Meeting pop stars online
 

I've met a few stars on line and had a few brief bit's of conversation with them. Or at least they've replied to a post.
The most recent just now is Andy Partridge from XTC.
I posted that there was a book about the band on Amazon selling for £175 and wondered if anyone could say why it was so expensive.
He just posted.
'It's ****, I read it.'

A few months ago on Talking heads fan site. I said I liked the song ONce in a lifetime esp. Eno's keyboards and Chris Frantz responded 'The keyboards on "Once In A lifetime" are played by Jerry, not Eno. Who told you otherwise?'

Bobby Calabrese, the guitarist for the Horror Punk band, Calabrese talked to me about the show "Dexter" on facebook just the other day. He's not a "pop star", but he sure is popular amongst the Horror Punk fans.

I've conversed with American Idol contestant Didi Benami online before, and she's tweeted me quite a few times.

Also, Amanda Palmer from The Dresden Dolls, who's really nice - and her boyfriend, writer Neil Gaiman tweeted me once. I tweeted him to embrace the tambourine as his calling in life, and he tweeted me with, "Alas, the glory I would garner as a tambourinist would distract me from my true path."

Dave Wyndorf, the lead singer from Monster Magnet used to be really active on his forum back in the day, and I was also active, so he and I talked quite a lot on there, about any number of things really.

My main thrill was a 3 month internet correspondence with Brian May from Queen. He responded to a lot of my letters in his "soapbox", and actually emailed me for a little while. Probably the most exciting time of my life.

Have you got them all saved on a word doc.?

Just curious, is your name pronounced "Wired" or "Werd"?

Anyway, I saw Zach and Cody from that Disney Channel show while I was skiing. They're not popstars, but I guess that's the closest I've ever come to any celebrity-entertainer-type.

I've spoken with Melissa Auf Der Maur on Twitter a couple of times recently. I also have Alice Glass on MSN.. LOL.

Link pl0x, I keep tabs on Andy where I can. But I definitely don't have a shrine to him in my basement or have plans to kidnap him. Definitely not.

He posts on the official XTC site. Ape forums.

Someone from God Is An Astronaut answered one of my questions on their Facebook. I was asking/telling them to come to the United States and they responded: "We will be in the States in the coming months, please be patient." I was stoked.

Another time, Rosi Golan made a status update asking all the ladies what kind of snacks they had at sleepovers. I made a joke and she addressed me and said I made her lol. I actually met her a couple of weeks prior.

Those are my stories of online communications with artists.

I spent the night at Michael Jackson's house once as a kid, that was a lot of fun.

holy crap i'm jealous. don't suppose you know anything more about the new Monster Magnet disc besides what's on wikipedia? (it's apparently going to be called Mastermind and was supposed to be out this summer, now October...)

i'm also STILL trying to score a replacement copy of Superjudge. i know i could order one online or something but i'm old school and rather find it on a shelf.

I thought I recognized your tricycle in the drive way!
Mine was the blue one!! I didn't see you there!

I'm Iggy Pop

A couple weeks ago I was curious to see if there were personal Facebook accounts belonging to people from obscure 80s bands I had songs by.
I found the singer and bassist from this band:



Obviously not popstars. And yeah, I know they're cheesy. I could've said something to the people from the band who I found on Facebook but decided there was nothing worth saying to them since I don't know them and I'm not really a fan of the band. Romeo's Daughter was the only band I looked up because soon I realized all the bands I'm actually a fan of are too popular for their members to have facebook profiles.

But you should take note that if you like a band from the last 25 years that's no longer musically relevant and has a negligible modern following, there's a good chance you can find its members on facebook and bother them.

Is it true that playing The Idiot in its entirety backwards at 300% speed reveals the message of a suicide cult and that that is the reason why Ian Curtis is dead?

funny how few people expect the people who played in even remotely successful bands at some point in the past to actually be, you know, human, once their time in the limelight fades. even more :confused::usehead: is how people are routinely amazed that one time 'successful' musicians have to work regular jobs to pay the bills once their touring days are long over.

kind of like how i've bought plenty of albums from the drummer from Eric's Trip. i always knew him as 'that' dude from the record store until a friend filled me in after i moved to town. he's freaking cool as hell with a 'i've rocked out my entire freaking life' vibe but none of the 'i was a rockstar' BS. not unlike the guitarist from the Monoxides (a one hit wonder) who used to work at the same store and had one of the worst attitudes you could imagine.

I've talked to Ben Weinman on FB like two times. And the guys from This Town Needs Guns have responded to FB wall posts, but that's not really that cool.

I've talked to Steven Ho (hollywood stunt man who works with Conan O'Brien quite a bit) several times on FB. He's pretty active on his pages I Like Steven Ho and Asian Conan. That's pretty much the extent of my experience with celebs on the internet.

I managed to find Mia from Kayo Dot's Last.FM page. I sent her a friend request.

the description on her page is the funniest thing I've ever seen :laughing:
and Tyondai Braxton replied to my comment before... <3 <3 <3

I'm sure lot of famous artists hang out online, some possibly reading posts here. MB comes up high on Google search engines. But I assume most go incognito on the net so as not to be pestered.

Then again what do I know.

It's pretty obvious you're Thom Yorke.

Hey, that's funny, I'm David Bowie! How you been man?

Thom Yorke can do many things. Forming coherent sentences is apparently not one of them.

I've talked to both members of Kamui! :D

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I talked to Pat about the Reactable and asked him when he was gonna produce with one, and he responded "Dude I invented that **** in my garage". Then I asked Dom about IDing a song from a set, and he said he'd get back to me. Sure enough a couple days later he found it and they ended up playing it a good few times in their shows. Fantastic song.

They should all spend time replying to all their fans on all the online communication. If they are clogged, they must let their fans know.

Actually I'm Yorke's personal Fonzworth...
http://www.fonzworthbentley.com/wp-c...orth-diddy.jpg



Gotta run, Thom needs some green tea.

Today I found I'd had a Direct Message from Wayne Coyne on my tweeter acc. for 4 days! It was in response to my joke that the sky pic he'd posted was really unimpressive and he only thought it was 'cause he was on acid. He said 'No... I was completely, wondrously straight ....

Jimmy Tamborello (we talked about remixes, he's really slow in a conversation)
Tim Easton (basically i jus told him he should come to nebraska)
Sydney Wayser (she's awesome to have conversations with)
Patrick & Eugene (i don't know exactly which one but we argued a lot, but we don't dislike eachother he even said he liked my glitchy remix))
Django Greenblatt (of Midwest Dilemma) he's actually my violin teacher's son he's really talented and i first talked to him online, he's just popular enough for this thread i think.
Chris Neto (we all love OceansAndSilence even though's he's never hear anymore)
VOTA although when i talked to them they were not famous and they went by Casting Pearls

i'm pretty sure there's been others but can't think of them off the top of my head.

I once told Pete Wentz to quit whining about the weather and eat a sandwich on AIM, and he immediately blocked me.

That is the funnist fucking thing I have ever heard.