John Mayer backstage last Saturday at his show in DC. I was introduced to him by my friend Michael Franti. He was cool with some beautiful women near his dress room.
Peace
I am more impressed that Michael Franti is your friend! I have been to see him a few times. He has a pretty good fan base in the area where I live.
Is that city San Francisco? I'm a moderator on his website and I posted this shortened review on there.....
What a great show here in DC. Michael rocked the house of 15,000+ people. He was able to squeeze in 11 songs, worked the crowd like he has never done before. He touched many that have never seen a musician/performer come out into the front rows to the left side to the right side audience far up the first deck. I had many J Mayer fans come up to me asking who is that guy again because they were loving what they were seeing and hearing.
The exposure from this tour is going to produce bigger and better things for the band. They certainly said as much backstage as we caught up on things from the past.
DC VERIZON CENTER Setlist: 60mins
LITTLE BIT A RIDDIM
THE THING THAT HELPS
RUDE BOYS
SHAKE IT SHAKE IT
SOUND OF SUNSHINE
EVERYBODY ONA MOVE
I'LL BE WAITING
YELL FIRE
NO MATTER HOW LIFE IS
I GOT LOVE FOR YA
SAY HEY
We were able to catch on quite a few things since we've not had a chance to talk in the past year. They'll be back here in May headling one of the larger outdoor venues (instead of clubs) in Virginia with a new album to follow in the summer.
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Shared a car on the D train tonight after the Yankee with Rex Ryan..
Reading 2004
Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016 Fenway 2, 2018 MSG 2022 St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023 MSG 2024, MSG 2024 Philadelphia 2024
"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
Kevin Duckworth (Portland Trail Blazers) used to live in a giant house that actually shared the driveway with my grade school. He would come over for our assemblies once in a while. BIG dude, and very cool.
oh... forgot to mention a few pages ago, Ron Silver (RIP) at the '08 MSG show, opposite side from the olsen twins, and more towards the half-court part.
ADD 5,200 to the post count you see, thank you.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
Years ago I saw Don Rickles at an airport (can't remember which one) as he was being driven around the terminal in a golf cart.
I saw Nicole Kidman at the 2nd U2 show in Giants Stadium last September - we were walking through the tunnel onto the field and ended up behind her. She is thin and very tall. During the show she hung out at the sound board.
oh! and duh, the most random sighting was Mike McCready on the day of the second Camden show in 2008. I was sitting on a bench behind Independence Hall in Philly, taking in the sights. I see Mike, a young toddler aged girl and two women (not familiar with Mike's personal life at all so I am assuming his daughter, wife & nanny???) walk into the park. They spent about 30-45 minutes there - at times with Mike on the grass playing with the little girl and taking pictures, etc. Just as they were beginning to leave, someone finally recognized him.
Oscar De La Renta phoned my house when I was a teenager. He dialed the wrong number, he was trying to call sax fifth avenue in NY, but with the wrong area code, got me in Stonewall, Manitoba. He blamed it on an ice storm. Classy!
More recently: Mario Van Peebles at a resort in Mexico. Handsome!
Even MORE recently: Lou Diamond Phillips on Robson St. in Vancouver. Ok, maybe not so random. He's working there.
Apparently all my celebrity run-ins have to be with people that have 3 or more names. Who's next? Richard Dean Anderson? James Earl Jones? Lara Flynn Boyle? Edward Louis Severson III?
"If you are flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit." - Mitch Hedberg
Donny Osmond at a county fair in Massachusetts maybe 20 years ago. I think he was performing in a charity concert.
They let him perform, as charity to him.
I asked him _ and I still can't believe that I did _ if he did a lot of performances like that. He gave me The Look and walked away. Honest to God, I didn't mean to be insulting, I was just making small talk. :oops:
Insulting an Osmond. What's next, slapping Cindy Brady upside the head?
used to live near the hotel away ballplayers stay in downtown baltimore, so I've walked by Andy Petitte, wife, and kids, talked to Jason Veritek, the crappy catcher that they had for Wakefield, Wakefield, and my father-in-law followed Hanley Ramirez (as a sox player) into Victoria's Secret for an autograph when he was like 18.
