Outsiders perspective of all this

[C Peters]

Just had to throw this out there. I was so pumped for the Burlington show, like the highlite of the summer, knew I was going to have too much fun so I secured a safe ride. Said safe ride was sort of a casual friend who just jumped on it after I said I'd get her a ticket and pay for gas. So she comes to pick me up in this cute little summer dress looking over the top gorgeous, no idea about DBT. I mean she made the rest of the place look rough. So I'm listening to the show right now and it's coming back to me and I'm just wondering what the fuck she must think about a dude who loves these guys. Little does she know I get in like 40 hrs a week of these guys... You can really tell a lot about someone by the music they are into. How do you explain this? I'm just laughing so hard imagining her now as I was rocking the fuck out!

[beantownbubba]

Just had to throw this out there. I was so pumped for the Burlington show, like the highlite of the summer, knew I was going to have too much fun so I secured a safe ride. Said safe ride was sort of a casual friend who just jumped on it after I said I'd get her a ticket and pay for gas. So she comes to pick me up in this cute little summer dress looking over the top gorgeous, no idea about DBT. I mean she made the rest of the place look rough. So I'm listening to the show right now and it's coming back to me and I'm just wondering what the fuck she must think about a dude who loves these guys. Little does she know I get in like 40 hrs a week of these guys... You can really tell a lot about someone by the music they are into. How do you explain this? I'm just laughing so hard imagining her now as I was rocking the fuck out!

Ummmm, why don't you ask her?

[C Peters]

Afraid to hear the answer. These guys speak to all of us on some level obviously. And there is a relatively disproportionate amout of dark material here. I'm not a dark person by nature, but they have really helped me through some tough, hard, dark times and still do, that's why I keep going back. I don't know, it was just a weird thing that kind of made me see everything from the perspective of someone going into that cold, and finding it sort of odd. Still can't get enough...

[beantownbubba]

Why do you assume she's not a convert? She wouldn't be the first to be won over by the rock show.

Edit: Altho i have to say that i took 4 newbies to the Boston show a few months ago and they all loved it. Yet when i saw them all this wkend and mentioned going to the Asbury Park show (not even mentioning the 3 shows i went to in 5 days in 3 different states), what I mostly got back was "huh? and "really?" so who knows?

[C Peters]

Excellent point about being a potential convert. Maybe. Even though this wasn't meant to be a date, I wouldn't recommend a DBT show as a first date if both parties weren't already acclimated. Risky.

[C Peters]

I am suddenly aware of how revealing being a DBT fan is

[buddymo]

I may just have to move to Vermont. "Over-the-top gorgeous" and "willing to go to a DBT show" is a pretty solid start.

[C Peters]

Very distracting.

[Smitty]

Nearly every form of entertainment/art I enjoy is "dark", in fact most are a lot darker than DBT. I've never really considered nor cared how it makes me appear.

[Flea]

Just had to throw this out there. I was so pumped for the Burlington show, like the highlite of the summer, knew I was going to have too much fun so I secured a safe ride. Said safe ride was sort of a casual friend who just jumped on it after I said I'd get her a ticket and pay for gas. So she comes to pick me up in this cute little summer dress looking over the top gorgeous, no idea about DBT. I mean she made the rest of the place look rough. So I'm listening to the show right now and it's coming back to me and I'm just wondering what the fuck she must think about a dude who loves these guys. Little does she know I get in like 40 hrs a week of these guys... You can really tell a lot about someone by the music they are into. How do you explain this? I'm just laughing so hard imagining her now as I was rocking the fuck out!

Just fly your freak flag and don't worry about what the other fucker thinks.

[C Peters]

I hear you and that is standard operating procedure but when it comes to hot, tan girls in party dresses all that shit goes right out the window

[Smitty]

I hear you and that is standard operating procedure but when it comes to hot, tan girls in party dresses all that shit goes right out the window

I understand completely.

[beantownbubba]

I hear you and that is standard operating procedure but when it comes to hot, tan girls in party dresses all that shit goes right out the window

Alright, enough.

This conversation has reached and surpassed the WWOP point. Post 'em or fold 'em.

[C Peters]

Fuck, I'm assuming that is women without pictures and I don't need to be beat up anymore than I've already done to myself. None taken by myself so let your imagination roam:) Ugh I'm going to work on this tomorrow...

[beantownbubba]

Fuck, I'm assuming that is women without pictures and I don't need to be beat up anymore than I've already done to myself. None taken by myself so let your imagination roam:) Ugh I'm going to work on this tomorrow...

Close enough for govt work: Worthless W/Out Pictures, so now you're on the clock LOL

[one belt loop]

Just had to throw this out there. I was so pumped for the Burlington show, like the highlite of the summer, knew I was going to have too much fun so I secured a safe ride. Said safe ride was sort of a casual friend who just jumped on it after I said I'd get her a ticket and pay for gas. So she comes to pick me up in this cute little summer dress looking over the top gorgeous, no idea about DBT. I mean she made the rest of the place look rough. So I'm listening to the show right now and it's coming back to me and I'm just wondering what the fuck she must think about a dude who loves these guys. Little does she know I get in like 40 hrs a week of these guys... You can really tell a lot about someone by the music they are into. How do you explain this? I'm just laughing so hard imagining her now as I was rocking the fuck out!

I really don't understand at all where you're going with this. She got dressed up pretty to go to a rock show with you (yay you!) and, when you got there, the joint ROCKED. And you rocked, too. If that happened to me, I'd be ecstatic. A great band, and a guy who loves them and shows his real self while they're playing. She probably thought you were fun and sincere and that you have excellent taste in music.

And women.

