Actually it was really cool. I met all kinds of bands...Bailter Space, the Jesus Lizard, Jawbreaker, and of course Todd Trainer and Bob Weston were over there all the time. Steve had a studio in his basement. When he moved in, Nash Kato from Urge Overkill was living with him. They put cheap plastic pink flamingoes on the lawn. One day I saw my dad hanging out, talking to Duane from the Jesus Lizard. Very random.
My favorite memory was being home from college in 1995 and I saw a Budget rental van with Ohio plates. I was trying to think of all the bands I knew from Ohio, but was drawing a blank after Guided by Beers and Pere Ubu. So then I wake up the next morning and see a "Pixies" guitar case in the street. I think "oh cool, let's see who this band is that's into the Pixies". Imagine my shock and awe when I go outside and see Kim Deal running out of the house and Kelly Deal and Jim McPherson just hanging out. I ran into my house and got whatever Pixies stuff I could find that I hadn't taken with me to college and had Kim sign it...I also had a Breeders CD that the other 2 signed. They alluded that Josephine Wiggs had run off with Kate from Luscious Jackson and they were now an item. I thought that was pretty funny. Kim dropped the master tape for the Amps record in the gutter and shrieked.
(And for the record, 31...I was about 11 when he moved in, and the cops started showing up. Then he soundproofed his basement.)
