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Title: Music Celebrities You've Met
Post by: Mag on 3 Aug 2020, 07:33 am
Drove taxi for 22 years, in that time I met several Celebrities like Ron MacLean (Hockey Night in Canada), Craig Oliver (CTV News), Roy Romanow (Premier of Sask), Elizabeth May (Green Party Leader) and a few other lesser known journalists. And some musicians, also met James Tanner from Bryston but that was at Audio Dealer.

Picked up Ray Charles & his bodyguard at local hotel. Bodyguard was about 7' tall, wasn't about to F with him. Put his luggage in trunk of my Chevy Bel Air. They got in the car from curbside and I drove them to the airport. I was a nervous having a such a famous person in my taxi and didn't know what to say. Finally I asked Ray Charles "you play Jazz?" He replied " I'ze playz muzic, hopefully good muzic." The remainder of the trip was quiet. I was worried that if Ray Charles exited the vehicle from rear left door. He might rip his pants on a wire that was sticking out of corner of bench seat. Fortunately when I arrived at his private Jet they exited vehicle from the right and I breathed a sigh of relief.

Liona Boyd picked her up at Airport, didn't know it was her (an attractive Lady). She was carrying what looked like a trashy guitar case plastered with Stickers. I took it from her and tossed it in the trunk. She sat in the back seat and introduced herself as Liona Boyd. That's when I realized I should have handled her guitar carefully. We didn't talk much that I recall and I took her to a Hotel in the downtown core.

Picked up the entire Rankin Family at Hotel downtown and drove 'em to the Summer Fair where they were performing. It was a fun trip with the car being overloaded, I think there were 5 of 'em.

This one I can't say for sure, AC/DC was in town and I picked up these 4 Australians in the North End, I can't recall from where, might have been the arena. They were big Mothers and the big guy with bald head said they were with the RCMP ( Royal Canadian Mounted Police). I responded by saying how brave the RCMP were, as it was in the News that 2 Officers had pulled over the Hell's Angel in the middle of nowhere and arrested 'em. That takes guts. Anyway drove 'em to downtown hotel, don't know if it was the band members of perhaps their crew.

Ok so what music Celerities have you met?
Title: Re: Music Celebrities You've Met
Post by: FullRangeMan on 3 Aug 2020, 09:25 am
In 1974 I see Sir Rick Wakeman, his wife and two other guys from the Band at 10M near walking in downtown.
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Post by: dpatters on 3 Aug 2020, 11:17 am

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Sandy and I with Carl Palmer November 2019
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Post by: Letitroll98 on 3 Aug 2020, 11:46 am
Kenny Loggins backstage after a concert.  Amy Ray and Emily Saliers from the Indigo Girls at Applewood Festival, their plane was hours late and only about 50 people had hung around for the headlining act, it was like they played to us alone.  My dad got me Ricky Nelson's autograph when I was a boy.  He had one hit song around then and we knew him from the Ossy and Harriet show.

Non musical, Michael Jordan, Paula Poundstone, and I shoke Robert Kennedy's hand at a rally.  I'm sure a few more I can't recall now.
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Post by: dB Cooper on 3 Aug 2020, 12:57 pm
Stevie Wonder
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Post by: stlrman on 3 Aug 2020, 04:07 pm
Me and John Denver , back stage passes, friends father worked for RCA


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Post by: WGH on 3 Aug 2020, 06:55 pm
Partied with Brewer and Shipley in 1970, they were on tour promoting their "Weeds" album. They had a string of hits including "On Toke Over the Line", "Witchi-Tai-To", and "Tarkio Road"
They are good guys.

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Post by: michaelweiss on 3 Aug 2020, 09:24 pm
I was playing with Johnny Griffin at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago, maybe 1995. Robert Plant was in the club. In between tunes he called out, "Play In the Still of the Night!" Then he was in a club I was playing trio in NYC in 2005. I said "this is the second time you've come into a club where I was playing. Don't know if you would remember, but you came into the Jazz Showcase in Chicago where I was working with Johnny Griffin..." and before I could say anything more he said, "why didn't you play In the Still of the Night?"
Title: Re: Music Celebrities You've Met
Post by: FullRangeMan on 3 Aug 2020, 09:24 pm
In 2003 I met Thijs Van Leer and all the Focus guys unfortunately the photos with the band failed.
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Title: Re: Music Celebrities You've Met
Post by: rockadanny on 4 Aug 2020, 02:11 am
I've spent some time with many performers (celebs and non-celebs) before/after their gigs, but never met anyone just walking about.

