Just read this one..
Miles Davis was invited to a White House dinner by Ronald Reagan. During dinner, Nancy Reagan turned to him and asked what he'd done with his life. Straight-faced, Davis replied: "Well, I've changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except fuck the president?"


got any good ones?

That story's a fabrication. The actual quote, taken from Miles's autobiography, is: "'Well, I've changed music five or six times, so I guess that's what I've done and I guess I don't believe in playing just white compositions. Now, tell me what have you done of any importance other than be white, and that ain't important to me, so tell me what your claim to fame is.''

He wasn't talking to Nancy Reagan, either. It's a fun story.

boy, this is fun

The Replacements have many great stories. Or at least I get a chuckle out of them

They played a show at some local kids hangout in texas back before they got signed.... apparently the crowd was a mix of country hicks and skate punks and some record execs. They played a shit ton of bad covers and country songs much to the chagrin of the punkc rowd who ended up booing and left....

Then they played a bunch of punk songs thus clearing out the rest of the crowd. Awesome. Or something like that.....


Also - As a joke Paul Westerberg drew a bunch of dots (Fret markers) on top of Bobby Stinsons guitar and on all the frets one night before a drunken show. Poor Bobby Stinson couldn't find his way around the guitar.

Hilarious.

Well, the version i posted is roughly what Miles was saying to her, don't you think?

lol

TIL that dimejinky reads reddit.

Isn't there a story about Led Zeppelin and a fish or something? Not necessarily a funny one though...

I'm driving through Westwood and I've got my Mercedes out there. I was working on a record, this is 1987 or 88. I've got a Hawaiian shirt on; it's real hot outside. I see Tom Waits, all in black, long-sleeved shirt and cowboy boots-- it's 90 degrees-- and he's walking through Westwood. So I pull up next to him and I say "Tom!". I've got these sunglasses on, he probably thought I was with the CIA-- car phone and everything-- and he says "Heh?" and looks real started, so I say "It's Bob Seger". He says "Ooh, hi, Bob". He jumps in the car and we start talking. I asked him what he's doing and he says "Uh... I'm walking". I've loved his stuff down through the years, so I start asking him all these dumb questions about his songs. I said, "In Cold Cold Ground, you say 'The cat will sleep in the mailbox'. Yesterday I went and bought my cat one of those fuzzy mailboxes. Is that what you're singing about?" He looked at me like I was from Mars. "No, no. My cats sleep under the house." So it goes, this strange interlude, for about fifteen minutes. Finally, I asked if I could drop him somewhere and he says "Tell you what, take me back where you picked me up". So I drove around a bunch of blocks, dropped him exactly where I picked him up, and he says "And, uh, I'll just keep on walking."

- Bob Seger

i've never been on reddit..

Axl Rose was living with Slash in the mid-1980s and upset the guitarist’s family after taking offense to a polite request to move off a sofa he had fallen asleep on. Slash recalls, “One morning, I took off to work, and in the afternoon I guess he woke up and passed out on my grandmother’s couch. “I came home from work and my mom said, `You know, that guy Axl, I came home and he was asleep on the couch and grandma had nowhere to sit.’ “I told him he had to get up and whatnot, so he went downstairs.’ I thought I had to confront this issue. “So we got in the car and I very delicately put it that that was sort of rude. His reaction was to jump out of the car at about 35, 40 miles per hour on Santa Monica Boulevard.

Just seemed weird since your post:Matches the TIL


Also, don't go to reddit. If you're at all bad with time sinks, stay far away.

Rick Ross:

"Cannes. That was my first time going there. Took the team over, ended up fucking around, getting some Ferraris, Lamborghinis, going to the Eden Roc, kicking it with a few homeys. Shout-out to Leonardo DiCaprio."

In 2009 I got drunk in a college parking lot with Deer Tick

My partner and I went to see Wintersleep live in Birmingham (England, not Alabama) a few years ago. Afterwards, we got out the back way and the keyboardist was smoking a cigarette. So I joined him. He was cool. He asked us what our favourite Wintersleep songs were, and you know when you're so star-struck you forgot the name of every song in a band's catalogue? That happened. I just went, erm... and named one measly song.

HAHA I had a star struck moment too.

Hung out after a My Morning Jacket show in DC. Jim James comes out and signs a few things and poses for pictures. He has a pen and looks to me and asks "Is this your pen?". Me, being star struck, rather than just saying yes, stumbles and I tell him "No, but it is my friend's pen, so yes?".

I had the misfortune of coming in contact with Jeff Ament at the Cal Berkeley gym this past Saturday (June 2).

I play pickup basketball at the RSF (Recreational Sports Facility) and on this particular evening there was a girl's basketball tournament going on so only two of the seven courts were available.

This made for a congested couple courts for the evening run.

Jeff Ament was shooting around on one of the courts. I asked Mr. Ament if he wanted to play. He declined so I asked him if he could move off the court because we were starting a full court game. He angrily refused. He told me, and this a quote:

"I paid too much damn money to get in here and I'm playing on this court."

Apparently his friends were showing up later and he wanted to reserve the half court for himself and his friends. It costs $10 to get into the RSF. That is the amount that I paid to enter the gym and the amount that everyone pays who is not student, staff or faculty at Cal.

There were probably 30 people in the gym at the time wanting to play full court basketball.

I couldn't reason with Mr. Ament so I gave up. Two RSF supervisors tried to explain to Mr. Ament the court rules. Finally, a security guard arrived to talk him down. Mr. Ament was extremely agitated and animated during this entire episode.

At one point he angrily stated "I'm in Pearl Jam, bitch."

One of the other players claims Mr. Ament pushed him but I did not witness this. The security guard was so fed up with him she told us to just run him over.

The standoff lasted about 45 minutes before Mr. Ament finally left.

After I finished playing I realized my basketball was missing. I remembered last seeing it on the court where Mr. Ament was shooting around with a few other guys.

I went downstairs to the front desk to ask if anyone had turned in a ball. I described my ball to the young woman working the desk. I told her that I had drawn stars on the ball so nobody would take it by mistake.

She said: "The bassist from Pearl Jam took your basketball."

She recognized my ball because he was holding it as he was yelling at her. Mr. Ament dressed down the RSF desk staff on his way out of the building.

HAHA..Ed yelled at me for not rocking out front row in Vancouver..I had just gotten off crutches and could hardly walk

I'm pretty sure I've heard this story before... Jeff Ament steals everyone's basketball.