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shamus63
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Oops...misspelled his last name.
I've always liked his work...good open-highway cruising music.
I've always liked his work...good open-highway cruising music.
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Funky Chicken
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I got a couple-
I was trying out guitars in Manny's on 48th street in NYC in 84-85 and turned around to find David Gilmour leaning against a countertop chatting with Henry (the owner of Manny's at the time). I (luckily) stopped playing before my hands froze up, but he nodded and said "nice playing". I wonder if he lies to everybody like that
Around the same time I was working with a music production company on a children's prime time special for CBS. One of the celebrities on the show was a young (hot) Kathleen Turner, who I sat on a stoop outside the studio with and split a 6 pack of Bud after we were thru for the day. I was 20, and she couldn't have been cooler at the time. Of course, then she became an actor and started faking that british accent...
I sat next to Martha Stewart at a sushi bar in Connecticut near one of her homes one night. She was actually reasonably friendly-something I never expected. We talked about sushi (duh) and made the same kind of small talk you'd make with anybody sitting next to you at a sushi bar.
I waited outside a record store in New Jersey (in November-cold, rainy, and bleccchh) for 4 hours to get a chance to meet Geddy Lee the day his solo record came out in 2000. I'm a big Rush fan, but don't really look like one, especially compared to the 2000 other maniacs I was on line with. I don't think they were expecting or prepared for the crowd that showed up, least of all Geddy. I was one of the last 25 people to get in, and he had been signing stuff and being polite all day. You could see that he had had enough. Rather than the customary "please sign this", when I got to the table and handed my CD over to him to sign, I pointed out the fact that he had been sitting on a metal folding chair for 4 hours, and we joked about how he should have brought his own chair-he said he thought the throne from the cover photo on 'A Farewell To Kings" was still in the warehouse and maybe he'd bring it next time. He then spent a couple more minutes talking to me before they closed up.
I think the key to not pissing off a celebrity is doing your best to not be awestruck-that's what they get most of the time. Just say hello and leave it up to them to be a dick or not.
I was trying out guitars in Manny's on 48th street in NYC in 84-85 and turned around to find David Gilmour leaning against a countertop chatting with Henry (the owner of Manny's at the time). I (luckily) stopped playing before my hands froze up, but he nodded and said "nice playing". I wonder if he lies to everybody like that
Around the same time I was working with a music production company on a children's prime time special for CBS. One of the celebrities on the show was a young (hot) Kathleen Turner, who I sat on a stoop outside the studio with and split a 6 pack of Bud after we were thru for the day. I was 20, and she couldn't have been cooler at the time. Of course, then she became an actor and started faking that british accent...
I sat next to Martha Stewart at a sushi bar in Connecticut near one of her homes one night. She was actually reasonably friendly-something I never expected. We talked about sushi (duh) and made the same kind of small talk you'd make with anybody sitting next to you at a sushi bar.
I waited outside a record store in New Jersey (in November-cold, rainy, and bleccchh) for 4 hours to get a chance to meet Geddy Lee the day his solo record came out in 2000. I'm a big Rush fan, but don't really look like one, especially compared to the 2000 other maniacs I was on line with. I don't think they were expecting or prepared for the crowd that showed up, least of all Geddy. I was one of the last 25 people to get in, and he had been signing stuff and being polite all day. You could see that he had had enough. Rather than the customary "please sign this", when I got to the table and handed my CD over to him to sign, I pointed out the fact that he had been sitting on a metal folding chair for 4 hours, and we joked about how he should have brought his own chair-he said he thought the throne from the cover photo on 'A Farewell To Kings" was still in the warehouse and maybe he'd bring it next time. He then spent a couple more minutes talking to me before they closed up.
I think the key to not pissing off a celebrity is doing your best to not be awestruck-that's what they get most of the time. Just say hello and leave it up to them to be a dick or not.
Tim O'Sullivan
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jongitarz said:
It was Chris Issac. And this was the US version of this video!
SteveB
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Chris Isaak
"Wicked Game"
model was Helena Christensen. My was she stunning...
"Wicked Game"
model was Helena Christensen. My was she stunning...
jazzbo jim
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Hmm..Looks like someone stole something from Roth (for a change!)Tim O'Sullivan said:
He told that story during a gig in Toronto just after they released VH 2 (Early eighties)
It went something like..
"Man, we got into town late last night and the security at the hotel was a f***in' joke. Man, I had women pounding at the door-I'm talkin' kickin', scratchin' and screamin' at my door until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning...'till finally I said, f*** it man, let them outta my room!"
I think he started to brush his hair right about then,,
shamus63
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jazzbo jim said:
Van Halen II was 1979.
jazzbo jim
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Yup. They were here May 1979 (I saw them again -pre-Sammy - in '82 and '84..) I stand corrected.shamus63 said:
BTW...getting back OT... another guy I met was Scott Henderson when he was playing with Jean Luc Ponty...I was actually up on stage after the show chatting about his gear, as he was tearing down and about Larry Carlton, Alan Holdsworth, MIT ...a really cool guy.