Brief interludes with Rory Block, John Hammond, Joe Zawinul and Jaco Pastorius, um ... many others too many beers ago to recall.

Longer conversations with (people IMO who are celebs):
Mark Selby - at a private gathering where he performed with his beautiful and talented wife Tia Sillers.
Lee Rocker - after a show he invited me back stage for a beer and we discussed music and the biz.
Thomas Yearsley - bass player for the Paladins at the bar at the Magic Stick in Detroit. Perhaps not a celeb?
Sam Lay

Lil' Ed (Williams) - of, And The Blues Imperials. At a bar in Cleveland after the show, I hit the bathroom for a moment, and when I returned, sitting in my seat, which was OBVIOUSLY MY SEAT as my half-filled glass and reading glasses were there on the bar, and my jacket on the back of the stool, sat Lil' Ed. I cut him slack for stealing my chair and we ended up having a nice long discussion about music, the blues, and history of the blues. Including stories of his uncle J.B. Hutto teaching him to play guitar.

Bernard Purdie - My wife and I were snowed in at a hotel in Asheville, NC, for a jazz weekend which featured several performers (David Sanborn, Bucky and John Pizzarelli, Bernard, Cyrus Chestnut, others?) ... Anyway, while standing in line at the breakfast buffet Bernard started flirting with my wife, who then brought him over to our table. We all had breakfast together and great conversation. 
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Post by: fado on 4 Aug 2020, 04:59 am
Me with Tito Schipa ~1962 at the home of my uncle, Jean Valentino (Rudolph Valentino's nephew). Tito Schipa (Italian pronunciation: [ˈskipa]; born Raffaele Attilio Amedeo Schipa; 2 January 1889 in Lecce – 16 December 1965) was an Italian tenor, considered the greatest tenore di grazia and one of the most popular tenors of the century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Schipa

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Post by: CSI on 4 Aug 2020, 11:03 pm
For many years my friend Alan K. ran the board at the music venue in McCabe's Guitar Shop in LA where he got to meet a lot of musicians. One day he was asked to pick up Arlo Guthrie at the airport. The next day he sent me a picture, not of Arlo, but of the seat of his old Ford LTD where Arlo had been riding. I still have that pic of Alan standing next to his car pointing proudly at the empty seat.
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Post by: S Clark on 4 Aug 2020, 11:16 pm
I spent about 30 minutes talking with this guy at a RMAF several years back, one of the Harlots of 42nd Street. He's kind of a celeb around these parts.

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Post by: Scroof Neachy on 5 Aug 2020, 12:53 am
My wife met Pete Townsend on a flight between NYC and Toronto years ago. She still has his autograph.
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Post by: eichlerera1 on 5 Aug 2020, 03:09 am
Met Tom Jones at The European Health Spa in Warwick, RI.
People don't realize how short he is. (in height anyway) :icon_twisted:.

Sat at a booth in a club with Ritchie Blackmore for about a hour.
He had the longest fingers I had ever seen.
He ended up playing between Beaver Brown's set and when he refused to leave the stage started a minor riot. We were all thrown out of the club.
A fun night!
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Post by: jtwrace on 5 Aug 2020, 03:22 am
Mark Selby - at a private gathering where he performed with his beautiful and talented wife Tia Sillers.
So sad about Mark, this is still one of the best performances I've been to


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGvdlFGoH-M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGvdlFGoH-M)

