I gave a package of gummi bears to the Dead Milkmen back in 1993.― Odyssey Dong (how's life), Friday, September 14, 2012 1:05 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkAnd a tie to the drummer from Skankin' Pickle ('96)― Odyssey Dong (how's life), Friday, September 14, 2012 1:06 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkJust writing that down for tax purposes.― Odyssey Dong (how's life), Friday, September 14, 2012 1:06 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Odyssey Dong (how's life), Friday, September 14, 2012 1:05 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
And a tie to the drummer from Skankin' Pickle ('96)
― Odyssey Dong (how's life), Friday, September 14, 2012 1:06 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Just writing that down for tax purposes.
(from the Amanda Palmer thread)
Have you ever tangible physical goods to musicians that you were fans of?
― Odyssey Dong (how's life), Friday, 14 September 2012 13:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
Could be food, but not if you've brought them back to your house to crash on your floor. Like, if you've brought a lasagne to the venue or something would be okay.
― Odyssey Dong (how's life), Friday, 14 September 2012 13:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
I was nicer to my support bands than Amanda Palmer was. I even gave one of them the lovely gold jacket right off my back when she asked for it.
― Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 14 September 2012 13:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
I used to write letters to bands telling them I liked them. My mom used to write fan letters as a teen and she made us write letters to musicians or singers as a kid, it's corny but I did it out of respect for her.
This was when I was a teen or in college, though.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka It's My Fucking Ferrari (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 14 September 2012 13:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
I gave Frank Watkins, at the time the bassist in Obituary, a pretty cool Sonic Youth book with a 45 single called "Sonic Life"
In the area of services, I allowed members of Napalm Death to shower at my house and I am pretty sure I gave vocalist Barney Greenway some Nine Inch Nails CD or two (I worked at TVT Records at the time).
I also gave Mike Patton a Godflesh CD when I worked at RED. It helped to work at a label or distro to do these things, actually, since I was giving away shit I got for free to begin with (or in the case of the SOnic Youth book, paid a small amount).
I unwittingly gave members of Death Angel a small marijuana pipe - it was a promotional item I got from Priority Records for something they released (I forget who it was) and I was showing it off and next thing I know, they say "thanks!" and it is no longer mine. (I don't smoke so it wasn't that big of a deal...)
That happens a lot to people, actually - people are showing off something to a band and they interpret as giving it to them.
Example:
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 14 September 2012 13:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
Michael Rother had flu so i went to a spanish supermarket to get him some snacks. He wanted pretzels, but I couldn't work out how to explain that to a non-English speaker. He got some nuts and trail mix instead.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 14 September 2012 13:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
He was cool with that - no beef.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 14 September 2012 13:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
I gave a copy of my own band's CD to Susanna Hoffs when we opened for her. /classy
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Friday, 14 September 2012 13:58 (8 months ago) Permalink
I gave a copy of my band's demo to Steve West when I saw Pavement.
I gave Eric Bachmann a pen at a Crooked Fingers show. (Actually, I gave him a pen to sign my cd, and then I never saw it again.)
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 14 September 2012 14:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
Do hugs count?
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
Advice and shit, mostly.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
when i was much younger and much twee-er i gave wayne coyne a stuffed toy giraffe. much much twee-er.
― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
Good grief, that IS twee.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
Herpes.
― emil.y, Friday, 14 September 2012 17:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
(JOOOOOOOKES)
YOU GOT A PROBLEM BRING IT ON SUNSHINE BRING IT ON.
XXP
― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
OMG so jealous. <3 her.
Big Interpol fan then? (JOOOOOOOKES)
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
gave a snare drum to the snare drummer of the rebirth brass band, and some clothes to the snare drummer of the hot 8 bb (both post-katrina).
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
Apologies for taking that wide-open goal, there.
I actually can't think of that much. I, along with my boyfriend of the time, gave one of my American musician friends one of those '70s green lady paintings to take home post tour. I intended to give Julian Cope a dinky toy police car I had as I knew he collected them, but then I never met him in the end. Wrote shitloads of letters to people.
― emil.y, Friday, 14 September 2012 17:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
so, in essence, one could say that you did indeed give the drummer some?
(xpost)
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
Oh yeah, and I have given my band's 7"s to a few musicians.
― emil.y, Friday, 14 September 2012 17:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
The most I've ever given is a couple of tylenol. Sorry that's the only tangible thing I can think of.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
My mom used to write fan letters as a teen and she made us write letters to musicians or singers as a kid
!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
(Maybe because it's so different from anything my Mum would do.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, my mom would never. I think she considered both of her kids emotionally unwell for even liking rock music.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
Bought a beer for the lead singer of the Czech Republic's biggest indie band on Wednesday. Gave half a pack of sweets to one of Olivia Tremor Control some years ago.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:28 (8 months ago) Permalink
I think she considered both of her kids emotionally unwell for even liking rock music.