Other than that I guess my biggest celeb "sighting" is my uncle-in-law James Griffiths who used to be the president of playboy. He introduced Jeff Garcia to his wife, and they often watch the Super Bowl together. My favorite part of this is that I'm a Cowboys fan, and I once wore a TO jersey in his media room to watch a game between the Eagles and Cowboys (TO kinda called Garcia gay once)...I probably deserved to see the Eagles win that game.
Duff McKagen of Guns n Roses, Velvet Revolver, and Jane’s Addiction. I worked at a coffee shop in downtown Seattle in 1999. I remember asking him when he was going to start playing again and kick the shit out of all these other crappy bands. He asked where would be a good place to buy a suit, I sent him to Giovanni’s – he got married that next weekend. It was DOPE!
Spent a day on a houseboat with jazz guitarist god Pat Metheny when I was 13. We were neighbors to his parents. Really cool, down to earth guy, from what I remember.
Spent a day on a houseboat with jazz guitarist god Pat Metheny when I was 13. We were neighbors to his parents. Really cool, down to earth guy, from what I remember.
Pat has a part time house near me now, he is a down to earth guy. He also is very generous and gives back to the community frequently by playing for charity events.
Last Saturday, I waited on the dad from "That 70s Show." I've never watched it, but everybody at work was calling him "Red Forman." I don't think that was his real name, though.
He's a pescatarian
have had gwen steffani, bob weir, rob wasserman, kevin bacon, billy corrigan, james iha, d'arcy, tricky, bruce hornsby and more in my old minivan. other than that, have conversed either long or short or bumped into stephen tyler, howard stern, ben harper, ed ved, pj harvey' jennifer lopez, madonna, metallica, backstreet boys, dean butterworth, the state comedians, diana ross, and a bunch of others.
Yea....well, is that all?... your one lucky Dude, or is it your just so cool to hang around?
oh, I forgot Dave Matthews, Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Elton John, Mean Gene Okerlund (and a ton of wrestlers), Vince McMahon, Sarah Brightman, Harry Connick Jr, Ricky Martin, Joe Pesci, Doug Pinneck, and Candlebox.
Edit: Add Joey Ramone (reminded by the post below)
Edit 2: I guess it counts watching Gene Simmons and a coworker having a heated discussion outside the backdoor of the Hammerstein, but didn't list it since I was just observing.
If I went to school with Susan Lucci's daughter in my class in HS and Susan was just randomly around, does that count? ...but bumping into "celebrities" like that who live in the same small town isn't really like a real celebrity I suppose.
ADD 5,200 to the post count you see, thank you.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
few experiences for me. 2 in las vegas, was in a casino day after a big boxing match, and mike tyson came strolling through with his body gaurd, signing autographs. i asked for his autograph and he just looked at me, with his cold stare and walked on. i like to think its because he couldn't understand my scottish accent, and not that i was white, because everyone else there was not.
also in vegas, they where filming a scene for fresh prince of bell air. me and my mate got to be extras walking in the background... afterwards i got to meet carlton, but will smith just ran off.
in a mall in L.A in an outside resturant, i saw magic johnston, he'd just sat down so i thought it'd be okay, but he politly turned down, an autograph, and pic.
In santa monica L.A they were filming a scene for a the rockford files movie. in 1995, got to be in the background again, but this time my scene didn't make the cut, and i never got a chance to meet james garner. but he was right in front of me, and i grew up loving the rockford files series. so i was excited about that one.
one time flying to america, i was sitting in front of all of the new power generation, and was chatting to princes tour manager, but no prince in sight.
