Who Was Your First

[jonnygospeltent]

Threadhead that you met?
Mine was Neen, over a bloodymary at Liuzzas the first friday of the first year of this bored.

[Corona]

Threadhead that you met?
Mine was Neen, over a bloodymary at Liuzzas the first friday of the first year of this bored.
Ibjamn- she volunteered to have my t-shirts shipped to her house and I met up with her at the T-head meet up 3 years ago. What a doll :)

[ibjamn]

Ibjamn- she volunteered to have my t-shirts shipped to her house and I met up with her at the T-head meet up 3 years ago. What a doll :)

awwww...shucks, go on! No....really.......GO ON!!!! ;) (Tired of that joke yet?)

Mine was LisaRI & Joe (La Ti Da)

[Corona]

awwww...shucks, go on! No....really.......GO ON!!!! ;) (Tired of that joke yet?)

Mine was LisaRI & Joe (La Ti Da)
not even close...I love when you do that...cracks me up every single time :)

[glinda]

crepes w/nellie aka fables aka sissy at Ingrid's last year by the porta potty. Screaming and hugs ensued!:D

(help me I'm held hostage at my mother's house in So Carolina w/ only a few minutes of wifi a day - stolen from some neighbor... eeek I wanna go home!!!)

[pokerchick66]

crepes w/nellie aka fables aka sissy at Ingrid's last year by the porta potty. Screaming and hugs ensued!:D

(help me I'm held hostage at my mother's house in So Carolina w/ only a few minutes of wifi a day - stolen from some neighbor... eeek I wanna go home!!!)


lol, when do you get to go home?


My first Threadhead I met was Ross at one of Ms. Lena's meetups last year. lol, I pushed him. :D

[Festvet]

Festnut and BigWill have been neighbors at the grassy knoll for years. Sha(y) and Swag are really the only others I've met since joining the bored. I'm sure I've boogied beside many of you at various venues/festivals over the years w/o ever knowing.

[sophisticated sissy]

Mine was Swag.
About 3 years ago at Congo Square Stage.
He looked thirsty, so I gave him a bottle of water.
I recognized him from a pic at his site.

[ozzie]

Amyloves...

but even so - she's not the boss of my breath!

[saturn]

The first threadhead I met was ToledoJane who I have not seen on the bored for a few years now.

Second was Swag -- I got so excited I ran up to him and called him Sha! :o

[Amy Winette]

The 2fors came out to San Fran for a Rebirth show and we met them, and the Nor Cal festers for the first time over sushi, Swamp Girl, Mymecca and RonB :)

[Amyloves...]

Amyloves...

but even so - she's not the boss of my breath!

Ozzie you just made me laugh like a fool at my desk! (again) "Boss of my breath" Silly story yall, but too freaking funny.

[NeenAtlanta]

Threadhead that you met?
Mine was Neen, over a bloodymary at Liuzzas the first friday of the first year of this bored.

Really? That's great! Glad to be the one to welcome you. Hey - post a photo of yourself on the photos thread. I don't think I've seen one of you yet. I need my poor ol' fried memory refreshed.

For me - I already knew many of these folks from the PDKK. But my first new threadhead I met was Carolina Beadhead.

My first PDKK folks were Kinderkitti, Banzai Bill and Lisa & Joe at Liuzza's before fest.

[Jada]

I think it was CBH, but I'm can't remember how and where....

[csoul]

Second Friday last year. Standing outside the fairgrounds waiting for Ms. Lena to let us in to work the beer tent. Mr. Soul & I met a very hungover looking mdfest. Followed very shortly thereafter by about a dozen more T-heads at Ms. Lena's. Can't remember all of them, but I know the Potters for sure and CBH.

[rosetree]

Mine were Barry and Nancy...who might not have even been Threadheads when we met....hmmm...They came into my studio three or four years ago and bought some wonderful glass fish. They now have a glass fish "aquarium" that is full of Rosetree fish! :D ;)
The first Threadheads that I met after I knew what a Threadhead was were IB and Corona and their posse when Barry and Nancy brought them over last year to watch us blowing glass.
No strangers here, only friends waiting to be discovered!!!

[MzJoey]

Neen was the first soul I corresponded with on the Pet de Kat Krewe board, back in the mid-90's...didn't end up laying eyes on her till '05!!! Back in the 90's I met FreidaFrost (i don't see her posting anymore), Headless Hornman, mrs Headless Horseman and JoePony and more folks all from PDKK. Here??? Umm...Kinderkitti, Rhode Island Lisa & Joe, Juana and Texas Fred at Austin City LImits Music Fest....and this year...the rest of youse guys!!!