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shamus63
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jazzbo jim said:
I still remember the first time I heard Tribal Tech 'Illicit'...'Stoopid' was the track that floored me!
Gary Willis is a MONSTER!
Working as a photographers assistant back in the early 80's in manhattans photo discrict, I would pass by celebrities on the street. Some who come to mind (I drank quite a bit back then), Martin Sheen, Andy Warhol, the lead singer of the Cars with his girlfriend/model Paulina Porizkova(sp?), Laurie Anderson, Harry Shearer (SNL/Spinal Tap/Simpsons)..there were others, can't remember.
There was one incident in which my boss and some other photographers frequented this small french restaurant to hang out around the bar and get loaded.
So, one night, in walks Bruce Springsteen with his first wife and another couple....he nods to one of the other photographers I was with. Although, I didn't really care for his music, I wanted to get an autograph for my sister who did.
I was drunk and the guys all goaded me to go over to his table, which I did.
I was like....."bluuuh blub glub gooo gaaahh. He politely said that he would give it to me on his way out after dinner. I felt like such an ass. Passing us by on the way out he stopped and asked my sisters name and gave me the autograph.
Back in the late 70's I had a friend/roommate/bandmate who worked for a sound company and later fulltime for Rush. At the time he was working with Edgar Winter. He told me that Edgars wife at the time was a bit ..ah..."loose". They were doing a gig at My Fathers Place on Long Island and I was hanging out at the side of the stage and sure enough, she comes and stands right up next to me and giving me the eye. I was very shy and was afraid to say anything to her. After about twenty minutes I guess she gave up and went elsewhere.
I got to hang out a couple of hours with one time lead guitarist for Kiss, Bruce Kulick at a small luthiers shop on Long Island, the three of us bullsh*tting.
Very nice guy.
Off course there was Steve and Dave at a clinic they were giving.
This didn't happen to me but to an older friend of mine who really wasn't aware of who or the stature of the guitarist he encountered.
He was in Florida on a business trip and went to check into a motel late one evening. He went into the dining area to find out if he could get dinner served as he hadn't eaten. The staff told him sorry, that the kitchen was closed for the night. There was a group of people at another table eating. One of them overheard my friends plight and told him to come over and join them at their table and have something to eat. The guitarist in question?
Jimmy Page!
He was at the time on tour with the Firm. No sh*t. True story!
There was one incident in which my boss and some other photographers frequented this small french restaurant to hang out around the bar and get loaded.
So, one night, in walks Bruce Springsteen with his first wife and another couple....he nods to one of the other photographers I was with. Although, I didn't really care for his music, I wanted to get an autograph for my sister who did.
I was drunk and the guys all goaded me to go over to his table, which I did.
I was like....."bluuuh blub glub gooo gaaahh. He politely said that he would give it to me on his way out after dinner. I felt like such an ass. Passing us by on the way out he stopped and asked my sisters name and gave me the autograph.
Back in the late 70's I had a friend/roommate/bandmate who worked for a sound company and later fulltime for Rush. At the time he was working with Edgar Winter. He told me that Edgars wife at the time was a bit ..ah..."loose". They were doing a gig at My Fathers Place on Long Island and I was hanging out at the side of the stage and sure enough, she comes and stands right up next to me and giving me the eye. I was very shy and was afraid to say anything to her. After about twenty minutes I guess she gave up and went elsewhere.
I got to hang out a couple of hours with one time lead guitarist for Kiss, Bruce Kulick at a small luthiers shop on Long Island, the three of us bullsh*tting.
Very nice guy.
Off course there was Steve and Dave at a clinic they were giving.
This didn't happen to me but to an older friend of mine who really wasn't aware of who or the stature of the guitarist he encountered.
He was in Florida on a business trip and went to check into a motel late one evening. He went into the dining area to find out if he could get dinner served as he hadn't eaten. The staff told him sorry, that the kitchen was closed for the night. There was a group of people at another table eating. One of them overheard my friends plight and told him to come over and join them at their table and have something to eat. The guitarist in question?
Jimmy Page!
He was at the time on tour with the Firm. No sh*t. True story!
beej
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Wow- great stories!
My cousin in London works for a post production firm. One day he finds out they're working on a Led Zep DVD. They have a producer with the raw material (film, sound) but can't figure out what goes with what. So they call in Jimmy Page who knows this stuff intimately.
So my cousin gets to spend a day or two in the studio with Jimmy Page - just a few people in a small room - listening to his commentary on all of this Zep footage plus stories. (Lucky bastard.)
My cousin in London works for a post production firm. One day he finds out they're working on a Led Zep DVD. They have a producer with the raw material (film, sound) but can't figure out what goes with what. So they call in Jimmy Page who knows this stuff intimately.
So my cousin gets to spend a day or two in the studio with Jimmy Page - just a few people in a small room - listening to his commentary on all of this Zep footage plus stories. (Lucky bastard.)
beej said:
Oh man! I was such a Zep freak. My biggest fantasy was to be in the same room with JP and ask a million questions about equipment and his sounds and how and what and why he plays what he does as if I were some scientist getting the oppurtunity to quiz an alien from another planet!
