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name dropping thread.

#21
feel dorky about it, but....

Dave Matthews played my fraternity every month or so in college, along with Toad the Wet Sprocket. I used to go onstage with Dave and play whatever percussion I wanted, jump around, sing. (I helped "introduce" them to some ladies)

Jammed with Dishwalla when friend Scot left the band, opened for Tool, System of a Down, others, and rehearsed at a place where STP, Love and Rockets, Iggy Pop, RHCP, Goo Goo Dolls and Green Day were at the same time. That was a fun place in Hollywood. This was all with different bands, not the current.

My old guitar player and best friend's band is playing with The Used, Dramarama and New Found Glory in a few weeks so I may go to that one.

I'll have to think of others.
 
#22
When I was in my late teens, to mid-twenties, we had members of Al Jarreau's band, Kenny Loggins' band, and a member of Pure Prarie League living at my house. They were all off-tour, some were between-tours. They stayed with us on a rotating basis.

Also, several of my former bandmates are playing for national acts right now...

My old drummer, Dean, is in Good Charlotte.
One of my old sax players, Harold, is playing for Lenny Kravitz.
Another drummer from my past, Tris, has been playing with Chicago for the past 15 years or so.
Another sax player friend has been with Michael McDonald for almost 20 years.

And I'm stuck in Houston...:hmm:
 
#23
bongomania said:
Not quite. We were a large band of aging misfits, most of whom were wild when younger but now had mortgages, kids, liver problems, other bands that also needed them, etc. and we could never quite get it together. Whenever we went to record some material, at least one member of the band couldn't make it due to a conflicting obligation, and we didn't have the money to track individually. We hired videographers a couple of times, but it never really worked out.
You can check out our old-skool website though: http://www.sfburlesque.com/index.htm
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That's too bad, looked like it would have been quite a show. I guess you're the one under the "Miss Exotic World" sign?:p:)
 
#24
My old band played with the Gravel Pit a few times way back in 1989 - 1991. The same band almost opened for Murphy's Law at a roller skating rink turned all ages rock club, and almost opened for Cringer at a college in Connecticut somewhere. Almost happened a lot with us. A band member's other band played a show with Green Day at a rented hall sometime around 1991, and there is a video of the show and hanging around with them after, somewhere, so they say. We also knew the Ramones pretty good just from going to all their shows. Also, my cousin was married to the stepbrother of Mary Chapin Carpenter, she was at the wedding but I didn't get to meet her.

That's all I got...I know, I know, I'm reaching!!
 
#26
Roadman said:
In 1984 I sat near Vic Tayback on a plane from Seattle to Detroit.
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Stop the thread right here. Nuthin's gonna beat that. Memories of 'Alice' after running home from the bus stop. I always saw myself as her kid (What was his name again?)
 
#28
I grew up in Buffalo. Several of my early bands opened for Talas and I always got to spend a little time with Billy Sheehan. I'd get there super-early and help their crew load in - even during blizzards and hail storms. They'd always make sure I got to stay late and Billy was almost always super-kind and generous with his time (the only exceptions being when he had more interesting 'companions'.
 
#29
I've eaten Pizza and recorded with the bass player for Kix when Donnie Purnell left. Zak Mabie.

I've eaten Pizza with the Chad Taylor's (guitarist from Live's dad). Dave Taylor.

I sold a piece of electronic equipment to Martin Lawrence.

I have done computer work for Renaldo Wynn and many other Washington Redskins football players (and have seen their INCREDIBLE houses).

I have been to Oliver Norths house and met his wife Betsy. They raise long horn cattle in VA.

Trying to see if I can remember more.........
 
#31
Probably not worth mentioning since they were 2 decades past their prime and fragments of original members but...

One of the bands I was in opened for WAR at HOB and another time for KC and the Sunshine Band at HOB :eyebrow:.

Also opened for Los Lobos at HOB.

Opened for Rob Base at a club with a raging crowd of 4 people!! :rollno:

Met Grover Washington Jr. at one of the HOB gigs. Said he really enjoyed us and to keep it up! :) We broke up 3 years later...:hmm:

Roadied at a local club for Primus during "Seas Of Cheese" tour. The drummer of the band I was in drove their drummer (can't remember name) to the local music shop to get another clamp for his Gibralter drum rack.

