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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: King Postwhore on March 22, 2017, 02:42:11 PM
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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. :lol 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. :lol
So do any of you have a funny story to tell?
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Yeah :lolpalm: I always wanted to be in a band and thought i'd be a success in music.
:rollin :rollin
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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 :lol
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 :lol 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 :lol
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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
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Robin??
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Robin??
Robin is the friend that I'm talking about arguing with, pay attention TAC :lol
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Robin??
Robin is the friend that I'm talking about arguing with, pay attention TAC :lol
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. :P
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Robin??
Robin is the friend that I'm talking about arguing with, pay attention TAC :lol
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. :P
Ok, it's clear that I need to be the one paying more attention :facepalm:
So anyway...
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EDIT: I won't derail this thread anymore, honest :biggrin:
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Most of my funny music moments involved a copious amount of bottle tokes.
Copious.
And repeated use of the word "eeeere'.
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..and bottle toke is Canadian for_________.
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Man Tim, it's like you are blocking out your childhood.
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I have literally never heard the term "bottle toke". You have??
Is that a bong hit?
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Yup but in a homemade way.
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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.
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..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. ;)
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ITT: Kwyjibo discovers he as a LOT of friends.
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Losing my Religion is a fine song. :hat.
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ITT: Kwyjibo discovers he as a LOT of friends.
If I had known that all it takes is hating that song :angel:
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:lol
I like the song but I'm still your friend Kwyjibo!
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well, lemmy think about it ... ok :tup
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It took me 2 days to to notice them. :lol
What the hell :lol
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It took me 2 days to to notice them. :lol
What the hell :lol
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. :lol 2 days!
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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?" :lol
The guy yells at us to get the hell out of here and we laugh walking away.
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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.
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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.
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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? :lol
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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. :lol
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Probably the same colors of your stylin' blazer! ;D
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You should have seen my $20 suitcoats with the rolled up sleeves! :lol
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No. No I shouldn't. :lol
#ChessKingshmegland
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Was Geddy rocking the blazers on the Power Window tour? Or was that every tour in the 80s?
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Was Geddy Kingshmegland rocking the blazers on the Power Window tour? Or was that every tour in the 80s?
Yes.
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Around Signals tour.
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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!!!" :neverusethis:
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:lol
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.
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I've never seen Cheap Trick, but my understanding is that they put on a pretty good show. I'd be bummed if I'd been planning on seeing GNR and got them, though.
My very first concert was Styx: The Grand Illusion when I was still in junior high. I went with my buddy Chris. Neither of us had any non-tobacco, but I grabbed a pack of matches and stuck it in my shirt pocket, just in case. My thinking was that someone there might have something, but no lighter or matches, but I'd be there with matches, and he'd gratefully offer me a hit. Yeah, a long shot, but desperate times called for desperate measures.
At the concert, that is exactly what happened. After the opening band, I went to use the bathroom, and this was back when smoking indoors was still legal, so on the way back, the entire lobby was completely full of smoke. Mostly tobacco, but not all by any means. This guy comes up to me with a non-tobacco cigarette and asks me if I have a light. I pull out the matches and light him up. He hit, then gestured to me. We ended up sharing it. I thanked him, then went back inside, blazed out of my mind.
Fast forward a few years. We're in high school now and have driver's licenses and all that. Chris calls me up and says he won tickets to see Foreigner, but doesn't have any way to get there. If I can drive, I get the other ticket. It was a deal.
The radio station had three pairs of tickets, and Chris was first of the winners to get there and took the middle two because that put us right in the center. We get there and find our seats; I'm on the left, he's on the right, and I hear him saying "Hi! How are you doing?" to the people on the other side of him. It's our junior high band teacher and her husband. We chatted a bit, but once the house lights came down, I was kinda cut off from them, which was fine with me, because the two guys to my left came in reeking of non-tobacco and once Foreigner started, they were blazing up. After a few back-and-forths, the guy to my left tapped my arm and gestured, and I accepted. I then motioned to ask whether or not I could pass it over to Chris, and he nodded, but Chris waved me off because he's sitting next to our junior high band teacher. Oh well. I passed it back. The three of us got completely blown away, or at least I did. Got lost just trying to get out of the parking lot on the way out.
