Funny life stories tied into Music.

[King Postwhore]

For some reason a funny story popped into my head today and I thought it would be a fun thread to make.

I told a few friends that I would never see Motorhead live.  It was a joke that grew over time.  So my buddies would harass me to go and I never would even though I really wanted to see them.  It was to dig a buddy of mine.  So I had a friend who had an extra ticket to see Alice Cooper on the "Raise Your Fist And Yell" tour and of course I jumped at the opportunity.

We got there a little late for the opener and as we were walking the halls I recognized the song.  I went screaming down the hall,

"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"

It was "The Ace Of Spades" and it was Motorhead.   Well I was there and had a great time.  Of course my buddies ratted me out to my one friend I said I would never see them.  Well that SOB got my mom to let him into my room when I wasn't there and he hung Lemmy pictures from different rock mags over my Geddy Lee pictures on my wall (Rush is my favorite band).

It took me 2 days to to notice them.


So do any of you have a funny story to tell?

[Kotowboy]

Yeah I always wanted to be in a band and thought i'd be a success in music.

[twosuitsluke]

I love shit like that.

I have a friend with who our bonding experience when we first met was arguing over whether Metallica or Megadeth were the better band. He is a good friend of mine and we met about 8 or 9 years ago. He was the guitarist in another close friends band and we met, got drunk and chatted shit about metal, favourite bands/albums and the like. Although we share a lot of musical tastes in regards to metal he is massively into grunge whereas I'm really not. At some point the conversation moved onto Metallica vs. Megadeth. It became very heated (but in a friendly way) very quickly. We both were passionately defending our favourite's (me Metallica, him Megadeth) but also conceding that we were both in fact big fans of both bands. To this day, every time we see each other (which isn't that often as he now lives in London) we argue about this shit. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

When I introduced my girlfriend to him a few years a go we made a passing comment about how we sometimes argue over this but that we'd put it aside tonight (as my girlfriend isn't into metal). Of course after a few more drinks we ended up having the same argument 

I love Robin to death, he's a great guy and I find comfort in the fact that even though life goes on and things change and our responsibilities change we can still argue over this with such a huge amount of passion! We both love both bands but can't believe that the one won't accept that the other is right  it's like, when it happens everyone else around us disappears and we can't continue until we have argued our points, got annoyed the other won't concede then we just agree to disagree.....until next time.

It sounds kind of dumb actually but we find it fun 

[bosk1]

My take:  Metallica had an unmatched run from Ride through the black album.  But nothing Metallica has done since then has matched Megadeth's best from the time period through the present.  If I were to take Metallica's 4-album + EP run of Ride>Puppets>$5.98>AJFA>black album and put it against Megadeth's 4-album + EP run of RIP>CTE>Youthanasia>Hidden Treasures>Cryptic (which I consider each band's best), I would say I subjectively prefer Megadeth's, but I concede that I feel like, overall, Metallica's is slightly stronger, more consistent, and of better quality overall.  Of the two bands, I prefer Megadeth and listen to them more.

/offtopic

[TAC]

Robin??

[twosuitsluke]

Robin??

Robin is the friend that I'm talking about arguing with, pay attention TAC 

[TAC]

Robin??

Robin is the friend that I'm talking about arguing with, pay attention TAC 

I did, hence I was so comfortable with my understanding of your story that when Bosk took up the Megadeth argument, I referred to him as Robin.

[twosuitsluke]

Robin??

Robin is the friend that I'm talking about arguing with, pay attention TAC 

I did, hence I was so comfortable with my understanding of your story that when Bosk took up the Megadeth argument, I referred to him as Robin.

Ok, it's clear that I need to be the one paying more attention 

So anyway...



EDIT: I won't derail this thread anymore, honest 

[jingle.boy]

Most of my funny music moments involved a copious amount of bottle tokes.

Copious.

And repeated use of the word "eeeere'.

[TAC]

..and bottle toke is Canadian for_________.

[King Postwhore]

Man Tim, it's like you are blocking out your childhood.

[TAC]

I have literally never heard the term "bottle toke". You have??

Is that a bong hit?

[King Postwhore]

Yup but in a homemade way.

[Kwyjibo]

A friend of mine and me, we both hate REM's Losing My Religion with a passion. And for a long time we got the impression, that when we went somewhere together it was inevitable that that song would be played. We began joking about it, like when we are together there's some cosmic force that sees to that song being played.

So one day we both had tickets for the Roling Stones, big arena gig, and we wanted to meet before the arena, because once in, there would be no way to find each other among the 50.000 other attendants.

I was very late because I had to work longer and then was stuck in a traffic jam and when I arrived my friend wasn't at the meeting point, I waited some time and then decided to go in. I was thinking that my friend probably had waited some time for me and then went in because I wasn't coming or was coming late and the support act was about to begin. For you young ones: that was a time before mobile phones were a thing so we had no chance of contacting each other.

