I met Straummy and Jonbouy.
 
And Julibee.
 
And bitflipper, Old55(aka Obsolete Jan), Philz, LanceInDaStudio & ohgrant.
 
They be famus hear.

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
 
 
 

aldo! ALDO!
 

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.

I've met and worked with too many to mention (and to be honest the only time I mention is when I am drunk down the pub). I would say though that being in the same airspace of the bass player from spinal tap is all that really mattered to me. It has gone downhill ever since...

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...

Not much of a claim given the length of the meeting but I did talk to Martin Carthy briefly at a workshop at the Cornwall Folk Festival, it was a long time ago when he was with Steeleye Span but at the festival as a solo artist.
 
 
 
 

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

Zonno 
So, any volunteers here?

Yeah,  I volunteered at the 2012 Olympics...

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.