[Staxsun]

Back when the meetups were by the camera by the Fais-Do-Do Stage, they were quick. It reminded me of the coin toss before a football game. Everybody shook hands, said hello, and ran off to the next set. At my first meetup I met Amylovesthefest, Carolina Beadhead, Saturnwreck, and Hockey Tom if my memory serves me correctly. I've sure made some great friends since those days, including some I met in Memphis rather than at the fest.

[ohio]

Ms. Beadhead and IBJ, '03 or '04(?)

[Azeater]

Seefood under the Virgin Mary at R n B followed shortly thereafter by Montana.


And anyone has the temerity to question why I am wierd.

[NOLA]

CBH at the meet-up first Friday last year. I recognized her from a picture I had seen somewhere (maybe on Swag's site?).

[grisgris]

Barry, I jumped out of the bushes at MoFest & scared him.

[steeleye]

Swag by the porta-potty at Ingrid's. (That must have been a popular meet-up spot.)

[breambob]

Amyloves back when the meet ups were at FaisDoDo. I remember thinking "Damn she's cute".

[MzJoey]

Back when the meetups were by the camera by the Fais-Do-Do Stage, they were quick. It reminded me of the coin toss before a football game. Everybody shook hands, said hello, and ran off to the next set. At my first meetup I met Amylovesthefest, Carolina Beadhead, Saturnwreck, and Hockey Tom if my memory serves me correctly. I've sure made some great friends since those days, including some I met in Memphis rather than at the fest.

Yeah Stax, let's keep holding those Memphis Meet-ups at Miss Ellen's....k? (more sweet patata's & fried chicken please!)

[stlbarb]

so what was the 1st year of this bored (original version)?

[luvdancin]

The first T-head that I met was Neen. STLBarb was showing me around at my first fest 7 years ago and she introduced me to Neen. I was promptly given a set of the grids and a button that said "gridded by Neen". I still have it and I'm looking at it now. :)

[pokerchick66]

Amyloves back when the meet ups were at FaisDoDo. I remember thinking "Damn she's cute".

Another reason to vote for Fais Do Do.

[funkkjunkie]

I know there was a purple bored, the bored before the antique bored and this one, in 98. That was my first year to fest and the peeps on that bored convinced me to come solo. Someone else surely knows when that bored started. The first TH I met was blukat who doesn't post anymore, and then at my first day of fest by george/va and neen and banzai bill.

[t.o..fester]

It was Evelyn... I was 13, she was...... oops sorry wrong forum.

[stlbarb]

has it been 7 years already. you are definitely an addict.

i think you should change your location to "slightly right of the middle of nowhere".

have you started packing yet? i bet you've bought your lagnaippes.

[stlbarb]

geez. back in '95 (?) i went to my 1st Kat gathering out at Bluekat's. i can't remember if i went to Liuzza's or not - were there friday night gatherings back then? i had been posting on the old purple board. every year i'd post a little more and meet more people. went to many (all?) of the boils at the park and at the bb. i've posted on the fest borad over the years, but most of the TH's i know are also Kats, are hang with them. so i'm not sure who i met when. just know i love 'em all.

[La Ti Da]

not sure exactly, but 1998 was the first year we found this board, which led us to Petdekat krewe. Bought a couple shirts and met lots of people on the fairgrounds that year. Neen & Big Joe were among the first, I remember she was handed us a Cool Brew coupon, and we all went for some iced cafe au lait & bread pudding. Plus Ponydancer, Marisol, SteveMiami, Bethesda Boy, Beach Bob, Kinderkitty (funkkjunkie), and more and more every year... its been so great to meet up with more and more of you every year.

[funkkjunkie]

hey, barb, 7 years since what and who you asking if they bought lagniappes and started packing?

[La Ti Da]

Lisa & Joe at Liuzza's before fest.

hey it's all a blur, but that wasn't us - never made it to Liuzzas until a few years later, we used to always rent a car and park near the post office on the Gentilly side and Liuzzas was way on the other side.... there used to be another bar on that side where we'd stop for bloody mary's but there weren't so many people there. I went sometimes after fest, but I think we started going to Liuzzas in the morning with IbJammns.