I have in my time met loads of rock stars, too many to mention, including oiur eddie, and dave A . but thats not what this is about.
Glasgow cathouse-1992-2-23, San diego sports arena-1995-11-06 & 07, Glasgow secc-2000-06-03, Tampa st petes times forum-2003-04-13, London O2 arena-2009-08-18, Belfast odyssey arena-2010-06-23.Leeds 2014 - 07-08
I met the dad from 7th Heaven once. Also met Red Sox GM Theo Epstein in the Tampa airport. I hit golf balls with 1978 AL MVP Jim Ed Rice. And I was in the same elevator with Magic Johnson in Vegas. I think thats it.
"FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
I travel a lot for work so I see a lot of celebs in airports.
The last two worth mentioning...
Will-I-am (from the Black Eyed Peas): He and his posse were in this club I was at in Chicago. I was completely drunk and I was working my way though the crowd when he walked by. We chatted for a few and in conversation I told him that I though his music is terrible but he does good work with charities, etc. He was actually a really cool guy, even when I told him I though his music sucked ass! Hahaha! Much cooler dude that I ever would have thought.
Matt Leinart (QB Arizona Cardinals). I was at LAX airport in LA waiting in line to print off my boarding pass. It was a long day and I was tired and a bit out of it. This dude (who I never looked at initially) and this smokin' hot blonde get in line behind me. I'm listening to this guy talk and he is a complete f'n douchebag. He's talking in rap one minute, then starts talking about the club he was at the night before. I'm thinking "Typical douchebag gets the hot girl". I print off my boarding pass, turn around, mostly to check out the hot girl...and sure enough...the douchebag is Matt Leinart. He has a baseball cap on, but pulled down really low.
Turns out the guy is on my flight back to Phoenix.
The most shocking thing is that he was flying Southwest. Hahaha!
The plane was mostly full and I don't think one person recognized him the whole time.
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Is that city San Francisco? I'm a moderator on his website and I posted this shortened review on there.....
What a great show here in DC. Michael rocked the house of 15,000+ people. He was able to squeeze in 11 songs, worked the crowd like he has never done before. He touched many that have never seen a musician/performer come out into the front rows to the left side to the right side audience far up the first deck. I had many J Mayer fans come up to me asking who is that guy again because they were loving what they were seeing and hearing.
The exposure from this tour is going to produce bigger and better things for the band. They certainly said as much backstage as we caught up on things from the past.
DC VERIZON CENTER Setlist: 60mins
LITTLE BIT A RIDDIM
THE THING THAT HELPS
RUDE BOYS
SHAKE IT SHAKE IT
SOUND OF SUNSHINE
EVERYBODY ONA MOVE
I'LL BE WAITING
YELL FIRE
NO MATTER HOW LIFE IS
I GOT LOVE FOR YA
SAY HEY
We were able to catch on quite a few things since we've not had a chance to talk in the past year. They'll be back here in May headling one of the larger outdoor venues (instead of clubs) in Virginia with a new album to follow in the summer.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Albany 2006 Camden 2006 E. Rutherford 2, 2006 Inglewood 2006,
Chicago 2007
Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
Seattle 2009 Seattle 2009 Philadelphia 2009,Philadelphia 2009 Philadelphia 2009
Hartford 2010 MSG 2010 MSG 2010
Toronto 2011,Toronto 2011
Wrigley Field 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Brooklyn 2013 Philadelphia 2, 2013
Philadelphia 1, 2016 Philadelphia 2 2016 New York 2016 New York 2016 Fenway 1, 2016
Fenway 2, 2018
MSG 2022
St. Paul, 1, St. Paul 2 2023
MSG 2024, MSG 2024
Philadelphia 2024
"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
I also saw Tom Skerritt at a gas station.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
I saw Nicole Kidman at the 2nd U2 show in Giants Stadium last September - we were walking through the tunnel onto the field and ended up behind her. She is thin and very tall. During the show she hung out at the sound board.
