name dropping thread.

[Naturekev]

I auditioned for DORO PESCH back in the early 90's.

I am officially envious. I have some photos I took from the only time I've seen her perform with Warlock at Monsters of Rock '86 in Germany. Missed her when she was in Florida recently. I have a guitarist friend who met her back in the '90s when she played at a club in Jacksonville Beach, FL. He got to hang out with her for awhile, got pics with her, and even wrote a few letters back and forth with her (in the days before everyone had email).

 

[bevel19]

Bumped into Eddie Van Halen and Michael Anthony on a lawn outside the hotel they were staying in, the morning after a gig in Launceston ( Tasmania) Australia.They were waiting for their transport to the airport.Had seen the gig the night before (Gary Cherone singing). Had a chat. Were very cool guys. Didn't have the airs and graces of some rock gods.The show we had seen was the first of that Aust tour and they were pleased it was well received.

Opened for The Black Sorrows,Sunnyboys,Moving Pictures,Radiators. All Aussie bands.

Had Tania Kernagan sit in during a country gig I did a few years ago. We were all guys and didn't know any of her songs. She said "dont worry I know all my brother's songs". My only brush with Australian country music royalty.

 

[John Webb]

I played with YoYo Ma in a chamber orchestra when I was 15.....he was the guest soloist.
I was playin trumpet.

 

[bwv1013]

I almost quite literally ran into Anthony Kiedis at a Laker game. I turned around to walk another direction and almost tackled the poor dude.

 

[troy mcclure]

I grew up in the same town as the Tidybowl man, he also was the guy who sat in the puke in caddyshack.

Bongo wins EastBaY Ray is awesome.....

 

[tom once dead]

My sister is good friends with the guitarist from the Queen Tribute band, the one that tour the world.

I've met him a few times, the first was when I had just started playing bass. I was in Brisbane (capitol city of the state) to see my sister and aunties and stuff, and He was on the couch. Then He pulled out the bass player in his current bands bass and in about 20 seconds of just mucking around on it my jaw just dropped, then handed me the bass. (My sister shared a flat with the bass player).


My Uncle has also met every Big Band that has been to brisbane.

 

[pinkzepphish]

my buddy was sipping tea in VT, and mike gordon walked by. sadly he was too dumbstruck to start a conversation...

 

[D.Don]

I have played on a minimoog that once did belong to Frank Zappa ...



D.Don

 

[Baird6869]

I play at informal gatherings every once in a while with guys from semi famous bands like Moxy, Downchild Blues Band, Burton Cummings band, etc.

 

[synaesthesia]

My mate Quin went backstage and got properly told off by Buddy Rich after one of his gigs. Now, that's a badge of honour.

 

[KsToaDangr]

I used to go to church with Marshall Tucker(the piano tuner they named the band after), When I saw Staind & Korn a few years ago, Fieldy & Head were right next to me and my friend Josh while Staind played a song using Korn's equipment, and at Hard Rock Rockfest, I was hanging out backstage with The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and some chicks flashed me because I was wearing plaid, so they assumed I was in the band. Other than that, I've got nothing.

 

[Bluesy Soul]

I've been fortunate to have a few such encounters, mostly in the "younger days".

I started travelling on weekends and playing for hire when I was 15 and in high school. Usually there were 1 or 2 "older guys" (20-25) in the band who had been playing for years. For part of the summer of 1965, we accompanied Buddy Knox ("Party Doll", "Ling Ting Tong", etc.) as his back-up band, the Rhythm Orchids, when he toured the Upper Midwest.

Throughout my high school years, I was in bands that opened for a wide variety of acts including Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, The Ventures, Gary Lewis & The Playboys, The Hondells and The Electric Prunes. Some were great guys (The Ventures), some weren't (The Electric Prunes) and some we never really got to meet or talk to. For several months, a member of anoither local band with whom we were quite friendly was sax legend Bobby Keys.

A close, hometown friend actually achieved a measure of greatness. Though we were surprisingly never in the same band, throughout my junior high and high school years I knew, hung out with, jammed and practiced with Tommy Bolin. Before his solo career, as most of you probably know, Tommy replaced Joe Walsh as the lead guitarist for The James Gang and Ritchie Blackmore as the lead guitarist for Deep Purple. My wife went to parochial grade school with Tommy. The last time I saw him, Tommy brought bassist Stanley Sheldon ("Frampton Comes Alive") to our hometown to play with friends one night at a local club. Unfortunately he wasn't very clear-headed that night.

