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Post by redshoes on Feb 14, 2020 17:57:54 GMT -5
Hmmm... Ed King... Elvis Costello... Elvin Bishop....Jimbo Mathus...
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Post by 6l6 on Feb 14, 2020 19:18:20 GMT -5
I've met Neil Young, Paul Simon, Steve Stills, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Duck Dunn, Grady Martin, Jerry Allison, Judy Collins, John Denver, Joan Baez, and Dave Van Ronk. All were just random happenings. 6 That's very cool! Was this when they were all hanging out in Laurel Canyon? Nope. Neil lived nearby for many years. When they’d get ready to tour as CSN&Y, they rehearsed in my hometown. Duck Dunn often played bass for them and I’d see them in the restaurant of the hotel where they stayed and had a chance to speak to all of them. As for Neil, we shared an interest in Lionel trains and that’s how I met him initially. I met Paul Simon in 1968 while skiing at Vail. Sat down next to him in Mid Vail at the lunch table and had a fun chat while we ate. I forgot to mention I’ve also met The Rolling Stones and had a personal conversation with Keith. It was in a low key restaurant in Paris (1985) where we all happened to be having dinner. Very cool guy to talk to. Like I said, all these meetings were the result of being in the right place at the right time.
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Bbendfender
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Mostly play Fender guitars and amps. I'm 71 and have had a guitar since 1964. Got serious in 1975.
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Post by Bbendfender on Feb 14, 2020 23:25:27 GMT -5
Our band opened for several big country stars in the late 70's early 80's. Alabama was the most popular country band at the time. Later on, Emmylou Harris, Don Henley. I've run into several big stars at guitar shows and said hi.
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Post by rickyguitar on Feb 16, 2020 22:26:11 GMT -5
The wife and I at a Cheap Trick meet and greet before the concert at Red Rocks a few years ago. My wife later told me that Robin pinched her butt. Oh my. I was kind of amused and not amused at the same time....lol. First time we saw Here Come The Mummies Ra groped my wife. She too told me later.
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Post by WireDog on Feb 17, 2020 18:14:23 GMT -5
Joan Baez went to my High School for a few years, all well before my time. One day in about 1970 she came back to visit and, in small groups, we got to meet and chat with her. She sat on the edge of the stage in the old auditorium and was very nice. She was a big celeb back then for both her music and her anti-war stance.
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Post by garyweimer on Feb 18, 2020 15:08:29 GMT -5
When I traveled a lot, I was walking through Atlanta airport on a weekend and the concourse wasn't very crowded. Coming toward me was someone who looked familiar and I eventually realized it was Evander Holyfield. We did the head nob with a smile and kept walking. To borrow a phrase from Road House, I thought he'd be bigger. We were about the same height and size - 6-2 and 225 lbs. I posted this experience on the FDP and concluded with, "I think I could take him." That phrase took off and spawned a thread about meeting famous people and always ended with 'I think I could take him/her'. It was a spontaneous laughfest. That happened to me as I was walking through the San Francisco airport. There was a guy walking next to me that I swore looked familiar. It was Sammy Hagar. I didn't speak to him, though. He's really short. The first time I met Leslie West, I said "Hi" to him as he was coming down the stairs, and he just responded "F*** you". When we saw him play years later (2000), he was actually more cordial, and we talked to him for about 15 minutes. My friend was gushing like a school kid, despite being a recording engineer for Butch Vig, and having a really famous, loudmouth, conservative guitarist as his cousin.
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Doug In Idaho
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Post by Doug In Idaho on Feb 18, 2020 15:12:32 GMT -5
Can I add another? cool... Way back in high school (1977) I worked part time in the repair dept of a music store that was the west coast distribution center for Ibanez guitars. One day after school I was "fixing" a defective guitar (a process involving a stout workbench and a heavy hammer) when the phone rang. I decided it wasn't going to stop anytime soon so I answered it... a quiet voice on the other end explained to me that I might be his last hope, he had been transferred from the general manager to the regional manager to our head of public relations to someone in advertising to someone in sales and finally to me... a high school senior working part time breaking stuff in the basement... he continued his story. He had recently bought a new artist model 12 string electric and really liked it, he just thought it needed an adjustable 12 string bridge to really play right. Well such a part wasn't in our usual inventory, I had seen a few of them but they were all handcrafted in japan and only made available thru endorsement deals to high profile players. We talked awhile and I explained that he had already talked to the folks who make endorsement deals but if it would get him off the phone I would use my very limited influence to plead his case. From our conversation I knew his name was Pat, I wrote it on the wall along with his phone number and asked him to spell his last name for me... M-E-T-H-E-N-Y. Crap! did you tell the folks upstairs who you are? Well he had, but none of them knew who he was! It took exactly two phone calls to get approval to have the bridge made in japan and shipped to us. I got to meet Pat and install the bridge on his guitar. He was exceptionally nice to a high school kid and his hammer. I had to save the old strings and re-use them, and he plays very, very low action.
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Post by garyweimer on Feb 18, 2020 15:13:55 GMT -5
Didn't think of the "head nod" instances. One that sticks out in my mind happened in Las Vegas. Between our shows ( sometime in the late 1980s) the drummer and I were grabbing a bite to eat at a food court upstairs from the venue we were playing in The Mint Casino. Three ladies were in the booth behind me when, down the hallway, strode 5 guys. The fellow in the middle of the 5 locked eyes with me and gave me the "I can tell you're a picker" head nod. At that same moment, one of the ladies , behind me, said (in a disparaging tone) "Look at how those men are dressed. They look like someone Willie Nelson would have with him". I turned around to the booth behind and said "Ma'am, that WAS Willie Nelson". Was amazing how quickly her attitude immediately went from disparaging to starstruck. lol My wife talks about those kinds of encounters. Her late husband was at a guitar show, and a guy that was with him pointed out a Billy Gibbons look-alike, with a snide comment. As they passed by him, Mark said "Hey, Billy", and things changed. Gibbons was someone they used to run into at the supermarket in Houston here and there. My wife also knows Willie's kids from taking care of them when they were younger. She knows Annie, and whenever they would come to Columbus, she'd get free tickets and a backstage pass. The only time I saw Jefferson Airplane was during a college visit. My dad and I went to have dinner at the restaurant in the Ramada Inn, and I looked over, to see the whole band sitting at the next table. I was too scared to talk to them, but I walked over to the venue and got a ticket for the show that night.
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Shoes
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Post by Shoes on Feb 18, 2020 15:28:25 GMT -5
Lets see, Dave Mason, Ronny Cox, Shawn Phillips. Firesign Theater, not really musicians, but they put out albums, Bruce Chickenburn. I guess nobody to big.
The Original Shoes
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Post by garyweimer on Feb 18, 2020 17:14:44 GMT -5
Does talking to James Taylor on the phone, when he's completely messed up, count?
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