[piscesgirl]

I can't remember specifically, but I believe some of the first were the jamn's and hedar/shedar. What the heck ever happened to them anyway???

[stlbarb]

hey, barb, 7 years since what and who you asking if they bought lagniappes and started packing?
sorry, i forget to quote message - i'm used to pet de kat chat that tells you which post is being relied to.
if you use the hybrid or threaded mode, it will show what the path of the posts are.
i was replying to Luvdancin' (a friend), her entry mentioned her first fest was 7 years ago. i twisted her arm to come. ;-)

[Amyloves...]

Amyloves back when the meet ups were at FaisDoDo. I remember thinking "Damn she's cute".

Awwww....tanx Mac...dat's sweet!

My first TH was Saturn (the threadhead formerly known as Saturnwreck). That was back in the fais-do-do stage meetup days. I remember we laughed about the old "none" thread. I assume we wouldn't count piscesgirl cause I knowed her since she was borned. When I was 3 and she was 0.:D

[ibjamn]

Ms. Beadhead and IBJ, '03 or '04(?)

http://www.nolaforum.com/images/smiles/023.gif

[breambob]

so what was the 1st year of this bored (original version)?

The first bored hosted by by this website came up on 2/20/02.
I can't remember who hosted the "Purple Board" before then? swag or ibjamn will know that.

[swag]

I've never seen any of those people before in my life, Your Honor.

[stlbarb]

The first bored hosted by by this website came up on 2/20/02.
I can't remember who hosted the "Purple Board" before then? swag or ibjamn will know that.

the purple board was the original Pet de Kat bored - i thunk.
they/it are/is hosted by Delphi Forums now.

i'm pretty sure i've been posting/eavesdropping here since 02. just havent done the cult thing much.

[swag]

As I recall, the Purple board was the original Pet de Kat board, but it was linked to by this site. Remember, the Web was new back then, and the idea of a respectable business like Jazzfest using an offsite board, out of their control, hosted by a bunch of crazies, well, it seemed like a good idea to someone at the time. I think I first found it in '97, or maybe it was '98. But it was basically chat technology - all posts in a single thread, sometimes several distinct real-time conversations going on at once.

Eventually it got unlinked, the Kats moved on to delphiforums, and the Fest eventually put up their own hosted board.

[stlbarb]

As I recall, the Purple board was the original Pet de Kat board, but it was linked to by this site. Remember, the Web was new back then, and the idea of a respectable business like Jazzfest using an offsite board, out of their control, hosted by a bunch of crazies, well, it seemed like a good idea to someone at the time. I think I first found it in '97, or maybe it was '98. But it was basically chat technology - all posts in a single thread, sometimes several distinct real-time conversations going on at once.

Eventually it got unlinked, the Kats moved on to delphiforums, and the Fest eventually put up their own hosted board.
thank you, master of all knowledge. that all seems fairly accurate.

jazz fest is hard on head. some of lose brain cell, some lose hair, some lose both.

[stlbarb]

As I recall, the Purple board was the original Pet de Kat board, but it was linked to by this site. Remember, the Web was new back then, and the idea of a respectable business like Jazzfest using an offsite board, out of their control, hosted by a bunch of crazies, well, it seemed like a good idea to someone at the time. I think I first found it in '97, or maybe it was '98. But it was basically chat technology - all posts in a single thread, sometimes several distinct real-time conversations going on at once.

Eventually it got unlinked, the Kats moved on to delphiforums, and the Fest eventually put up their own hosted board.
i guess that makes me a pre-threadhead?

[luvdancin]

has it been 7 years already. you are definitely an addict.

i think you should change your location to "slightly right of the middle of nowhere".

have you started packing yet? i bet you've bought your lagnaippes.

Yes, you turned me into an addict!!
No, I haven't packed yet. Just took down the Xmas tree so I have room in the living room to put the suitcases.
Yes, I've thought about lagniappes, but haven't bought yet. I may be able to get some free from work. Cheap, cheap

[Carolina Beadhead]

I think it was CBH, but I'm can't remember how and where....

Pretty sure it was at Martha in the Park in '02. :D

[funkkjunkie]

Neenie, I'm pretty sure our first meetup was at the FG. Wasn't me at liuzza's either. Or was it? Hell if i know.

[stlbarb]

i know, i can't remember ever NOT knowing you gies.

