Memories,Meetings,Memorabilia and the story and pictures behind them.

Loujoe

Imgonnalounick said:

In 2006 I was driving my 1975 El Dorado down Water Street in Milwaukee and taking his walk before the Petty/PJ shows at Summerfest was Mike. I quickly pulled over 100 yards ahead of him and asked him for an autograph. He kindly obliged and we talked about the car behind us before the picture below was snapped. Great guy, he wanted to take my car for a spin, but i think common sense kicked in and he said he better not. He did sign multiple autographs and I requested a song to plat at the show that evening!!!  What an experience and great guitarist!!!!!

Fat Lou Milwaukee

Super awesome! I heart MM. 

GlowGirl

Loujoe said:

Darn GG. It was like I was there. Thanks for sharing. Super darn cool. It's so funny. We are just all people. Some just touch peoples' souls..we all can be that. Very awesome! Likely surreal AF then & now.

Thanks. I still can’t believe I found that email printout. It goes to show that every once in a while I need to go through all my crap and do a big deep cleaning. It was surreal just reading it.  I remembered the big details but not the small ones like doing a shot of Jameson with Eddie or him grabbing my hand a few times as we spoke. I still wish I had a photo but I am so glad I documented it in writing - even with all the typos. 

lastexitlondon

£10 wow

Loujoe

How it should always be.

Loujoe

Were you there Rob? Any memories of show you care to share. 
Earliest pj show I saw was 92 I think and my only memory was handing off my corduroy jacket and jumping in the pit for ritfw. Didn't even really know or care about pj back then. Pretty sure ev saw my jacket and got one for himself. Honestly I don't know where it went. Maybe he took it
I wish I could go back and try to snag some picks. At least pay more attention to what was going on. The youth is wasted on the young. Some dumb stuff like that. I love my life.

lastexitlondon

I was,  it was 2 days after my 18th birthday . My vivid  memory  was that  there were so many stage divers and crowd surfers. At that time jeff had a full set of basketball figures  all along his amp
 Some knuckle head jumped on stage and grabbed  one/some and dived back into the crowd and jeff was PISSED OFF. Thats all i remember.!

Loujoe

Ahh! Sounds like a blast. Yes I would never steal. (Maybe a pile of picks)

demetrios

lastexitlondon said:

£10 wow

Loujoe said:

How it should always be.

Indeed! 

lastexitlondon

stage used at Wembley supporting  the who.
Eds writting hand written on. 
Long story 

ST66483

Very cool - love to read the story if you want to share!

lastexitlondon

Part 1.
Through a friend we met Pete townshends daughter aminta .  We told her  we were basically fan boys and  travelled all over the world watching  pj, And ed solo,  she told us when pj play UK  ed stays round at her brother Simon s house. We were blown away and she said next  time Email me and i will take you  over there to meet  ed he is lovely. 
At this time we both were  bouncing off the  walls in our small village thinking  fuck. Imagine going  to Simon's  house and ed is there. In the  meantime  we prayed for a uk date and my friend also Simon  got a copy of petes book signed and it came through the post with 2 tickets with after party to the  who . Mind blown.  We went and sadly the after show wasn't  with the band but we had a drink  and a longer chat with aminta and she said again  email when eds in town.

lastexitlondon

Part 2. So . Simon was the  contact and he was in charge of emailing  her. He was very reluctant  to look like a desparate  dude. So ed announce that he was coming to play at the who 50 bash as shepards bush. I urged him to email and he did but sadly ed was flying  in for 2 songs and flying  straight back out. Luckily  for me i was in the alley behind the  venue when ed walked down  to the stage door so i managed to meet him gey my programme  signed and a couple of picks, after being a fan since 91 my life was complete. So we waited with anticipation  of the  next tour.
Ed announced he was supporting  the  who at Wembley  we thought b.i.n.g.o we are in. So again we arranged an email that wasn't  too beggy. And aminta said ive left backstage passes at the box office for you🤯
Surely this was it.

