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Author: randysan
Date: 05-24-12 18:27
i suppose it was bound to happen sometime...
i sometimes wear band t-shirts, at least ones i think look cool.
but i never expected a shout out for Sloan, especially not from a TSA worker in Detroit
groovy
anyone else have a surprising encounter with a fellow TP band fan?
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Author: zoo
Date: 05-24-12 20:40
There's a guy I used to work with who likes a lot of the same music as me. One day I gave him my CD of The The's Soul Mining to borrow. As I'm handing it to him, another guy walks by and says "Hey, Soul Mining! Great album!" That was completely unexpected by this particular fellow.
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Author: wade
Date: 05-24-12 22:01
Fifteen years ago I did shipping and receiving at a hospital, and was talking to a manager-in-training for the company I worked for. A real conservative, suit and tie guy. He mentioned he graduated from UofT Austin, so I said I really liked a band from Austin by the name of Reivers. "The Reivers!, I loved that band!" He had all their albums. Turns out he went there while the band was in their prime, and saw numerous gigs.
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Author: rebelwithoutaclue
Date: 05-24-12 23:13
i was wearing a replacements t shirt when a nice normal looking lady who was about 7o years old said "my son loves that band and used to see them in minneapolis".
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 05-25-12 08:51
If you ever see him again, tell him the band is working on a new record.
I've noticed over the years that people who saw/listened to the Reivers in those years still love the band dearly. They're not a time-and-place pleasure.
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 05-25-12 08:53
I get enough shout-outs whenever I wear one of my MC5 t-shirts (especially the one says E= MC5) to give me hope for the universe.
I used to have a Choir T-shirt (from the Wide-Eyed Wonder tour, given to me by a friend) that would every once in a while get a comment. Of course, I was always wary of those folks, since I was afraid the next words out of their mouths would be an invitation to their church. Which did indeed happen once.
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Author: Mr Manager
Date: 05-25-12 10:28
Once in line at the post office a guy came up and told me he liked my Velocity Girl shirt. I was impressed at first, but then he followed that up with "So, are they a band...?" Oddly, it was just their name and a fairly simple drawing of a guitar.
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Author: Delvin
Date: 05-25-12 11:18
At my last job, I shared my cubicle with a guy who was a solid classic-rock fan. Terrific engineer, diligent worker, a real team player, and just a great guy all around ... but from all I could tell, his musical taste stopped developing around 1980 or so.
So imagine my surprise when, one day, he glanced over my shoulder at the concert photo on my PC desktop — a photo I'd taken — and exclaimed, "Oh my gosh, that's Kraftwerk! Cool!"
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Author: breno
Date: 05-25-12 21:14
I'm often surprised and pleased by the eclecticism shown by small town record shop owners in what they play instore.
There's a little record shop in Rantoul, Illinois, which is a town between Champaign and Chicago that doesn't have much of an economy since the air force closed its base there. But they have a first rate little record shop that's only open on weekends, and it's run by this little old hippie who splits the space with his wife's antique store. The last time I went in there, he was playing Iron Butterfly when I walked in. Then when that was over, he played the first Best Coast album in its entirety, then followed that with You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic.
He was wearing a Rush t-shirt.
Iron Butterfly didn't seem that surprising of a thing for him to be playing if you judged him by his appearance, while Ian Hunter was moderately surprising but not necessarily shocking, but Best Coast was completely unexpected.
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Author: zwirnm
Date: 05-25-12 22:07
I have gotten comments on a Moon Seven Times t-shirt ... my Loud Family t-shirt periodically gets a "what's that?"
And wow, this would be kind of cool: http://www.redbubble.com/people/astrobeej/works/8453590-game-theory-lolita-nation
Post Edited (05-25-12 22:39)
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Author: STEVE
Date: 05-26-12 00:40
i'm feelin randy. any CD collection over 300 items should include SMEARED.
Post Edited (05-26-12 00:46)
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Author: breno
Date: 05-26-12 09:13
Quote:
I have gotten comments on a Moon Seven Times t-shirt
I was in a little store in Nuremberg years (hell, decades - I keep forgetting how long ago the early 90s are now) ago and they were playing the Moon Seven Times on the muzak!
I saw the band in concert a few months later and told them that and they were pretty dumbfounded but excited to hear it.
German radio was also pretty big on "Rip In Heaven" by Til Tuesday while I was there - heard it three times during the couple of weeks I was in the country. It wasn't a hit in the US, most likely because everyone in the US incorrectly wrote off Til Tuesday as MTV one hit wonders, but the Germans must've gotten into it since this was several years after Everything's Different Now had even come out and they were still playing one of the singles from it.
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