What's your 15 minutes of fame?

Faxxxy · #1 12-06-2008, 11:47 PM

What is your 15 minutes of fame?
This is not a "brush with someone famous" thread. This is about YOU.

I did this in another forum and found out that there were some really famous people in there. Even if only for a short season.

For example.
One guy used to tour on keys for a famous band.
One guy was an attorney for Martha Stewart during her trial.
One guy owned the plane that that made history when it was stolen and flown into a building three months after 9/11.

What is YOUR 15 minutes??

**MAJOR METAL** · #2 12-06-2008, 11:53 PM

I was part of the very last graduating class from a Military Academy that was open for 117 years and around the closing of the Academy I did a number of Newspaper interviews as one of the ranking Cadets ( MAJOR METAL

) that were printed.

**Eric Perry** · #3 12-06-2008, 11:55 PM

Sharing a stage with Aerosmith, musically, for me.

Disraeli Gears · #4 12-07-2008, 12:08 AM

I wrote lyrics to a song as a joke one day called "Where My Hoes At", and shared them with my buddy and we collaborated on writing a song around them. The song became famous among the stoner kids at my school who would apparently listen to it 50+ times in a row on a regular basis while baked.

hbarcat · #5 12-07-2008, 12:11 AM

None. I've never had any fame of any kind and I hope to keep it that way.

Should I achieve my goal of being a full time professional musician I still hope I never have any real notoriety or recognition. Only the appreciation of the fans I happen to be playing for at the moment.

bassteban · #6 12-07-2008, 12:24 AM

I like being invisible, which is convenient as I play the bass.

ksandvik · #7 12-07-2008, 12:37 AM

Hey, I got just now my 15 seconds of fame! Internet is neat.

bongomania · #8 12-07-2008, 12:51 AM

Once I spent a couple months in Cuba. Much of that time was at the far tip of Oriente province, where communities are small, rural, and fairly insular, and the Spanish spoken is such a thick Kongo-flavored dialect that even other Cubans have a hard time understanding them. I went there to study bongo drumming, and my method was just walk everywhere with a pair of bongos, and talk with people until I found someone willing to teach me something.

I'm a white guy with a red beard and I'm covered in tattoos.

Word quickly spread around whatever town I was staying in about the crazy tattooed white bongocero, and eventually word preceded me, where people in the next town would come up and say "I heard about you". I was only there a couple of months, but I have a friend who visits there a few times a year, and he said as much as a year later people there were still talking about me.

bassteban · #9 12-07-2008, 12:55 AM

Bongo, you're somewhat well known on TB as well.

mjolnir · #10 12-07-2008, 01:00 AM

Hold on, lemme Google myself real quick...

Nope. Nothin'.

bassteban · #11 12-07-2008, 01:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mjolnir

Hold on, lemme Google myself real quick...

Nope. Nothin'.

What a great idea! Let me see- no, still invisible.

Atoz · #12 12-07-2008, 01:23 AM

T-Bird · #13 12-07-2008, 01:51 AM

Hi.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bongomania

Once I spent a couple months in Cuba. Much of that time was at the far tip of Oriente province, where communities are small, rural, and fairly insular, and the Spanish spoken is such a thick Kongo-flavored dialect that even other Cubans have a hard time understanding them. I went there to study bongo drumming, and my method was just walk everywhere with a pair of bongos, and talk with people until I found someone willing to teach me something.

I'm a white guy with a red beard and I'm covered in tattoos.

Word quickly spread around whatever town I was staying in about the crazy tattooed white bongocero, and eventually word preceded me, where people in the next town would come up and say "I heard about you". I was only there a couple of months, but I have a friend who visits there a few times a year, and he said as much as a year later people there were still talking about me.

Wow, that's cool, must've been a grand trip. Bet they still remember You.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Atoz

Well, NO ONE can deny that

.

Mine is a few seconds in a Finnish movie called "Kummeli Jackpot". I was an extra in two side plot scenes, 'bout 2 & 7 secs

. I had no lines, the lead actors handled that part, just stood there looking like a biker does.

Surprisingly many people recognize me in that film, even now a couple of years later. The kids I sometimes teach in the upper secondary school are the best in that

.

Regards
Sam

Munjibunga · #14 12-07-2008, 01:54 AM

I was on two different channels of local TV one time, explaining why a 10 million-year-old fault wasn't a danger to the houses built near it.

doctorjazz · #15 12-07-2008, 02:35 AM

I played sax on a recent episode of One Tree Hill.

**Rune Bivrin** · #16 12-07-2008, 02:41 AM

I've done two appearances on Jeopardy in Sweden, and also backed Thore Skogman singing "Herr Gurka" at Skansen. Not that that means a lot to anyone outside of Scandinavia, but still...

qball26 · #17 12-07-2008, 03:50 AM

I was an extra in a television mini-series called "The Summit" with Stephen McHattie; Lisa Ray; James Purefoy & Mía Maestro, and last year (on air now in Ontario, Canada on TFO), I had a re-occurring role as an extra in a french sitcom called "Meteo +".

As for music, I've shared the stage with Helix, Trooper, Glass Tiger, Suzie McNeil, Downchild Blues Band & April Wine... for now.

Muusers · #18 12-07-2008, 04:21 AM

*googles name*
some newspaper references for my bilingual education, a newspaper reference for being in the top five of a national math competition. my dad gets a lot more hits though!

Otso · #19 12-07-2008, 05:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mjolnir

Hold on, lemme Google myself real quick...

Nope. Nothin'.

I googled myself and found out that I can do a bassface:

A charity type gig for an association that has something to do with heart problems and the like. There was an article about it in the associations paper. Wouldn't consider it to be anything even resembling "fame".

I also was interviewed once for some paper that had an article about what high school students were planning to do after high school. Well, I said I was certainly going to study engineering in the Helsinki University of Technology. I now study musicology in the university of Helsinki...

Happynoj · #20 12-07-2008, 05:29 AM

I once shared a stage with the UK Subs and The Vibrators, who I had never heard of at the time, but later looked up, and it turns out that they are actually really quite big on the UK punk scene.

EDIT:

Just remembered about being on TV - my band entered a competition run by our local news program (Midlands Today) a couple of years ago. It was a sort of 'Battle of the Bands' type thing, where they showed a different band every day for a week, and then the public could vote for their favourite. We got through to the final 7 (out of about 600), and then got voted 4th. It was pretty cool.