there.

I do forget just how unpleasant the band scene was in the '90s, but if you were cool you were too cool, and if you were not cool you were NOT cool. Now everybody is old and nobody is cool.

Ha… the Had. I had… ah em… quite a bit to do with them back in the late 90s. Karl is the only pleasant one. Phil is probably tolerable now he’s not drinking but Tom and Jon are (were?) complete pains in arse. I’ve shared many a rider / portacabin and when we’d get “don’t touch our table” from Jon, Karl would grab bottles and come sit at our end.

Killjoy is still a great album…

Jimbo wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 1:04 pm Not unpleasant but more embarrassing, when former FM Tom was interning at EA and I was in town he invited me to check out the studio and the Breeders were recording Title TK. When I met Kim Deal I said "I have all your albums...oh no..." She politely smiled and I made my way out of the room.

I do indeed have all her albums though.

I had a great experience meeting Kim. My first wife and I were watching Shellac at ATP 2002 and I looked past Fabi and noticed Kim was standing right beside her knocking back a Heineken. We started chatting after the show and my wife asked if they were going to play Gigantic. Kim grabbed Fabi by the shoulders and shook her yelling “I love that song” A completely surreal experience. Kim signed my program then marched off looking for the bar.

I should mention here I’ve met a bunch of my musical idols as I know Debs from ATP and they’ve all be great in general.

joe_lmr wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 1:17 pmSo I was like, every one of the Pkids is a lovely human so it's a bit weird to hear this about John the drummer from Tortoise, but it's the other John the drummer from Tortoise who was in Poster Children.

I read the Lanegan book after this thread started where he trashes everyone in Poster Children ("and the feeling was mutual") except for John Herndon who he liked.

My own Pkids (and their side projects) experiences, they just seem.. introverted.

penningtron wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 3:52 pm

joe_lmr wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 1:17 pmSo I was like, every one of the Pkids is a lovely human so it's a bit weird to hear this about John the drummer from Tortoise, but it's the other John the drummer from Tortoise who was in Poster Children.

I read the Lanegan book after this thread started where he trashes everyone in Poster Children ("and the feeling was mutual") except for John Herndon who he liked.

My own Pkids (and their side projects) experiences, they just seem.. introverted.

All the Poster Children people are nice in my experience. Essentially not like Mark Lanegan in any way, temperamentally or behaviorally.

I liked Sing Backwards and Weep, having been in Seattle 1990-2001, and I basically liked Screaming Trees, but Lanegan definitely was not someone I would've wanted to spend any time with, not back then anyway.

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Among people with "holy shit I'm talking to..." status:

Iggy was kind and relaxed. I said nothing of substance about music, for where would I start. We watched Pee Wee's Playhouse with my then 3yr-old kid. He said he sometimes registers at hotels as PW Herman.

Sonny Sharrock was really lovely and gentle and humble. We actually DID end up talking substantially about music--the guitar's place in free music and how he ended up playing the way he did, his guitar and how it was set up, stuff like that. I asked him (this was '92-93) if Monkey Pockie Boo would ever get reissued, and he laughed really hard. I was truly grateful to have met him, and it more than made up for the keybs being massively too loud at the show. I can't believe he was younger than I am now when he died.

eephus wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 2:37 pm

penningtron wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 3:52 pm

joe_lmr wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 1:17 pmSo I was like, every one of the Pkids is a lovely human so it's a bit weird to hear this about John the drummer from Tortoise, but it's the other John the drummer from Tortoise who was in Poster Children.

I read the Lanegan book after this thread started where he trashes everyone in Poster Children ("and the feeling was mutual") except for John Herndon who he liked.

My own Pkids (and their side projects) experiences, they just seem.. introverted.

All the Poster Children people are nice in my experience. Essentially not like Mark Lanegan in any way, temperamentally or behaviorally.

I liked Sing Backwards and Weep, having been in Seattle 1990-2001, and I basically liked Screaming Trees, but Lanegan definitely was not someone I would've wanted to spend any time with, not back then anyway.

Yeah. The whole book was basically him atoning for what a shitbag he was during those years.

Probably just very different people: computer geeks from IL & nogoodniks from a small town on some tour neither wanted to be on. The memorable quote from that section was him walking by the greenroom and overhearing Rose say something like "who does he think he is.. Jim Morrison??". Which A) she probably felt bad that got out and B) not entirely untrue!

penningtron wrote:The memorable quote from that section was him walking by the greenroom and overhearing Rose say something like "who does he think he is.. Jim Morrison??"

100% accurate observation