They let him perform, as charity to him.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
More recently: Mario Van Peebles at a resort in Mexico. Handsome!
Even MORE recently: Lou Diamond Phillips on Robson St. in Vancouver. Ok, maybe not so random. He's working there.
Apparently all my celebrity run-ins have to be with people that have 3 or more names. Who's next? Richard Dean Anderson? James Earl Jones? Lara Flynn Boyle? Edward Louis Severson III?
i've met rick...good guy! :thumbup:
Woulda been cool if you saw Prince Albert in the can!
I asked him _ and I still can't believe that I did _ if he did a lot of performances like that. He gave me The Look and walked away. Honest to God, I didn't mean to be insulting, I was just making small talk. :oops:
Insulting an Osmond. What's next, slapping Cindy Brady upside the head?
Wish you were here...
♥~RIP Dad
And not random, I met Trent Reznor last year when he was doing fundraising for Eric de la Cruz.
We stood behind Kanye West at Terminal 5 last summer for a NIN show. (He was on a slightly lower blocked off balcony)
R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
Other than that I guess my biggest celeb "sighting" is my uncle-in-law James Griffiths who used to be the president of playboy. He introduced Jeff Garcia to his wife, and they often watch the Super Bowl together. My favorite part of this is that I'm a Cowboys fan, and I once wore a TO jersey in his media room to watch a game between the Eagles and Cowboys (TO kinda called Garcia gay once)...I probably deserved to see the Eagles win that game.
OMG!!! you met macgyver.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
yep..a couple times....he's friends with my sister
OMG!!! you met macgyver.[/quote]
yep..a couple times....he's friends with my sister
Tell me you saw him make a fully functional sailboat out of a couple of toothpicks, a napkin and earwax. That MacGyver, he's somethin'
He's a pescatarian
If I went to school with Susan Lucci's daughter in my class in HS and Susan was just randomly around, does that count? ...but bumping into "celebrities" like that who live in the same small town isn't really like a real celebrity I suppose.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
also in vegas, they where filming a scene for fresh prince of bell air. me and my mate got to be extras walking in the background... afterwards i got to meet carlton, but will smith just ran off.
in a mall in L.A in an outside resturant, i saw magic johnston, he'd just sat down so i thought it'd be okay, but he politly turned down, an autograph, and pic.
In santa monica L.A they were filming a scene for a the rockford files movie. in 1995, got to be in the background again, but this time my scene didn't make the cut, and i never got a chance to meet james garner. but he was right in front of me, and i grew up loving the rockford files series. so i was excited about that one.
one time flying to america, i was sitting in front of all of the new power generation, and was chatting to princes tour manager, but no prince in sight.
I have in my time met loads of rock stars, too many to mention, including oiur eddie, and dave A . but thats not what this is about.
Dick Vermeil on a flight back from Orlando
The last two worth mentioning...
Will-I-am (from the Black Eyed Peas): He and his posse were in this club I was at in Chicago. I was completely drunk and I was working my way though the crowd when he walked by. We chatted for a few and in conversation I told him that I though his music is terrible but he does good work with charities, etc.
Matt Leinart (QB Arizona Cardinals). I was at LAX airport in LA waiting in line to print off my boarding pass. It was a long day and I was tired and a bit out of it. This dude (who I never looked at initially) and this smokin' hot blonde get in line behind me. I'm listening to this guy talk and he is a complete f'n douchebag. He's talking in rap one minute, then starts talking about the club he was at the night before. I'm thinking "Typical douchebag gets the hot girl". I print off my boarding pass, turn around, mostly to check out the hot girl...and sure enough...the douchebag is Matt Leinart. He has a baseball cap on, but pulled down really low.
Turns out the guy is on my flight back to Phoenix.
The most shocking thing is that he was flying Southwest. Hahaha!
The plane was mostly full and I don't think one person recognized him the whole time.