Don't you have the Queen of England on line four for you to answer? Boy, in about an hour span you managed to ruin the thread and shit on people's experiences. Hope you feel better. :thumbup:
Don't you have the Queen of England on line four for you to answer? Boy, in about an hour span you managed to ruin the thread and shit on people's experiences. Hope you feel better. :thumbup:
Ok, I'm gonna bring this baby back 'round, because I think there's others with good stores!
Here's how I met Ben Harper!
When PJ played the garden for the first time in '98, Ben Harper was opening. My office was with the dressing rooms, and when Ben got off the stage I was standing right by the steps. He walked past me... and forgot to take the immediate right turn into the corridor of dressing rooms... (it's kinda a maze back there if you miss that turn). He peeked into the stagehand bathroom, then stood looking around, and saw me watching him and probably saw I had a walkie on my hip. He walked over to me, and in the softest kindest voice asked me "do you know where my dressing room is?" "Sure", I said. "It's number eight". Walked him back there. ...his was on the end, but around a bend, so even with the number, he would have gotten lost again. Nicest guy.
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
Don't you have the Queen of England on line four for you to answer? Boy, in about an hour span you managed to ruin the thread and shit on people's experiences. Hope you feel better. :thumbup:
Ok, I'm gonna bring this baby back 'round, because I think there's others with good stores!
Here's how I met Ben Harper!
When PJ played the garden for the first time in '98, Ben Harper was opening. My office was with the dressing rooms, and when Ben got off the stage I was standing right by the steps. He walked past me... and forgot to take the immediate right turn into the corridor of dressing rooms... (it's kinda a maze back there if you miss that turn). He peeked into the stagehand bathroom, then stood looking around, and saw me watching him and probably saw I had a walkie on my hip. He walked over to me, and in the softest kindest voice asked me "do you know where my dressing room is?" "Sure", I said. "It's number eight". Walked him back there. ...his was on the end, but around a bend, so even with the number, he would have gotten lost again. Nicest guy.
I've had a pint with John Martyn; Syd Barrett ran his bike over my foot accidentally once; and I was another time on a train carriage with Amy WInehouse. I must jinx them, because they're all dead now.
Hmmm.. you might be on to something there!
So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
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.
I was just about to list Bobby Bowden, myself.
Bobby Bowden
Deon Sanders
Robby Kreiger
Chuck D
www.RLMcDaniel.com
1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis
2016: Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Jacksonville, JazzFest 2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1 2022: Nashville 2023: Ft. Worth II
1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis
2016: Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Jacksonville, JazzFest 2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1 2022: Nashville 2023: Ft. Worth II
Same for me...L.A. fella whose clients are mostly in music/TV...endless list.
Them small-town folk just don't get it, Neily!
Yeah, living in L.A. it gets so old. Stars stars stars. And Norm (Cheers Norm) lives a block up the street so we see him all the time (and not a super fancy neighborhood either, btw).
My husband saw Brad and Angelina in the local Big 5 (sports store) and said she looked like shit. And that Brad looked like a movie star.
My favorite famous person story (and I think I've posted this before) is a couple years ago Bill Clinton hit on a friend of mine at a party back east. I mean, he seriously hit on her. She was with a date and he still totally came on to her - she said it was like a vortex, he sucked you in. And she'd never really liked him or voted for him so she said it was pretty amazing how charismatic he was. And then Hillary came up and pulled him away. Gave my friend the big stinkeye.
michael jordan, twice
the first year he played for chicago
he was playing golf where i worked
very nice, cordial, all around decent guy
probably 10-12 years later he was in the steak house my brother ran (same resort) and was a generally all around asshole
wanting his enormous tab on the house for signing autographs and being a loud jerk-off prick about it, (then tipped his waiter 10%)
I've been pretty lucky to meet a lot of bands by hanging around back of the clubs after shows. I guess John Paul Jones would be the most famous of them all. Some of my favorites have been...
Todd Lewis from Toadies
Peter Steele from Type O Negative (RIP) I'm very proud of the picture I got taken with him
Max Cavalera from Soulfly
E from EELS
Everlast
Mike Ness from Social D
The list could actually go on for quite a while, but most of them wouldn't be considered "famous" I guess haha.
I met Larry Flynt at an autograph signing at the Hustler store, that was pretty cool.