[funkkjunkie]

So THAT's why everyone I met first was a kat. Now I get it. I do remember we crashed that purple bored even more than the antique bored used to crash. And then one day it crashed and they never set it back up for us. so drea of pdkk set up the delphi bored for us and then what swag said. Can anybody who's been posting forever remember their join date that was on your every post on the antique bored?
Festydave, can you answer this jazzfest history question?
And barb's sig is a flashback to the old daze. She was trampkat.

[NeenAtlanta]

I know there was a purple bored, the bored before the antique bored and this one, in 98. That was my first year to fest and the peeps on that bored convinced me to come solo. Someone else surely knows when that bored started. The first TH I met was blukat who doesn't post anymore, and then at my first day of fest by george/va and neen and banzai bill.

I first came to the Fest Site board in '96 or '97, same as you I think, KK. That was when it was the purple board.

We kept breaking the board from too much volume, and they shut it down. That's when PDKK moved over to a Delphi Forum.

A year or two later a new forum/chat area came back to the Fest Site and that was the first incarnation of the threadhead board. In the beginning it seemed to be mostly KK, Swag, CBH and me trying to answer questions for fest virgins.


Check out the PDKK review page for fest reports & pix from many years - including from many Threadhead folks.

http://www.petdekat.com/reviews/index.htm

[NeenAtlanta]

The first T-head that I met was Neen. STLBarb was showing me around at my first fest 7 years ago and she introduced me to Neen. I was promptly given a set of the grids and a button that said "gridded by Neen". I still have it and I'm looking at it now. :)

awwwwww :D

[NeenAtlanta]

The first bored hosted by by this website came up on 2/20/02.
I can't remember who hosted the "Purple Board" before then? swag or ibjamn will know that.

I believe it was NOLA.COM - but that is also where the official Fest board was hosted back then as well. Mid 90's

[NeenAtlanta]

As I recall, the Purple board was the original Pet de Kat board, but it was linked to by this site. Remember, the Web was new back then, and the idea of a respectable business like Jazzfest using an offsite board, out of their control, hosted by a bunch of crazies, well, it seemed like a good idea to someone at the time. I think I first found it in '97, or maybe it was '98. But it was basically chat technology - all posts in a single thread, sometimes several distinct real-time conversations going on at once.

Eventually it got unlinked, the Kats moved on to delphiforums, and the Fest eventually put up their own hosted board.

Well . .. we definitely took the board over, but it wasn't an official PDKK board. It was just the fest board that we completely hijacked. Kinda like this one now . . . ;)

[NeenAtlanta]

Neenie, I'm pretty sure our first meetup was at the FG. Wasn't me at liuzza's either. Or was it? Hell if i know.

Yeah, I guess you and Lisa are right - it must have been inside the fest. But I do remember being at Liuzza's that first night and meeting tons of folks.

[Carolina Beadhead]

Well . .. we definitely took the board over, but it wasn't an official PDKK board. It was just the fest board that we completely hijacked. Kinda like this one now . . . ;)

History DOES repeat itself, donnit? :)

[chicagomike]

Threadhead that you met?
Mine was Neen, over a bloodymary at Liuzzas the first friday of the first year of this bored.
In my case it would be Bellwood's very own JONNYGOSPELTENT. In beautiful Berwyn Il.

[mdfest]

I met Tybee on the bus to the crawfish boil. He looked funny, so I knew we would be friends.

[barry10016]

I really can't remember who I met 1st. If we go all the way back to the purple board, then it would probably be Chief Joe Ponydancer. He was at the door of whatever was the name of that place where Chubby was the entertainment for the PDKK for the night. Cabbie had to stop and ask how to find the damn place. If I'm not mistaken that was the same nite BeachBob was held up at gunpoint around the corner from the place.
After that, which I believe was 96 or maybe 97, PDKK and TH's kinda mush together, we's all the same.
Do I remember right, "If you think your a Kat/Threadhead, then you already are" :)

[NeenAtlanta]

I really can't remember who I met 1st. If we go all the way back to the purple board, then it would probably be Chief Joe Ponydancer. He was at the door of whatever was the name of that place where Chubby was the entertainment for the PDKK for the night. Cabbie had to stop and ask how to find the damn place. If I'm not mistaken that was the same nite BeachBob was held up at gunpoint around the corner from the place.
After that, which I believe was 96 or maybe 97, PDKK and TH's kinda mush together, we's all the same.
Do I remember right, "If you think your a Kat/Threadhead, then you already are" :)

Hi Barry - that was at Rosy's Jazz Hall. And it was Blukat and Trish and a couple of others who got mugged because they were walking back to Blu's place from Rosy's.

