I met Billy Childish once in London, quite an exciting day for a Denver girl~! But I was star struck, and horribly awkward and couldn't say a thing. I think I commented that I liked his jacket, he said thanks, and that was that.

In 1995, my first South by Southwest, I heard there was a Roky Erikson booksigning at Ironworks BBQ. He'd just had a book of his lyrics published by Henry Rollins' company. So I walk down there and standing out in the parking lot all alone is none other than Roky. Apparently he'd been inside about ready to sign some books but he got freaked out and bolted. I said, "Hey Roky, I'm a fan ..." "I know," he said. "My name is Steve ..." "I know ..." We stand around talking for awhile. He bums a cigarette from a stranger. Austin guitarist Will Sexton walks by and Roky calls out his name, so he stops for awhile. Then Henry Rollins comes out, gently trying to lure Roky back into the restaurant to sign some books for all the people there. Roky says he can't go back in. Henry finally convinces him to sit inside a car and sign books. "I'll get you some ice tea, Roky ..." he says. I bought a book and had him sign it. I don't think he ever went back inside. (Don't have digital images of the photos I took then, but here's one of Roky playing in Austin at last year's SXSW)

Years ago when I was working in a record store, which had a "Don't take the vinyl out of the sleeve unless at the counter" policy. I had to hassle a guy about mis handling the (expensive) vinyl a few time.
He was very rude and arrogant, and I told him so. When he bought some stuff and gave me his credit card it turned out to be Ed Kuepper of the Saints, Laughing Clowns etc. Love his music, but he is still an arsehole.

I got to interview heaps of musicians when I was doing a radio show on 3PBS-FM, here in Melbourne, but meeting Rob Younger of Radio Birdman/New Christs was the only time I was truely lost for words due to hero worship.

I will have to save my story about Kim Gordon's dirty underwear for another day!!!!

Joenzy said:

but not nearly as exciting...
I saw Eric Burden picking out eggplants at a grocery store near Joshua Tree, Ca.
My mother knew him.

Met Dee Dee Ramone in a bathroom, 2 weeks before he died.
He was using again with members of his band who all looked like Sid Vicious.
This was in Las Vegas.
Talked to the guys from the weirdos.
I've talked to various members of Brian Jonestown.
Also, I've met scores of newer generation members of bands...
but not nearly as exciting...
I saw Eric Burden picking out eggplants at a grocery store near Joshua Tree, Ca.
My mother knew him.
went to a party with Dead Moon in Portland...
they drove me to the party... it was on Halloween.

I met Nigel Lewis of Meteors/Tallboys fame the other saturday. what a gent!

Met Lobby Loyde - in fact he produced my band Arctic Circles first proper recording session in 1985. We walked into Richmond Recorders after work at about 5 in the afternoon and walked out at about 5 the next morning - 4 tracks recorded and mixed all in that timespan. Lobby was a fun guy who had a lot of funny stories. He liked to listen to everything up full blast.

The Arctic Circles first demo session was done by Greg Heenan, the bass player in The Elois. He had a little demo studio called Fitzroy Sound. Nice easygoing guy. He played us the Elois single while we were at the studio. He was kind of bemused when we told him about the whole 60s garage revival scene.

Met the Damned when they played Canberra in '97. My wife and I had a long chat with Patricia Morrison, nice lady.

Met Chris Bailey of The Saints, circa the "Monkey Puzzle" days. He noticed I had a Lurkers badge on, we had a talk about the Lurkers who he seemed to know well from The Saints' early days in London.

Humm, I met Hugh Cornwall as a teenager, I think he lived in the local area. Not a hero of mine though. I met Kurt Cobain in Bristol before the Nirvana explosion, again I was not really a fan and was more interested in seeing Tad (who they were supporting).

The only band I have met that I actually liked I think was Guitar Wolf. I guess this is the only one that counts.

The Branded said:

met reg presley once in salisbury, no one else interests me

18.00-18.45

Count Basie - 'M Squad' Theme
Swans - Stay Here
Harmonia - Veterano
Endless Boogie - Came Wide, Game Finish
Albert Ayler - Light In Darkness (live)
Blondie - Underground Girl
The Clean - Thumbs Off
Cluster - Caramba

19.30-20.30

*Jay Reatard Special*
The Reatards - Lick On My Leather
Bad Times - Over You
Terror Visions - Master Wait
Final Solutions - Deep Six
Destruction Unit - Death To The Old Flesh
Lost Sounds - Blackcoats White Fear
Nervous Patterns - Not Living In The Modern World
Angry Angels - Apparent Transparant
Jay Reatard - It's So Useless

Black Time - Mystery Shopper
Soft Boys - He's A Reptile
X (aus) - Good On You Baby
No Talk - HTXNFS
Movie Star Junkies - Melville
Tony Joe White - Elements and Things
Cola Freaks - Tænder Slukker
Dead Hookers - I've Got Something For You
Rhino 39 - No Compromise
Thomas Function - Conspiracy Of Praise
Reverend Bizarre - One Last Time

