[Crumb's Crunchy Delights]

I used to design Rhonda Vincent's wigs.

[ChocolateJesus]

I met Earl Flatt and Lester fucking Scruggs. They rule. and they are old. and they were on the beverly hillbillies once.

[floatingslowly]

vanilla ice once touched my records. once.

true story.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by floatingslowly

name dropping is one thing, but to devote a thread to it is tasteless.

thank you.

[RdTv]

I, like Disgruntled Youth, live in the same town as Hair Police, Warmer Milks, Caves, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Tight Leather and more bands of that sort.

As far as connections go maybe Hair Police, I've met/talked with them at shows before and one of their roomates is a friend of mine.

[thewall91]

my mom was in the convent with natalie merchant's mom. no shit.

[Moshe]

I know a guy who introduced three members of this board to members of the band "Sonic Youth".

[Danny Himself]

My grandfather used to hang out on Formby Beach with some members of The Beatles, though I forget which ones exactly. Pre-fame, of course..

[afterthefact]

Originally Posted by RdTv

I, like Disgruntled Youth, live in the same town as Hair Police, Warmer Milks, Caves, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Tight Leather and more bands of that sort.

As far as connections go maybe Hair Police, I've met/talked with them at shows before and one of their roomates is a friend of mine.

Didn't you get high with George Clinton once?

[RdTv]

Originally Posted by afterthefact

Didn't you get high with George Clinton once?

Oh yesss, I completely forgot as this is not one of my crowning achievements, but is indeed proper for this thread. I smoked out with George Clinton and the club owner in the womens bathroom when I was about 12. It was weird, after smoking some kill and looking at George, he resembled the predator if he was into acid instead of killing humans.

[Everyneurotic]

Originally Posted by batreleaser

genghis kahn or *tron. if its tron, i just heard them yesterday and was infuriated when i realized that the sound like everything i had envisoned for my brother and i's new band, idm, no wave, synth, infused grindcore. i was uber pissed.

i meant khan, can be a cunt went drunk but a fine chap all around. he's starting to stink up, though.

and tron are fucking marvelous, missed a chance to see them twice now. the new album should slay.

[NWRA]

My mum once met John Peel at a music festival and he invited her and her friends back to his caravan where they listened to records but they soon left because there was a weird man there.

John Peel (real name Shirley Crabtree) has since died.

My dad once saw Paul McCartney at Leeds airport and was going to say 'hello' to him, to put him at ease because he was staring at him, but suddenly got an overwhelming urge to shout 'wanker!' at him instead (even though he liked him in The Beatles) out of curiosity to see how he would react, much like the urge which possesses one when one is in a public toilet to take a bite out of one of those lemon-flavoured bowl fresheners to see how they taste; so he stared at him for a few more seconds and ran off.

At several music festivals I have been within a 15-metre radius of many rock stars.

Someone who posts on the same Internet forum as me knows a guy from Aids Wolf. Etc.

[ScreamingSchool]

I opened for Lydia Lunch once in 2004 on her spoken word tour. Does that connect me with Teenage Jesus? Also my friend is the direct nephew of Jacko Pastorious. I took a piss next to John S. Hall of King Missile...none of these cuts it, do they?

[Dead-Air]

This seems weird to me, actually, but...

Mudhoney - went to school in Bellingham with Steve, still friendly if not particularly in touch
Unwound - pretty good friends with everyone except Sarah who I didn't really know. I think Vern is still a My Space friend, though he constantly changes his profile name to stay under the radar, so I'm not even sure.
Fitz of Depression - Vern plays for them now, and Jerry Ziegler their current drummer is a friendly acquaintance.
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Went to school at Evergreen with Conrad and usually hang out backstage with them when they're here since my wife was his first girlfriend and also played in Trail of Dead herself.
Melvins (via Karp) - Jarrad is a pretty good friend though we haven't talked in a few years. The fact he's playing bass for them now is among the weirdest things to eventually happen of this sort I can think of. All of Karp were pretty good friends and they played at my 30th birthday party. Chris played in the Dead Air Fresheners with me for awhile too.
Nirvana - well I had an ex-girlfriend who'd slept with both Kurt and Dave on separate occasions. My ex-wife was friends with their guitar tech Earnie too and I went to his wedding.
Steve Fisk - pretty good friends, mostly by email, and he's going to be headlining the show I'm putting on at the 14th Annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival
Chris Knox - stayed at my apartment in Oly once, we got on really well
Amy Denio - good friends for years, she's also playing the Oly Fest show I'm currating in June
Crank Sturgeon - good friend, also playing that same show
Bikini Kill - I consider Kathleen a friend though we were never close or anything. She did compliment my band once, and my djing another time.
Calvin Johnson - He'd probably say we're friends. I like him.
Some Velvet Sidewalk - friendly with Al, we still exchange emails a bit
Kramer - contacted me and said he wanted to record and/or produce Dead Air Fresheners, I just don't have the money to pay him fairly at this time.
Lisa "Suckdog" Carver - I made dinner for her when she came through Portland touring her book "Drugs Are Nice". My wife had a pretty close internet friendship with her and appears on the video of the same name.
Sebadoh - perhaps my favorite "connection"; I never met them, but when they were playing in Olympia in the late '90s a crazy chick I knew was the promoter. I had to work at Kinko's that night, so I couldn't go to the show. Apparently, the boys were out of weed and expected their promoter to score for them, and she didn't know anyone that smoked weed besides me. So she called my house and got my (now ex-) wife who proceeded to go out to Evergreen with my weed and smoke out the band (leaving of course none for me!) So though I didn't meet Sebadoh, Lou Barlow still smoke my pot!

