Met Thurston at Mudhoney in Northhampton
 

I was wearing my Washing Machine T-shirt. He said " I like your shirt ". Took me a few seconds to recognise him. So awesome. Had a brief chat with him about Connecticut and Butthole Surfers. He was like " No way butthole surfers are gonna play again? I didn't know about that " Very very nice guy. Very tall too. Well, that was the highlight of my year.

Best that he probably didn't know from what I've heard about it.

co-sign. he's a nice guy, but he can be a grade a dick too. not that i blame him.

I wonder whether he paid to get in.

nice i saw thurston there too, i think i saw you walk in with the washing machine shirt too, with 2 other dudes. i wasnt sure but i thought eric gaffney was there from sebadoh...i saw a dude there who looked like him...but im only goin off seein Sebadoh there last year...good show, old songs rocked, some of the new songs did

wow, i'd fucking love to chat with Thurston. Sounds like an all-star turnout to this gig then? I saw Dinosaur Jr. in London a couple of weeks ago, and MBV and Explosions in the Sky were present (they were all in town for ATP), didn't meet them, though i saw a dude from Explosions. I did though have a good chat with Scroobius Pip. Dosn't beat Thurston though.

Would you pay to see people you've known for decades, toured with, and even helped get gigs? They might well have been staying at his house!

did you see belinda?
does she still have all that hair?

AAAGHHH i cant wait to see them

eric gaffney is a fucking twat who can't write a fucking song yet acts like he's part of something..

if thurston mentioned washing machine around me....fuck....... I'd probably die...

i was thinking shields could have been at dino - i didnt see him though. I've never had any famous run ins - im not really bothered to though.

wow, thats crazy I was at that gig and I didn't see Thurston. I did some guy with a green washing machine t shirt, was that you? I was drunk that night so my memory is fuzzy. It was a great fucking how though, loved the energy of the crowd. I was right up front getting pushed around a bunch.

gaffney was part of the original sebadoh lineup and part of the group during thier greatness. im sure you probably had an incident of acting too fanboy ish and he might of given you some attitude, lol

again, hes accomplished more musically than you can ever dream of

then again, ive heard j mascis, lou barlow, thurston, kim...all kinda have egos and attitudes towards fans from different stories ive heard

Actually I pretty much agree with him. I saw his ego trip band "Fields of Gaffney" play, opening for the Sun City Girls of all people, and they were the worst cliched indie rock nothing in the world. To make matters worse, Gaffney introduced each and every song with a name drop - "I wrote this one on tour with Mike Watt!", "This song originally came out on cassette!" (yes to prove his lo-fi cred he name dropped "casette"...) Each name drop was given with deliberate emphasis on the last word to explain why this proved how important Gaffney is.

Yes he was in the original Sebadoh, and that was a good thing. That doesn't make everything he does today golden, however.

did you pee your pants?

jesus you people take yr bullshit too seriously!
gaffney, like thurston, is a FUCKING JOKER
and he was just being FUNNY! can;t you see that?

"This one came out on cassette!"

that's genius! ain;t no one in the world thinks that mentioning the word cassette is gonna get you indie cred! get a grip!

gaffney rules!

we're gonna ride with the flood tonight!

ive met thurston too. hell of a nice guy as too is steve..

i met and interviewed the sebadoh years ago. jason and eric are gentlemen of the highest order. lou was occupied "too busy acting like j" was erics explanation of his absence!!!


i met kevin sheilds in dublin at a pavement gig around 1993 and he was very shy and coy and not at all imressed with me saying he wrote the greatest album ever.... he was like, well, there are better albums, im just a bloke from dublin with too much time on my hands....

ian williams of battles and don cab has to be the most pleasant "famous" band memebr ive ever had the pleasure of spending time wuith tho. he is so down to earth, you forget that he is an incredible musician... just a skinny guy who likes strange sounds and chatting to people.......

trent reznor was also suprisingly gentleman like, very funny actually and constantly smiling..

ive met billy corgan.. total wanker.. end of story

I heard billy corgan likes to use that snaggle-tooth he always displays to scrape the ass-cheese from around the un-washed anuses of men in the "glory-hole" industry.

rat boy corgan and the crumbs of love.. thats his new side project with other defunct members of auf der mar and tom morrillo.

Yes, but the songs all sucked, and it looked like his girlfriend in the band was just as sick of his ego trip as the audience and about ready to walk off. If you'd have heard his intros I don't think you'd have been busting up either, they were as lame as the performance.