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Anyone on TB know any famous musicians?

#42
In degrees of separation, I know Frankie Sullivan's ( of Survivor) younger brother Tim.

I am also cousin to cousins of John DeMaine the conductor.

I know a couple of people who went to Mercer High School with Trent Resnor

And a mate of mine knows most of the Pat Benetar crew (Pat, Neil and drummer Myron Grumbacher)
 
#47
Do cab fares count? I drove cab nights in Boston back in the late '70s-80's and a brief return in the early '90s. Some of my more memorable musician type elbow rubbing memories are:

Sitting on the Lennox Hotel cab stand reading my paper, the back door opens and a couple get's in. I put the paper down, turn around, open my mouth and blurt out "Oh my God...you're Elvin Jones!!". Turns out he actually already knew that, but got a kick out of my flipping out a little bit over it. It was him and his wife. They only went a short ride to Lulu White's in the South End but we had a great conversation on the way. I'll never forget that ride. For those of you who don't know him, Elvin was a legend of a jazz drummer.

Got a call one night to pick up at the Paradise Club and the entire New Riders of the Purple Sage piles into the cab for a ride back to the Sheraton Hotel. Right off they ask if it's OK to spark up. I gave the green light and out came a couple of enormous spliffs. Interesting ride. ;-)

Lessee...got a call at the Holiday Inn downtown and got the manager and two members of the Vapors who were a one hit wonder band ("Turning Japanese") back then. Took them out to WCBV TV station in Needham for a late night show, went in with them and hung out back stage while they did the show (with the meter running of course) and then brought them back to the hotel afterwards. Got pulled over by a Needham cop on the way back because something just "didn't look right" with the Boston Cab out in the 'burbs heading inbound with these three guys with the enormous '80's hairdoos on board. Good thing it wasn't the New Riders or there would have been big trouble. These guys were very straight despite the look.

Also used to pickup Mike Stern all the time whether he wanted a cab or not. I'd spot him walking down the street and pull over to give him a ride and pick his brain about his guitar technique. That ended when Miles Davis came into Michael's Jazz club one night to see Mike (Jacki Byard brought him in to see him) play and wound up hiring him for his band. That was the end of Mike being a Boston boy. Whoosh...off to New York.

Ok, that's it for the cab stories.
 
#48
curbowkid said:
I used to know the guys who played with killswitches first singer jesse before he rejoined the band.

The band was The Empire Shall fall
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Ha. I know those guys/am one of those guys. I guess Jesse is famous(depending on your definition). I certainly am not famous. I do know a handful of famous people. Depending on your definition of famous.
 
#51
I go to a music gymnasium (highschool) here in Sweden, where the math/drum teacher is Peter Wildoer, the drummer in the swedish deathmetal (?) band darkane. I do know him on a personal level and he is one of the best guys i have ever met, a beast on the drums and really genuine and down to earth guy! Now he is not a SUPER famous drummer, but definately on the top 50 list of best metal drummers. They have sold many albums and have toured regularly throughout the years. I'm happy to have the chance to spend time with him on a daily basis :)
 
#56
Living in the Boston area for most of my life and having spent time touring as well as time in New York City and Nashville, I have gotten to know many famous musicians. Some by working with and / or opening for them and some through mutual friends.
 
#58
Back in 86 my singer and I met Warren Cucarillo at the Roxy one night. Missing Persons was on the skids and he was looking for a new chick singer. A mutual friend introduced us. We spent a week to ten days working together and rehearsing material. He and MPs keyboardist Patrick OHearn were into it.....till Warren got the call From Duran Duran. That was it. Game over,and never heard from them again. Years later another singer, who's dad was Diana Ross' guitarist, got Steve and Jeff Porcarro to work with us on our four song demo. That never went anywhere either. My uncle was Wayne Shanklin, a song writer in the 50s and 60s who wrote some pretty big songs. He was my grandmothers brother. She got a percentage of his royalties because she'd helped fund him when he started in 52. Whenever one of his songs would play on the radio, she'd always go cha-ching and turn it up real loud.
 

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