Funny thing is, I agree with floatingslowly about name dropping. I just happened to live in some particular times and places where a lot of people got really famous on this certain indie level. I didn't do anything different than somebody who lived somewhere else and went to shows and maybe djed and/or started their own band. If you do those things you make friends.

[pbradley]

I post on Sonic Youth's message board.

I use to talk with Marathon's guitarist on a message board. Then they broke up and I think he is with Polar Bear Club. Don't really listen to them, though.

Took a leak in a bathroom with Wayne Coyne at the SF Fearless Freaks premier. More awkward than anything, really.

[uhler]

Originally Posted by Dead-Air

This seems weird to me, actually, but...

Mudhoney - went to school in Bellingham with Steve, still friendly if not particularly in touch
Unwound - pretty good friends with everyone except Sarah who I didn't really know. I think Vern is still a My Space friend, though he constantly changes his profile name to stay under the radar, so I'm not even sure.
Fitz of Depression - Vern plays for them now, and Jerry Ziegler their current drummer is a friendly acquaintance.
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Went to school at Evergreen with Conrad and usually hang out backstage with them when they're here since my wife was his first girlfriend and also played in Trail of Dead herself.
Melvins (via Karp) - Jarrad is a pretty good friend though we haven't talked in a few years. The fact he's playing bass for them now is among the weirdest things to eventually happen of this sort I can think of. All of Karp were pretty good friends and they played at my 30th birthday party. Chris played in the Dead Air Fresheners with me for awhile too.
Nirvana - well I had an ex-girlfriend who'd slept with both Kurt and Dave on separate occasions. My ex-wife was friends with their guitar tech Earnie too and I went to his wedding.
Steve Fisk - pretty good friends, mostly by email, and he's going to be headlining the show I'm putting on at the 14th Annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival
Chris Knox - stayed at my apartment in Oly once, we got on really well
Amy Denio - good friends for years, she's also playing the Oly Fest show I'm currating in June
Crank Sturgeon - good friend, also playing that same show
Bikini Kill - I consider Kathleen a friend though we were never close or anything. She did compliment my band once, and my djing another time.
Calvin Johnson - He'd probably say we're friends. I like him.
Some Velvet Sidewalk - friendly with Al, we still exchange emails a bit
Kramer - contacted me and said he wanted to record and/or produce Dead Air Fresheners, I just don't have the money to pay him fairly at this time.
Lisa "Suckdog" Carver - I made dinner for her when she came through Portland touring her book "Drugs Are Nice". My wife had a pretty close internet friendship with her and appears on the video of the same name.
Sebadoh - perhaps my favorite "connection"; I never met them, but when they were playing in Olympia in the late '90s a crazy chick I knew was the promoter. I had to work at Kinko's that night, so I couldn't go to the show. Apparently, the boys were out of weed and expected their promoter to score for them, and she didn't know anyone that smoked weed besides me. So she called my house and got my (now ex-) wife who proceeded to go out to Evergreen with my weed and smoke out the band (leaving of course none for me!) So though I didn't meet Sebadoh, Lou Barlow still smoke my pot!

Funny thing is, I agree with floatingslowly about name dropping. I just happened to live in some particular times and places where a lot of people got really famous on this certain indie level. I didn't do anything different than somebody who lived somewhere else and went to shows and maybe djed and/or started their own band. If you do those things you make friends.

i wish i even came in talking distance to any of those people/bands you mentioned. you're pretty lucky.

i was a roadie for a hardcore band which had an ex member of this tampa hardcore band the blackout terror whom was friends with reversal of man. yeah that's about it. my brother got headbutted by wesley willis, in a friendly way.

