The most famous musician you talked to

After they were famous. Not the guy or gal you went to school with or someone before they were famous.

Me: 
1. Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi after a Mountain concert at the Santa Monica Civic in ~1971
2. Robert Plant on Zeps first US tour
3. Gayle Moran

Robert Moog
Laurence Juber
Muriel Anderson
Bill Medley

Patrick somebody, used to be in the band The Marmalade in the 60s, now runs The Scotland Yard pub in Woodland Hills, Ca

Mark somebody, used to play drums for The Electric Prunes

Les Dudek

lesser degrees of fame the the ones aforementioned, so long after they were famous that no one knows them anymore

I'm afused....

was Jeff Beck playing a Les Paul?

"The most famous musician" and people are posting lists...

Is this people we've shouted at from the audience? or actually spoken to propperly? (not "Please Sir, can I have your babies autograph?"
or is it people we've spoken to while working with them??
(There are a few I've worked with and NOT spoken to, but that's a different thread)

So lets start with Jimmy Carl Black

UbiquitousBubba


Do you know the true story of how they traded in one of the kids for a different drummer? 

I always thought it was a drum machine. Because all their drummers spontaneously exploded.

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Here's a sad one.

I met Hoyt S. Curtin.  You know, the composer of, "Meet the Flintstones"?  He hated me.  He had written some musical for choir and an orchestra and our school was performing it.  He had a drum part for it that I thought was lame, so I did my own.  He flew in for the big show and conducted the orchestra.  Man, was he mad that I was laying down my thing on his composition!  He actually turned purple when members of the string section complimented him on writing such a "fabulous drum part".  Someone gave me his autograph, but I tossed it away.

I am lame.


*This post moved in order to comply with the Thread Uniformity Regulation Department (TURD).  You may disgregard the fact that it was posted out of sheer stupidity in the wrong thread earlier.  Thank you for your forgetfulness.

Cool stories myolpal

Does CHB count?

1) Willie Nelson - Talked to him for about 5 minutes.
2) Ferlin Husky - Talked to him for about 15 minutes.

Ferlin told this joke about him and Johny Horton living in a 1 room apartment in California back when they started their careers. He said they were the first two men to sleep together in Hollywood.

UPDATE:

I forgot to mention J.T. Carter from The Crests (They did the oldies song 16 Candles). He wasn't the lead singer but he was part of the original group. He lived in the Pocono Mountains in PA. He used to come in to my brothers shop all the time to send faxes (this was 15 + years ago). Then a few years later I was looking for a new car in Hackettstown NJ and there he was ... selling cars. Shame really. Those guys in the 50's/60's got screwed, especially the black groups like JT's. He invited me to his recording studio to jam with him and the other guys from The Crests and I passed. What an idiot I was. I would have got too much grief from my X-wife so I just said no.

OH Yeah and James Burton. He's from Shreveport and we helped him when he opened his club here in95'

famous musicians i've met...

Billy Squire, on his very first tour. shook his hand, backstage, talked about his rig a little bit. he was friendly.

Alice Cooper , back on the Flush the Fashion tour when he was doing that song 'clones'...
he was dirty.
i mean, physically dirty. he was in the hallway backstage, between acts, and had his large albino snake draped around his shoulders, and two beautiful women in skimpy outfits on each arm, getting ready to go back out on stage.
he seemed coked out of his mind, and i got to shake his hand. it was as limp as a noodle.




Met half of def leppard and played a set of rock covers for them. rick allen, rick allen's brother, joe elliot and pete willis. they were touring opening for scorpions and ted nugent, their first american tour.

Met, drank rum and cokes and jammed with jaco Pastorius in a club at Deerfield beach, florida (north lauderdale). i guess we spent a good half hour sitting at the bar talking, and he was telling me all about the album he was about to release, his second solo album, called "Word of Mouth". a truly awesome experience for me.


i jammed with who is now the lead singer for Lynrd Skynrd, the youngest of the van zandt's, johnny, in my mother's living room when i was in high school. johnny was a couple of years younger than me...
LOL
i'd met johnny at crossroads (Ponte Vedra Beach, florida) surfing, and we started talking about music..
i think, maybe he was 15 at the time....
and he brought his paul and marshall over, and we jammed.
this was about 2-3 years before he created the Austin Nichols band, which he later had to change the name because of copyright infringements....


met and jammed with artemus Pyle and leon wilkerson (Lynrd Skynrd) at a club in Neptune Beach Fl, called 'La Vidas'

met all of 38 special.

met molly hatchet's girlfriends (  ) but none of molly hatchet.
LOL

met STEVE MARRIOT (RIP).
he was way cool.

used to play in a band with Chris Sorenson - he's now the co-owner of FireHouse Subs (based out of florida) so i guess he's famous now.




met all of Nazareth (1980) and played an entire set of cover tunes for them in the middle of the afternoon, neptune beach florida.

met James Honeyman Scott (RIP).

met Neil Geraldo (before he hooked up with pat benetar, when he was touring with rick derringer)

Met the guitarist from Mother's finest, Moses MO

Met Elton John's drummer Nigel Olsson, at The Switch, in raliegh.

Met the entire Greg Allman Band (including Govt. Mule's guitarist/singer Warren Haynes), and did an opening set for them at THE BREAKERS, panama city beach fla.

Met Allan Holdsworth, at the double door Inn, charlotte NC..... he signed autographs, and after almost everyone else split, he went to the bar to have a pint....and sat next to me at the bar, and had a beer, so i introduced myself, and shook his hand, and cracked some jokes, and we never even talked about music.
he has giant hands


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.


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

met one of my alltime favorite musicians, Rod Morgenstein, a couple of years back, here in salt lake city, doing a dregs show, he stood out in the hallway afterwards and answered everybody's questions without blinking. super nice guy, and one of the most incredible drummers.

didn't we do this before?   

the most famous musician I've ever talked to depends on which one you call "more famous" although I'm sure 97% of you reading this won't know any of them:

Rick Heil (as well as all of the other band members at the time of SONICFLOOd - I drove the van for them when they were in town for a concert at our church, taking them to the hotel and back, to dinner, to Guitar Center, to a "mini-concert" at a Christian book store, etc).  he was very "aloof" and didn't talk much.  my favorite person out of that band, tho, was the bassist. 
Grant Norsworthy - basist for SONICFLOOd.  really great guy.  we discussed his instruments (he used a Fender acoustic electric bass during the bookstore performance) we talked about my children who were giving me problems at the time and he seemed genuinely concerned by asking questions, etc.
Dennis Jernigan - Christian artist - on his own independent label.  that alone with the sucess that he's had makes him a hero in my eyes.  he's a very "down to earth" guy

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bobby™

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