We've all experienced it. Fans or makers of music.

They just get carried away sometimes, don't they?

Maybe it was the moment and they got caught up in it. Maybe they just want that group approval.

Who knows.

In the end, they stretched the truth and made themselves look like royal asses.

Do share. Oh please, share.

~Austin

"Where in the world is your inspiration to say the things you're aching to say?"

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But I will need to set the scene first. . .

It was late 2001/early 2002-ish (can't honestly remember) and I was working in one of the oldest indie music stores in Reno in the city's failing shopping mall. There was not much traffic and not much to do.

There was, however, an "urban" clothing store across the mall from the record store. The dude that ran it was cool people. We were into a lot of the same music and he admitted daily that he was selling bullshit Fubu shirts to buy groceries. Somehow, this cliched "I gotta eat" manifesto made more sense up close.

Anyway.

He wanted to start some sort of happening, as far as kick starting a serious hip hop interest in Reno, using his store as the genesis.

He put himself in debt to buy a sound system, two turntables and a microphone. . . the whole deal.

Idiots showed up.

It turned into a sort of daily "cipher" (if you will) of kids acting like morons.

I will spare you the small stories and cut to the good one.

A guy showed and swore, up and down, that he was Cut Creator.

Yes, LL Cool J's world famous DJ, the original Cut Creator himself.

I thought, "Hmmm, skinny white dude that can't even transform."

(fact check: here is the REAL Cut Creator: http://www.eurthisnthat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/LL-and-DJ-Cut-Creator.jpg)

Sure, the dude was older-ish (I'm guessing early 40's at the time).

But, I just wasn't buying it.

I was hanging out after work one day and doing jazz blends because I was young and bored (and honestly, I was one of the idiots that showed up, too).

In walks "Cut Creator."

I'm blending Crusaders records. Just Crusaders joints. Matching beats, playing sampled bits. No big deal.

"Cut Creator" says he's never seen anyone do something "so amazing."

I knew the kid was a joke by this point, so I didn't let it go to my head.

He actually played around Reno a few times appearing as "the world famous Cut Creator" until he received a cease and desist from the REAL Cut Creator.

Didn't see him much after that.

~Austin

"Where in the world is your inspiration to say the things you're aching to say?"

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>He actually played around Reno a few times appearing as "the
>world famous Cut Creator" until he received a cease and desist
>from the REAL Cut Creator.

Many, many gems overheard. . .

This takes the cake though:

Some dude to his friend: "You like Erykah Badu?"

Friend: "She alright. But she a crackhead."

Dude: "How you know?"

Friend: "Because I done SMOKED with her, fool!"

The "friend" was in military dress.

~Austin

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Im imaging the dude in the Kurupt skit:

"God damn it Erykah I smoked the TV."

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Why did the elephant get lost?

Because the jungle was massssive!

Some guy: "I saw the Arkestra in Quincy at some tiny dive bar in 2008 and I didn't even know who they were until June Tyson came out and started singing."

Context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy,_California

What's wrong with it:
The Arkestra now plays hick towns with less than 2,000 inhabiting them apparently.

June Tyson (rest her soul) exited the sphere of celestial rewards in 1992.

~Austin

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and mentioned she had wanted to get tickets.

I pointed out that Muddy had been dead a decade at that point. Research showed the show in question was a Muddy Waters tribute show by Paul Rodgers.

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"Smashing Pumpkins" (or rather: "Billy Corgan and the people he's getting to cover SP songs") played here last year and, while waiting for a table at a restaurant the next morning (no, I didn't go to the show, just a coincidence), I over hear two girls talking:

Girl one: "Oh, they were amazing."

Girl two: "Yeah, too bad James and Darcy were sick!"

~Austin

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as a white guy came out on stage.

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All White Now, I Just Feel Like Makin Love To You, Electric Thud, I Can't Be Satisfied With Enough of Your Love, The Firm Mean Old Frisco Business, Walking Through OldFartsdale.

Alright, I'll stop for now.

going with a friend, who was a classic bullshitter, which was kinda how we got on the bus in the first place - he was sure there was free public transport to the Mann from 30th St. Station. He was wrong.

Anyhow, the bus driver's talking to us and says 'So, you're going to see ole Robert Zimmerman, eh?'

Bullshitter friend's eyes go wide and he says 'Wow, he's playing TOO?'

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Turns out she's into ska. Like really into ska - friends with a few bands, according to her, really into the 3d wave bands, knows a lot about that whole scene after it blew up in the late '90s.

Then she starts talking about how ska evolved from punk and 'really old reggae, like from the '50s.'

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10 The Hard Way
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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician." © Miles Davis

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

PERFECT example.

~Austin

"Where in the world is your inspiration to say the things you're aching to say?"

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I heard that in an interview the other day on NPR (interview was from 2006) and it was only one of many things that just made me cringe.

The interview in general made me say 'I hate hearing musicians whose music I love sound like pretentious douchebags.'

