― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 21 August 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)
e.g
10 points, being at a recording session of a canonical work e.g Sergeant Pepper/VU and Nico..8 points being at a gig "no-one" else was at e.g Prince at Lyceum '81, Pistols at Manchester free trade hall.6 points being at an iconic festival gig e.g Woodstock, Pulp at Glasto..3 points picking up a rare, collectable piece of work before everyone else.1 point seeing Gay Dad at Middlesbrough Arena.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 21 August 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)
stuff near the 10 point range runs the risk of either a) sounding like bullshit. b) bragging. c) revealing very personal information.
3 points picking up a rare, collectable piece of work before everyone else
one person's rare, collectable piece of work is another's piece of crap local band coaster-ware.
1 point seeing Gay Dad at Middlesbrough Arena.
i've seen a lot of rock... but 10 mediocre shows doesn't equal being at some legendary recording session...
does it?
me and my little brother sang "jesus loves me" for a women's auxilary in smalltown, ohio in 1979, it's been downhill ever since.m.
― msp, Thursday, 21 August 2003 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)
The Beatles/VU recording session was a bust, anyway -- extension cords couldn't reach across the Atlantic and George Martin ended up getting in a tickle-fight with Andy Warhol.
― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 21 August 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― southern lights (southern lights), Thursday, 21 August 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)
You're right being at 10 mediocre shows doesn't equal one legendary recording session, let's say it's a logarithmic scale. Happy now? Anyway people brag, bullshit and reveal personal information on ILM all the time. Me, I cut Elvis Presley's umbilical cord.
I just thought it'd be cool to find out if someone actually was at the legendary Pistols gig, or Kool Herc's block parties in '73, or one of Keef and Mick's drug busts.
What does Woodstock have to do with Pulp at Glasto? Other than being festival events which rise a little above the run of the mill nothing, but being able to say you were at those events has a little more critical cache than say OCS at the V festival.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 22 August 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 22 August 2003 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)
sure!
ok... lemme see...
-i saw black dice cause a seizure. that's 2 points right?
m.
― msp, Friday, 22 August 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 22 August 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 22 August 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― JasonD (JasonD), Saturday, 23 August 2003 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)
the *best* moments i was party to i can't talk about ;-)
― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 23 August 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)