When I was 15 I liked Metallica and when I heard 'Sad but true', I thought they were saying 'sand patrol.' Try it out loud, or if you are able, listen to the song, it really does sound quite feasible that that is what he may be saying. Sad but true, or should I say sand patrol.

5 years ago or so, I was writing whilst listening too John Peel on the radio. He was playing some crazy noise thing; all hiss and bleeps and static. It seemed to go on for an eternity, and eventually I was forced to rise from my desk and address the annoyance.

It was at this point I noticed that the radio tuning had slipped and that I had been listening to 'tween station noise. I'm pretty certain I'm not alone in this.

my buddy is a drummer. his mane is Dave duran. We laughed about calling a band duran duran duran.

tommydski wrote:playing an unrehearsed cover of 'nerves' and realising that i didn't know even one iota of the solo. instead i did a sort of interpretive dance.

fantasmatical thorr wrote:oooh. playing lola by the kinks on my own in front of my music gsce class (9 other girls and our blind albino teacher). i lugged my small amp and heavy guitar into school just to do that. it was like i had to prove i could play an instrument more than anyone else because a)it was not a flute, b) i wouldn't join the choir c)i can't read music. fusking bastards.

OK, I'm confused. What are these doing in the "embarrassing" thread? They really belong in a "proof of your awesomeness" thread. Salut, tommy and thorr! You have proof of your awesomeness(es)!

This incident didn't happen to me, but it happened because of me;
A friend of mine named Tony had a girlfriend who was going to grad school somewhere in New York. Tony and I lived in Los Angeles, and when June came around, it was decided that he would drive to New York, pick up his sweetheart, then the two of them would enjoy a week of camping and sightseeing on the way back to the west coast. Around that same time, I bought an issue of Motor Booty magazine which contained an article about the "Iggy Pop Wax Museum" in Ann Arbor. It looked like a cool museum. There was Iggy paraphenalia of all sorts, and even what appeared to be a life-size, bare-chested wax Iggy wearing the gold pants from the Raw Power album cover.
Very hot. When Tony told me he was hoping to stop by Graceland on the way out there, I said "fuck Elvis, you've gotta stop by the Iggy Pop wax museum."
"What?"
I showed him the article, and he agreed. He would pass through Michigan.
Three weeks later, Tony gave me a pen from Graceland. It was a great pen, but I wanted to know about the wax Iggy.
"There is no wax Iggy," he said.
When he got to Ann Arbor, Tony drove around for awhile without seeing anything mentioning Iggy; no signs, nothing. Finally he stopped at a record store that looked hip enough to direct him to the museum. The punchline here is, of course, there IS NO IGGY POP WAX MUSEUM. How-ever, the store Tony stopped at happened to be the same store that put together Motor Booty magazine. I guess they were pretty surprised that anyone believed the hoax.
That was about fifteen years ago. I still have the cool Elvis pen.

rocker654 wrote:Probably the minute I found out I was supposed to disavow bands/music I had liked in a "pre-enlightened" phase. I don't know, I still like all of the shit I liked for the same reasons, although I don't seek it out of the CD Closet as much.

hmmm, i think mine was me signing up to this (or any other) forum, in the hope of finding some interesting people to converse with...

diego wrote:

dipshit jigaboo wrote:Going to a Depeche Mode arena concert because it was free.

I did the same with Dire Straits.

tipcat wrote:

dipshit jigaboo wrote:Going to a Depeche Mode arena concert because it was free.

Try this: PAYING to see Depeche Mode.

TWICE.

In the SAME WEEK.

what??!!!?? so it's not ok to like depeche mode or dire straits?????

i didn't realise.......

jeez.... ok then, thats my biggest mistake, wanting to go and see a concert by depeche mode or dire straits...

damm fuck, and all this time i thought i was cool (notice, i think that over time there will be an overuse by me of the emoticon on the EA forum, thankyou)

i don't know if this has already been addressed, but in all seriousness, i did not realize Ian MacKaye was in both Minor Threat and Fugazi until i re-read the Fugazi interview in a 2001 Guitar Player circa 2002.

also, being in a studio for the first time was pretty goddamn embarassing. mostly because, for one thing, we realized we had no idea what we were doing, and two, because we had a really cool engineer - the kind who just lets you go nuts and do whatever you want. he made some suggestions, but with our limited expertise and inability to decide what we wanted to do, we ended up with horrible-sounding record. we returned to said studio a year later to make a good-sounding record.

hehe, i used to call fugazi "Fyoo-jar-zee"

mrdfnle wrote:my buddy is a drummer. his mane is Dave duran. We laughed about calling a band duran duran duran.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duran_Duran_Duran