i had to put mine down before i completely forgot them all.... (getting old, have already forgotten more than i remember)
thought i'd share.
you share yours too
ok, a quick assessment:
Famous Musicians i played or jammed with: *Met, drank rum and cokes and jammed with
Jaco Pastorius (rip) 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'
*i did a top 40 gig, playing with the original members of "
The Diamonds", 50's/60's vocal quartet, did a week backing those guys up....
guys i've actually played FOR or in front of(heheh)-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.
they were very complementary, watched about last 3rd of our set before they went on.
-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. they were diggin' it.
i even got a job offer out of it. doh.
-met all of
38 special, and played for the two guitarists who watched our whole set.
-met
molly hatchet's girlfriends ( ) but none of molly hatchet.
LOL...... played all night for them. they were party freaks.
-met all of
Nazareth (1980) and played an entire set of cover tunes for them in the middle of the afternoon, neptune beach florida. that was fun.
they were a killer crowd of 4 that day. they were on roller skates, of all things.
high at the beach, on roller skates, hangin with a local hard rock band in a crappy bar. LOL
other musicians i only met: *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
Billy Squire, on his very first tour. shook his hand, backstage, talked about his rig a little bit. he was friendly.
*met
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. and that grossed me out.
*met
STEVE MARRIOT (RIP).
he was way cool. he was a musical idol of mine. i always wanted to be able to sing like him. it didn't work out. LOL
*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
James Honeyman Scott (RIP).
*met
Neil Geraldo (before he hooked up with pat benetar, when he was touring with rick derringer)
*met
eddie van halen, at a music store meet and greet, in '82.
he signed a picture for me.
*Met the guitarist from
Mother's finest, Moses MO*Met
Elton John's drummer Nigel Olsson, at The Switch, in raliegh.
*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.
*met 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.