Dinner with...
 

If you could choose one person, dead or alive, to have lunch with to discuss music, who would it be?

For me: Issac Brock from Modest Mouse

Phew,

That's a pretty tough decision to make, there are just so many people that revolutionised music through different genres. Mhmm, just thinking about some of the cool things you could hear talking with the dead like Hendrix, Lennon or Cobain. Still as cool as it would be to talk to the dead and famous I think my username sums up who I'd most like to have a conversation with.

I'd pick Emsanders.

;)

I would probably choose to have a dinner with Devin Townsend. He is one of my favourite musicians and a huge influence not only on the style of music I play, but also on my personality.

However if we were allowed to choose fictional characters I would totally have dinner with Spider Jerusalem from the comic series "Transmetropolitan"... I mean he's a futuristic Hunter S. Thompson armed with a gun that makes you **** yourself, what's not to like?

J Dilla, Bill Hicks, Fyodor, John D. MacDonald, Robert E. Howard, Rory Gallagher, Stiv Bators . . . the list is very long.

Jimi Hendrix, Tim Sult From Clutch, Brent Hinds, Paul Waggoner, or Eric Johnson.

except instead of dinner it'd be getting a few beers or something

Elliot Smith seems like an interesting guy, but there's always Kurt Kobain or J Mascis just cuz I love his stuff, Tupac would be great, but altogether I would say Robert Johnson. He's a great early blues artist and seems like an interesting fella.

I'll have more later.

I guess I could spruce up this thread a bit.

Also post what age you would want to interview them.

For me: Issac Brock during the release of Building Nothing Out of Something (22 I believe). I think that at this age Issac started to contemplate life, death and everything in between. He would be great.

Hendrix in his early to mid 20s, and the rest at their age now

I'd like to eat a lunch consisted of LSD 25 and oranges with none other than Dr. Mikannibal of Sigh and Carla Khilstedt.

J. G. Thirlwell (Foetus). Probably my biggest musical idol. I went to see him play at a small venue in Chicago many years ago and during the opening act he stood right next to me but I had no idea what the hell to say to him so I didn't say anything. In retrospect I kind of wish I had taken the initiative to strike up a conversation with him.

Man, I'd love to meet Carla Kihlstedt. I met Nils Frykdahl once, but not her.

You met Nils? What was that like?

He was really nice. I talked to him for a couple minutes after a Sleepytime Gorilla Museum show. It was a pretty short conversation but he seemed like a nice guy, definitely very friendly.

Tom Waits for sure. He's a pretty unusual dude but he's got a great taste in music and a wonderful sense of humor. I feel like out of all the icons of our age he's the one that's least likely to embrace a "more superior than thou" attitude.

Either him or Don Vliet, but I can't see him ever even feigning discussion of music. Especially since he kicked the habit...what, 25 years ago?

Gary Glitter. He's the leader of the pack.

I'd probably pick Keith Moon or maybe Kevin Gilbert, since they are both rather interesting to me.

You know I'd actually like to talk Lil Wayne because he might be pretty out there to talk to.

LAWL at the Glitter.

yeah, Lil Wayne seems like a nice guy to talk to

I'm more interested in food than musicians so it doesn't matter who I'm eating with they're going to get ignored anyway.

Pffft. Somehow I have a hard time believing that you'd take a nice bloody steak over a chat with MES.

With him i'd just listen & eat.

I don't think i'd get much of a word in edgeways.

Well it all depends on what your aim is in spending time with him. I imagine it's infuriating to have people constantly trying to impress him.

To be perfectly honest I probably wouldn't want to talk about music to any of my idols , I'd come off as a wanker if I tried.

Pretty brave of you considering you've not heard any of Sigh's music, not to mention Dr. Mikannibal's other bands. She'd definitely eat your testicles. As for Ms. Khikstedt - how predictable when ya think with your penis. After dem eggs, aren't you?! :p:

For me, if it could be anyone, I don't know if it'd be a musician. Writers are brilliantly insane. With that being said, I'll choose someone who writes and plays/played music. Henry Rollins. I don't know if I'd talk to him about his music, but definitely some punk. Yeah, so that's half thinkin' with my brain, half thinkin' with my vag. Still counts. :D

Lemmy from Motorhead. The drinking session after would be awesome!

elvis presley

talk about a bad mofo from a crazy time period

Morrissey, just to make him watch will I eat a steak...:laughing:

no that wouldn't work so I'd prefer having a cheeseburger and a couple of pints with Bruce Springsteen

Besides Thom Yorke? Umm... Waits would be cool. Jonsi from Sigur Ros would be fun. Jeff Mangum maybe. And cliche, but John Lennon would be awesome.

Nick Drake. And then hold him at a gun point under the table and force him to write songs for me for the next 3 hours.

Good plan!

I'd want Johnny Cash...
Or Pink Floyd.
...Or Smoky Robinson.

Too many choices!
Ok Ok...
Pink Floyd.
And I'd like to be... 30.