Completely unrelated to playing music, ran into "The Bandit" at the local music store I worked at. He was filming "Cop and A Half" in Tampa. He and his bodyguard came in and bought every Ella Fitzgerald CD we had and ordered more! My buddy and I weren't sure it was him so we put the soundtrack to "Sharky's Machine" on the turntable! :bassist: LOL! He turned around and gave us a nod! Then he asked to look at our catalog (this was back in the early 90's before retail went web) and ordered a load of Ella Fitzgerald CD's. Came back a few weeks later to pick up his CD's and autographed a bunch of records ("Smokey and The Bandit", "Sharkey's Machine", etc). He was cool!

That's all I got. Probably not worth the wasting the server space even posting it! LOL! :hmm:

Just remembered and this is probably the END ALL as far as any 'brush with fame' for me. The guitar player in the band I was in (from above HOB shows), his folks were very good friends of Ingrid Pastorius (yes, that Pastorius) since back in the 70's. In the late 90's, Ingrid, Felix and the younger brother would come to our bar gigs every now and again. The guitar player, drummer from that same band and I have jammed with Felix. Been to their house in Ft. Lauderdale. That was WILD! Seeing family pics of Jaco, Ingrid and the boys. Very surreal being in Jaco's house hanging out with his family! :bassist:
 
#32
Many years ago I was in a small local music shop trying out some basses. It was a tiny place, but he often had fairly rare and unusual instruments, and some big name players had bought stuff there. I was noodling around on an old P bass and in walks Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top. He tries out some guitars, and since the place is only about 15 by 15 feet, is right next to me. He goes into a basic blues thing, looks at me, and says "let's go", so I stumble in and do my best. After we play the changes a few times, he turns to me, nods, and says "Go". I'm not much of a soloist, but it's show time, so I dig in and go for it. A few bars into my solo, he leans over to the amp I'm playing through, cranks the master volume up to about 9, and says "If you got something to say, say it loud".

It was pretty cool.
 
#33
I hung out with Billy Sheehan a few years ago, asked him dumb bass player questions and then watched him jump on stage at a local bar and totally kill, singing and playing a bunch of classic rock tunes w/a local classics band
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He is a pretty laid back, cool guy....

Jammed 'Red House' on stage with Zakk Wylde......scared the whole time I was going to flub it up....
 
#35
TimWilson said:
Stop the thread right here. Nuthin's gonna beat that. Memories of 'Alice' after running home from the bus stop. I always saw myself as her kid (What was his name again?)
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The actor is Phillip McKeon. Nancy McKeon's brother. (She was Jo on Facts of Life)

BTW, I've been in bands with, or played on stage with members of:

Korn
Otep
Puddle of Mudd
Circus Diablo
Cellophane
Bang Tango
Faster Pussycat
Guns N' Roses
Dramarama
SOAD
Poison
LA Guns
Newlydeads
Onesidezero
American Pearl
and a few others.
 
#36
I've known the Plain White Ts since their singer played guitar, their guitarist played drums, and their bassist was in another band.

I haven't talked to them in ages, but Tom and their former guitarist Steve played at my friend's high school graduation party. I also have a bunch of old stuff, like their self-released albums and home video (which my friends and I appear in during a crowd shot at the Metro), some unreleased demos Dave burned, and Mike's former band's EP.

Needless to say, it completely wigged me out when I was in a department store in Osaka and heard "Hey There Delilah" playing.
 
#39
Flew out of LAX and talked with Lorenzo Lamas for a little while. The blonde who was in the show "Renegade" with him was there too. Also met Lou Ferrigno(sp?) at LAX. That guy is still yoked. Almost got ran over by Ice T's body guards at winter NAMM a couple of years ago. He was in the middle of them all wearing his classic all white raiders outfit. Leaving a Lakers game last year I was in the middle of a mob of women. As I'm trying to figure out what's going on I look over and LL Cool J is about 2 feet from me. That was pretty funny seeing all these chicks going "LL, I love you" and all that stuff as he just blew past them to his car in the secured private parking area.
 
#40
Arsenal_Fierce said:
I've known the Plain White Ts since their singer played guitar, their guitarist played drums, and their bassist was in another band.

I haven't talked to them in ages, but Tom and their former guitarist Steve played at my friend's high school graduation party. I also have a bunch of old stuff, like their self-released albums and home video (which my friends and I appear in during a crowd shot at the Metro), some unreleased demos Dave burned, and Mike's former band's EP.

Needless to say, it completely wigged me out when I was in a department store in Osaka and heard "Hey There Delilah" playing.
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LOL - my band played a house party in Humbolt Park (Chicago) that the drummer from Plain White T's showed up at. I met him - and he said he dug our sound. Kinda cool. That was just before Delilah started getting all kinds of crazy radio play, but somewhat recently, like Winter of '06
 

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