Douglas Trendle: It was a banging gig, crowd rowdy as always, I was dancing on my chair behind the 'desk. The band loved it and wanted to go party after, so I took them to our local dive.

It was a small club,  the sort that sold beer in bottles straight from the crate under the bar. The owners wife took the door money.

I say to her "Hey, I brought Bad Manners with me tonight. You're not going to charge them are you?   No really,  I HAVE..."

Just then she spots Buster over my shoulder...  It was one of those Kodak moments where you really wish you had a Kodak with you...
 
 
 
 
edit: speling

The very same... with the authentic Jersey Shore accent that my Brooklyn born momma could impersonate so well.

SteveStrummerUK


 
Nobody
 
However, I did once sit behing Pat 'Bomber' Roach in the Purbani Tandoori Indian restaurant
 
 

Much safer than sitting on him...

oh yea, forgot one...
met eddie van halen, at a music store meet and greet, in '82.
he signed a picture for me.

bapu

SteveStrummerUK



Nobody

However, I did once sit behing Pat 'Bomber' Roach in the Purbani Tandoori Indian restaurant

Did you have to wear the costume too or did you just make the buzzing sound?

 

 
Soory

batsbrew



met Buddy Guy, in his own club in chicago-- Legends....
i showed up around dinner time, long before the live acts started... and there he was, at the bar, having a beer.
i asked 'can i join you', and he said of course, yes, so we talked about the cubs game that was showing on the monitor....
really nice guy.

He must do that a lot. My wife and I met him there, too. He was just sitting at the bar watching the NCAA tournament. Very nice.

the drummer from king's X, Jerry Gaskill 
met him after a gig in charlotte NC
he was really nice as well.

Yeah all of those guys are really nice but Jerry especially. I met them before a show quite a while back and they stayed and talked for a while. I was leaving the show early (cuz the headliner sucked) and had to pass by the tour busses. He apparently saw us walking by and came out of the tour bus to say thanks again for coming to the show.

ah, the raleigh connection!

Coolest person I ever talked to wasn't a musician, it was Teller as in Penn &.

bitflipper


Coolest person I ever talked to wasn't a musician, it was Teller as in Penn &.

Did he talk back?

Maybe it's just me, but I don't like talking to people who are too famous.  Sometimes, like the few times I was lucky enough to hang out with Eddie V, it was fine because I made a point of talking to him as if he was just any other person.  I'm certainly not the "take a picture with (insert famous person here)" or get a signature type of guy (I got punched by a girl at work for not getting Joe Montana's signature - she was an over-the-top raving lunatic fan).

I've been involved with people who are famous in their particular sports that I was also playing (speed skating, baseball, darts, etc.), but have met relatively few "famous" musicians.  I did get to meet the guys in Blue Oyster Cult when they played as "Soft White Underbelly" down in San Diego (the band I was in opened for them).  I've also talked with Walter Trout several times (the best Blues guitarist in my opinion).  He sells out arenas in Europe, yet I got to see him often in the "proper" setting of a small bar down in Huntington Beach California (his home bar was called Perq's right by the pier).  I seem to recall others, but if they come off as arrogant pr*cks or simply annoying I'm not interested in talking with them.

Jumbicat


Hank Garland.  He lived about 5 houses down from us in ..........., Fla. Great guitarist. 

WHOA!! A guitar god!

Gary Glitter taught me how to work a microwave - we were recording an album in the same studio complex as him and the Glitter Band. The studio had a fridge full of prefilled baked potatoes for us to scoff but I had no clue how to work a microwave.....after lunch we beat him and the Glitter Band at snooker.

I didn't exactly talk to Al Stewart--I nearly knocked him over.  I went to see him play at the Golden Palomino.  It was one of the first shows I went after moving out to southern California from NJ.  I didn't realize how long the ride would be and as soon as I got inside the club--I sprinted to the men's room.  Just as I got to the door, I literally ran into Al at a blind corner.  I excused myself-as did Al.  He seemed a little out of it at that moment.  The show started a few moments later.  Once Al took the stage, he seemed like a completely different person.  He took charge of the stage and put on a good show.  The only problem after that was the constant interruption because the club was in the landing path for LAX and every few minutes a plane flew overhead and drowned-out the music.    

The Year Of The Alien Probe. 

Bill Wyman and the Rhythm Kings including Albert Lee (gave me his e-mail), Gary Brooker, Georgie Fame etc.

Cheers,
Jery