That same year though, Beach Bob was mugged at gun point right in the middle of the quarter on St. Ann's. He was rummaging around in his trunk and not paying attention and some guy came up and put a gun on him.

And YYR - If you think you're a Kat (Or Threadhead) . . . Then you are one!!!

[Zydekitten]

The first T-heads who I met in person (and remember), was Jenn/Ibjamn and David/Hebjamn - about four years ago or so, they picked me up and gave me a ride in their Festmobile during a pouring rain while I was walking to the fairgrounds . . . neither of us knew the other was a Threadhead!

It was one of the most fun coincidences (are there any though?) in my life!


:D

[ibjamn]

For us too, ZKitty! David saw you & said, she's definately dressed for fest, let's give her a ride! :)

[Zydekitten]

For us too, ZKitty! David saw you & said, she's definately dressed for fest, let's give her a ride! :)

{{{{{{{{{MWUAH!!!!}}}}}}}

[Blitzzzzz]

Hell, I'll be lucky if I remember anyone I met last year at the Fest. It's a bit of a blur. Too tired at the Patry, too quick at the meetups and just trying to connect names with bored names was enough of a challenge! I remember somebody went to Eastern Michigan, where I work and the musical note lagniappe, but the name is gone.....
I do remember (I think) corresponding with Neen back on the PdKK bored, I was T-bone back then and posted there and the old Offbeat bored. Posted a bit on the old Fest bored, but I kept forgetting my password.
Saturn and Corona, Nathan and Nance from the Detroit Fest are more clearly fixed in my mind. What a difference a year makes!:cool:

[Headless Hornman]

Hi Barry - that was at Rosy's Jazz Hall. And it was Blukat and Trish and a couple of others who got mugged because they were walking back to Blu's place from Rosy's.


And YYR - If you think you're a Kat (Or Threadhead) . . . Then you are one!!!

I don't think the Kat party with Chubby was at Rosy's; it was some place on Earhart, near Carrollton. And that was 2001, it seems longer ago.

To answer the original question (if PDKK and THs are considered the same back then) it would have to be Wendy (CandyGirl) in the van to the first Monkey Ball (which was in 2001). Met Voo once inside the venue.

[ibjamn]

Headless is right, that place was tucked in near Earhart somewhere. That was my first PDKK event, but didn't meet anybody but Ponydancer. I did get my membership card, though. ;)

[NeenAtlanta]

I don't think the Kat party with Chubby was at Rosy's; it was some place on Earhart, near Carrollton. And that was 2001, it seems longer ago.

To answer the original question (if PDKK and THs are considered the same back then) it would have to be Wendy (CandyGirl) in the van to the first Monkey Ball (which was in 2001). Met Voo once inside the venue.

Sounds right then. I know one of the PDKK parties was at Rosy's, just got 'em mixed up. The one at Rosy's had DDBB and the Wild Maggies, I think. I was handing out little felt kat masks.

[NeenAtlanta]

Hell, I'll be lucky if I remember anyone I met last year at the Fest. It's a bit of a blur. Too tired at the Patry, too quick at the meetups and just trying to connect names with bored names was enough of a challenge! I remember somebody went to Eastern Michigan, where I work and the musical note lagniappe, but the name is gone.....
I do remember (I think) corresponding with Neen back on the PdKK bored, I was T-bone back then and posted there and the old Offbeat bored. Posted a bit on the old Fest bored, but I kept forgetting my password.
Saturn and Corona, Nathan and Nance from the Detroit Fest are more clearly fixed in my mind. What a difference a year makes!:cool:

Hey T-Bone - I remember that name. I corresponded with tons of folks who sent in info for the grids.

[Headless Hornman]

Headless is right, that place was tucked in near Earhart somewhere. That was my first PDKK event, but didn't meet anybody but Ponydancer. I did get my membership card, though. ;)

I got my card that night too. I was digging through some old emails to pin down what year that was and found one from you about the list of flags/totems you were putting together. But I don't think I actually met you for a few more years.

I think it was two years later when the PDKK Daze party was at Rosy's with the Radiators playing acoustic. I had yet to meet Barry and was looking for him. Kept asking people; they'd spin around in a circle and say "but he was just here a second ago." Never found him that year.

