{"id":1728,"date":"2003-09-12T10:55:35","date_gmt":"2003-09-13T00:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/12\/namedropper\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:55:18","slug":"namedropper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/12\/namedropper\/","title":{"rendered":"Namedropper ;)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people. I mean, come on<\/em>…<\/p>\n

\n My first exposure to the Pixies<\/strong> was when i was in Europe with the also now reuinited Skinny Puppy<\/strong> on their Mind TPI tour. Must have been 1987….<\/p>\n

The Skinny Puppy guys were driving me crazy.<\/a> Cevin was fight with the tour manager on a daily basis. It was just not an environment that i was particularly enjoying. I was helping to set up the stage and sell merchandise for Puppy. It meant i had a fair amount of down time during the day. So i wrote long notes to the Throwing Muses<\/strong> and the Pixies begging them to get me off the Skinny Puppy tour. I would write them on the back of the posters for our shows and then leave them a kind soul from the club to hand off to someone from the Pixies and the Throwing Muses the next night.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And if that weren’t enough…<\/p>\n

\n Did i mention that i once had dinner with Michael Stipe<\/strong>? But by now, who hasn’t?<\/a> He liked my shirt. I was tour managing the left wing of the socialist wing of the Democratic Party, Consolidated<\/strong>, when we were playing in Athens. The drummer for Consolidated (Phil) was putting together a compilation album for In Defense of Animals and Michael was contributing a song. He came and joined us for dinner.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As someone who, having listened to the Pixies, the Throwing Muses, Skinny Puppy, R.E.M., and Consolidated for more years than I can think of, but because of living in Anchorage — who nobody<\/em> cool goes to when they’re touring — never having had even the chance of seeing these artists in concert, let alone having dinner<\/em> with them, I want you to know that I say this from the deepest, darkest depths of my heart:<\/p>\n

You lucky bastard.<\/p>\n

;)<\/p>\n

Sorry. Just had to get that out of my system.<\/p>\n

(And yeah, R.E.M. does still rock — their Bumbershoot show<\/a> was excellent.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You lucky bastard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2035],"tags":[2707,6,2399,2278,2397,2398],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}