Eddie Vedder last month in Hartford. If I ever meet Derek Jeter, then he would be the most famous person I'll meet.
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
I'm not sure who the "most famous" person I've ever met would be but my favorite "famous" person I've ever spent time with is Bobby Bowden because the dude is super nice and unintentionally funny.
If you follow hockey or well HNIC I met Ron MacLean and Don Cherry.
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GRAPES! I would love to have a beer with Don Cherry.
My wife has worked in the entertainment industry so I have tons of personalized items from stars. She is friends with a slew of them, many of whom I have briefly met. I personally don't care about 'meeting' them, except for the random few who are so down to earth and "normal."
Probably the coolest two I have met (and are polar opposites but we both really cool to talk to for a while) have been Seal (no, his wife wasnt with him -- damn!) and Mark Cuban. Both met in casual setting where they acted just like anyone else would - had a smoke years ago with Seal and talked football (he is a huge 49ers fan and was going to be on the sidelines the following day with Steve Young) and more recently chatted with Mark Cuban who was just a very nice guy. Public image is totally wrong on him.
<<Yes, Seal (like Ed Ved) smokes. How do these guys do this and still sound like they do? Crazy.>>
I met Mike Schmidt once. Also all the members of Reel Big Fish, Jill Sobule (the original "I Kissed a Girl" singer), and the members of the band Train... Wait are any of these people actually famous? Oh, and Will Oldham walked by me once! AND... Kelly Ripa is from my hometown, but I never met her.
If you follow hockey or well HNIC I met Ron MacLean and Don Cherry.
:
GRAPES! I would love to have a beer with Don Cherry.
My wife has worked in the entertainment industry so I have tons of personalized items from stars. She is friends with a slew of them, many of whom I have briefly met. I personally don't care about 'meeting' them, except for the random few who are so down to earth and "normal."
Probably the coolest two I have met (and are polar opposites but we both really cool to talk to for a while) have been Seal (no, his wife wasnt with him -- damn!) and Mark Cuban. Both met in casual setting where they acted just like anyone else would - had a smoke years ago with Seal and talked football (he is a huge 49ers fan and was going to be on the sidelines the following day with Steve Young) and more recently chatted with Mark Cuban who was just a very nice guy. Public image is totally wrong on him.
<<Yes, Seal (like Ed Ved) smokes. How do these guys do this and still sound like they do? Crazy.>>
It was at Pearson and they both signed my boarding pass...back when you still got boarding passes from your airline
Mike was super cool and so gracious when we met him. Stone was cool too but Mike was just so down to earth. He even took his pic with us a second time when the first one didn't turn out. :oops:
I met Mike Schmidt once. Also all the members of Reel Big Fish, Jill Sobule (the original "I Kissed a Girl" singer), and the members of the band Train... Wait are any of these people actually famous? Oh, and Will Oldham walked by me once! AND... Kelly Ripa is from my hometown, but I never met her.
Your Wil Oldham comment made me remember I once literraly bumped into Matthew Broderick walking through Times Square. We both said excuse me to each other and then like an idiot I turned around as he was walking away and yelled to him "another day off Ferris"? He turned and shot the "I've never heard that one before" look!
Cortez Kennedy, Rick Mirer, Det Schrempf, Gary Peyton, Nate McMillan, Dave Niehaus, Kurt Warner, Ricky Prohl, Azhir Hakim, Julie Andrews, various members of some hair bands, a one hit wonder band from the 90s, and (if you wanna count) I spent over 3 hours on the phone with George Steinbrenner's personal secretary...I could hear him in the backgroud...
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Eddie Vedder last month in Hartford. If I ever meet Derek Jeter, then he would be the most famous person I'll meet.
Nice!!! So you stalked out Eddie? How'd you do it?
Just waited with a bunch of people who were also waiting for him. Just shook his hand and said, like a dork, thanks for all the music he's given us.
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
Off the top of my head: Keith Urban, Billy Joel, Rod Stewart, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Michael Franti, David Garrard, Mark Grace, Chris Mortenson, Jim Nance, Joe Montana, Jack Del Rio, Urban Meyer, Amy Lee (of Evanescance), the members of Alberta Cross, Band of Horses' guitar player. That's most of em.
I met Mike Schmidt once. Also all the members of Reel Big Fish, Jill Sobule (the original "I Kissed a Girl" singer), and the members of the band Train... Wait are any of these people actually famous? Oh, and Will Oldham walked by me once! AND... Kelly Ripa is from my hometown, but I never met her.
Your Wil Oldham comment made me remember I once literraly bumped into Matthew Broderick walking through Times Square. We both said excuse me to each other and then like an idiot I turned around as he was walking away and yelled to him "another day off Ferris"? He turned and shot the "I've never heard that one before" look!
HAHA! That's great... it reminds me of being at a Pearl Jam show in Atlantic City, '05. I was front row/stage left and Bob Saget was next to me, I put out my hand for a handshake, and he snubbed me, so I yelled (over the music) THANKS DANNY TANNER!!! HA!
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
shockingly all were at bars
Calgary 21/09/11
Edmonton 23/09/11
I'm going to go with at least a handshake and short conversation.
If you follow hockey or well HNIC I met Ron MacLean and Don Cherry.
I had to wait to open my car door while Julia Ormond got in her mini-van at the airport once. :yawn:
GRAPES! I would love to have a beer with Don Cherry.
My wife has worked in the entertainment industry so I have tons of personalized items from stars. She is friends with a slew of them, many of whom I have briefly met. I personally don't care about 'meeting' them, except for the random few who are so down to earth and "normal."
Probably the coolest two I have met (and are polar opposites but we both really cool to talk to for a while) have been Seal (no, his wife wasnt with him -- damn!) and Mark Cuban. Both met in casual setting where they acted just like anyone else would - had a smoke years ago with Seal and talked football (he is a huge 49ers fan and was going to be on the sidelines the following day with Steve Young) and more recently chatted with Mark Cuban who was just a very nice guy. Public image is totally wrong on him.
<<Yes, Seal (like Ed Ved) smokes. How do these guys do this and still sound like they do? Crazy.>>
It was at Pearson and they both signed my boarding pass...back when you still got boarding passes from your airline
Mike was super cool and so gracious when we met him. Stone was cool too but Mike was just so down to earth. He even took his pic with us a second time when the first one didn't turn out. :oops:
Your Wil Oldham comment made me remember I once literraly bumped into Matthew Broderick walking through Times Square. We both said excuse me to each other and then like an idiot I turned around as he was walking away and yelled to him "another day off Ferris"? He turned and shot the "I've never heard that one before" look!
- Christopher McCandless
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
I recon if you judge "famous" by how many people know of a person then it would have to be him...
"I need your strength for me to be strong...I need your love to feel loved"
When the POPE came and toured the States....
After performing mass before 1,000,000 people at Grant Park....
As the Big Guys Pope-Mobile was driving away.....
He literally was 5 feet in front of me....
He waved at me...
I waved at him....
And off he went.....
To let everyone know.....
HE MET SPEEDY MCCREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
HAHA! That's great... it reminds me of being at a Pearl Jam show in Atlantic City, '05. I was front row/stage left and Bob Saget was next to me, I put out my hand for a handshake, and he snubbed me, so I yelled (over the music) THANKS DANNY TANNER!!! HA!