I still haven't met Neen, but have a ''Gridded By" button on the Headless Hornman.

[ibjamn]

I got my card that night too. I was digging through some old emails to pin down what year that was and found one from you about the list of flags/totems you were putting together. But I don't think I actually met you for a few more years.

I think it was two years later when the PDKK Daze party was at Rosy's with the Radiators playing acoustic. I had yet to meet Barry and was looking for him. Kept asking people; they'd spin around in a circle and say "but he was just here a second ago." Never found him that year.

I still haven't met Neen, but have a ''Gridded By" button on the Headless Hornman.

I don't remember the year, but I remember the fest I met ya'll on the track first, then that fest, seems like I saw ya'll EVERYWHERE! ;)

[pokerchick66]

The first T-heads who I met in person (and remember), was Jenn/Ibjamn and David/Hebjamn - about four years ago or so, they picked me up and gave me a ride in their Festmobile during a pouring rain while I was walking to the fairgrounds . . . neither of us knew the other was a Threadhead!

It was one of the most fun coincidences (are there any though?) in my life!
:D

Well that is just freaking awesome. How cool is that? Good karma, for sure.

[NeenAtlanta]

I think it was two years later when the PDKK Daze party was at Rosy's with the Radiators playing acoustic.
I still haven't met Neen, but have a ''Gridded By" button on the Headless Hornman.

There must have been more than one PDKK party at Rosy's then, unless the Rads came on after DDBB and the Maggies.

Proud to know that the hornman is wearing a grid button!!!

[Headless Hornman]

There must have been more than one PDKK party at Rosy's then, unless the Rads came on after DDBB and the Maggies.

Proud to know that the hornman is wearing a grid button!!!

I'm pretty sure they didn't open for the Rads because I would not have missed that. I didn't go to the fest in '02, was that the DDBB Daze party?

I can't find it now but I remember posting a photo of the Hornman a few years ago and someone with an eagle eye replied "is that a Gridded by Neen button."

I set the Hornman up on a camping trip and it got rained on, so some of the old buttons are water damaged. What's wild is that Voo's "Fuck Acura, Fess Drove a Caddy" button now has a rusty border just around Professor Longhair's photo, like a ghostly aura.

New since last fest: I've laminated some photos taken over the years of people posing with the Hornman and have hung them on a cord around his 'neck'(?).

[NeenAtlanta]

I'm pretty sure they didn't open for the Rads because I would not have missed that. I didn't go to the fest in '02, was that the DDBB Daze party?

I can't find it now but I remember posting a photo of the Hornman a few years ago and someone with an eagle eye replied "is that a Gridded by Neen button."

I set the Hornman up on a camping trip and it got rained on, so some of the old buttons are water damaged. What's wild is that Voo's "Fuck Acura, Fess Drove a Caddy" button now has a rusty border just around Professor Longhair's photo, like a ghostly aura.

New since last fest: I've laminated some photos taken over the years of people posing with the Hornman and have hung them on a cord around his 'neck'(?).

Yeah, JuJu's button is still my absolute favorite. Mine has rusted a bit too, but I still pull it out and wear it every year!

[Bill/KC]

The old purple board was hosted by the Jazzfest website. It was up for a couple of years before it was crashed by the Kats. The Kats then moved over to the home they have now on Delphi. Neen, the show you're thinking about with DDBB and Wild Mags was in 2000 at Warehouse Music Hall. The Kats were mugged going to Blukats house around the corner. The show at Rosey's was a year or 2 later and was a joint PDKK/Mystic Mermaids production featuring The Rads. Now back to the topic....the first folks that I met from the old purple board were Kats, or became Kats, back in '97. The first Threadhead meetings, before the TH term was coined, I believe took place at the Fais-Do-Do webcam. The first official "Threadhead" meetings took place behind Ms. Lena's beer tent in '02 or '03. I'm not sure which TH's I met first, Breambob, Maui, CBH, Saturn??? Hhhhmmmmmm......:)

[Tim]

Cuzzin' Bob when I was in SF. He introduced me to Jaypee. Nice lady. Otherwise, I hang out in the shadows.

[mightyradgumbo]

Mine was a tie...technically, the first TH I met was Priestboy-as we are bruddas from the same mudda, but I converted him to Threadheadism

The threadheads that I met at the same time were JohnnyGospelTent, RonB and ZydeKitty all at Ms. Lena's for first shift first friday beer duty last year.