[stu666]

Originally Posted by NWRA

My mum once met John Peel at a music festival and he invited her and her friends back to his caravan where they listened to records but they soon left because there was a weird man there.

John Peel (real name Shirley Crabtree) has since died.

What?!? Shirley Crabtree is Big Daddy's real name (R.I.P)

[su x*]

Originally Posted by Dead-Air

This seems weird to me, actually, but...

Mudhoney - went to school in Bellingham with Steve, still friendly if not particularly in touch
Unwound - pretty good friends with everyone except Sarah who I didn't really know. I think Vern is still a My Space friend, though he constantly changes his profile name to stay under the radar, so I'm not even sure.
Fitz of Depression - Vern plays for them now, and Jerry Ziegler their current drummer is a friendly acquaintance.
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Went to school at Evergreen with Conrad and usually hang out backstage with them when they're here since my wife was his first girlfriend and also played in Trail of Dead herself.
Melvins (via Karp) - Jarrad is a pretty good friend though we haven't talked in a few years. The fact he's playing bass for them now is among the weirdest things to eventually happen of this sort I can think of. All of Karp were pretty good friends and they played at my 30th birthday party. Chris played in the Dead Air Fresheners with me for awhile too.
Nirvana - well I had an ex-girlfriend who'd slept with both Kurt and Dave on separate occasions. My ex-wife was friends with their guitar tech Earnie too and I went to his wedding.
Steve Fisk - pretty good friends, mostly by email, and he's going to be headlining the show I'm putting on at the 14th Annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival
Chris Knox - stayed at my apartment in Oly once, we got on really well
Amy Denio - good friends for years, she's also playing the Oly Fest show I'm currating in June
Crank Sturgeon - good friend, also playing that same show
Bikini Kill - I consider Kathleen a friend though we were never close or anything. She did compliment my band once, and my djing another time.
Calvin Johnson - He'd probably say we're friends. I like him.
Some Velvet Sidewalk - friendly with Al, we still exchange emails a bit
Kramer - contacted me and said he wanted to record and/or produce Dead Air Fresheners, I just don't have the money to pay him fairly at this time.
Lisa "Suckdog" Carver - I made dinner for her when she came through Portland touring her book "Drugs Are Nice". My wife had a pretty close internet friendship with her and appears on the video of the same name.
Sebadoh - perhaps my favorite "connection"; I never met them, but when they were playing in Olympia in the late '90s a crazy chick I knew was the promoter. I had to work at Kinko's that night, so I couldn't go to the show. Apparently, the boys were out of weed and expected their promoter to score for them, and she didn't know anyone that smoked weed besides me. So she called my house and got my (now ex-) wife who proceeded to go out to Evergreen with my weed and smoke out the band (leaving of course none for me!) So though I didn't meet Sebadoh, Lou Barlow still smoke my pot!

Funny thing is, I agree with floatingslowly about name dropping. I just happened to live in some particular times and places where a lot of people got really famous on this certain indie level. I didn't do anything different than somebody who lived somewhere else and went to shows and maybe djed and/or started their own band. If you do those things you make friends.

so if i sleep with you its like i did nirvana too

[PAULYBEE2656]

Originally Posted by NWRA

............John Peel (real name Shirley Crabtree) has since died........

erm, are you for real?????? thats fucking big daddys real name.

i know, kinda know, the drummer from now defuct irish band rollerskate skinny, jimi sheilds.... his younger brother is kevin.

man this thread is certainly....suspect in its integrity!

[dnorsen]

lots of random connections due doing artwork for a variety of bands ... the bigger of bunch being:

sonic youth - did a show poster, met thurston periodically and he knows who i am which is cool ...
sunburned hand - first of the bigger bands i have done artwork for. friendly with a bunch of members ...
lsd march - did artwork for him. got a nice email saying he really liked it
otto from devendra's tour band and vetiver amongst others is an old friend. we used to go to each other's respective record shops when living in rochester ...
pengo - talk to these guys pretty frequently mostly due to old connections to rochester
vxpxc - became friendly with these guys via my friend adam and later did artwork with them. talk to grant pretty frequently these days ...
ben nash- just finished artwork for 2 of his albums. its going to be sick!
voice of the seven woods - rick and i talk often, mostly of admiration for each others work and wanting to work with each other in the future ...

there is more, but i often space on who because more than anything they are friends not just band members ...