tell a funny story about people you see at record fairs

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― tony bleach, Friday, 27 June 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

sometimes, self-deprecating humor is hard, you see...

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 27 June 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

i was haggling over the price of a pet shop boys 12". the tag said $3, i said $1, and the dealer won't ever talk to me again.

― franklin trench, Friday, 27 June 2003 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

how about not funny? they stink

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 27 June 2003 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

maybe it's the thought of finding that super rare pressing of a beatles album that makes them sweat too much?

― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 27 June 2003 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Howard Devoto at one. My friend N (who knows him a bit) shouted 'Howard!' at exactly the same instant as someone else shouted 'Howard!' from the opposite direction. H's head turned rapidly back and forth between the two of them before he scuttled for the door, pulling his overcoat tightly around him.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 27 June 2003 18:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Celeb and demi-celeb wise, I usually see Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Bob Bert (Sonic Youth/Pussy Galore/Bewitched), Don Ralph (Life in a Blender) and Jack Rabid (editor of the Big Takeover) at the WFMU fairs....along with a nation of aging sadsacks with paunches poking out from beneath their faded Fuzztones t-shirts, scrounging around on all fours looking for elusive Yardbirds bootlegs.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 June 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

As they should be.
You're never too old for Yardbirds bootlegs.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 27 June 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Alex - Tom Verlaine was at the last WFMU fair too!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 28 June 2003 01:31 (twenty-three years ago)

He lives on 12th street. I see him at the NewsBar on University Place all the time. He's kind've a cranky guy, actually.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 28 June 2003 03:04 (twenty-three years ago)

haha you don't say :-)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 June 2003 03:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Brian Turner to thread! Tell the one about Walter Becker buying a psych record from Wayne Rogers.

― john allen (john allen), Saturday, 28 June 2003 04:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Tom Verlaine looking through the $1 bins at the WFMU record fair. I keep missing Matt Dillon though.

I've also seen various creepy guys pathetically hitting on the female volunteers. "What's the grand prize, a weekend with HER??"

― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 28 June 2003 05:10 (twenty-three years ago)

saw Tom Verlaine looking through the $1 bins at the WFMU record fair.

Yeah, but did he smell?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 28 June 2003 09:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Billy - well I wasn't that close to him!

Brian T to thread, indeed.

Once, I ran into Maura. And Jen Nstop! Shocking!!!

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 29 June 2003 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

ok..once I offered 35$ fer a ? & Mysterians record the snob working his pitch wanted 50$...he wouldnt budge and I continued down the ailes, eventually leaving with a small handfull of stuff and cool guy record jerk stops me on the way out the door of the convention center and begrudingly says "Hey man, ..I normally dont do this, but, I need money kind of bad so..you can have the Mysterians for 40$." I accepted since he gave me the hard sale and after our exchange he asked me if I knew where to get some grass...

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Sunday, 29 June 2003 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, ha ha, I just saw that I was beckoned. Actually I should get Mike Lupica and Jenni Matz on here, they both were the chiefs of the WFMU fair, and have more stories than I, but OK, here's some:
* Liza's husband David Guest & bodyguard digging through crates at the last fair.
* Ditto Heather Graham & Matt Dillon (he's usually at every fair, in fact last time he had talked about coming on the air and playing Cambodian records).
*Ditto Holly Hunter (left her jacket at the FMU table for us to watch too).
*Tom Verlaine is indeed at every fair, Thurston Moore & Jim O'Rourke too unless they're on tour. Wish we could have gotten Thurston to do a photo with Rudy Ray Moore, who had a table too.
*Walter Becker did buy a record at the Twisted Village table.
*Jack Osbourne shopped last year too.
*Ron House does a table (a celebrity who should be as famous as the aforementioned...)

I think most exciting was Bruno from the Homosexuals coming by the last fair though, saying hello to everybody. We've done some crazy live band sessions at the fair too, The Moldy Peaches, Demolition Doll Rods, Harvey Sid Fisher, Damo Suzuki & Cul De Sac, probably the weirdest thing was the Troggs coming out and playing one song then splitting...

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Sunday, 29 June 2003 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

I can't beleive Brian Turner left out the Monks' return to the live scene playing at a WFMU fair! I'll have to write back with crazy stories Brian promised, but my fave hilite to date has got to be the dual birthday serenade I received from Billy Miller and Lenny Kaye at the WFMU fair last November '03. The funniest part about that was that Lenny was holding a copy of "Easter" which he had just purchased.. I guess you can never have enough of greatness.

― Jenni Matz, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i remember at the record fair at SXSW a few years back, my buddy alex sloping off while my friend simon and i trawled the tables, and getting the guy on the PA system to read out our names, albeit in disguised forms - "There's someone here looking for a record by Stevie and The Chicks, called 'Simon', on Keeler Records"... we laughed until we stopped.

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

my friend and i were at the wfmu fair maybe 4 years ago, and the demolition doll rods were the musical guest. i went over to watch them, and dan stayed browsing. he told me that a stereotypically creepy old collector dude came running over to the table he was standing by and excitedly told the dealer, "check it out! there's three chicks up there and two of them are naked!"*

*one of the chicks was actually a man

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

and were they naked or not? (not that it matters)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

no, they weren't. not completely anyway - they usually perform wearing g-strings and bra tops made out of weird found materials. the excited guy was a bit older, wearing glasses, and apparently quite shortsighted.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

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