I've met a lot of wrestlers as well. The Ultimate Warrior, Mick Foley, RVD, Sabu, and a ton of the old school 80s wrestlers, Honkey Tonk Man, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Jake the Snake, and a bunch of others I don't even remember off the top of my head.
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* Cincinnati, OH 8.20.2000 *
* Cincinnati, OH 6.24.2006 *
* Columbus, OH 5.6.2010 * Noblesville, IN 5.7.2010 *
* East Troy, MI 9.4.2011 * East Troy, MI 9.5.2011 *
* Pittsburgh, PA 10.11.2013 *
My most memorable meets have been with some of my favorite 80s artists..Chrisie Hynde, Chuck D., Mick Jones (TheClash),Elvis Costello, William Reed from JAMC, and Kevin Haskins (Love & Rockets, Bauhaus).
When I was younger, these people were larger then life to me, hence the adulation.
Oh geez
I nearly forgot
Larry Holmes and wife at the local supermarket
My son cooks for his annual summer outing each year
He's famous in our local area for absent-mindedly cutting you off in traffic if you and he happen to be traveling the highway as he's nearing the entrance ramp from Easton to Rt. 22
peace,
jo
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"How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~
My most memorable meets have been with some of my favorite 80s artists..Chrisie Hynde, Chuck D., Mick Jones (TheClash),Elvis Costello, William Reed from JAMC, and Kevin Haskins (Love & Rockets, Bauhaus).
When I was younger, these people were larger then life to me, hence the adulation.
Ted Williams (went to his baseball camp as a teen and he happened to visit for first time in 5 years, still have baseball he signed!)
Did you witness him sign it for you...it
signed by John Henry Williams.
Yeah I laugh about that because we campers were told not to ask , that we would all get an autograph at the end of his visit ( which turned out to be a cheap photo copy) plus there were all those stories about Ted Williams being a real dick! But this was way before his stroke and he was endlessly generous to all us kids. Don't know why or how but in a rare break from his handlers, I caught him cutting across the baseball diamond I was playing on so I grabbed a baseball and bolted over to him. When I asked for the autograph he pleasantly replied "sure kid!" and signed it right on the sweet spot.
My 10 year old son now keeps it in a trophy stand like the one in the movie "the sandlot"
But meeting pearl jam and Robert plant ???
Holy sh&t ponc!?!!
"This here's a REQUEST!"
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
I would have to say Jesus. You know I was seeing the light while in the operating room and this bearded dude told me everything was going to be alright. Does that count?
The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08
I would have to say Jesus. You know I was seeing the light while in the operating room and this bearded dude told me everything was going to be alright. Does that count?
While on this, when I was 10-12 while I was home alone for the very first time in my life, I saw a bright light on my left. When I turned to see, it was Mother Mary in all Her glory. I remember that She was so tall and was giving me a big smile. When I stood up to go and touch Her, She disappeared.
Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024
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I'm glad you could take time out of your star studded day to mingle with the common folk.
oh lord :roll:
Don't you have the Queen of England on line four for you to answer? Boy, in about an hour span you managed to ruin the thread and shit on people's experiences. Hope you feel better. :thumbup:
Ok, I'm gonna bring this baby back 'round, because I think there's others with good stores!
Here's how I met Ben Harper!
When PJ played the garden for the first time in '98, Ben Harper was opening. My office was with the dressing rooms, and when Ben got off the stage I was standing right by the steps. He walked past me... and forgot to take the immediate right turn into the corridor of dressing rooms... (it's kinda a maze back there if you miss that turn). He peeked into the stagehand bathroom, then stood looking around, and saw me watching him and probably saw I had a walkie on my hip. He walked over to me, and in the softest kindest voice asked me "do you know where my dressing room is?" "Sure", I said. "It's number eight". Walked him back there. ...his was on the end, but around a bend, so even with the number, he would have gotten lost again. Nicest guy.
*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
Been awhile since you whipped-out an MSG story!
...was accused of mentioning it too frequently from a particular board member, so I stopped. But this thread needed CPR.
*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
Hmmm.. you might be on to something there!
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
Bobby Bowden
Deon Sanders
Robby Kreiger
Chuck D
1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis
2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1
2022: Nashville
2023: Ft. Worth II
1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis
2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1
2022: Nashville
2023: Ft. Worth II
Yeah, living in L.A. it gets so old. Stars stars stars. And Norm (Cheers Norm) lives a block up the street so we see him all the time (and not a super fancy neighborhood either, btw).
