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@popvulture that story is freakin’ incredible.
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Right?!? So wild. One of the things I've always loved most about them is their geekiness about gear. Would be so cool to be a fly on the wall while they're playing around with stuff.
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Wow! I am a huge Radiohead and Thom Yorke fan and have been from an early age too.
I have kind of a similar story about Omar Rodriguez-Lopez from At the Drive In and The Mars Volta.
I was at the Ottobar in Baltimore, MD standing in line to take a piss. I noticed the dude a in front using the urinal looked like Omar. As he went to the sink I saw that it was in fact him. I let out an embarrassing, "OMAR?!" and he (and everyone in line) turned, looking at me. I held out my hand to shake his, but in my bafflement I didn't realize he hadn't even washed his hands yet. He gave me the one minute please hand gesture and reached into his pocket for a small bottle of hand sanitizer. We shook hands right after he shook his…well. You know.
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Also cool. I saw MV at Rams Head Live where they still employ bathroom attendants to hand you a mint and some cologne. So in essence I had almost the exact same experience.
Except instead of my nice bathroom you were at Ottobar, which is almost an exact replica of the bathroom from Trainspotting.
I did meet Bob Mould in the back alley outside of 9:30 in DC. He may have had his dick out, I don’t recall.
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Yup, that was it. I went with the guys from the Tattoo Museum. It was a pretty legit show.
They played there twice that same year and I went to both shows. Cedric freaked out and threw the drumset into the crowd bc people were smoking in the crowd when he asked them not to. It was hilarious and lame at the same time. I smoked weed and laughed about it.
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…Adrenochrome is something else!
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@Oaktavia thats a pretty wild way to meet Omar! I saw ATDI at the Astoria in London around the time Relationship of Command came out, 2001 I believe. I was 14 years old and to my shame was heavily into my-metal. That show completely flipped my musical taste. I wish I still had my ATDI boombox tee I got from that show, not that it’d fit me anymore.
In the same vein, a few weeks after the ATDI show I went to see …Trail of Dead also at the Astoria. Again, they were a band I didn’t know much about but were being compared in a lot of ways to ATDI so I turned up to see. While queueing we were chatting to some New York dudes down the alley outside, who told us they were first support band. They found it funny that me and my friends were only 14 seeing trail of dead, joking that we should still be in school and shit. One of them picked me up and ran around giving me a piggy-back. They were The Strokes, who at the time were kinda unknown to me. Sometimes I think it’s funny that Julian Casablancas gave me a piggy-back when I was 14…
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