We've done this kind of thread before if memory serves me.
 
Here's one I may not have mentioned previously. I met and got absolutely blasted on Chivas Regal with Aldo Nova and Charles Stone (Lighting Director for Kool and the Gang) and a hotel bar in Tokyo in 1986. We were all staying at the same hotel and playing separate gigs in Japan. We all walked into the bar around the same time, and after a short chat at the bar, we moved to a table and proceeded to get sloppy. I had done the same thing with noted B3 genius Jimmy Smith the night before. Ended up staying in touch with Jimmy and his wife Lola until Jimmy's passing.
 
When I got back to the States, I gave Charles a call when they were playing in Phoenix, and he invited me and a guest to come to the show and sit at the FOH desk. I took a nasty red headed stripper as my guest and Charles burned up a rack of gels during the sound check by not paying attention to the job at hand.
 
Didn't bother trying to keep in touch with Aldo. He was there playing in Cyndi Laupers band, and he was kind of a little twat.
 
Randy
 
 
 

So.........
 
Since I've collabed with Randy and Rimshot it's six degrees of Kevin Becan for me with all those famous people.
 
Oh, I left out one. I was involved with a charity event with Gayle Moran once.

Ah, the oft-told story..Andy Partridge of XTC once borrowed my Marshall stack for a Swindon gig, and also for some of the 'English Settlement' sessions at The Manor. My friend and I also borrowed his DX7 for a recording session..although as I recall he charged us a tenner for that.
 
The only other one was the lead singer from The Vibrators, who our drummer head-butted because he was chatting up his girlfriend. Happy days...

I never met anyone famous, no famous athletes,  no polticians, no artists, no notorious criminals, not even a newsreader.
 
So, any volunteers here?

I feel so inadaquet..... seeing some of the lists here....
 
So ... here's my feeble list
Gene Watson: country singer...played a show/contest with him
Bill Philips: big country star back in the day....likewise, played a weekend show alternating sets and backing him on his stuff.... his star had faded at that time.
Jimmy Crawford: one of Nashville's hottest steel guitar players at the time.....he was part of the Nashville Bar Association, a group comprised of the 5 hottest steel players in that town..... was on the same weekend show gig with Bill.  He sat in and jammed on our sets one of those nights.  Great guy.
Paulette Carlson: singer from the band Highway 101.
 
I've probably met more songwriters with some fame than the artists themselves..... names that most folks would not know.
 
A few others not even worth mentioning.... players from some of the "star's" backup bands that happened to be in the clubs where we played.
 

The "famous" musicians I have met are mostly Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) artists so most of you have never heard of them.
 
 
I've met and talked personally with Dennis Jernigan, independent label and CCM artist.  I've also met Stephen Curtis Chapman, he's a huge CCM artist who has won several Dove awards.  I've met all of Sonic Flood, or at least who Sonic Flood was at the time.  they have changed band members a lot.  only the lead singer is the one who stayed from the beginning (sort of).  I drove them around Ft. Worth, to and from hotel room to concert venue and to guitar Center, and dinner, etc.

bapu
I've met my son who is VERY famous in Mexico and Europe.

so he's kind of like the David Hasselhoff?

UbiquitousBubba
Hasselhoff wishes...

to volunteer?

Beagle

bapu
I've met my son who is VERY famous in Mexico and Europe.

so he's kind of like the David Hasselhoff?

Beagle
I've also met Stephen Curtis Chapman, he's a huge CCM artist who has won several Dove awards.

Very talented guy. I'll never forget the story about his daughter. It still brings tears to my eyes. I remember him talking about the first time he performed the Cindarella song after her death. It took a lot of strength and faith to be able to pull that off.

I smoked a bowl with Steve J Weird Als Bass player in his hotel room in the shower with the hot water running after their concert...it was cool. I was on SONAR X. -Shawn Lee Farrell
 

batsbrew

dmbaer
This probably won't impress anyone here, but I've had Nicholas McGegan, an internationally renowned conductor and the musical director of the Baroque Philharmonia Orchestra, over to my house for dinner on several occasions.

what is his favorite food?

He's not vegetarian, but I recall that he didn't like to eat pork because he was rather fond of pigs - don't laugh, I feel the same way about these very intelligent animals.
 
Also, I remembered another famous musician.  I know Jake Hegge, the opera composer (Dead Man Walking, Moby Dick).  One of the nicest and most modest fellows I've ever met.  We had a fascinating conversation about the roll of software in modern composition.

I too think we've had similar threads like this before. And like a few others I've met too many to mention or even remember nowadays. Nashville truly is a "little big town" and, at least while I was there, everybody knew everybody at least peripherally. But one twist I can provide for this thread is that during the years I had my nightly gig at the Wharf many artists and players would come by to listen to us and sit in...we played jazz and some Dixieland. The players were as disparate as Jerry Lee Lewis to Ray Stevens to A-List session guys. I had a Rhodes 76 Stage model at that time (it now sits in one of my former engineer's studio) so it got to "know" all those folks way better than I did. But I can tell you this...it did not like Jerry Lee. Not one bit.

My stepson's father in law is a very, very famous musician.
 
Actually thiinking more on that his stepfather is famous too, I have met Bapu in person after all ya know.

rsp@odyssey.net
We've done this kind of thread before if memory serves me.
 
Randy
 

 
Yep, I think we have, I seem to recall Gary Barden once of Michael Schenker Group fame came up once as he was a near neighbour of mine in my childhood.  I always thought it was amazing that he ended up with a relatively fruitful singing career because he had a terrible stammer when speaking that he managed to overcome on stage.
 
Like many here to I'd start sounding like a crass name dropper if I was to compile a list but another one I probably didn't mention before through embarassment was Elkie Brooks.  I had a powerful crush on her as a young teen and used to watch Vinegar Joe at a local venue which meant standing within inches of her.  She was absolutely mind-blowingly good and I used to watch them often enough that she'd often chat with me after the gig.  Poor hormone induced delusional fool that I was I reckoned I was in with a shout at one point... I was totally smitten.
 
The one that I miss the most though is Kenny Craddock who served as musical director for Van Morrison at one time I believe among many, many other good things, he was the best B3 player I've ever heard and I was lucky enough to work with him in a pub band and he managed to sort our set out completely on his first appearance.
 
He was so generous with his time and experience yet had so much humility, he tragically died just after moving to Portugal in a quest for a quieter life in a car accident.  I still feel a sad loss whenever I think about him.