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Location: Atlanta, GA. | he combs his hair with his tongue! |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Johnny - great story. LMAO. |
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Location: San Angelo, Texas | I play golf with Tommy Lee Jones a couple of times a year. He ranches out close to our place. I've never been star struck, so that put him at easy real quick as I was explaining to his hired guy that the goats had broken through the fence...again...anf he needed to reinforce it....he walked up, smiled and asked what teh problem was...I told him, and he said they would take care of it soon. I told him it better be REAL soon or there would soon be a BIG goat BBQ. He laughed, offered me a beer and asked if I played golf. Fence got fixed, and I play golf a couple of times a year with him...
I've met most of the Texas Country scene guys, and work with some of them on a semi-regular basis...Robert Earl Keen, Pat Green, Cory Marrow and a few others. Also see Steven Curtis Chapman a couple of times a year, Chris Tomlin more frequently, a few other on the Christian scene fairly regularly. |
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Location: Snellville, GA | I've got a DVD that has cwk2 and Glen Campbell on it, but not in the same scene...does that count? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I shot the Sheriff. |
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Location: NJ | I buried Paul. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | #9 #9 #9 #9 #9 |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It was cinnamon on the french toast. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | And then there was the time that Bill Cosby was at the gas station waiting for his Gulfstream to get back from Charlotte so he sat behind the counter and answered the phones for an hour.
And Harrison Ford brought in his Helicopter with a mechanical problem so he just went straight to the maint. hangar, landed and asked for some tools. My guy gave him the tool box and went back to work and it dawned on him 1/2 hour later so he walks bace and says, "Is your name Harrison?". He says "Yes" and my guy says, "I thought so" and went back to fixing the plane. When Harry gets his mechanical fixed the Maint Forman comes up to him and says, "I got a Cessna over that that needs the motor pulled, if you're not doing anything this afternoon." Harry smiles and says, "I'd love to, but you know, I get the same flat rate fee for all my work. Can you cover that?" Laughs and hand shakes and pictures with the women followed and he flew off.
The best was getting Jimmy Buffets autograph. It was on the American Express card where he paid for 750 gallons, full retail. He was in town for a Democratic fund raiser.
Not to think that this is anti-Democrat, we charged Air Force One the max we could as well.
For the record: Buffet did not get french toast. |
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Location: Orange County, California | Bill introduced me to Seymour Duncan at NAMM. Wow!! I KNOW Bill Kaman!! How cool is that!? :D :p :D :p |
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Location: SoCal | Not very..... |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | I think that's way cool!!
I hope to maybe met him if we both make the S.E. gathering!
Been hoping to met Bill at the factory tours but we keep doing the alternating ones :eek: (Bill in '03-'05 and me in '04-'06)
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Had a handful-- most of them with musical idols of mine. I have interviewed David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Gordon Lightfoot for a local music publication I worked on in the '90's -- all phone interviews (on tape), but fun nonetheless.
Met Crosby and Nash at the Blind Lemon, an upscale tavern with live music in Mt. Adams, which is a hoity toity community overlooking downtown Cincinnati and the Ohio River. Whenever Crosby, Stills, and/or Nash come to town in any configuration, they end up here. Owner Eddie Shephard is a dead ringer for Graham Nash, and when that was brought to the band's attention, Eddie and CSN became fast friends. Knowing this, I grabbed a guitar playing buddy the night before a CSN concert at Riverbend, and we went to the Lemon hoping to do a little stargazing. It was a gorgeous summer night, and we were outside listening to the musician. Suddenly this lanky, unassuming dude walks down the steps in the shadows of a stone archway and goes to a pay phone (!) in a little alcove carved into the wall. It was Graham Nash; I knew what he looked like, and a moment later there was no question when he was joined by a lumbering bear of a man with a Walrus mustache-- the Croz. We chatted with them for a few moments; they actually remembered I'd interviewed them a couple of years earlier. Very cool guys, just folks.
In the 1970's, there was a club in Clifton across from the University of Cincinnati main campus called the Family Owl. It was THE place to play acoustic music in town. The best local talent played there, and national and regional acts, established and up and coming, would stop there to play. John Denver played there, as did U. Utah Phillips and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Our band Rosewood was in the rotation at the club. There was another band that performed regularly there, too, called Melange. GREAT instrumentalists! We'd jam with them a lot. Their lead singer and rhythm guitarist was awesome. He was from right across the river in Covington, Kentucky. His name was Craig Fuller. You may have heard of him; started this little band called Pure Prairie League. Wrote this song called "Amie." We knew him when...
But the best encounter ever was at a bigger club called Reflections, which was about two blocks south of the Family Owl. One night we were there to listen to a band that had just finished their first album, which was about a month and a half away from release. They had been doing some grassroots touring to establish themselves, and they were winding it down. They were incredible--two guitars, bass and drums and four part vocal harmonies that made your hair stand on end. A lot of acoustic-oriented stuff with country overtones. We spent most of the night picking our jaws up off the floor; they were that good. When they took a break, we went over to thank them for the incredible music and offered to buy them drinks. They said they had a tab and bought us drinks instead. They were young guys, about our age, and when we introduced ourselves, I said to the drummer, a skinny kid with a cloud of curly hair, "We're in a band, too." We talked shop for a while, and stayed the rest of the night to listen to the music and get blown away.