lastexitlondon

Part 3.
We go get our passes and show them off to our friends  that are also going we met a couple english celebs  and thought  we must be in here. So we watch  the  show amd we are now buzzing wanting the who to end so we can go back and see what happens. 
So we get back and famous people are everywhere. We see ed dressing  room with is body guard outside  . Glen hansard walks in. We are told  to move along. Can't  stand here. So we move  along out of the way. But we stay there for a long time had a photo with zak starkey. Nice. Thinking  ed must walk by soon. We could hear ed and glen and others talking loudly but were not allowed  near. Didn't think  to cal aminta who as it turns out said  after "oh you should have rang  me i was next door with my dad i could have taken you in" ffs so close.
 after they  had all left we were still hanging  around but they said ed had left. So we were very down. There  was like a practice  room you could just walk in and out. On the table  was this lyric sheet and some setlists  from previous pj shows. I think  werchter and some un used tickets from the  show cimp ones. So i picked it all up and took it home. Just  found it all and thought  how close we were so many times to a calm chat with ed but it was all brilliant and loved the buzz of the  hunt kind of feeling. It was organic enough  to not be bothering  him of anyone.  And im grateful by chance  i walked past him at shepards bush at the  right  time. Right place.

lastexitlondon

both  a bit  worse for wear. This was standing in the dressing  room area. He had just  came out of eds room

ST66483

Cool thanks for sharing - sounds like a neat experience.

Loujoe

Super cool. Love these stories.

mrezooc

Great story!!

Loujoe

 out of stories for now...some of you need to spill the beans before I rot of lack of rock and roll boredom!
Pretty please...cmon. Maybe a non-pj one? 

dmbolp

Ben Harper story, when he opened for DMB at the Gorge in 2010:

Ben Harper mentioned at the end of his N3 set that if you're ever in Seattle and want the best fish sandwich and chowder, go to the Market Grill, and tell them Ben sent ya. So my wife and I decide to try it before our afternoon flight. We leave camping at about 7:30am. During the drive I mention to her how much I enjoyed Ben's sets and that I'd have to get some of his music when we get home (I'm late to the game with most bands...I know...I'm really late for Ben Harper). We get to the Pike Place Market, it ends up being one of the small slots in the market with a few stools at a counter, I was expecting a full size traditional restaurant. We sit down and place our order, and tell the girl behind the counter about being at the show...and that Ben sent us. Not 10 minutes later who sits down at the other end of the counter...Ben himself. I mention to him that I was at the shows and was following up on his suggestion. He then tells me, "I remember you, you were in the Braves jersey!" How the hell does he remember that???

He tells us about the transition from the Relentless 7 to Fistfull of Mercy, an east coast tour coming up, not sure about an Atlanta show. He's there for a quick bite before a flight so we take a quick photo, thank him for the great shows this weekend and head back to our seats. Our food comes out, and he comes back over, "Didn't I tell you the food was the best!!" I told him that I was sorry that there was a fight right next to me in the pit (probably why he remembered the Braves jersey) and show him the video I took of it, had a few laughs over it. His food comes out and he excuses himself. What a genuine, sincere man; really looking forward to his music.  He heads off on his skateboard in the market, someone with a camera backs into him and knocks him down, and Ben apologizes  
 



Here are details on the throwdown, and it was literally a throw-down:

Pit is well established by Ben Harper's set. Girl in pink long sleeve shirt and yellow down vest makes her way to front-center. Several people telling her to leave; she won't; "I have a pit ticket and I deserve to be down here, I'm as big a fan as anyone else". To prove this she shows another girl her DMB tattoo on her lower back. Other girl proceeds to pour a big drink right down her crack! Fight ensues, girl who poured drink instantly pulls off the instigators vest and shirt, she's eventually removed from pit 20 minutes later, here's the tail end:

https://youtu.be/3x-N5N2vApQ

lastexitlondon

A lovely guy  and story.  Thank  you