Title: Re: Music Celebrities You've Met
Post by: Mudslide on 5 Aug 2020, 03:42 am
Jim Pons from Mothers of Invention (knew his sister), Rosie from Rosie and the Originals, and Miles Davis.  Oh yeah, not musical, but I just gotta brag...I was flirted with by Brook Shield at an ice cream parlor in La Jolla, and turned down dinner with Farrah Fawcett (worked with her sister) and Ryan O'neal.  (Sadly I was injured, had to have surgery and couldn't make the 125 mile drive.)
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Post by: Mike B. on 5 Aug 2020, 02:21 pm
Talked with several members of the Grateful Dead, all the members of Stevie Ray  Vaughan and Double Trouble and The Fabulous Thunderbirds

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Post by: rockadanny on 5 Aug 2020, 04:46 pm
@jtwrace
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So sad about Mark
Crap! I was unaware. Very sad about this.  :cry:
Thank you for posting that video!  :thumb:
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Post by: TomS on 5 Aug 2020, 08:00 pm
@jtwrace Crap! I was unaware. Very sad about this.  :cry:
Thank you for posting that video!  :thumb:
That was a great time at David's place. I was also very saddened when I heard Mark was gone.
Title: Re: Music Celebrities You've Met
Post by: simoon on 22 Aug 2020, 09:45 pm
In 2003 I met Thijs Van Leer and all the Focus guys unfortunately the photos with the band failed.

BajaProg?

I met them too, in 2003.
Title: Re: Music Celebrities You've Met
Post by: simoon on 22 Aug 2020, 09:51 pm
I've met quite few.

I'll start with an older era.

My uncle (died at the age of 92 a few years ago) used to the pianist for Harry James big band. His house in the Studio City hills, was a mecca for top musicians when they were in LA. Some of the younger people on this forum may not know all these names, but anyone with any passing knowledge of music should know some of them.

Louie Belson, Buddy Rich, Tony Bennett, Rosemary Cloony, Steve Allen, and others were regular visitors. I didn't just meet these people, but hung out with them, and listened to their stories.

This would have been in the late 60's when I wasn't  even in my teens yet. But I knew enough to understand the talent of these people, even though they might have not been my style at the time.

But all through the rest of my life, I met and hung out with even more.

I went to Keith Emerson's last birthday party, the year before he killed himself, but met him on numerous occasions before.

I hung out with Allan Holdsworth many times. Not exactly someone that could be considered a 'celebrity' for the average person, but ask any living guitarist on the planet who he was...

Met and talked to Peter Gabriel on 3 occasions. 

Met and gave car ride to a drunk (before he got clean), John Wetton (King Crimson vocalist, bass player) in 2000.

I've met quite a few more, world class (jazz, prog and classical) musicians, but because the world does not seem to reward actual musical skill with celebrity, and uses other (crappy) metrics instead, I will not list them.

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Post by: vinyl_lady on 22 Aug 2020, 10:23 pm
Just four and two are in the Rock n Roll HOF. Neil Young backstage after a solo concert in Spokane WA. Richie Furay (Buffalo Springfield, Poco, Souther Hillman Furay band) in a meet and greet along with Paul Cotton of Poco. Jakob Dylan and all the members of Wallflowers backstage after a concert.

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Title: Re: Music Celebrities You've Met
Post by: Russell Dawkins on 23 Aug 2020, 05:03 pm
I spent about 30 minutes talking with this guy at a RMAF several years back, one of the Harlots of 42nd Street. He's kind of a celeb around these parts.

(https://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=2761)
Yep, Chris Becker—lonewolfny42. what a generous guy. I hope he's doing OK.
He told me of one night when John Lennon and Harry Nilsson came to hear the Harlots and after the gig they sat and drank anf talked until the wee hours.
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Post by: glynnw on 23 Aug 2020, 05:22 pm
Mel Torme, Angel Romero, Kool (w/out the Gang), Waylon Jennings, Ricky Skaggs, Erich Kunzel, John O'Conor, Sam Pilafian, Steve Wilson, Keith Lockhart - all briefly at various record co meetings when I worked as salesman in the record biz.  But most important to me is audio luminary Harold Beveridge.
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Post by: GeneS on 18 Sep 2020, 12:31 am
I’ve been pretty lucky being able to meet people that I actually wanted to. Geddy Lee, Tim Lefevbre (Tedeschi Trucks, David Bowie, Who’s Hat is This), members of Lake Street Dive, Pete Best, Mark Rivers x2, Kofi Burbridge, Joey “Belladonna”, and one of the Blue Man Group but I don’t know which one because they all look the same  :lol:
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Post by: FullRangeMan on 18 Sep 2020, 09:33 am
I knew a guy that served soup to David Byrne when he câme two times tô my City, Dave left the hotel alone and walking 5 blocks tô take soup in a small grocery.
Dave is a great humble person.
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Post by: Strangeband on 1 Oct 2020, 01:50 am
Jim Peterik after an Ides of March show at King's Inn in Roanoke, VA, in 1971.

