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Who here has met a famous musician? tell your story

foolintherain wrote:Who here has met a famous musician? tell your story

Interviewed Roger Hodgson in Canada
2005

Met Bob Seger, Steve Perry , Dennis DeYoung had breakfast with JY in Vegas also Neil Schon . Bob Hope Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman. Chris Squire, and Sting.

Zan wrote:Define "famous." LOL

I've met everyone from Styx sans JC at one time or another
Lou Gramm
Jon Corabi
Rik Emmett
Don McLean
Richie Supa (formerly of Aerosmith)
Dion
Kevin Cronin
Dave Amato
Patti Smyth & John McEnroe
Steve Augeri
Ted Nugent
Jack Blades


I remember meeting Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades for the first time together in 1990, and I kept saying to Jack, "I've been waiting 7 years to meet him!" What a dork. lol

Froy, you met Bob Hope. That is effin awesome.

Yep
My friend worked at the Marriott Ohare in the health club
Bob ordered up a massage table
I helped bring it to his room
He opened the door with a putter in his hand and said wheel it in.
Very cool..

Never met anyone, but i was in close proximity

I was working at the Marriot at Philidelphia Airport, delivering the morning papers to each and every room. The staff aren't supposed to give me a list that includes the names of the attendents, just what rooms are getting a paper so I can skip the empty ones. Well one night, this new girl hands me the list but this time it has names on it. I didn't look at the names while I was delivering, it was 4 in the morning and I wanted to get out of there, but afterwards, I looked over the list before handing it back to her. On the list was M. Jackson, and A. Schwarzenegger. I was surprised, even though the person I was replacing said that they had met Bill Clinton there one night. I know, not that great of a story but one thing I can say; I never saw her working there again after that night.

Hmmm . . . does interviewing someone on the phone but not seeing them face to face count? I've interviewed Tommy Shaw (met him in person at length several times too), Todd Sucherman, Glen Burtnik (met him too, along with several people from the list), did a radio show with Gowan and JY, spoke with DDY briefly years ago. Robert Romanus, LOL, on the phone. Steve Howe, Trevor Rabin, Brian May, Jon Bon Jackass, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Michael Cartellone, Ted Nugent, Jack Blades, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, Ace Frehley, Rik Emmett, Martin Barre, Ian Anderson, Peter Frampton, Kerry Livgren, Steve Walsh, Rich Williams, Phil Ehart, David Ragsdale, Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Ty Tabor, Dana Plato (seriously!), Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman, Alan Jackson, Wynonna Judd . . . and a cast of thousands, I guess, LOL. Many in person, some on the phone. But no Bob Hope, LOL. That's way cool. My uncle worked on one of his TV specials and loved him.


Sterling

Rockwriter wrote:Hmmm . . . does interviewing someone on the phone but not seeing them face to face count? I've interviewed Tommy Shaw (met him in person at length several times too), Todd Sucherman, Glen Burtnik (met him too, along with several people from the list), did a radio show with Gowan and JY, spoke with DDY briefly years ago. Robert Romanus, LOL, on the phone. Steve Howe, Trevor Rabin, Brian May, Jon Bon Jackass, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Michael Cartellone, Ted Nugent, Jack Blades, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, Ace Frehley, Rik Emmett, Martin Barre, Ian Anderson, Peter Frampton, Kerry Livgren, Steve Walsh, Rich Williams, Phil Ehart, David Ragsdale, Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Ty Tabor, Dana Plato (seriously!), Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman, Alan Jackson, Wynonna Judd . . . and a cast of thousands, I guess, LOL. Many in person, some on the phone. But no Bob Hope, LOL. That's way cool. My uncle worked on one of his TV specials and loved him.


Sterling

yeah, I heard that radio interview on rockline. JY said he was never interviewed for the book, did you make the thing up?

has anyone here ever met a Beatle or Stone

Let's see:

Chris Evert
Gregory Hines
Styx(all except JC, John P, and Ricky)
George Lindsey(Goober)
Hank Stram
Tom Landry
Earl Williams
Any Motorcycle Racing celeb you may have heard of(ie Travis Pastrana, Ricky Carmichael,..)
Sen Bob Graham
3 Doors Down
Louis Farakahn

If I would have cared to take the time

Jimmy Buffet
Pres George Bush (41)
Chuck Norris
Michael Dorn (Worf)

foolintherain wrote:

Rockwriter wrote:Hmmm . . . does interviewing someone on the phone but not seeing them face to face count? I've interviewed Tommy Shaw (met him in person at length several times too), Todd Sucherman, Glen Burtnik (met him too, along with several people from the list), did a radio show with Gowan and JY, spoke with DDY briefly years ago. Robert Romanus, LOL, on the phone. Steve Howe, Trevor Rabin, Brian May, Jon Bon Jackass, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Michael Cartellone, Ted Nugent, Jack Blades, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, Ace Frehley, Rik Emmett, Martin Barre, Ian Anderson, Peter Frampton, Kerry Livgren, Steve Walsh, Rich Williams, Phil Ehart, David Ragsdale, Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Ty Tabor, Dana Plato (seriously!), Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman, Alan Jackson, Wynonna Judd . . . and a cast of thousands, I guess, LOL. Many in person, some on the phone. But no Bob Hope, LOL. That's way cool. My uncle worked on one of his TV specials and loved him.