The moment I went away, Losing My Religion began to play over the PA and I was thinking, okay, if this song is playing my friend must be somewhere near. I turned around and saw him running towards me. Turned out he had to work late also and then his car broke down so he had to come by train. He was sure that I was already in, but when he arrived he heard that atrocious tune and knew I was still waiting for him.

[jingle.boy]

..and bottle toke is Canadian for_________.

Apparently it is a Canadian term according to Urban Dictionary

a south western ontario in origin describing a way to smoke hashish, by burning a whole in a plastic bottle of any size (use to be done also with glass bottle)and using little chunks of hash on the tip of a cigarette in the bottle to heat the hash up and smoke it up.

A friend of mine and me, we both hate REM's Losing My Religion with a passion.

Consider me a friend.   

[bosk1]

ITT: Kwyjibo discovers he as a LOT of friends.

[Kotowboy]

Losing my Religion is a fine song.  .

[Kwyjibo]

ITT: Kwyjibo discovers he as a LOT of friends.

If I had known that all it takes is hating that song 

[King Postwhore]

 

I like the song but I'm still your friend Kwyjibo!

[Kwyjibo]

well, lemmy think about it ... ok 

[Zydar]

It took me 2 days to to notice them.

What the hell

[King Postwhore]

It took me 2 days to to notice them.

What the hell

My room was a shrine to Rush from all different size of posters to pictures so he covered 5 of the magazine pics with the Lemmy mag pics.   2 days!

[King Postwhore]

Round 2.

A friend of mine came with me to the Rush - Hold Your Fire tour.   We hung out at the mall across the street from the venue,  The Worcester Centrum and were walking around like mall rats.

We come upon the information booth and my buddy says, "Wait a minute."  He walks to the information booth and asked the guy, "Do you know the diameter of the sun?"  Now I'm stunned,  I have no clue what he is doing.  The guy asks, "Why do you ask?"  My buddy answers, "We'll, isn't this an information booth?"

The guy yells at us to get the hell out of here and we laugh walking away.

[TAC]

Did he go to The Sunglass Hut next and ask the clerk why they weren't wearing them?


Joe, you mentioned the Firm in Kev's thread. The first time The Firm were scheduled for Providence, we were going, but the show ended up getting cancelled.
The next time they were scheduled on a Friday night in March of 86. It was either a Thurs or a Fri..anyway, on Tuesday March 18, we saw Aerosmith/Ted Nugent. On the way home, we played car tag with a carload of girls. They followed us to a park (the same one the pic was taken on my car in the Post Your Pic thread). Anyway, we hung out for a while, and I ended up getting home very late. My father was waiting for me, and informed me that I could not go to The Firm concert later that week.

[King Postwhore]

That happened to me when I skipped school  (The only time) to see Rush in Maine.  It was the opening night of the Power Windows tour and I met Geddy.  He found out and grounded me and I had to sell my 2 other tickets to see Rush.

After a month, he allowed me to see KISS on the Asylum tour.

[TAC]

I remember the Power Windows show. They handed out 3D glasses for The Weapon. We were like 5th row right in front of Geddy. I remember turning around and seeing the entire Providence Civic Center in 3D glasses and I remember thinking what fucking nerd world did I just land in?

[King Postwhore]

My same friend who asked the information booth the question cursed me out when he saw on that show that the lasers were the colors of the 3d spectrum. 

He said he would have brought his 3d glasses.

[TAC]

Probably the same colors of your stylin' blazer!

[King Postwhore]

You should have seen my $20 suitcoats with the rolled up sleeves!

[TAC]

No. No I shouldn't.


#ChessKingshmegland

[SystematicThought]

Was Geddy rocking the blazers on the Power Window tour? Or was that every tour in the 80s?

[TAC]

Was Geddy Kingshmegland rocking the blazers on the Power Window tour? Or was that every tour in the 80s?

Yes.

[King Postwhore]

Around Signals tour.

[jingle.boy]

I had a buddy who was a HUGE Aerosmith fan.  For the Perm Vacation tour, they had GnR opening for them.  He was so stoked to be going to that concert... talked about it for weeks leading up to it - as we were all GnR fans with the release of Appetite.  Well, I'm working with him the day after the concert, and - shocker! - GnR cancelled last minute, and was replaced (at least in Toronto) with Cheap Trick.  Cheap fucking Trick!  We laughed at him so hard.

"Ray, switching opening bands sure was a .... cheap trick!!!" 

[King Postwhore]

 

Goddamn Axel!  I only had one postponement it was for Deep Purple.  We sat for 2 hours until they canceled the show and set it up for the next night.