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

I heard the Glen Campbell version before I heard the Otis version.

Going to a Depeche Mode arena concert because it was free.

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.

until 6 months ago, i thought that song goes "hey ricky you're so fine" (as opposed to "mickey"), i guess because i heard the weird al version first when i was a kid and never differentiated between the two versions.

also, when i was young and had never laid hands on a guitar, i insisted that solos were played entirely by changing the note with the whammy bar. i assumed there was no other way to play bendy notes and i informed all my friends that all solos are all-whammy, and they all believed me.

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

I did the same with Dire Straits.

glynnisjohns wrote:Thinking Prince was saying "Cigarette Corvette" not "Little Red Corvette".

My wife thought it was "We'll Recollect."

diego wrote:

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

I did the same with Dire Straits.

Hootie and the Blowfish. Also, the Goo Goo Dolls. And for those of you who maybe feel there was a time when the Goo Goo Dolls didn't suck, this was after that time.

Until consciously listened to the JAMC (aged around 15 I guess) I had always thought that 'Some Candy Talking' was by Mr Mister.

at home after my first day at secondary school i was eager to do homework (yeah yeah) so i was upstairs in my room with my headphones on listening to the beatles, singing along and playing a homemade shaker made from wood and bottlecaps (yeah yeah). you know when you feel like you're being watched? well, guess what. i slowly turned around to find not only my mum but my best friend and her mum all stood in my doorway. laughing. i think i just turned back and waited until they'd left. i was 11.

1)it took my 14 years of my life to realize that all you need to get a "cool rock sound" (distortion) from a guitar is a little amplifier. before, they only guitars i had seen in my life were acoustic ones (and one unpluuged electric) so i assumed all the shit stadium bands have on stage (walls of equipment, miles of cables, fucking lights even) somehow make this amazing guitar sound. i was shocked when i heard this sound coming from a box much smaller than a tv. yeah.

2) i once wrote an essay "my two minutes with marylin manson" to win mm tickets in a radio contest. i wrote it from anton shandor laVey perspective, and marylin manson was desribed as a shy assholish crying pussy. guess what, i won.
note: i've never listened to marylin manson.

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?".

me too!! i'd been playing from the beatles songbook forever then i got offered the position of rhythm guitarist in my boyfriends 'noise/fudge tunnel appreciation' band. when they found i only played open chords, they told me to go home and practise, that it was gonna hurt but that i had to if i wanted to be in the band. so, i did just that. boy it hurt! but, i softened the blow of having me playing substandard power chords by giving them all my easter eggs.