My husband saw Brad and Angelina in the local Big 5 (sports store) and said she looked like shit. And that Brad looked like a movie star.
My favorite famous person story (and I think I've posted this before) is a couple years ago Bill Clinton hit on a friend of mine at a party back east. I mean, he seriously hit on her. She was with a date and he still totally came on to her - she said it was like a vortex, he sucked you in. And she'd never really liked him or voted for him so she said it was pretty amazing how charismatic he was. And then Hillary came up and pulled him away. Gave my friend the big stinkeye.
Touche'
I bet you had to learn CPR when you worked at MSG!
the first year he played for chicago
he was playing golf where i worked
very nice, cordial, all around decent guy
probably 10-12 years later he was in the steak house my brother ran (same resort) and was a generally all around asshole
wanting his enormous tab on the house for signing autographs and being a loud jerk-off prick about it, (then tipped his waiter 10%)
afw
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
Todd Lewis from Toadies
Peter Steele from Type O Negative (RIP) I'm very proud of the picture I got taken with him
Max Cavalera from Soulfly
E from EELS
Everlast
Mike Ness from Social D
The list could actually go on for quite a while, but most of them wouldn't be considered "famous" I guess haha.
I met Larry Flynt at an autograph signing at the Hustler store, that was pretty cool.
I've met a lot of wrestlers as well. The Ultimate Warrior, Mick Foley, RVD, Sabu, and a ton of the old school 80s wrestlers, Honkey Tonk Man, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Jake the Snake, and a bunch of others I don't even remember off the top of my head.
* Cincinnati, OH 6.24.2006 *
* Columbus, OH 5.6.2010 * Noblesville, IN 5.7.2010 *
* East Troy, MI 9.4.2011 * East Troy, MI 9.5.2011 *
* Pittsburgh, PA 10.11.2013 *
When I was younger, these people were larger then life to me, hence the adulation.
I nearly forgot
Larry Holmes and wife at the local supermarket
My son cooks for his annual summer outing each year
He's famous in our local area for absent-mindedly cutting you off in traffic if you and he happen to be traveling the highway as he's nearing the entrance ramp from Easton to Rt. 22
jo
http://www.Etsy.com/Shop/SimpleEarthCreations
"How I choose to feel is how I am." ~ EV/MMc
"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends." ~ One Stab ~
now
that's a list
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
Ed Kowalcyk (Live)
Darren Daulton
Drinks with Ron Hextall and a few of the Flyers
Ron Jaworski
1996 Merriweather, MD; 1998 Camden, NJ; 2000 Camden, NJ; 2003 Camden, NJ; 2005 Philly, PA; 2006 Camden, NJ(nights 1 & 2); 2006 Arnhem, NED; 2008 Camden, NJ(nights 1 & 2), Washington DC, MSG(night 2) 2009 Philly Spectrum Shows(nights 1,2,3,4) 2010 Hartford,CT and MSG(night 2)
ED Solo - 2008 Washington DC, 2009 Philly, PA(nights 1&2)*Met Eddie
Yeah I laugh about that because we campers were told not to ask , that we would all get an autograph at the end of his visit ( which turned out to be a cheap photo copy) plus there were all those stories about Ted Williams being a real dick! But this was way before his stroke and he was endlessly generous to all us kids. Don't know why or how but in a rare break from his handlers, I caught him cutting across the baseball diamond I was playing on so I grabbed a baseball and bolted over to him. When I asked for the autograph he pleasantly replied "sure kid!" and signed it right on the sweet spot.
My 10 year old son now keeps it in a trophy stand like the one in the movie "the sandlot"
But meeting pearl jam and Robert plant ???
Holy sh&t ponc!?!!
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
The poison from the poison stream caught up to you ELEVEN years ago and you floated out of here. Sept. 14, 08
★ 2009 - Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Christchurch ★
★ 2011 - EV Newcastle, Melbourne 1, Melbourne 2 ★
Charlotte 03
Asheville 04
Atlanta 12
Greenville 16, Columbia 16
Seattle 18
Nashville 22
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
accidentally touching Mike McCready's ass in 2006, i guess that's famous :oops:
I'm jealous. :P
While on this, when I was 10-12 while I was home alone for the very first time in my life, I saw a bright light on my left. When I turned to see, it was Mother Mary in all Her glory. I remember that She was so tall and was giving me a big smile. When I stood up to go and touch Her, She disappeared.
So you have had an encounter with two asses!
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