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swiftdog2.0

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This thread is about any celebrity run-ins you may have had.

I'll start:

Met Hank Williams III awhile back when he was opening a show for The Reverend Horton Heat in Boston. My friend and I were talking to him for a good 15 minutes at the bar. We had no idea who he was until he said "I gotta go and get ready to go on" He popped up on stage a few minutes later. Nice guy.

Have had a couple of run-ins with Corey Glover from Living Colour. The first time was at one of their shows in Providence, RI in 1993. Corey was crowdsurfing and my buddy and I had to fill a hole in the crowd so Corey didn't land on his noggin. Second time was when he was touring with his solo band Vice back in 2000. They were playing a small club in Attleboro, MA that one of my bands used to play all the time. He was doing an autograph signing after the show. Most recently, a couple of my friends and I bumped into him in the bar next to the Paradise Rock Club in Boston when Living Colour played there this past November. We were waiting for the doors to open so we could go in. Corey came in to the bar right before LC started sound-check. He stopped and chatted for a minute and let my buddy take a picture with him. He's a really cool guy and a killer singer. Even his sound-checks are awesome :)

I bumped into Joe Perry from Aerosmith at TT the Bears in Boston a few years back. I was there with some friends to see The Burden Brothers. Joe's sons were in the opening band, TAB the Band. I was watching the show and just happened to turn around and Joe Perry was right behind me. I said "Hi" he said "Hi", back. His kid's band was pretty good. They do a killer cover version of Highway Star.

My friends and I ended up hanging out and drinking with the Burden Brothers that same night. Todd Lewis, the singer from The Toadies, and Taz Bentley, who has played drums with the Rev and a bunch of other people, were in the Burden Brothers. Great band. They invited the crowd to hang with them after the show. We ended up doing shots and talking for a good while. Really nice guys and great musicians. You haven't lived until you've done Jager shots with Taz!

Attended a clinic that Billy Sheehan, the bass player from Mr. Big, was doing at the local music store I have been buying gear from for the last 20+ years. Got to ask him some questions. He was very gracious and a heck of a player.

I almost walked into the middle of one of Heidi Watney's pre-game segments from Fenway Park during the 2008 playoffs. Stopped just in time. Didn't get talk to her or anything. Just admired the view :encouragement:

What about the rest of you? Anything that you want to share?
 
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I was at the curb at LAX, when a station wagon pulled up a few yards past. A guy came up to it, father type, woman and kids came out of the car, all happy. I recognized him as Bob Crane (Hogan's Heroes). Just was a normal, laughing guy, happy to see his family again. You know, at those moments, you think, "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?" But the license plate on the station wagon said "CRANE(some number)," so I was pretty sure.

I think that was around mid-1977, before I went overseas. He was murdered June 1978, and it turned out that he had a pretty dark and twisted secret side. Hard to reconcile with that happy family man that I saw not too long before.

A friend and I went to see a midnight movie, Pink Floyd's The Wall, circa mid-'80s, and went to a Denny's (of course) afterwards. My friend was hip on the latest trends. I was not. Turned out that there had been a concert in Denver. There was a group of African-American gentlemen at the far end of where we were sitting, and although it meant nothing to me, it was unusual for our town.

My friend said, "That's MC Hammer!" For all I knew, he was saying, "That's Ball Peen Hammer!" I said, oh, and looked, and one of the guys did look kind of familiar, but nothing that I could place, so I returned to our late-night munchies and dissection of the movie.

I told the kids later, and they were eaten up with jealousy, not to mention questions of why I didn't get his autograph. Turned out they had a CD or two of his in the house, and he was quite the entertainer at the time. Ah, well. I saw him later on a Snickers (or something) commercial, which was quite entertaining, and yeah, it sure looked like the guy in Denny's.
 
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swiftdog2.0 said:
This thread is about any celebrity run-ins you may have had.

I'll start:

Met Hank Williams III awhile back when he was opening a show for The Reverend Horton Heat in Boston. My friend and I were talking to him for a good 15 minutes at the bar. We had no idea who he was until he said "I gotta go and get ready to go on" He popped up on stage a few minutes later. Nice guy.

Have had a couple of run-ins with Corey Glover from Living Colour. The first time was at one of their shows in Providence, RI in 1993. Corey was crowdsurfing and my buddy and I had to fill a hole in the crowd so Corey didn't land on his noggin. Second time was when he was touring with his solo band Vice back in 2000. They were playing a small club in Attleboro, MA that one of my bands used to play all the time. He was doing an autograph signing after the show. Most recently, a couple of my friends and I bumped into him in the bar next to the Paradise Rock Club in Boston when Living Colour played there this past November. We were waiting for the doors to open so we could go in. Corey came in to the bar right before LC started sound-check. He stopped and chatted for a minute and let my buddy take a picture with him. He's a really cool guy and a killer singer. Even his sound-checks are awesome :)

I bumped into Joe Perry from Aerosmith at TT the Bears in Boston a few years back. I was there with some friends to see The Burden Brothers. Joe's sons were in the opening band, TAB the Band. I was watching the show and just happened to turn around and Joe Perry was right behind me. I said "Hi" he said "Hi", back. His kid's band was pretty good. They do a killer cover version of Highway Star.

