Here's a question
Imagine yourself in a situation where you are lucky enough to get backstage tickets to a concert by a band that you have followed for years and think are amazing.

So, you toddle backstage after a great show and meet your idols in the flesh. What do you talk about? What do you actually do?

And worse, what if, after some mumbled small talk while they make it obvious they would rather be fucking a groupie you realise that the people you have elevated to near godlike status in your mind think you're a cock. Or indeed, even worse, what if they turn out to be complete tossers?

SO my question dear b3tans is this. Should you meet your heroes? And if you do, what do you talk about, especially if you're the sort of person for whom small talk does not come easily.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:13, 18 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I met you and we go on ok didn't we : )

( girlinthehole, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:14, Reply)

Yea but you're a nice idol

( Captain V, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:18, Reply)

She's got lovely idols

(Bazongaloid, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:27, Reply)

Have some topics prepared
Think about your favourite song, any news articles about them recently (although "I hear you're shagging that bird from Hollyoaks" is probably out). Check their bios for interests you have in common. Take a massive bag of coke and have a top-end escort agency on speed-dial.

Treat it like a date, in other words.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:22, Reply)

good advice
I like it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:27, Reply)

But what if you're fantastically drunk
having just spent 90 minutes rocking out insanely in a mosh pit?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:27, Reply)

Then you're going to make a giant tit of yourself no matter what
At least some prep work gives you a chance of making a good impression.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:33, Reply)

if I were to meet some of my idols
like Metallica for example, it'd be all I could do to not scream at Lars to shut the hell up.

Honestly have no idea what I could say to them though. I get pretty uncomfortable when someone comes up to me after a gig and says "you guys are really good" and then continues to repeat it in slightly different ways for the next 5 minutes.

Here's a tip for you all though. Don't be a guitarist in a band. The singer and bass player (for some unknown reason) get the groupies, guitarists get the nerds.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:29, Reply)

Awesome.
I'm onto a winner here. Singer AND bassist.
*grins*
( Cawl, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:46, Reply)

Its like two women
they cancel each other out.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 10:07, Reply)

And keyboard players
get fuck all.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 11:56, Reply)

yeah, I met the singer from my favourite band
and he was really nice and we got pissed on Leffe.
Meet your heroes.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:32, Reply)

But he's a really normal bloke
with a normal job so you can talk about normal things, what if you met David Bowie, what would you talk about?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:36, Reply)

I'd ask him what his favourite song in Labyrinth was.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:36, Reply)

Magic Dance obviously
I'd ask him what he put in his codpiece.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:41, Reply)

Magic Dance is what I hope it'd be.
Good call with the codpiece though. I hope he says "nothing".
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:43, Reply)

I hope he says "nothing"
and winks slyly.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:47, Reply)

The Levellers
I met the Levellers and ended up getting drunk in the hotel room after the gig.

They were a decent bunch of chaps although Simon was grumpy as he he was tired, and Charlie (the drummer) was one of the biggest fucktarded, cocksnotty, pretentious twats I've ever met!
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 9:48, Reply)