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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Got to meet Joe Piscopo when my daughter dated his son for a few months when she was in high school. Met Van Cliburn once when he played here in the late 60's--much more memorable for me, actually. Since I'm not into TV or movies (I'd just as soon play guitar), I probably wouldn't know a celebrity if one ran into me--unless Ovation made it.
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Location: Tennessee | Just got off a flight with ... Buddy Rice!
And I got to shake Jojo Garza's hand at the LLB concert Saturday night. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Actor Peter Breck of Big Valley fame is a family friend.
I had lunch a couple times with Brian Plummer (Brian Plummer and the Suspects-Money Talks) as we talked about writing together. Wrote a song with Bruce Miller (What Do You Care-Patricia Conroy , Rude Awakening-Pure Prairie League)titled Timberman.
Was having beer at a table next to Musician/Actor Jim Byrnes the night Princes Di was killed. We chatted about the news smut that was sure to follow.
There may have been a few incidents in the 70's, but details are fuzzy... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I've told the Chris Squire one before, but my favorite is still meeting Tommy Shaw, who was wearing Joe Perry's name tag. People kept coming up to him and doing the "loved you in Aerosmith" thing... Al and I did the same thing, but he knew we were joking by the way we did it. Others were just really that stupid.
But really...
Main Entry: ce·leb·ri·ty
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
1 : the state of being celebrated : FAME
2 : a famous or celebrated person
So I guess everyone at the NW Gathering is a celebrity. |
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Location: UK - Canterbury Kent | Due to my involvement with historic motorsport in the UK, I have met and passed the time of day with Nick Mason of Pink Floyd and Mark Knophler of Dire Straits. I have also met Chris Rea.
When I was with Mark travelling in my car ( I gave him a lift from the race circuit to a game of cricket), I asked him how often he practised, as I said that I played. He said not very often. I also told him about seeing Dire Straits on the Old Grey Whistle Test TV program, being their first TV apperarance, (Only UK people will under stand this)and saying that next day, I went into the record store in a place call Havant and no one had ever heard of Dire Straits. He laughed and said he used to live close by and new the record store.
Mark is a great guy and has a very nice Maserati 300S (listen to the new album). Nick Mason I have known from racing for 13 years, again a very genuine guy. |
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Location: NJ | Nick Mason's book "Inside Out" is quite insightful and pretty humorous . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I shot J.R. |
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Location: closely held secret | Dream encounters don't count. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Anybody named Porsche count? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Hmmmm, I have seen a few movies with a girl named Porche, which brings to mind....
about 15 years ago when I was a regular at CES, they used to have the Porn convention in another building at the same time(still do but back then it wasn't that well know) and I got to meet and hang out with my dream sweetie at the time....Nina Hartley. She was a really cool chick and a lot of fun.... but when it was time to leave and she went to give me a kiss, my mind did a porn moment flash and I turned and got the kiss on my cheek instead.....I am sure many of you can comprehend why! :rolleyes: |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Didn't wanna get John Holmes breath? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | :eek:
You know what I talkin bout! |
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Location: Michigan | Now were starting to get to the good stuff !!
theres gotta be alot more of those stories out there GWB |
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Location: SoCal | Over the years, been introduced or met a number of guitar celebs...Lightfoot, George Grove, Brian Wilson, PP&M, etc., but nothing tops this episode with a famous drummer:
I drove up from Univ of Oregon to Univ of Portland for a prom...Buddy Rich and band were performing. My date lost her contact lens in the middle of the dance floor, shut down the entire prom while a number of us got down on our knees to find the lens. Course, they had to turn on all of the lights. Later, one of the other gals took my date into the restroom and found it...fallen inside her dress. We may have been looking for only about 15 minutes but it seemed like an hour. Of course, everyone including Rich, knew that it was my date. Heck, it wasn't my fault. Later, Rich came over and said he'd been thrown out of a lot of joints but never shut down by a contact lens. So, later I took my date to a Pizza Parlor. Evening ended up early. Heck, I had long drive back to Eugene. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | ...I met Norm Abrams at the International Woodworking Fair (IWF) in the early '90's..... |
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Location: NJ | . . . and I think there might've been just a wee bit of cinnamon in the FrenchToast (tho, it may've been nutmeg . . .). |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Cliff, I think you're still toasted! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I shot Montgomery Burns. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | I can't explain it but, for some reason, I just gotta go to IHOP... |
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| I met some interesting folks in Portland on the 19th of August. It was right near a day-glow flower painted on the street. Someone offered me a drink and I slipped into a dream... after that, memories are very fragmented and strange. There were all these odd shaped guitars and even odder shaped heads... I think someone must have been famous. |
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| I've never heard of most of these people.
