{"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":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13361,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\\\/eyv\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/death_to_the_pi.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13362,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\\\/eyv\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/rem_can_still_r.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050329032239\\\/http:\\\/\\\/brokengoalie.typepad.com:80\\\/eyv\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/rem_can_still_r.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 10:15:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 21:29:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 10:33:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 03:27:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 03:27:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Some people. I mean, come <em>on<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  My first exposure to the <strong>Pixies<\/strong> was when i was in Europe with the also now reuinited <strong>Skinny Puppy<\/strong> on their Mind TPI tour. Must have been 1987&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\/eyv\/2003\/09\/death_to_the_pi.html\" title=\"Death to the Pixies\">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 <strong>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<p>And if that weren&#8217;t enough&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Did i mention that i once had dinner with <strong>Michael Stipe<\/strong>? <a href=\"http:\/\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\/eyv\/2003\/09\/rem_can_still_r.html\" title=\"R.E.M. Can Still Rock\">But by now, who hasn&#8217;t?<\/a> He liked my shirt. I was tour managing the left wing of the socialist wing of the Democratic Party, <strong>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<p>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 &#8212; who <em>nobody<\/em> cool goes to when they&#8217;re touring &#8212; never having had even the chance of seeing these artists in concert, let alone <em>having dinner<\/em> with them, I want you to know that I say this from the deepest, darkest depths of my heart:<\/p>\n<p>You lucky bastard.<\/p>\n<p>;)<\/p>\n<p>Sorry. Just had to get that out of my system.<\/p>\n<p>(And yeah, R.E.M. does still rock &#8212; their <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/bumbershoot_03__1.html\" title=\"Bumbershoot '03: Mon, Sep 1\">Bumbershoot show<\/a> was excellent.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You lucky bastard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035],"tags":[2707,6,2399,2278,2397,2398],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-consolidated","tag-humor","tag-pixies","tag-rem","tag-skinny-puppy","tag-throwing-muses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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}]}}