I prefer to remember Tommy from our previous encounter. He and the James Gang played the Skunk Creek Inn in Boulder, CO and Tommy was a returning, conquering hero. After the show, as he saw me pushing through the crowd to get nearer, Tommy reached out and pulled me in closer. After a hug and asking how I'd been, Tommy's first words weren't about himself or the James Gang. Instead he asked if I'd heard Russ Bizzett play lately and then he told me how good Russ had become. (Russ is another hometown musician who now lives & plays in Southern Califirnia, is a fantastic drummer and has an incredible resume.) That's the Tommy I prefer to remember: excited and enthusiastic about the accomplishments of a friend--even at the height of his own fame and glory.

Bluesy Soul

 

[D.Don]

Apparently I am almost neighbor with Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis ..

It's well known that they have a huge flat/house in Montmartre, Paris, and I found some pictures taken by paparazzis from outside their home, and I actually recognized where it is, see the photos (it's just a cpl in a series of pictures of them outside their home) taken by the paps. To the left of them is a photo from the french online phone-book/streetmap service.. The address renders no phone-line subscription ..hehe ...

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That's like 5 minutes walk from my flat, have never seen him though ...



D.Don

 

[Modo74]

My Grandma babysat the Bee Gees. Apparently I met them once too, but I was too young to remember.

And thats my best claim to fame. Darn.

 

[thehamsterman]

i picked christian mcbride up from the airport


seriously one of the chillest dudes ive ever met.

 

[scottice]

Almost...

Friend of mine's uncle was Courtney Love's personal assistant so I got to spend a half day at Kurt's house in Seattle... about 6 months after the suicide. F'ing weird man.

Just walking up the driveway and seeing the garage gave me the creeps. It was a beautiful house, sparsely furnished. Best guess built about 1910. Lot of stone, high ceilings. HUGE antique mirror in the front room. I looked through his books and there was one on human birth defects with some crazy pictures... signed by Kurt on the inside front cover as I recall.

There were a few MTV moonmen in the bathroom on the toilet and a mannequin upstairs in Kurt's room, fully dressed and leaning against the window looking down at us in the backyard. Creee-py!!!

I did get to meet Kurt's mom and little Francis Bean. They were very nice. It was a day I will never forget... I just wish I was there a year earlier during happier times.

 

[ryco]

Some were great guys (The Ventures), some weren't

In the early 80s there was a nondescript c&w tav in the south end of Seattle (closer to Tacoma really) called Bud's. It was across the street from the local hard rock club called Baldy's Apartment Tavern. All the rockers would hang at Baldy's, but we'd go across the street to Bud's to watch Nookie Edwards play. He'd only play old country tunes on his Tele, which featured these palm pedals that would let him bend notes like a pedal steel guitar. He was great and very humble - super nice! We'd chide him and try to get him to play Ventures tunes, but he'd laugh us off. Prob a good idea seeing as the average audience age was around 90.

I don't know if the clientele had a clue as to who he was. And the kidz across the street certainly didn't know. All these metal "guitar godz" blazing away across the street and here's the man in this lil' hole playing beautiful long lines. I know he preferred it that way. Bud's Tavern is still there, but it's changed to a yuppie sports bar and Edwards is no longer there. Have a DJ now.

Love Tommy Bolin!! I wore through a couple of copies of Private Eyes. Also loved him on Billy Cobham's "Spectrum"! Gone waaay too soon.

 

[Sneckumhaw]

Memories of mixing FOH for them a couple of years back...they had just re-hired their normal drummer (he gets fired and re-hired on a regular basis...and rightfully so, he stinks).

Corky Laing stinks?

 

[Brittain]

I met Harem Scarem at a hotel near the festival they were playing at, a friend of mine's mum was working for a magazine so i got to work the merch stand and get backstage passes and stay in the same hotel as the bands, and after they performed their last ever show together they all got hammered.

I was walking to the lifts with a friend when the band (sans singer) rolled out of the lift and struck up a conversation with us about this and that, which ended in us asking them since they were no longer 'Harem Scarem', could we be Harem Scarem instead, to which they agreed. After talking for a few more minutes this guy shows up with almost their entire discography, asking them to sign it all, to which they reply 'Hey, man, we're not Harem Scarem, those guys are (pointing at me and my friend). They then explained how we came to be a Canadian prog band.

The man contested, saying it was unfair that we be deemed worthy of this title, to which the guitarist then agreed, stripped us of our title and then told us that the name would be up on eBay soon!

But what made it funny as hell was one of the other members (not sure which) just looked at us and said 'I know how it feels man, I know how it feels' and drifted off into the night xD

 

[HashbrownCOBM]

Played catch with a football with Maceo Parker. In passing talked to the asiain guy from the black eyed peas "Phew it's sure is sweaty out there!" Refering to the stage. He said "It's only sweat man." I don't think he realized I was joking. Opened for a bunch of national acts but most of the time you didn't get to talk to them.