Talked with Randall Bramblett several times.
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Post by: Jumpin on 1 Oct 2020, 12:10 pm
Bruce Springsteen and Phil Lesh among others.
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Post by: FullRangeMan on 2 Oct 2020, 12:57 am
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Post by: MikeInAustin on 2 Oct 2020, 01:30 am
My Wife's employer was a Guy Clark fan.  From 1989-1993, he paid to have Guy perform a private Christmas party for the employees in Little Rock.  It was a treat to listen to him and Verlon Thompson.  The bonus was going out after the performance with him and listening to local bands.  Hearing him make comments about the music and the songs.  He always hit on my wife but neither of us took offense.  He was charming.
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Post by: lowtech on 2 Oct 2020, 03:57 am
Ron Townson (The 5th Dimension (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSr9BbhoJQ)), Colleen Fitzpatrick (Games (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqnrygdID6g)), Patrick O'Hearn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luf9ehrmI7A&list=PLMQZFn8rxlqNA4C4sl5YlCMwyzp6VR6d5) (Missing Persons), Laurie Anderson (https://youtu.be/KvOoR8m0oms?t=4).
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Post by: Digi-G on 2 Oct 2020, 01:16 pm
In the 1990s I was one of 4 business partners for an engineering firm.  One of the partners also ran an archery range and ended up befriending Ted Nugent, who visited the range on several occasions.  On one of those visits, they both came to check out my business partners other, engineering, business.  It was funny, T.N. seemed a little nervous, I assume he felt out of his element.  He was very quiet and laid back and came across as a nice guy.

On a nearly unrelated story, when I was in high school I had to ride the bus.  One day after school, while sitting on the bus waiting to leave school, another student comes on and asks loudly if anyone wants a "Ted Nugget" poster.  He had drawn a poster of him in art class and labeled it Ted Nuget, forgetting the second 'N' in his name.  It still makes me laugh.
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Post by: I.Greyhound Fan on 2 Oct 2020, 03:46 pm
Back in 1983 I met Stephen Pearcy the lead singer of RAT along with the whole band in a hotel room that was filled with smoke from Marijuana.  I was a 3rd year medical student and made a house call with a family doctor I was training with.
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Post by: marc513 on 2 Oct 2020, 04:26 pm
Oh lots I worked for a airline so I flew with the Grateful Dead many times , I carried out Jonny Cash’s guitar he tipped me 5 silver dollars. I also carried out Emmylou Harris’s guitar and talked a bit real sweetheart. Mohamed Ali many times at the airport. Roger McGuinn at a club in Atlanta , David Bromberg at a show in Chicago , Rick Danko , Levon Helm at small outdoor concert outside Chicago. Bob Gibson and Hamilton Camp at a anniversary concert sat a the bar after show and drank way to much great fun. Hilary Hahn after a Chicago symphony show . Arlo Guthrie At a club in Chicago , Mick Jagger at the checkerboard club in Chicago great fun that night. Gallagher the comedian smoked a bit with him after show still covered with the watermelon that he smashed that was fun. Jerry Douglas and Kenny Rogers at a private party with some local bluegrass bands in Wisconsin. I know I am forgetting many from my foggy youth as I remember more I will post more . Thanks for this post it’s fun to remember all the people I have met tipped a drink with , smoked with its been a good life . Now at 67 I don’t see a lot of shows anymore I have COPD so now I enjoy my stereo much more.
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Post by: rollo on 2 Oct 2020, 04:31 pm
  Frank Sinatra Dionne Warwick, Steve Lawrence and Dianne Carol. Met at an after hours club in Vegas many years ago.