But I've met several of the people on the OFC Poster and dvd.
I said hello to Jimi Hendrix once and he said hello right back. For the English members - this was in Watford Gap Services in 1967. He was barely famous in England in those days.
And obviously the Bill Clinton thing, no matter how many times he denies it. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | musta been my clone, the NW party is the first OFC event I've been to. Hope to make it to the big show in CT next year, though. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I've met/seen some stars, but have never been star struck. Until...
Around 1990, there was this relatively unknown (at the time) model that I randomly saw in a Spiegal catalog that just caught my attention. Ok, so I became a mildly obsessed young lad. An artist at the time, I painted and drew several portraits of her that adorned my apartment walls.
Then, about 2 years later, I'm standing in line (with my girlfriend at the time) for a hamburger at Six Flags Great Adventure, and I turn around to see this very same model, Roberta Chirko, and several of her model friends standing behind me. Panic struck, I freaked out for the first star struck time. Do I say hi? Will my girlfriend, who knows of my sick little fantasy obsession, get pissed if I do? What do I say?...
Before I knew it, I had turned around and in an out-of-body state of bliss and watched myself say "Roberta?" She, and all her friends paused, looking at me in puzzlement as to how I would possibly know who she was. Then, in a moment of completely pathetic, yet ecstatic bumbling idiot-drool, I managed to get the words out, "I paint pictures of you!"
Great first impression....("WARNING: FREAK STALKER ALERT!"). Probably the biggest dumb-ass moment of my life. Yeah, so...I'll forever be in therapy to get over this one.
Turns out that after I politely walked away (after attempting to form even more incoherant babble slightly resembling syllables), my too-cool-for-words girlfriend remained behind to explain that I actually did paint some good portraits of her, and asked if there was a contact number of her modelling agency so that I could forward photos of the paintings to her. Roberta did give a number...and rightfully a bogus one.
And the moral of the story is...well, there is absolutely nothing moral about it-except the deeds of my rightously cool girlfriend (I probably should have hung onto her, huh? Dumb-ass moment #2).
The model, Roberta, ended up marrying the long time bass player for John Mellencamp. 2-3 years ago I contacted her via the web, retold her of the encounter. She emailed me back, remembering the moment, and requested that I send her digital images of the paintings. I sent them and never heard again.
Such is life.
Excuse me while I plunge an icepick into my temple. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | "A lot of people don't know this, but I am famous." Sam Malone on 'Cheers'. My dad met Liberache before he was famous. He and my mom went to the same college at the same time as the dad from the 'Brady Bunch'. My grandmother met JFK before he got in the limo in Dallas and took some of the last pictures of him. I met Barbara Mandrell |
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Location: Texas | I said "Thanks" to Al Shepard when he signed my copy of a book he authored (Moon Shot). He answered "You bet".
I was sitting in local restaraunt at lunch time, and had finished my lunch when a couple came in and sat at the table across the aisle from mine. The girl was very attractive. The guy was hiding underneath a baseball cap. When the waitress greeted them, the guy looked up long enough that I saw it was Lyle Lovett. I wonder what it is about him that attracts beautiful women like a magnet. :confused:
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