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~Austin

"Where in the world is your inspiration to say the things you're aching to say?"

http://austintayeshus.blogspot.com

http://www.last.fm/user/Austintayeshus

http://twitter.com/Austintayeshus

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2012/03/28/mellow-yellow-donovan

I also like the claim that he 'left music behind at the age of 24,' like he wasn't making albums that whole time that noone ever heard of because they simply weren't good.

The interview also had a few chronological inconsistencies.

I actually saw him in a solo show in 199...1, I think, over the summer. It was really terrible.

*shrug*

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I just hear him really trilling that out... I PUT PO-etry on the POP charts! Tra la la

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next time i fart, i'm going to try and squeeze out different notes.

https://twitter.com/chuck4prez

<confused frown>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane

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There are so many quotables there.

I'm going to incorporate "flatulist" into my vocabulary. Oh yes, it's happening.

~Austin

"Where in the world is your inspiration to say the things you're aching to say?"

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*edit* I first heard of the guy (though I'd heard the name in both Blazing Saddles and, um, Up the Creek) from The Straight Dope: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/363/did-a-french-vaudeville-star-once-specialize-in-trained-flatulence

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puh8KQB3rds

~Austin

"Where in the world is your inspiration to say the things you're aching to say?"

http://austintayeshus.blogspot.com

http://www.last.fm/user/Austintayeshus

http://twitter.com/Austintayeshus

I was in a huge auditorium class in college. They had some Jimi Hendrix playing over the audio system as students got settled. In front of me this very square looking dude sits down next to this cute granola chick. He tries to make small talk saying "Well this is some interesting music" like they've got some real dissonant experimental noise blaring, as opposed to one of the most beloved rock icons in the world. He obviously doesn't know Jimi Hendrix's music.

The girl replies, "I love Hendrix."

Like he's in a bad sitcom, he completely changes directions and says, "Yeah, he's great."

The girl obviously can tell he's talking out of his ass so she goes in for the kill. "Oh yeah? What do you think of the album he just released?"

"It's good, but I prefer his earlier stuff."

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. . .to the first three albums.

Maybe the guy was smarter than it appears?

No.

No, he was just dumb.

Classic.

~Austin

"Where in the world is your inspiration to say the things you're aching to say?"

http://austintayeshus.blogspot.com

http://www.last.fm/user/Austintayeshus

http://twitter.com/Austintayeshus

(meaning you weren't the nitwit, but the impressed observer...)

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Okay, that might be an exaggeration, but he is a pretty fantastic liar.

The big one is obviously "This is going to be our last album and tour" said in 1988, leading up to Disintegration, and repeated before every single album ever since.

~Austin

"Where in the world is your inspiration to say the things you're aching to say?"

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DJ Quik was interviewed in some hip-hop magazine about his new release (back then) LP/CD "Safe and sound". DJ Quik whole angle through the interview was that he had really got off track with the previous LP/CD the way he was living his life and now with "Safe and Sound" he got it together.

Then a few years later, I was reading another article (probably an interview as well) and the writer was stating like a known fact that the "Safe and Sound" era of DJ Quik was when he really was going wild and being reckless.

of him

think he had one big hit in the U.S.

David Essex

in tv interviews back in the day he always used to claim he was the first dude to rock an ear-ring and the first person to wear flared trousers

I don't know why that gets on my nerves but it really REALLY does

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoArTZNA5F8

fuck you.

Was he joking?

~Austin

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fuck you.

that quote in a GD post within the past six months or so & that quote is from an 'In The News' segment at least twice as old as this website we're posting on.

It's a testament to the staying power of sheer stupidity & I thank Robbie Van Winkle for at least that if nothing else.

part of a band that performed Prince songs and I use to go watch them practice...

the funny part is the dude that was spose to be Prince ACTUALLY THOUGHT HE WAS PRINCE (looking back on it, everyone got a good laugh at dude's expense but he had a serious identity crisis) and use to come to school wearing some of the most outlandish knockoff ish that sorta, kinda resembled something Prince would wear circa 1980 lol.

He was well known by many ppl and they actually called him 'Prince.'

The funny thing is this dude was in such a fantasy world that he use to sit and tell these stories abt being around Prince and the rest of the Minneapolis crew...and how Morris Day and Prince use to get into it and damn near come to blows. He'd talk abt being around Prince for certain recordings...and I would, just for the hell of it, ask him abt the meaning of some of Prince's more esoteric songs to which he always had an explanation.