From there it just became a crazy amount of peeps in a very short time. I look forward to meeting even more of you fine peoples this year.

[RevDon]

STLBARB is by all means the first TH I've met, although she never identified herself as such (Hmmmmm)? Albeit, I've only recently become fairly computer literate, and re-joined polite (?) society after being kicked out of the Hippies, I'm sure that if you have been anywhere near the soundboard at the Acura Stage, or in the front row for any of my favorite Blues artists, you'd recognize me. for you old timers, think ponytail and hat!

[mauibreeze]

...hhmmmmm....I walked up on a group of festers that seemed as unsure as I was about who or whom we would all be meeting...maybe 15 or 20 of us...we huddled and said our hellos, trading names and stories for a short bit of time...we gathered around what looked like a giant hooded frog holding an umbrella and smiled for the infamous "web-cam"....checked our grids and made our plans, and off to festing we went again...as for the first...coulda been saturnwreck, carolinbeadhead, hockeytom, breambob, swag...ah musta been Rope, who I haven't seen in awhile...chocolate covered strawberries forever...

[jazzfestchic]

Texas JF Fanatic & TCloud @ The Big Easy Bar in Houston a couple of years ago.

[justagirl]

ib and hebjamn for sure. Met them years ago, before I even knew this place existed.

Maybe I met some of ya'll at Rosy's...I lived behind there and worked there for years :) I love Rosy's!

I plan on meeting many more of ya'll at Ms Lena's this year :)

[dank_bass]

Mine was a tie...technically, the first TH I met was Priestboy-as we are bruddas from the same mudda, but I converted him to Threadheadism

The threadheads that I met at the same time were JohnnyGospelTent, RonB and ZydeKitty all at Ms. Lena's for first shift first friday beer duty last year.

From there it just became a crazy amount of peeps in a very short time. I look forward to meeting even more of you fine peoples this year.

MightyRadGumbo was the first T-Head that I met knowing the person was a Threadhead... It was at Ingrids last year. However Shay ive been running into for years at almost everey show I go to locally, didnt formally meet her until Tori's (one half of the mystical mermaids) birthday celebration at Mothers/8 x 10 last year.

[Jacquesimomo]

Back when the meetups were by the camera by the Fais-Do-Do Stage, they were quick. It reminded me of the coin toss before a football game. Everybody shook hands, said hello, and ran off to the next set. At my first meetup I met Amylovesthefest, Carolina Beadhead, Saturnwreck, and Hockey Tom if my memory serves me correctly. I've sure made some great friends since those days, including some I met in Memphis rather than at the fest.


Staxson, I'm pretty sure you were my first official Threadhead intro at an official meetup last year...

[rosetree]

ib and hebjamn for sure. Met them years ago, before I even knew this place existed.

Maybe I met some of ya'll at Rosy's...I lived behind there and worked there for years :) I love Rosy's!

I plan on meeting many more of ya'll at Ms Lena's this year :)

......ummmmm, not to get confusing like the Ray's Boom Boom thing.:confused: ....I'm sure that justagirl is talking about Rosy's Bar, not RT's, Rosey's, Arties, Jim's or even Darryl's world famous Rosetree Glass Studio!;) ....boy would I be on easy street if I owned a real bar.......it would have free dinks for Threadheads!!!!

[Zbonnie]

you'd recognize me. for you old timers, think ponytail and hat!Yeah, that'd really make you stand out among the rest of the festers!:rolleyes:

[mamaroux]

Threadheads/Kats... when does one remember who was on which site to make the difference when there's so much overlap? I'm confused. I can't remember... oh yeah... JulsNJ I think, or maybe SteveLBI or CousinEd... then Sha and St. Dan the Man... most of the Jersey Kats... then Voo, who I knew from another lifetime... and Steve Apple, Marisol and Pony, Neen, Banzai Bill, Beach Bob, Ross, whoever else was at the 99 fest... and when did I actually meet Barry and Nancy, Swag, Denise .... I can't remember... Hornman at Voo's wedding... I know I finally met up with BH during MG of 06 and Hebjamin' during JF 06... and we all "know" each other but sometimes just haven't met in person yet, so it gets sorta lost, doesn't it?

