Willfully attending Rush concerts.
Nine of them.

Yeah, as in 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Rush concerts.


The thing that gets me is that they were pretty much shitty concerts every time... no unique experiences really from any of them... But we were such fans we had to go. All of this sober as well, no drugs or drink. Just nerdyness, awful, suburban, middle-to-Highschool nerdyness.

Oh, but once Neil fucked up a change drastically in "Freewill", at which point I recall exclaiming to my friends "He's not a machine, He's a man!". That seems to be the extent of any sort of variation from show to show.

God Help me.

DefinitelyNOTtheSWEDE wrote:Willfully attending Rush concerts.
Nine of them.

Yeah, as in 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Rush concerts.


The thing that gets me is that they were pretty much shitty concerts every time... no unique experiences really from any of them... But we were such fans we had to go. All of this sober as well, no drugs or drink. Just nerdyness, awful, suburban, middle-to-Highschool nerdyness.

Oh, but once Neil fucked up a change drastically in "Freewill", at which point I recall exclaiming to my friends "He's not a machine, He's a man!". That seems to be the extent of any sort of variation from show to show.

God Help me.

Pants.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

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.

Or "Missing You," for that matter.

"Isn't It Time," man, it's pretty good.

gio wrote:Once I played a show and thought the 4th band on the bill was named "Curfew." When I told people about the show, I think I said something like, "...and after our set, Curfew will take the stage at 12:00."

That kills me for some reason.

My first band, the Tremors, covered a bunch of shit that was easy to play--LL, Sunshine of Your Love, etc.

We decided to play Brown Sugar--NOT easy to play.

I had to sing it--I'm 13yrs old, and I'm singing Brown Sugar--but I couldn't do it and play a proper bass line at the same time.

So I just rode the high G for the entire verse. Darndle darndle darndle. I can hear it in my head, plain as day, like it happened last night. Dreadful.

When I was 13 I had long hair and looked like a girl. And by that I mean anyone who didn't know me assumed I was a girl. During those girly times I once saw what I thought was a great blues performer at a music festival. I went up to talk to him and buy a CD after his set. He was wearing cowboy boots and his shirt was unbuttoned halfway down his chest. I remember we talked about Ry Cooder. When he handed me his CD he leaned in and planted a solid kiss halfway on my lips and said, "you're a sweet girl."

Don't remember who the guy was or what I did with the CD. But I remember the stubble and the kiss.

Another:

I played in a band in junior high/early high school. I was supposed to be the "lead guitarist" because I was the guitarist who didn't sing. But I couldn't play lead at all. We went into a studio to record and I couldn't come up with any lead parts so our drummer came out from his little isolation room and did all the overdubs. Then I learned to play them off the recording. So sad.

OK....

I just turned the internet radio back on, and it went from Magnolia Electric Co. to...

John Waite.

It has never played me John Waite before.

I still don't believe in G-d, b/c the song is quite bad.

tmidgett wrote:OK....

I just turned the internet radio back on, and it went from Magnolia Electric Co. to...

John Waite.

It has never played me John Waite before.

I still don't believe in G-d, b/c the song is quite bad.

"Missing You?" Crikey!

si-maro wrote:Ah! I've got it! A contemporary one relevant to this forum:

I've never heard Silkworm or Dianogah.

Me neither! Except for that acoustic covers ep where the voice is too loud.

for me at the impressionable age of 11 i received a copy, of a copy, of yet another copy of GnR appetite for destruction. this was my band. this was the reason to grow that mullet, this was the reason why i needed an earing. i remember singing it's so easy and dancing like i am holding a microphone, like ever one else does, and right when it gets to the point of, "why don't you just fuck off" my poor unsuspecting mom opens the door and makes complete eye contact with her eleven year old son "why don't you just fuck off." she still let me get my ear pierced on my 11th birthday. sorry mom, axl made me do it.

tipcat wrote:

tmidgett wrote:OK....

I just turned the internet radio back on, and it went from Magnolia Electric Co. to...

John Waite.

It has never played me John Waite before.

I still don't believe in G-d, b/c the song is quite bad.

"Missing You?" Crikey!

I really like Missing You.

This was some shitty song.

Now it's playing Hootie and the Blowfish covering an old Zeitgeist song (?!?). I am having an embarrassing 'rock' moment right now by forcing myself to listen to it.

Chapter Two wrote:

si-maro wrote:Ah! I've got it! A contemporary one relevant to this forum:

I've never heard Silkworm or Dianogah.

Me neither! Except for that acoustic covers ep where the voice is too loud.

I'd never heard of Silkworm before encountering this forum, and I still have no idea what they sound like. It's hard to hear Silkworm.