[Flea]

Just had to throw this out there. I was so pumped for the Burlington show, like the highlite of the summer, knew I was going to have too much fun so I secured a safe ride. Said safe ride was sort of a casual friend who just jumped on it after I said I'd get her a ticket and pay for gas. So she comes to pick me up in this cute little summer dress looking over the top gorgeous, no idea about DBT. I mean she made the rest of the place look rough. So I'm listening to the show right now and it's coming back to me and I'm just wondering what the fuck she must think about a dude who loves these guys. Little does she know I get in like 40 hrs a week of these guys... You can really tell a lot about someone by the music they are into. How do you explain this? I'm just laughing so hard imagining her now as I was rocking the fuck out!

I really don't understand at all where you're going with this. She got dressed up pretty to go to a rock show with you (yay you!) and, when you got there, the joint ROCKED. And you rocked, too. If that happened to me, I'd be ecstatic. A great band, and a guy who loves them and shows his real self while they're playing. She probably thought you were fun and sincere and that you have excellent taste in music.

And women.

On the other hand, she might have been expecting Coldplay.

[one belt loop]

On the other hand, she might have been expecting Coldplay.

Surely he had some sort of inkling before taking her to that show.

[phungi]

Fuck, I'm assuming that is women without pictures...

If we have learned anything, it is that a picture is hard to beat...

[John A Arkansawyer]

Just had to throw this out there. I was so pumped for the Burlington show, like the highlite of the summer, knew I was going to have too much fun so I secured a safe ride. Said safe ride was sort of a casual friend who just jumped on it after I said I'd get her a ticket and pay for gas. So she comes to pick me up in this cute little summer dress looking over the top gorgeous, no idea about DBT. I mean she made the rest of the place look rough. So I'm listening to the show right now and it's coming back to me and I'm just wondering what the fuck she must think about a dude who loves these guys. Little does she know I get in like 40 hrs a week of these guys... You can really tell a lot about someone by the music they are into. How do you explain this? I'm just laughing so hard imagining her now as I was rocking the fuck out!

I really don't understand at all where you're going with this. She got dressed up pretty to go to a rock show with you (yay you!) and, when you got there, the joint ROCKED. And you rocked, too. If that happened to me, I'd be ecstatic. A great band, and a guy who loves them and shows his real self while they're playing. She probably thought you were fun and sincere and that you have excellent taste in music.

And women.

Only one expert has chimed in on this so far. I recommend you adopt her point of view.

[C Peters]

Yep, thanks for that Belt Loop. I going to go with that as my working assumption. Sorry for the JV type post.

[cortez the killer]

[Barely_Oakely]

I don't think I've ever brought a gal to a DBT show, but if I found one who was willing to go, and looked damn good doing it, I'd be pretty thrilled. As for the dark nature of some of the music, I wouldn't get too hung up on it. DBT takes a few listenings before people usually "get" it, and usually the sum of all the parts are more than the occasional tune about incest, moonshining, dealing drugs, suicide, and crime. I'd say the only danger to a pretty gal with good sensibilities at a DBT show are boozed up hooligans like me being so impressed that we try to cut in. Moral of the story, quit over thinking things.

[C Peters]

You really seem to have picked up on exactly what I was getting at, Oakley, I appreciate the feedback. And I am somewhat if an overthinker. As for the game board, not quite sure about the symbolism

[Barely_Oakely]

I am somewhat if an overthinker.

Welcome to the club.

Perhaps a good "Not about self destruction, easy to appreciate" DBT mix is order for her. Not necessarily my favorite songs, but easy on the pallet, but also not about people dying or dealing drugs.

I do Believe
Carl Perkins Cadillac
Get Downtown
The Righteous Path
Zip City
TVA
Santa Fe
Marry Me
Wednesday
Goddamn Lonely Love
Pauline Hawkins
Mercy Buckets

[schlanky]

So, she volunteered to be a sober driver (not all that fun for the driver) to go see a band she knows nothing about (dicey at best whether you'll like a band you've never heard) and showed up all put together with a dress on. From your description of the whole event, there's a pretty decent possibility that she doesn't give a rat's ass about DBT or that you like them.

You're obviously at least intrigued by her ("tan girls in party dresses and all that shit goes right out the window"). If she seemed to have a good time at DBT, I think it's time to pick up the phone and thank her for driving, for being a good sport and getting you home safely; tell her you enjoyed her company and suggest that the two of you get together for something else (not a concert---somewhere that the two of you can better interact).

If that's unwelcome advice, feel free to tell me to throw myself off Lookout Mountain.

[C Peters]

Update: So I asked her what she thought about the show, didn't know if maybe it was a bit weird going into that cold. Response: "Cold? As I recall it was hot!" Now this is just plain fun..

[LBRod]

I don't think I've ever brought a gal to a DBT show, but if I found one who was willing to go, and looked damn good doing it, I'd be pretty thrilled.

Me either, but I met one outside the Fillmore a few years ago. We've been friends ever since.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

A former girlfriend of mine liked DBT (on record and in concert) but they were definitely an acquired taste for her. There were dividing lines in what we liked, however. If she didn't like them enough to attend their shows she never would have gone. If only I had exercised that same sort of tact to some degree, I never would have attended that Duran Duran concert in 2008.

[Smitty]

If I was making a mix for a possible "interest", I'd send her this one:

Why Henry Drinks
Go Go Boots
Lookout Mtn
Demonic Possession
PPOTM
Zoloft
Tough Sell
Days of Graduation
Nine Bullets
Cottonseed
Buttholeville
Sinkhole
Wig
Bulldozers
Dead Drunk & Naked
Loaded Gun
Wife Beater
You & Your Crystal Meth
Margo & Harold
Tales Facing Up
Love Like This
Your Daddy Hates Me
Too Much Sex
Fireplace Poker
Used to Be a Cop