[BigDag]

Threadheads/Kats... when does one remember who was on which site to make the difference when there's so much overlap? I'm confused. I can't remember... oh yeah... JulsNJ I think, or maybe SteveLBI or CousinEd... then Sha and St. Dan the Man... most of the Jersey Kats... then Voo, who I knew from another lifetime... and Steve Apple, Marisol and Pony, Neen, Banzai Bill, Beach Bob, Ross, whoever else was at the 99 fest... and when did I actually meet Barry and Nancy, Swag, Denise .... I can't remember... Hornman at Voo's wedding... I know I finally met up with BH during MG of 06 and Hebjamin' during JF 06... and we all "know" each other but sometimes just haven't met in person yet, so it gets sorta lost, doesn't it?

Howard Johnson is right!

[ohio]

'04- CBH & IBJ, then Barry (who wouldn't recognize Barry- he was pictured in the forum header for at least a year...), then a ton of folks at a meet up, finished that fest with Barry, Eat_mo & a bunch of Kats, closing w/the Rads. A fine intro.

[LaTiDa]

Glinda (first and only actually) at Ingrid's last year.

[Bill/KC]

There's some good pix of some of the pre-Threadhead meetups on the "Jazzfest Lagniappe" thread.

[2ForTheFest]

Ours was JackNomad who doesn't post much anymore (Hey wait neither do we) but we ran into him again last year at Liuzza's waiting in line for a Bloody Mary (one of many).

Our 2nd was Jada and little did we know that that quick hi,hey are you a TH, here's a button would lead to years of friendship!
Evil actually lurked for years b/c of the grids. I remember before I even found the board and before he took me to my first JF he sent out the grids. I had NO idea what it all meant. Then we discovered you crazies!

[Carolina Beadhead]

for you old timers, think ponytail and hat!

Nope. That won't help. Eat_mo has a ponytail and wears a hat, too. :D

[Carolina Beadhead]

Cuzzin' Bob when I was in SF. He introduced me to Jaypee. Nice lady. Otherwise, I hang out in the shadows.

Whatever happened to Cousin' Bob? He hasn't been around in YEARS, has he?

[ohio]

Glinda (first and only actually) at Ingrid's last year.Wow, there were at least 20 of us there last year...

[ohio]

Ours was JackNomad who doesn't post much anymore (Hey wait neither do we) but we ran into him again last year at Liuzza's waiting in line for a Bloody Mary (one of many).

Our 2nd was Jada and little did we know that that quick hi,hey are you a TH, here's a button would lead to years of friendship!
Evil actually lurked for years b/c of the grids. I remember before I even found the board and before he took me to my first JF he sent out the grids. I had NO idea what it all meant. Then we discovered you crazies!
Hey good half, glad to see ya here!

[withbellson]

Don't know if it counts but my first contact was Swag. I was nosing around on his website trying to see what I was getting into. Who knew!!!

[rosetree]

Don't know if it counts but my first contact was Swag. I was nosing around on his website trying to see what I was getting into. Who knew!!!

Rn't you glad you did!!!!!;) :D

[Corona]

Rn't you glad you did!!!!!;) :D
oh man, what a great thread!! So many memories, so much history....so cool!! :)

[2ForTheFest]

Hey good half, glad to see ya here!

It's nice to be here! We'll see you and Patti soon!
Will you guys be around Friday or Saturday night for the balcony patry? I think it's Friday but I'll have to ask Lisa. She's my own personal gridder this year! Love ya girl!
:)

Oh yea...which ever night it is, everyone is welcome to stop by and say Hi. Come to think of it I think it's Friday night before we head over to Ray's for the Underdawgs.
We're staying right across from Pat O's...Time to TBD. LISA???

[mightyradgumbo]

It's nice to be here! We'll see you and Patti soon!
Will you guys be around Friday or Saturday night for the balcony patry? I think it's Friday but I'll have to ask Lisa. She's my own personal gridder this year! Love ya girl!
:)

Oh yea...which ever night it is, everyone is welcome to stop by and say Hi. Come to think of it I think it's Friday night before we head over to Ray's for the Underdawgs.
We're staying right across from Pat O's...Time to TBD. LISA???

Hey, Chica..happy Eastah! See you and Evil 1/2 soon-bringing my brutha for his first time (I told him it only hurts for a minute :eek: )

[RitaZero]

First threadhead I met was Jada! Kindred Deadheads, we met at the meet and greet/dinner before a Dark Star Orchestra show at the Orpheum a few years ago - and meet up at the Flagpole Threadhead event every year. Can't wait to see ya Jada!