March 15th

18.00-19.30

Ennio Morricone - Sequenza 10
Butthole Surfers - Concubine
Amon Düül II - Toxicological Whispering
Jeffrey Novak - Three Sisters
Les Razzies Denudes - ? (live 1973)
A Feast Of Snakes - Know Your Name
John Foxx - 20th Century
H.P. Lovecraft - Wayfaring Stranger
High Tide - Missing Out
Ornette Coleman - Change Of The Century
Terrorizer - After World Obliteration
Blank Its - Mommy's Dead
Ya Ho Wa 13 - Beer Recordings Track 1
Joe Jackson - Got The Time
Contortions - Design To Kill
Suicide - Harlem II
Cola Freaks - Live WMDR Radio Boston 2008

19.30-20.30

Under Al Kritik - Insomnia
Jeffrey Novak - Goodbye For Now
Episode - ?
Bog Log III - My Shit Is Perfect
Framtid - Nuclear Power Genocide
Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation - Evacuation
Gorilla Angreb - Darwin 05
Guilty Hearts - Ain't That Good Of A Man
Career Suicide - Do Some Harm
Secret Prostitutes - Sputnik
Limp Wrist - Fucks with My Head
Fossils - ?
Middle Class -Out Of Vogue
Jørgen Teller & The Empty Stairs - ? live
No Hope For The Kids - Triblinka
FM Knives - 16 D.O.A.
Moss - The Gate

Who the f*^k is Marky Las Vegas? Well, lead singer of The Phantom Keys of course. Marky and the rest of the Phantom Keys hail from Spain. Like millions of bands before them and hopefully after them they aspire to write songs that get the girls dancing and the boys singing along. They would like to "not" put themselves in any one category R&B Punk, Mod, etc. but they definitely have a sound. These two tracks put them in good company with The Crawdaddys and The Fleshtones. Stylistically they resemble the former rather than the latter. These two tracks would not be out of place on Crawdaddy Express and the opening lyrics on the b-side aren't that different than a song on the The Fleshtones Take a Good Look. "Don't Want to Be Free" stands out the most of the two tracks. Marky Las Vegas really controls the "call and response" chorus. Manu and Roi (no surnames) throw in a guitar trick or two but clearly are aiming for that mid 60s sound. "Shut Up Johnny" gets the whole band in on the vocals the only breaks are for a little Chuck Berry lead guitar and some blues harp. Overall a great listen and party record. The Phantom Keys aren't looking to reinvent the genre but want to add a track or two along the way. http://myspace.com/thephantomkeys http://www.elbeasto.com/ http://rinjoeconoblog.blogspot.com/

RIFF RIFF bring it down, scream about some girls RIFF guitar/organ/or harmonica solo RIFF and fall apart with grace.

Nothing to add, except that the record is damn too short !

That last part is sound advice for young people! Whats the name of the '60s apocalypse manual? sounds great! Jason Edge said:

I missed the 50/50 fertile section in my emergency preparedness plan. I really don't want humans coming back and certainly not from my seed. Then again, a new nation of long hairs that think only of surfing and RnR might be alright. I'm Irish Comanche though, we may have to eat the young to keep them from weeding out the old. It's not the guns you need to stockpile, it's the ammo.
No joke hunting tip for survival that I read in a '60s apocalypse manual recently acquired at my local thrift store. It was a fun read. Shoot the first thing that moves no matter how small. If it is unedible, lie in wait and shoot what ever comes to eat it.

Maybe the spacemen will come before 2012.

I missed the 50/50 fertile section in my emergency preparedness plan. I really don't want humans coming back and certainly not from my seed. Then again, a new nation of long hairs that think only of surfing and RnR might be alright. I'm Irish Comanche though, we may have to eat the young to keep them from weeding out the old. It's not the guns you need to stockpile, it's the ammo.

No joke hunting tip for survival that I read in a '60s apocalypse manual recently acquired at my local thrift store. It was a fun read. Shoot the first thing that moves no matter how small. If it is unedible, lie in wait and shoot what ever comes to eat it.

I think it's fucking brilliant idea. They could do recipe songs on how to cook other survivors.

Maybe the "shittiest" tag was way off... when posting, the age-old question "Who's going to hire them?" sprang to mind 1st. If "Grizzly" wants to start a survivalist-breeder Sly and the Family Stone act, that's cool w/ me. (I own guns, BTW.) Just couldn't visualize the market~ hell, there might really be one! Might work with older 8-and-up kids, who knows?
At least he's keeping it secular; nomination is withdrawn.
Any fresh nominees for the Shittiest Band Idea 2009 trophy?

As long as they pay me, don't fucking care what or why they play.

I finally gave in and joined up. http://twitter.com/Ryanisthatguy Come say hello.

kopper said:

It's at the bottom of the screen now... click the arrow to pop it out.

It's at the bottom of the screen now... click the arrow to pop it out. Ron said:

Speaking of chat, where did ours go?

Speaking of chat, where did ours go?