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Mazec wrote:saw the Ex open up and blow SY off the stage, and left in high spirits.

they'll just blow anyone off the stage won't they. i saw 'em do it to fugazi ca. end hits.

My mom, who only listens to Burt Bacharach and the Carpenters, got on a Foreigner jag. Had to have every album.

My dad likes Global Goon.

My conservative christian aunt likes Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians.

my brother got into neubauten. not saying it's a bad thing or anything, i just didn't see it coming.

In high school, I left a Bad Brains tape in the cassette deck of my mom's car. She came to pick me up from soccer practice and it was playing the 5th or 6th song after the one that was playing when I was driving the car last.

As a young punk, I was first turned on to The Birthday Party by this 30ish-year-old hippie biker guy (a friend of my friend's flower-child older sister).

We were hanging out at her apartment and the hippies (older crowd) were in the living room playing this cheezy electronic D&D game called Dark Tower and listening to old acid rock like Cream and Steppenwolf while my friends and I were in the kitchen drinking.

I went in the other room and asked them if I could put on some punk rock. I popped in a tape with a bunch of hardcore and some "industrial" music on there, and after a couple songs this one guy says, "Here check this out." I believe it was the album Junkyard.

Suffice to say, I was blown away. The hippies in the room were very annoyed with it. My friend's sister said, "This is the most obnoxious music ever," and the biker guy said "It reminds me of Beefheart" (at the time, I had no idea who Captain Beefheart was, but I soon investigated that one).

Come to think of it, it's not too surprising that a hippie biker guy might buy that record on a lark, just because of the Big Daddy Roth album cover.

that damned fly wrote:

Mazec wrote:saw the Ex open up and blow SY off the stage, and left in high spirits.

they'll just blow anyone off the stage won't they. i saw 'em do it to fugazi ca. end hits.

Also saw them open for Unwound right around "Thousand Leaves". BLEW them out the FUCKING CLUB. (Not that that's hard, Unwound is THE most boring band I've bothered to see at least 5 times).

EX? Greatest Live Band EVER!

when i was a young revolutionary thing i used to get a lift to meetings with a couple of incredibly old and square 40-somethings. one guy (Graham, R.I.P) was about as uncool as you can look to a vain little teeny indie boy. assumptions were quickly dispelled.

he loved Big Black (amongst other things) and I've still got the Cocteau Twins LP he sold me. taught me at that tender age that appearances are deceptive and coolness has nothing to do with appearances (sandal-wearing excepted)

When I was 16 and listening to Metallica, my stepdad finally got sick of it enough to get a new needle for his turntable and play his old Ramones, Clash, MC5 and Flaming Groovies albums for me. He even had a copy of The Suicide Commandos Make A Record featuring Chris Osgood, the guy who taught Bob Mould how to play guitar. Thanks Dad.

The missus' dad, a shamelessly unironic yacht rock and fuzak fan as well as the only uncloseted Toto fan I've ever met, relayed stories about how his mind was blown when he saw Hendrix with the MC5 opening. He loves "Black To Comm."

Our dearly departed cat Jasper loved when I sang Volcano Suns tunes to him in a low gravelly voice.