Hipster wrote:
I like a band called Dinosaur Jr a lot. Anyway, I was wearing their shirt at the store and a guy comes up to me and compliments the shirt. Jack White. We talked a while and actually walked down the street to a music shop and jammed. I was on drums and he was on guitar. He then invited me to play in a show with him that night. Just an awesome experience. But when we played Seven Nation Army, a very simple song for drummers, I came in off-beat. Very embarrassing. We're friends now though and I've had several opportunities to jam with him. He's asked me if I've ever wanted to try to break into music for real, but it's just not for me now because I'm older.
Great story. Hope it is true. You'll like this:
I was going into 8th grade and a serious Dinosaur Jr fan. This is right around the time Green Mind came out, so what, 1991 or 1992? Anyway, we went to see them play (sans Lou) with my friend's older brother and had a great time. After the show, J was hanging out and talking to people. My friend and I walked up and just stood there in the small crowd of people with whom he was chatting. Everyone else was just treating him like a normal guy, I remember being surprised. Since we were just little kids, he was super cool. He noticed us, offered autographs and even gave us Green Mind shirts for free (we had home-made shirts). I still remember making mine. It was a plain, white t-shirt and I had written "The weirdness flows between us" on the front. My friend had done the same, but had written "Keep the glove" on his.
Fast forward twenty years... I go to see them play at the Cats Cradle near Chapel Hill and as I am waiting for my friend (same friend) in the parking lot prior to the show, I notice that J is just chilling by himself next to the bus. I knew it was kind of dorky, but I walked over to say hello. He was super nice and talked to me for a minute or two. My friend walked up and I REALLY wanted to recount the incident twenty years earlier, but decided to play cool and walk away. It was a killer show.