My friends and I ended up hanging out and drinking with the Burden Brothers that same night. Todd Lewis, the singer from The Toadies, and Taz Bentley, who has played drums with the Rev and a bunch of other people, were in the Burden Brothers. Great band. They invited the crowd to hang with them after the show. We ended up doing shots and talking for a good while. Really nice guys and great musicians. You haven't lived until you've done Jager shots with Taz!

Attended a clinic that Billy Sheehan, the bass player from Mr. Big, was doing at the local music store I have been buying gear from for the last 20+ years. Got to ask him some questions. He was very gracious and a heck of a player.

I almost walked into the middle of one of Heidi Watney's pre-game segments from Fenway Park during the 2008 playoffs. Stopped just in time. Didn't get talk to her or anything. Just admired the view :encouragement:

What about the rest of you? Anything that you want to share?
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My sister all but yanked Hank 3 off the stage at The Vouge down in Indy a few years ago. Then, after the show, while we were getting autographs, she grabbed him up and threw a lip lock on him. I merely shook his hand and got his signature on my vinyl copy of Straight To Hell. Hank 3 is God.
 
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Met all the guys from ZZ Top one warm summer morning in my old home town. We were sitting on the curb checking out our baseball cards we'd all just bought at the gas station their bus pulled into. They were heading to Louisiana for a show. All three of them got off the bus to stretch their legs, came over to us, talked to us for a while. All three of them very cool. This would have been around 1983 or 1984 I think? I posted the story somewhere on the SKMB several months ago but can't remember exactly where. Also had the honor of meeting Mr. King in 2011 in Dallas, TX. Mr. King was amazing in all regards.
 
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A couple, but the most memorable was the time I almost got into a fistfight with Ric Ocasek because he claimed I cut in front of him going through a McDonald’s drive thru. He got out of his car all crazed, so I got out of mine and it got quite heated. Luckily Pavlína had some common sense in her and diffused the situation.
 
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Working and playing in NYC and living just across the Hudson River from it, spotting celebs is somewhat commonplace and wasted on me since I really am not starstruck these days. I've also had a few interactions with celebs but really don't remember any that are very interesting. That said, I did have a semi-famous roommate once (but before she became semi-famous). One summer I lived in NYC with a bf and one of the women he was sharing the apartment with would one day go on to be Lady Miss Kier of the group Deee-Lite.

 
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DiO'Bolic said:
So that was you when Danny got arrested? ;)
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Nah, this was when he was on The Partridge Family. My friend Charlie was a big bully in our grade school and he found out Bonaduce was visiting in the next town over from us and wanted to go and beat him up for being on that show. Charlie would beat you up at the drop of a hat. So we take off on our Schwinn chopppers and found him at some dumb mansion over on Deer Hill. I think I shoveled this driveway in the winter.....LOL. Anywho, here comes DB out (with us yelling at him from the street of course) with this cute girl he was visiting. As you can imagine this infuriated Charlie. After a brief scuffle.......I being the true gentleman comforted the girl for the most part......;;D a rather large guy came out and shooed us away.

Ah youth............
 
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DiO'Bolic said:
A couple, but the most memorable was the time I almost got into a fistfight with Ric Ocasek because he claimed I cut in front of him going through a McDonald’s drive thru. He got out of his car all crazed, so I got out of mine and it got quite heated. Luckily Pavlína had some common sense in her and diffused the situation.
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She's so gorgeous. He's so bad.

Bev Vincent said:
Shook hands with Princess Diana.
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Agreed, hands down, you win. She was something special.

I have met Boyd Tinsley (Dave Matthews Band violinist) in the Peabody Cafe. He's awesome, his arms are huge. He is incredibly talented, and like me - he wears sunglasses inside.

I have walked across the street downtown with Mickey Rourke when he was filming The Rainmaker. We didn't speak, but walked right beside each other. This was when he still looked like Micky Rourke.

I got into an elevator that Tom Cruise was getting off of in the building I worked in downtown (the Cotton Exchange Building was the location where The Firm's offices were filmed). He's very short, and I'm weird - I wear sunglasses in elevators. Anyhow, we didn't speak or even make eye contact.

I was in a bookstore that Susan Sarandon was in with her kids in Memphis. She seemed very cool. It was when she was there filming The Client.

Of all of those, Boyd was the only one I spoke to.

John Grisham's novels turned movies brought a lot of celebrities to Memphis, years ago.

21 grams (Sean Penn) was filmed here. I was on the lookout for stars but didn't see any.
 
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DiO'Bolic said:
A couple, but the most memorable was the time I almost got into a fistfight with Ric Ocasek because he claimed I cut in front of him going through a McDonald’s drive thru. He got out of his car all crazed, so I got out of mine and it got quite heated. Luckily Pavlína had some common sense in her and diffused the situation.
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I heard Ric can be a DB.

A buddy of mine was dating one of Paulina's cousins a ways back. Good genes definitely run in that family!
 
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I met Charlton Heston when he was part of a lecture series tour that visited my college. Shook his hand and got his autograph.

Met Paolo Nutini once. Real gent for such a young fellow.

And I've met all the members of Def Leppard. You know, once or twice.
 
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