The next time this band came to town they played at Riverfront Stadium in front of almost 60,000 screaming fans (including us). That band, of course was the Eagles-- and I told Don Henley, "We're in a band, too." Possibly the most arrogant and presumptuous statement I've ever made in my life! It was a lot of fun, though.
Oh, and Don--- I'm STILL in a band! |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I saw Sade at a London museum once.
The only other celebrity encounter I've been involved with was in the London Underground about 10 years ago when I had long scruffy hair and a goatee. A local drunk screamed 'Billy' at me and staggered over to give me a huge smelly hug and proceeded to tell me that I was the funniest f***ing fella on the telly.
He thought I was Billy Connolly - the Scottish comedian.
He was VERY drunk.
(BTW, do you yanks know who Billy Connolly is?) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | i shot Mephisto. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Billy Connolly is Brilliant.
At the gas station we also had Bon Jovi come through, Jon got right on the phoneas he walked off the plane so that he would be too busy for anybody but Richie and the boys were fine. Remembered me from my previous life.
Elton John played Jacksonville and ordered everyone away from the plane, had the limo go out to it and then snuck into it. Wouldn't wave or look at anyone. We charged then $100 for washing their dishes.
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill flew in for one of the football ganes, Tennessee won and someone in their group stole our Florida flag from the flag pole out in front. They also forgot a really nice pair of binoculars that are still very functional today.
Bill Graham used to come through for treatments at the Mayo Clinic from time to time. A really nice and gental man.
Natrina (tennis) and her wife got stuck there for a couple of hours, change of flight plans or something. She was quiet but nice. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I have a few from the distant past.
- my grandfather was an excellent golfer - got as far as being a teaching pro. When I was 8 or 9, he took me golfing with him... our partners were Whitey Ford and Phil Rizzuto. Being from NY and a big Yankee fan, that was amazing!
- I met another ex-Yankee - Paul Blair - at a bowling alley.
- When I was in college, the last time I was in a band, we opened and closed a dance marathon at my old high school. The band that preceeded us at the closing was Twisted Sister - the bad news was that we pretty much only new the songs that we were playing at the dance and Twisted Sister played about 1/2 of them before we got on... OUCH!
- And last but not least... my nephew just completed filming a part in the upcoming season of the Sopranos (He's 8). He plays a kid at a birthday party for one of the mobsters kids.
That's all I've got! |
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Location: North Carolina | Originally posted by Trboy:
...I met Norm Abrams at the International Woodworking Fair (IWF) in the early '90's..... OK, now THERE is a guy I'd cross the street to meet. You're average entertainer, I wouldn't bother. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I've had 1 celebrity encounter and it's screwed to the wall of my music room. Dave |
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Location: Brentwood,TN | Bill - did the Bon Jovi boys ever come up to the mothership back in the day when they were using the good stuff or did their tech's do everything for them? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Yeah...I'd be interested to know who cared enough to show up and be part of the process. |
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Location: NJ | I think they just sent the mousse . . . |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | I met and shook hands with Red Skelton, Nelson Rockefeller,Patrick Ewing in an elevator,Kenny Loggins at the baggage area of the airport in Hawaii(Autographed plane ticket).There are a few others that I can't think of now. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | and then there was the time I met Tyra Banks at a high fashion female clothing store and she kept coming out and modeling different dresses and asking me (the only male in the store) which ones I liked best. She said she was flying out to attend a ball that weekend in Poland and needed something formal to wear.
My wife kept coming out at different times while trying to find an outfit for a Make-A-Wish gala we were attending and asked if I was entertaining myself. I told her about the beautiful woman who kept asking my opinion so my wife hung around until she came back out. My wife recognized her immediately and they chatted a bit before Tyra picked a beautiful light purple outfit that went just amazing with her skintone.
and yes....she was incredibly beautiful in person with flawless skin and a wonderful personality. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Met and jammed with Dan Fogelberg at a campsite in Mesa Verde National Park in the early 70's. He walked up after hearing me play at a campfire and introduced himself. He had a contract at the time, but was otherwise unknown. I only remember that he had a funny name, could sing really well, knew a lot of songs, but didn't impress me as a great guitarist at the time. Of course, I kept my Ovation and loaned him my wife's cheap Yamaha.
Met and jammed with Kenny Loggins while serving in the National Guard in the late 60's in Los Angeles. He had a friend (a fellow writer) who was in our unit and brought him out to jam with a bunch of us while we pulling an all-nighter.
Met a bunch of folks while touring with Danny Kaye under contract with CBS in the early 60's. I was a pre-teen tap dancer and none of the celebrities made much impression on me except the surf bands of the day (Ventures, Sufaris, etc.). Annette Funicello was closer in age to my mother than me. Red Skelton had a studio next to our rehearsal studio at CBS. He was very kind to kids. All I really remember is the stage hands telling me that it was o.k. to speak to him if he was walking to his dressing room (from the studio stage), but to stay away from him if he was walking to the stage because he had a tendency to barf.
We were performing so much back then that we meeting celebrities meant little to us. I was way more interested in meeting Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale. |
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