spending a serious amount of time working on music/working in an electronic music studio and not realizing that even really raw-sounding bands like shellac or jesus lizard or whoever (let alone big ass bands like radiohead or gnfnr) used multiple takes, overdubs, effects, etc and weren't just a bunch of dudes all standing in one room playing each song once while a tape machine was whirring...

i was amazed. and suddenly i didn't feel so sheepish about my 8track noodlings...

I didn't know what a power chord was until I was in my first band, at which point I'd been playing guitar for well over a year. My friend the bass player was like, "yeah- power chords" and demonstrated how to play one. I was like "Huh?".

matthew wrote:I didn't know what a power chord was until I was in my first band, at which point I'd been playing guitar for well over a year. My friend the bass player was like, "yeah- power chords" and demonstrated how to play one. I was like "Huh?".

Oh yes, I remember I went through this phase too in like 7th grade. When I first saw the tab for "Blitzkrieg Bop", I thought that the A, D, and E were first position, "cowboy" chords. I was trying to play every punk rock song this way, with lightning fast chord changes, and could never keep up.

- Chet

matty crappypants,

wasn't yr worst memory when you got your dick stuck in a piano?

glynnisjohns wrote: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.

As far as I'm concerned, Tom Waits hasn't written a song as good as The Babys' "Isn't It Time" (assuming John Waite wrote it.

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.

Props to the Babys. The first band to be referred to as a "punk band" on the Mike Douglas show.

Here's one:

The first time i ever made out with a girl, it was in the crowd at Green Bay's Brown County Arena as junior hair band Trixter played their power ballad "One in a Million" during their set opening for the Scorpions.

How does this relate to my music education? I still have yet to learn that that wasn't completely fucking awesome.

I heard "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay", the Michael Bolton version, before I ever heard the Otis Redding version.

bumble wrote:The Amy Grant Homeschooled Crew

Since I know the door guy and the bartender, I would at least check out the first couple songs.

Many years ago, with my first band we played an important show with another local band, it was the release party of their first album or something like that.....anyway, it was sold out.
In the middle of our set, my dear singer decided to tell a joke:
"Why is David Copperfield the best magician in the world?"
"Because he can hide his cock in Claudia Schiffer's vagina."

Two people laughed.

Now I think the situation was very funny.....but still, it was fucking embarrassing.

P.S: we still play in a band together.