Both my brother and I knew this dude was full of shit but I have to admit that his lies were entertaining...because he went into such great detail abt hanging w/Prince.

grassrootsphilosopher

~Austin

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thought he was an obsessed Prince fanatic/wannabe but I remember my moms was the 1st person I heard say he had a real identity crisis...as a teenage, I didn't fully understand the severity of it but I knew pretending to be someone else everyday of your life wasn't a healthy thing.

grassrootsphilosopher

Chicago was touring in the mid-70's (probably 8 or 10 era — so 75-ish) and they played in Reno. Guy who told me this story is hanging out outside the gig when he sees people pull up in a bus and they're all wearing tour jackets. Figures crew and maybe some band members so he gets their attention and asks for autographs and stuff. Somehow —and this was never explained to me— somebody "in the band" asks him if he smokes pot, he says yeah and the "band member" says give me twenty dollars and I'll get you some pot from back east. He hands over the money after the guy gives an autograph. This guy notices he signed his name "D. Seraphine" so, being a fan, he knows that he's just gotten the drummer's autograph. Well, "Danny" told this guy to "wait right here, I'll be back in fifteen minutes with your stuff." Waited an hour. Nothing. The twenty was supposed to be for tickets, so getting into the gig was not an option.

This guy, to this day, swears up and down that he was ripped off by Danny Seraphine.

~Austin

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Around 10 years ago I was working with this guy....started talking about all his friends who were in the music industry. I asked for their names cause I was involved in music too.

'No offense...I'm talking more 'urban' kind of artists'.

By 'urban' he meant black.

So I said 'yah yah....I'm on a production team. We've done hip hop, reggae, all kinds of stuff.'

Guy just dismisses me.

Around a month later he pulls up in the parking lot playing one of his friend's demo tapes......produced by me. He didn't believe me when I told him. At some point he found out the truth and pulled a 360 in his attitude towards me.

Last year I went to see Prince and a coworker asked me how the concert was... i

I responded: it was great, Chaka Khan was the opening act...

He replies: "man I love him"

Also have a friend who is a musician and also a classic bullshitter. I don't know why but he is a hardcore republican and said he used to tell people he was an old fashion William F Buckley Log Cabin Republican. Said it was a few years before he found out Log Cabin Repuclicans were gay.

I laugh everytime I tell that story.

1. Newport 1965: Pete Seeger's been reported to have either taken an axe to the power cable or to have threatened to. Most sources say his excuse was because his father was in attendance and couldn't take the loudness. I just read 'Positively 4th St.' though and Hajdu says Seeger's anger was that 'people couldn't hear the socialist message in Maggie's Farm.' Either way, TALKING OUT HIS ASS. (Much as I love the guy.)

2. Also re: Newport 1965: Geoff Muldaur said people were booing because the music was bad; Dylan was 'playing with second-tier musicians.' LMAO @ Bob Dylan calling Mike Bloomfield second-tier (not to mention Howlin' Wolf's rhhythm section.)

3. Following Newport 1965: Dylan saying "I never was a folksinger. If they wanted to call me that, it's on them." FOH, Mr. Zimmerman.

4. Following Newport 1964, where his performances turned from the topical songs the folk scene had embraced him for to his more personal lyrics: "Politics was never my bag... it was what people wanted to hear, that's all."

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>2. Also re: Newport 1965: Geoff Muldaur said people were
>booing because the music was bad; Dylan was 'playing with
>second-tier musicians.' LMAO @ Bob Dylan calling Mike
>Bloomfield second-tier (not to mention Howlin' Wolf's rhhythm
>section.)

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I seem to recall something about Self Portrait being intentionally bad or some nonsense.

~Austin

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for a prolific songwriter who up to that point had a pretty rock-solid catalog despite at least three about-faces up to that point, it certainly represented some of the signs of a willfully induced career suicidial tendencies or at the very least a lack of inspiration/writer's-block.

I won't put it in the Metal Machine Music category (where people actually had to debate whether it actually *was* music & the logic/explanation behind it seems to only point to Lou Reed being a Legendary Asshole) but it's at least in the same category of 'Am I Not Your Girl?' by Sinead O'Connor in that even if it does possess some okay musical moments they falls on deaf ears in the context of which it was released & the artist's prior recorded history.

The vocals are a bit all over the place on that album, probably because there's different eras/places for the source material.

Having the best-remembered song on here be one Dylan doesn't even sing on (featuring a repeated mantra of 'all work & no play makes jack a dull boy' proverbial proportions) speaks to the issues with this album probably more than anything else.

Dylan had at least five or six distinct singing voices to my ears up to that point (that early Ramblin Jack type of folky-hick 'humdinger/folksinger' affectation, the more shouted/accusatory tone taken during the subsequent 'topical' phase around 63/64, the endless-verses with elongated-syllable-ending 'rocker' of Rolling Stone once he went electric, the muted-dust-bowl-narrative-sound of John Wesley Harding, the oddly crystal-clear country-crooner of Nashville Skyline for which his only explanation was a brief respite from incessant cigarrette-smoking) but this one seems almost somewhere in the middle of the last two I'd mentioned but with less emotional investment.

he said his cousin from there SERIOUSLY believed that Coo Coo Cal was the best rapper ever, and that "My projects" was the best song ever. He said "that shit is REAL life!!!! He's talkin about what we really go through!!! I can relate to that shit!!!!!"

BTW, Coo Coo Call released a new song last year in which he references "My projects" in the hook.

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