Ah! I've got it! A contemporary one relevant to this forum:

I've never heard Silkworm or Dianogah.

I was carrying stuff for a band and I was late to meet them. I had a twenty minute walk and most of it was up hill. the jeans I grabbed were two sizes too small and so on the walk up the hill I tore most of the material off but the backs of the legs were too long. I figured when I got to scotts house I would cut the material off and that would be enough. When I got to Scott's, Blair, the front man, was there and he saw my "shorts" and I was dubbed "Groinboy" and it stuck.

As you laugh, I die a little inside.

The first cd I ever bought was Smash, by Offspring. Isn't that really embarassing, huh?

mine was "the scatman"

i remember thinking, "hey, if the scatman can do it, so can i"

I was at All Girls Christian Camp before the 7th grade. (Yes, I have some funny stories. Yes, I got in a lot of trouble. Heaps.)

I met a really cool girl named Joy who had her own taste in music. I was an orchestra geek at the time, just a half step up from The Amy Grant Homeschooled Crew ("The Undead"). Joy listened to stuff I had never heard of before. She played me the Cowboy Junkies' version of "Sweet Jane" and I swooned.

A couple of years later, I picked up my first bit of Velvet Underground and rushed home with it. I threw it on the stereo and waited for that moment to come back, the moment I had first heard "Sweet Jane".

I was very confused it wasn't the same song, and completely devastated.

Wasn't really embarrasing but there was a thread when I first started posting here where everyone explained to me that my favourite bands work day jobs when they're not touring. That was a kick in the pants.

One time, many years ago at 4-H camp, my friends and I decided to enter the talent show. Only thing is, we had no definitive talent. But we did all like The Monkees. Oh, we sure did. We decided we would lip-sync the theme song.

"Well who has a tape of it?"
"Not me" (x3)
"Well, we can just sing it ourselves."
"Okay" (x3)

So we got up in front of about one hundred five to nine year olds and sang and sang and sang. There were two tennis rackets and a baseball bat involved. I played a bucket, just like I'm sure Mickey would have, had he been in the same situation.

The worst part is that, at the time, I wasn't embarrassed. The next night I wore a long sleeve, blousy, pastel, plaid, buttoned shirt (unbuttoned three deep), tucked into my excessively high and tight blue with white side stripes shorts to the dance. I asked the girl in the poodle skirt to dance. She said no. At the time I wondered why. I am pretty sure I have figured it out by now.

Jon

Cassingles?

H-GM wrote:2. A flyer in my college listed a show with "Melvins," and below that "Helmet" in big bold letters. I then proceeded to ask various friends if they were going to see Melvin's Helmet.

Classic.

Mine would be buying Jane's Addiction's _Nothing's Shocking_ and Soundgarden's _Ultramega OK_ on the same day in 1988.

I did mushrooms that night and thought they sounded *great*.

I listened to them a couple of days later, and I immediately got in my car and returned them to the store.

There was a time in my childhood when the name Tom Waits and John Waite were the same people as far as i was concerned.

Anxiously wanting to check out these Guns and Roses,
You know i was big fan of Love and Rockets and hey, the names are so close. i was disappointed.

Thinking Prince was saying "Cigarette Corvette" not "Little Red Corvette".


I was a dumb kid.