charles
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Post by: matthewpartrick on 2 Oct 2020, 04:36 pm
CSN.  Graham Nash is about the most gracious celebrity I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.
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Post by: marc513 on 2 Oct 2020, 05:06 pm
Oh not music related but president Nixon at a water treatment plant in streamwood Illinois. President Bush at a airport and Vice President Mike Pence at a rally. Also not related to music but saw and talked to several porn stars at the airport and many more in Vegas . I was there for a CES show and the adult film awards show was going on at the same time .i also sat at a black jack table for a bit with Jonny Carson game was to rich for me but we talked a bit nice guy. Such fun to to dig in to my memory and remember celebrities and musicians I have been lucky to meet .
Marc
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Post by: twitch54 on 2 Oct 2020, 06:18 pm
Harry and Tom Chapin after a concert at the Eastman Theatre in Rochester back in '77
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Post by: CSI on 2 Oct 2020, 10:05 pm
Terry Gibbs, master vibraphonist. He was a former bandmate of a friend of mine who was a music educator at a Junior College near my home. We went to see him perform with the Steve Allen Show band (later the Tonight Show band) then got to chat with him on the street outside after the gig. Super nice, high energy dude who was happy to meet up with an old band buddy. I got the impression he would stand and chat forever but he glanced at his watch and said he had to run. "Mrs. Gubenko is baking Knishes and I gotta run" (his real name is Julius Gubenko).  This was a long time ago and I'm glad to see he is still alive and performing at age 95. He'll be 96 very soon - we have the same birthday, Oct. 13th. Happy birthday Mr. Gubenko.
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Post by: dB Cooper on 3 Oct 2020, 12:37 am
oops
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Post by: brooklyn on 3 Oct 2020, 04:34 am
I met Diana Ross and got her autograph back stage at the Westbury Music Fair in Long Island NY back in the eighties.
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Post by: Craig B on 28 Dec 2020, 01:38 pm
I've met Jimmy Buffett, Melissa Etheridge and Earl Scruggs. And I'm an old personal pal of Suzy Bogguss.
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Post by: sturgus on 29 Dec 2020, 12:49 am
I have been fortunate to meet a lot of celebrities at music venues. I won't mention those. I have met a few in just ordinary life. I meet James Moody, Denis Edwards (Temptations) at the airport. AL McKay (Earth Wind Fire) at a house party. Shaun Cassidy shared a top bunk with me for a few days while I was in a rehab in Hawaii (visiting friend). I also met Chuck Berry, Nelly, Vanilla Ice (Casino). Also my sister used to date Chuck Carter (drummer for Hugh Masekela) famous for those cow bells on the opening of Grazing In The Grass. I know there are a few more just won't come to me now.
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Post by: michaelweiss on 9 Jan 2021, 10:29 pm
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a serious and most knowledgeable jazz fan, was in the Village Vanguard when I was performing there. He told me if basketball hadn't been his calling his wish would have been to play the piano like Bud Powell.
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Post by: richidoo on 10 Jan 2021, 05:29 am
As a young jazz musician in Boston in the early 80s I was fortunate to meet and befriend many musicians on gigs and at college including Diana Krall, Wynton, Branford and Delfeayo Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Leon Merian, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Alan Dawson, John Medeski, Christopher Hollyday, James Williams, Billy Pierce, Woody Shaw, Chet Baker, TerriLynn Carrington, Tierney Sutton, Billy Higgins, Dick Johnson, Javon Jackson. My fav autographs include Sammy Davis, Sarah Vaughn, Woody Herman, Count Basie, Jay McShann.
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Post by: jaywills on 10 Jan 2021, 12:45 pm
Neil Young.  Elliston Soda Shop, Nashville, ca. 1978 or '79.  Having pie and coffee.
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Post by: gene9p on 10 Jan 2021, 08:40 pm
As a member of the Tarrytown Music Hall I got to meet many of the performers, from Dave Mason, David Benoit, Russ Freeman  and many others. We had a British Invasion show a couple of years ago and got to meet several stars including Denny Lane. We also had a private Charity event for members only..the Star ..Jon Bovi.