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March 6, 2007 at 6:08 pm #49878
I met him Sunday at P.A’s Lounge in Somerville, MA. I had a backback with two CD’s, "Evol" and "Dirty". When I walked into the dim room I noticed I was the only one there. Then I heard a noise at the far end of them room and as I got closer I noticed Thurston Moore and some girl sitting on a couch. Thurston was slouched back on the couch looking bored or tired, so I excused myself and asked if he was Thurston Moore (I knew it was him behind his black rimmed glasses). He said yeah and I told him I was a big Sonic Youth fan and he said thanks and then I asked him if he would sign these two great albums and he said "sure, of course." Anyway more people eventually started coming in and the show started with Keith Fullerton Whitman, a synthesizer player who sat on the floor and started pushing random switches, the music really sucked. Then after that Matt Krefting came up and read a story with soft weird music playing in the background and I had a couple of panic attacks. Then Andrew McGregor (Gown) and Thurston Moore came onstage and played a quick rocking number with Matt doing lousy singing. Then Matt left the stage and the two that were left played one song that lasted about 15 minutes, an instrumental song that was pretty cool. Thurston’s amp was on high and he started tapping the back of the guitar neck up and down, creating an atmosphere of sound which slowly lead to a powerful freak-out jam with Thurston beating his guitar and strumming in fury. Andrew McGregor was doing the most work though. He held his guitar upside down with the headstock on the floor and strumming like crazy, the thing was the music didn’t sound like noise really, just guitar-like fragments of sound. After that Sunburned Hand of The Man played. They played one song that lasted about half an hour which honestly sounded pretty awful and was boring. Thurston didn’t seem to enjoy Sunburned and went outside to have a cigar. I went outside to put the CD’s in my car and went back inside. Then I asked Andrew if he could ask Thurston to take a picture with me. So he and I went into the bar and Thurston was talking with a group of girls. Andrew got his attention and Thurston saw saw me in the doorway. He came over and Andrew took our picture. I had a short conversation with Thurston and then I told him I was heading out.
March 7, 2007 at 9:15 am #126209Sweet its always rad to meet your heros. Reminds me of when I net J.
March 7, 2007 at 9:48 am #126210Yeah the show sucked, but I was really there to see Thurston in person.
March 7, 2007 at 10:10 am #126211Yeah those kinds of shows are usually great opportunities to meet some of your favorite musicians.
I remember seeing J do a solo show in Seattle and I met Dan Peters (drummer for Mudhoney), he was there to see J and I guess J stayed with him while he was in Seattle.
I remember another time seeing the Screaming Trees at The University of Washington, Dan Peters was drumming for them because Mark Pickerel had quit. Mark Arm (singer for Mudhoney) was there and I got to meet him, earlier in the day I got to talk with Gary Lee and Van Conner too.
Anyways good times.
March 7, 2007 at 10:34 am #126212you lucky assholes! i wanna meet those people
March 15, 2007 at 8:40 am #126213I also met Thalia Zedek not too long ago. She looks old and in bad shape. She couldn’t even talk coherently, sort of like Ozzy
March 16, 2007 at 8:34 am #126214Met Thurston Moore too. He sat at table’s length, right in front of me. All I could do was muster up some stupid grin on my face.
March 16, 2007 at 11:44 am #126215let’s face it, Thalia never looked good even in her prime. assuming she had one. meeting one’s heroes is almost always the biggest anticlimax.
March 16, 2007 at 12:18 pm #126216"Javro " wrote:let’s face it, Thalia never looked good even in her prime. assuming she had one. meeting one’s heroes is almost always the biggest anticlimax.Lemmy’s an exception — he was fantastic when I met him. Everything I’d hoped he’d be. The Real Deal.
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