Post Youtube Clips of Cool Bands Looking Like Total Dorks, Not On Purpose

^^^ this is awkward, but not exactly dorky, although PT sails pretty close to the wind. Daltrey in particular has that "Shepard's Bush geezer" look down, bringing another level of separation from feelings on top of that implied by the lyrics. It's the members of the audience who are dancing who look really awkward, and who the hell brings a harmonic with them when they go to see a band?!
This is worse, they're trying to be funny like the Goons, PT I imagine aiming for a Spike Milligan voice when he says "it's a bleeding box!", but it just doesn't work.

They look dorky in this as well, Daltrey alternating between looking super awkward on the one hand, and cracking up laughing on the other...

Entwsistle is a pretty cool customer on all of these. Daltrey, on the other hand, is the epitome of dweebitude, especially on the third one.

It's the white high waisted trousers that do it - FFS man, you're not in Herman's Hermits!

these clips more or less confirm that only Moon was close to being a real mod

It's the members of the audience who are dancing who look really awkward, and who the hell brings a harmonic with them when they go to see a band?!

Two whammies. The first was at a rare US show by the Bats. I was so excited to see them. So was the dude behind me, who decided to do one of those crazy loud finger whistles about a foot from my ear. Without even thinking, I whipped around and angrily yelled at him to shut the fuck up. He was just a little dude (like me) who clearly didn't consider that someone might like the sound of the band more than his loud whistle. He meekly apologized and didn't do it again.

The other one was better, one of my all-time favorite anecdotes. I went to see Kathleen Edwards at a smallish club. I was standing in the back. This dude and his friends were talking near me.

Girl: So, did you bring your harmonica?
Dude: Nah, not tonight.
Other dude: What harmonica?
Girl: Oh, you don't know? Dude's jammed with Dylan, Dave Matthews, Blues Traveler...

I started eyeing this alleged all-star harmonica jammer when it the gist of their conversation suddenly struck me: this asshat brings his harmonica to shows and plays along in the crowd! I can't imagine anything more hellish, and that includes seeing Blues Traveler and DMB.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, July 21, 2011 4:58 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So this morning this regular customer who is sort of an inveterate drunk and a complete ass comes in and is all slurry mouthed (presumably from lingering booze) and asks for a harmonica in the key of G. I tell him we don't have one and he starts asking if I know how to clean harmonicas, and while im telling him to soak it in water and hope for the best etc, he produces a blood soaked rag wrapped around a blood encrusted harmonica and sets it on the counter (aaagghj). He explains that last night he was at the bar and decided to play harmonica along with the band (not on stage, but just loudly over at the bar), at which point the guy next to him punched him in the harmonica, and by proxy the mouth, which now is a small cemetery of partial tooth stubs. Which explains the speech pattern i suppose.

added bonus: thanks to his sleeveless shirt i now know that his arms are covered with about 15 jailhouse swastikas, a crudely done eagle with a syringe in its mouth, a wolf engaged in mortal combat with (i think) a diseased raccoon, and "I LIKE TO FUCK" in big block lettering.

― CUSE EX MACHINA (jjjusten), Saturday, May 29, 2010 4:31 PM (1 year ago)