Hamilton Leithauser Wanted to Buy You a Drink

We were at Little Brothers for a Walkmen show, hanging with some friends, and enjoying a few beverages.

Walkmen front man, Hamilton Leithauser, approached my sister's roommate. He offered to buy my sister's roommate a drink.

She turned him down.

We never forgave her for this.

Take Off the Mask, Conor

I saw Bright Eyes play a raucous show once at Little Brothers in Columbus. Conor Oberst came out wearing a rubber George W. Bush mask. He only lifted the mask slightly when he needed another swig from his rather large bottle of red wine.

The mask stayed on through two or three songs despite pleas from several young women in the crowd to take it off. They just wanted to see his face, which they did, eventually.

Stephen Malkmus Doesn't Know His Own Lyrics and Blackie Onassis Is Gay

A buddy of mine used to work for the weekly entertainment rag in Columbus. His editor had been around and seen a few shows in her day. One of those shows was a Pavement show at Stache's.

After the gig, the woman approached front man Stephen Malkmus. She proceeded to tell him that he sang the wrong lyrics to Pavement favorite "Summer Babe".

Knowing that he wrote and recorded the song in question, Malkmus disagreed. The woman insisted that he sang it differently than how he had on the record. Malkmus stuck by his story and eventually escaped my friend's boss.

It should also be noted that this same person who questioned Malkmus also tried to proposition Urge Overkill drummer Blackie Onassis, also in Stache's. While making a b-line for the uber-cool percussionist, Marcy Mays (Scrawl co-founder) stopped the editor from making a terrible mistake. "Don't waste your time," Mays warned. "He's gay."

Too bad no one stopped her from making an ass of herself to Malkmus.

(Stories courtesy of Chad.)

Bob Pollard's Drunk Again

Bob Pollard has been known to drink a lot while performing on stage with his band, Guided By Voices. I saw him last one song with another band, The Flaming Lips.

The band packed itself onto the tiny stage at Stache's and began to rip through "Motor Away" as Pollard joined them with a beer in hand. The problem was that Bob was singing but there were no vocals to be heard. Eventually, he figured out that the mic had been switched off.

As Mr. Pollard literally slumped to another side of the stage (a spot in which he'd stay the rest of the evening), Wayne Coyne asked if he had forgotten the words to the song.