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.

[Wendy]

All the time, but I am the sound lady at a music venue bar club. 

[Bibliodiscoteque]

I am waiting for that day I get to meet you in person. I'm actually thinking of a pilgrimage. 

That said, I no longer go to shows that much (as a 5am grownup job takes it out of me) and I tend to wear band shirts only on vacations or working on the lawn, but I have my buttons and I'm a pretty approachable guy, so feel free to say Hi if you ever see me buying groceries or cussing at the kids who can't pull up their damn pants. 

swt said:

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.

[antonio]

It's a bit difficult for me to hang around with people with different music tastes to mine.

Anyway, I´ve made great friends and dated with some girls talking about The Buzzcocks, The Cramps, The Kinks, etc. at bars or after a gig.

Deffinitely, for me, music is quite important when having a relation, sentimental or just friendship.

[antonio]

By the way, this doesn't happen very often.

perez botella said:

It's a bit difficult for me to hang around with people with different music tastes to mine.

Anyway, I´ve made great friends and dated with some girls talking about The Buzzcocks, The Cramps, The Kinks, etc. at bars or after a gig.

Deffinitely, for me, music is quite important when having a relation, sentimental or just friendship.

[whatwave dave]

It's boards like this that enable all us outcasts to get together and let loose every now and again. Last night we put on a show here in sleepy London Ontario Canada. All 4 of the bands involved have some presence right here (2 have been on garagepunk hideout compilations), as do many of the members of these bands. And a couple other people saw the event posting here on garagepunk hideout and came to the event because of that, (neither are facebook members so this is the only place they could have found out about the show). It wasn't a hugely attended show, but it was the quality of the crowd over the quantity!! And a ROCKIN' good time was had by all, whether garagepunk hideout members or not!!

And because of all the plugs/mentions for garagepunk hideout, there might just be a few more members to this board!

Thank You Kopper, for getting us outcasts together in the real world!!

[melissa scott]

Hey What? Wave? dave... dunnit sound like London, Ontario was all that sleepy last night! Wish I coulda been there to celebrate with ya and all the GPH+ gpgeeks. Any photos to share of the night? We gotta live vicariously, well some of us anyway!

[whatwave dave]

Hey Mel:

Lots of pics coming soon....a couple are up on facebook now. Check out the brand new combo The noble Savages.....textbook 60's garagepunk on speed.

Audio coming soon too...so many things to do, so many songs to listen to, so much fun to have!!!!!

[Tony Jonaitis]

Only when I meet people whistling "Electricity" while wearing a Trout Mask Replica t-shirt! 

[Allan.Azulboton]

One in a year.

[Torn Down Units]

It's an absolute shock if I do.  Rarely ever happens, and happens less as I get older.

[Rockin Rod Strychnine]

Meeting someone who was into punk never use to be a problem.  Finding someone who was into garage punk only happened at shows or specific record stores. Now it's never.

[Scott_hn]

Kind of gives me the warm fuzzies to know there are youngsters who appreciate the "good" music... I don't go to concerts as frequently as I did in the 80s/90s, so it is very rare that I meet anyone in person with similar music taste. The advent of the internet and subsequent introduction to fellow virtual fans has been the bees knees.