How often do you meet people in person with your music taste?

[Nick X]

Outside of shows/gigs of course.

I guess we are kind of a specific group of people but I was pretty impressed today with a kid at the check out at my grocery. He had a sort of Paul Weller haircut and was wearing a Vibrators, Damned and the Jam pin on the shirt.I was like, "you got taste man" and we got in a conversation about music. It's weird that we didn't know each other but anyhow, it's reassuring to meet people who like good music.

[JackTheApache]

not often enough that's for damn sure.

[Last Night]

Never...

If i meet someone with same taste it's because somehow i "provocate" the meeting by going where i could find those people ! By going in record stores or r'n'r bars in other towns/countries...

[Alex]

Jeez, I'd never want to meet any of you dickheads on purpose.

OK, just kidding.  I almost never run into people with the same music taste.  Basically if I want to go to a show or even the record store, I go alone.  When I do run into someone with the same taste at a party or something, I get pathetically giddy.  That said, I'm still amused every time my friends make jokes about my not liking bands that have more than 50 fans or bands that someone else has actually heard of.  It's a point of pride.

[whatwave dave]

Not very often, that's for sure!!!

But doing a garagepunk radio show (Radio What Wave) i do come across some really cool people out there that actually have what i call, cool taste in music. In fact just last night, i had a young band called The Bad Bad Bad onair and these kids (early 20's i guess) actually got it, and have really good taste!! Talked to them for way too long which i tend to do when i come across like minded souls....

And like Pat says above, it's usually at records shows/stores or live shows in other towns that us outcasts of society usually meet up by some form of fate.

[dave]

Every day!

That being said, the number has dwindled drastically with the closing of most record stores.

[kopper]

Yeah, no shit. In real life? Aside from a garage/punk show (which I rarely ever go to anymore, anyway)? NEVER.

[melissa scott]

In RL? Has happened once in like 9 years here -- I noticed someone wearing a C&W style shirt and inquired where he got it (USA of course). Turned out, he was a big rockabilly fan and used to play in a band. That almost never happens.

kopper said:

Yeah, no shit. In real life? Aside from a garage/punk show (which I rarely ever go to anymore, anyway)? NEVER.

[Mark Z]

Never!

When I mention some of the bands I listen to, I get looks like I'm from another planet.

[Jon]

in real life... never. i always think, man, if I move to a better city I'll meet someone who truly gets my music taste,  but it seems like that's not the case from what you guys are saying.

[swt]

Very rarely -- especially in the garage-punk realm. I remember running into an acquaintance in a parking lot wearing a Dead Moon T-shirt. I almost hugged him.

I am a hillbilly music nut and have a local radio show for that obsession, so it's a little easier to find common ground with folks with old country stars like Willie Nelson or Roger Miller. (Just don't ask me about virtually any country act played on commercial radio since about 1980.)

I do a weekly music column at my paper (the local daily). So people cone up to me all the time and say stuff like, "You're a music fan. What do you think of the new Rod Stewart album?" My first thought is usually "You don't actually read the words in my column do you?"

On the other hand, ever so often people come up and tell me I've turned them on to some good music with my column or radio shows. That's always nice.

But more often, I'm like Mark. When someone asks me what I've been listening to and I spout off names of bands I really like, even a lot of the country bands, people look at me like I'm nuts.

[Axel Björnsson]

Just my band maids. We are the only 3 people in my country ( which I know) who are very  into 60's garage/psych/surf any kind of nice groovie old music. But there are people who like more major stuff like Ty Segall, The Black Lips, The Sonics etc....... But there are lot more of rockabilly psychobilly fans everyvere which I don't dig at all (with few exception)

[electrocute your cock]

Almost never. Sometimes I'll be shopping and I'll whisper to the person standing next to me "are you a boy or are you a girl" and see how they react. But it's not an approach I'd recommend, it can lead to all sorts of crazy misunderstandings.