Poor Chris. Twice, I was in the right place at the right time, and he was not.
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:lol
Orbert stories are the gold standard. :biggrin:
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:lol
I love it! we all have these funny stories involving music. Fantastic Orbert!
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I still laugh when I think back on it, because it was practically the same thing both times, and both times it was Chris I was with, and he missed out.
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:lol
I love it! we all have these funny stories involving music.
And non-tobacco!
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:lol
I love it! we all have these funny stories involving music.
And non-tobacco!
Oh I have a story I will use involving non tabacco and alcohol. Tim, a little teaser, it involves your favorite band.
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Bring on the Skid Row story. :biggrin:
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I have no stories, but I am following this thread...
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:lol
I love it! we all have these funny stories involving music.
And non-tobacco!
Oh I have a story I will use involving non tabacco and alcohol. Tim, a little teaser, it involves your favorite band.
When did you see Winger?
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:lol
1989 at The Channel. Tim would know. :lol
But seriously I'm hoping a few more people post before I add what we are talking about.
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Loved The Channel. I saw Mr. Bungle there. It was an afternoon show, and the light coming in through the windows just over the water was awesome.
Also saw Armored Saint there. Slayer too.
Funny thing about the Slayer show. First off, I had never been to The Channel before. And frankly, I was a bit worried about seeing Slayer do a club show, so I literally did not have a drink of beer during the show, nor did I :hat. I was totally straight.
My friend brought a 6 pack, but I was clear I wasn't drinking. Anyway after the show, I get pulled over on 93 South by a State Trooper. Now here I am with a black Slayer t shirt on, and the cop says, "Where are you coming from?", and I go "um The Channel" ( :lol).
He says, "Have you been drinking?", and I say "No?". He goes, "I'll be the judge of that, step out of the car".
So I have to do a field sobriety test right there on the highway. It's September, so it's a bit cool at 1:30AM and I had a t shirt on. Any way I pass. He asks where I'm driving to. I lived an hour away. He says, "If you get in an accident, I will kill you.".
Wut??
:lol
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I told a pretty funny story in the Zappa Discography thread, but I don't know if it will register with the non-Zappa-fans.
Linky (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=44650.msg2299184#msg2299184)
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So, it's 1987, and the local radio station I listen to has a 'song of the day' contest. Be the 10th caller when it's played, and you win a prize. The prize at this particular day is a "portable" phone, with 30 minutes of airtime a month for 1 year. It's valued at $2,500!! :omg: :omg: Lol at that nowadays. Anyways... song of the day is Ticket to Ride, and guess who's got two thumbs and is the 10th caller?
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So I eventually pick up a certificate for the prize, and then take an ad out in the paper to sell it. I end up getting $1,200 for it - bought by some insurance broker. I promptly go shopping for a sound system, as I still had something that was pretty shit, and a '70s hand-me-down from my parents. Ended up with a sweet Pioneer stereo system - 250w of powah, CD player, dual cassette deck, and integrated 5 channel tuner/receiver. The tuner/receiver was roughly the size of a toaster microwave oven, and the speakers were the size of a 2-drawer filing cabinet. I had that system until the early 00s when it was just way to bulky to justify keeping given the kind of technology available. I lugged that fuckin system to/from university every four months from 93-96 (I was in a co-op program), and always made room in whatever bedroom I was renting for those speakers.
Ticket to Ride was good to me that day.
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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? :lol
Never got The Weapon on that tour, but I saw them March 31 and April 1 1986 (31 years ago...wow!)
I guess this is funny (at least it is for us.)
My wife and always I break out into spontaneous laughter whenever we hear Crazy Train.