How weird would it have been...

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/29/2002, 4:56 pm

...if you had won the guitarist search?

I mean, think about it! You'd be around OLP all the time! Your preception of them, both as a band and as people, would change completely.

I can definately see how Steve would be a bit shy in the spotlight.
If you won, wouldn't you find it weird if there was an interview with OLP, and people are asking you questions, when there's three big stars standing right beside you?

And to stand by and watch their antics would be so weird. You could see Steve's face light up when Raine said "God damned mother fucker" on the On Set.

Luckily, Steve seems to be getting along very well with his shove into stardom.

How do you think you'd do, if you were in his shoes?

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 9/29/2002, 5:01 pm

Well you gotta remember that Steve wasn't just some lovesick teenager, he was an adult in the process of building a successful career. Be that as it may, my reaction would still be "

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Susan · Post by **Susan** » 9/29/2002, 5:07 pm

I'd be going "WTF?", then backfilp with glee!
Then a few moments later I'd be back to WTF, and I'd have to sleep on it.

I can imagine that Steve was pretty excited when they told him.

lukin · Post by **lukin** » 9/29/2002, 5:12 pm

Did Steve win through the actual contest? I thought they just found him other ways..

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/29/2002, 5:15 pm

Yeah. He was like a friend of a friend or something, who happens to be very talented.

Xavier870 · Post by **Xavier870** » 9/29/2002, 7:15 pm

I'd probably piss my pants.... no. I'd soil myself. Then I'd have a heart attack.

joe_canadian · Post by **joe_canadian** » 9/29/2002, 7:32 pm

Can you say spontaneous combustion?

the android · Post by **the android** » 9/29/2002, 7:36 pm

In the livejournal OLP community, I said something along the lines of "wouldn't it be cool if the new guitarist was a girl?" and some guy called me sexist. To this day, I fail to see how that was sexist, even if he explained his reasoning to me.

Prick. People take themselves way too seriously.

Emily Jane · Post by **Emily Jane** » 9/29/2002, 7:41 pm

Well, at first I'd be like "HOLY FUCKING SHIT!" but then I'd just go back to being me. Nothing too fancy. But that's just me.

Sufjan Stevens · Post by **Sufjan Stevens** » 9/29/2002, 8:03 pm

I would probably be in disbelief, then I would probably cry in happiness. I started jumping up and down when I won OLP tickets in 2001, God knows what would happen if I became their guitarist. Can anyone say starstruck?

Xavier870 · Post by **Xavier870** » 9/29/2002, 8:18 pm

Starseed?

the android · Post by **the android** » 9/29/2002, 8:20 pm

Potatohead :nod:

teelow · Post by **teelow** » 9/30/2002, 10:18 am

I totally could of won it, but meh...I am only 16.
It would be pretty sweet for a 16 year old to win that.

tasha · Post by **tasha** » 9/30/2002, 2:08 pm

jezzus, id cry, faint, puke, laugh, grin... id be like that for years, i swear. and then, id make an ass of myself, cuz i can't play the guitar. :nod:

liam · Post by **liam** » 9/30/2002, 6:37 pm

i would have been a bit weirded out and you guys would have hated me... I can't play the guitar.... at all.... i can barely strum it thats how bad i am at it...