Your Mum = my Dad
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:29 (8 months ago) Permalink
If you count my ex that was in a band when we dated, I gave her lots of stuff. But beyond that, I bought a beer for Jay Bennett at a Reputation gig once (and gave a hug to Elizabeth Elmore at the same show). And in lolcollege I served food to various members of the Poster Children, Blue Meanies, and Hum.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:32 (8 months ago) Permalink
drugs
― flopson, Friday, 14 September 2012 17:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
hah, the only things that come to mind for me are handshakes and hugs
― TOP FEMALE LAWYER & CARTOONIST FOR 2011: (donna rouge), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
lol emil.y, I was going to go down a laundry list
"herpes, the clap, chlamydia, syphilis, crabs, scabies, ptomaine poisoning... you know, the usual"
― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:38 (8 months ago) Permalink
i was initially going to go with the "a good time, hopefully" route
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
oh ya i forgot drugs. toy giraffes and drugs, covering all the bases.
― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
I once gave Cosey Fanni Tutti a question card from the Sex Maniacs Board Game which mentioned her name...
― Talcum Mucker, Friday, 14 September 2012 17:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
once gave a bunch of lousy weed to Iggy and he called me "the benefactor" which was much too kind.
― making plans for nyquil (outdoor_miner), Friday, 14 September 2012 17:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
I bought beers for the members of Acid Mothers Temple. I gave Tigerbeat6 artist Cex a beatdown in a freestyle battle royale in a friend's basement in college.
― Clarke B., Friday, 14 September 2012 17:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
Not quite what's being asked for, but I gave an excessively oversize Celia Cruz t-shirt I bought at one of her shows to a conguero who played live for the jazz samba dance class I used to take (and who I also used to see showing up occasionally with salsa bands, or backing up people singing Cuban standards, etc.).
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 14 September 2012 18:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
I smoked an 'imported' cigarette with Thalia Zadek.
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 14 September 2012 18:58 (8 months ago) Permalink
That's funny. I'm not bragging because my mom is a pain in the ass, but she used to make us listen to rock radio and read the magazines, know all the songs. Now that I'm older I realize a lot of kids didn't have a mom like that, but that's because she liked rock and roll as a teenager and didn't like people forgetting what it was.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 14 September 2012 19:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
"You are not going outside until you've listened to that stack of 45s and named all four members of Led Zeppelin!"
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 September 2012 19:54 (8 months ago) Permalink
handed some of my (comics) work to robyn hitchcock after an unannounced show in manhattan. Wonder if it made it back to his hotel with him.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 14 September 2012 20:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
A friend of mine once gave a cassette of his band to Mike Mills and asked him to give it to Robyn Hitchcock.
― cwkiii, Friday, 14 September 2012 20:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
See, my mom is an old rock and roller and back then she had religious wackos in her family and remembers when they burned records and it wasn't a "cool" thing with her, it's not like she's some dope smoking hippie, it was more, "religious nuttery is un-American"! And stuff like "there are no Satanic messages" and stuff and how we should play the records to see if there was Satan in them.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 14 September 2012 20:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
kudos
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, 14 September 2012 20:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
I gave Marion from the Dog Faced Hermans my spare "School Crossing Guard" patch one of the times I saw them.
― sleeve, Friday, 14 September 2012 20:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
I gave David Baker (then) of Mercury Rev a small plastic dinosaur, and he sang to it onstage.
― /\ /\ Delete post (admrl), Friday, 14 September 2012 20:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
I love David.
I once gave Carlos D herpes
― Poliopolice, Friday, 14 September 2012 20:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
oh fuck, someone already made my joke. GODDAMMIT
― Poliopolice, Friday, 14 September 2012 20:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
well, AIDS then
clearly i'm a tight fisted f*cker, as apart from money for records, mentions on the blog when appropriate, and beers when i get a chance, i haven't given anyone anything.
― mark e, Friday, 14 September 2012 20:58 (8 months ago) Permalink
I was standing next to my friend when he gave Kris Kristofferson a copy of his own (my friend's, that is) lp.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 14 September 2012 21:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
Oh I gave Jane from Oneida a t-shirt from my college radio station.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 14 September 2012 21:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
I gave Rammellzee a fist bump and bought him a Sapporro tall boy. He thanked me and wandered off gesticulating with the can as he talked but kept it unopened the 20 minutes he was in my vicinity. Second guessed myself that he might be secrete Muslim or a non drinker who was offended but saving me face. A few years later reading the obituaries I was surprised to learn he was a big beer lover.
― sanskrit, Saturday, 15 September 2012 01:05 (8 months ago) Permalink
When opening for Boyracer soon after 2 members had married, I gave them a blender.
― DanielGr, Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:24 (8 months ago) Permalink
Years ago I would give various bands passing through London a place to crash, nicest of whom were Sweep The Leg Johnny.
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Saturday, 15 September 2012 09:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
Gave Mclusky some brownies.
― Simon H., Saturday, 15 September 2012 11:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
I've never given gifts to strangers because they were musicians but I always let strange musicians crash and make them pad thai.
― Why can't I be food? (Ówen P.), Saturday, 15 September 2012 12:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
CTRL+F "head"
p disappointed in you all, both personally and professionally
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 15 September 2012 14:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
yeah, i decided to stay off this thread, aero. everyone knows about my days folowing Nelson and Collective Soul around on tour. don't need to rehash those dark times.
― scott seward, Saturday, 15 September 2012 14:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
To say nothing of Hanson.
― sanskrit, Saturday, 15 September 2012 14:44 (8 months ago) Permalink