2 come to mind

-I didn’t know Robert Plant was in Led Zeppelin until I was 16

-I lost a $5 bet to my cousin Jim re whether Elivs was still alive or not. This was in 1982.

for a brief period in 1990, i owned a jesus jones CD, and a charlatans uk cassette.

until last year i thought jd from le tigre was a guy.

it might not sound embarrassing but it really was at the time.

I thought Pavement was still together... two years ago.

Sad sad, I know

I didn't realize the guy in Shellac was the guy in Big Black until a few months after I'd seen Shellac in Muncie, IN (with Dis and Tar).

Cheers,
Ben Adrian

Concerts attended by choice:

Tesla
311
Dave Matthews Band (w/Blues Traveler & Lenny Kravitz...yes, I went to the HORDE Festival...)
Warrant
Less Than Jake


First 2 CDs purchased:

Warrant - D.R.F.S.R.
Aerosmith - Pump

I could go on and on, but I'm not...

Being a Ned's Atomic Dustbin fan for the last 13 years.

-Jeremy

When I was a young Jung I heard Paul McCartney and Wings on the radio all the fucking time. It was a while before I figured out that he had been in another band.

I can safely say that this forum is responsible for most of the embarrassing moments in my musical education. I had no idea that I should be ashamed to listen to, much less enjoy, bands like:

Steely Dan
Jesus Jones
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
The Beatles

etc.

Thank you, EA Forums, for bringing me to true rock enlightenment.

When I was 5 or 6, I knocked on the door of my best friend's house to see if he wanted to come outside and play. My best friend at the time was a guy called Austin (now a fairly successful artist AFAIK) who had only recently moved to the West Country from Liverpool.

I had clearly interrupted a conversation with my knocking since as Austin's mum opened the door to me she casually asked "What's your favourite band Adam?".

"Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" I answered in the genuine belief that this was the name of the band that I had been listening to on my mono tape-player in my bedroom for the last 6 months.

For some reason this scene stayed with me until the day came when I discovered that the tape I had been listening to was not in fact recorded by the large group of unlikely looking musicians depicted on the cover of the tape, and that this group was not named quite as I had thought.

I am blushing while I type. Memories are strange.