Sterling

yeah, I heard that radio interview on rockline. JY said he was never interviewed for the book, did you make the thing up?

LOL, uh, no. I did what everyone does in that scenario. I did a lot of reserach and used past interviews for the people I could not interview myself. It's not like there's a shortage of JY interviews in the world.

I hope all is well.

Sterling

met or gotten autographs of almost everyone from the 70's except the who and stones, oh yeah and mccartney
madonna was the biggest bitch,
phil collins was about the coolest .
spentabout an hour and a half in the hotel bar with neal, laurie and randy after a ROR show
didnt have a good perry experience
drove bonjovi(tico and jon) back to thier hotel after a radio interview once.
to many to name

foolintherain wrote:

Rockwriter wrote:Hmmm . . . does interviewing someone on the phone but not seeing them face to face count? I've interviewed Tommy Shaw (met him in person at length several times too), Todd Sucherman, Glen Burtnik (met him too, along with several people from the list), did a radio show with Gowan and JY, spoke with DDY briefly years ago. Robert Romanus, LOL, on the phone. Steve Howe, Trevor Rabin, Brian May, Jon Bon Jackass, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Michael Cartellone, Ted Nugent, Jack Blades, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, Ace Frehley, Rik Emmett, Martin Barre, Ian Anderson, Peter Frampton, Kerry Livgren, Steve Walsh, Rich Williams, Phil Ehart, David Ragsdale, Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Ty Tabor, Dana Plato (seriously!), Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman, Alan Jackson, Wynonna Judd . . . and a cast of thousands, I guess, LOL. Many in person, some on the phone. But no Bob Hope, LOL. That's way cool. My uncle worked on one of his TV specials and loved him.


Sterling

yeah, I heard that radio interview on rockline. JY said he was never interviewed for the book, did you make the thing up?

He said he did a radio show with JY and Gowan, he didn't say he interviewed JY for anything. Sterling has always said that JY and Dennis were the only 2 members of Styx that refused interviews for the Book.

Not Many:

Dennis DeYoung
Steve Walsh (Kansas)
David Ragsdale (Kansas)
Phil Ehart (Kansas)
Ted Kirkpatrick (Tourniquet)
Tony Carey
Glen Burtnik
Reba McIntyre

Met:

Glen Burtnik
Eddie Money

Phone Interview:

Eddie Money
Troy Luccketta (Tesla)
Bruce Hall (REO Speedwagon)
Jeff Pilson (Dokken/Foreigner)

Will Hopefully Be Meeting Soon:

Troy Luccketta (& assumably Tesla)
Jeff Pilson (& assumably Foreigner)

Shook hands with Robert Plant in 73.
Later same year, brief chat and handshake with David Coverdale after his very first concert with Deep Purple.
He was so wired after the show ,weather he did well or not.

More exciting,,,
Got photograps on my wall,with my mom and Elvis,also a shot of my dad with Marilyn Monroe.
My dad took some photograps of Chet Baker in a small club after he had finished a concert.(in Copenhagen)
He was totally whacked on smack and could barely hold on to his trumpet or whatever instrument he plays.
Does that count?

Dennis DeYoung
Brad Delp (RIP)
Chuck Norris
John Goodman
Archie Manning
Ronald Regan (well actually I touched him and then was shoved rather hard by the secret service lol)
Hank Hill, Dale Gribble and Boomhower (just kidding)

Of all of them, Dennis was the longest exchange of conversation, very nice man and his wife as well. Suzanne and I talked more than Dennis and I. I would have loved to have met a Beatle. Still a chance. I bet Pete Best is availble if anyone wants to give him a call.

LordofDaRing wrote:Dennis DeYoung
Brad Delp (RIP)
Chuck Norris
John Goodman
Archie Manning
Ronald Regan (well actually I touched him and then was shoved rather hard by the secret service lol)
Hank Hill, Dale Gribble and Boomhower (just kidding)

Of all of them, Dennis was the longest exchange of conversation, very nice man and his wife as well. Suzanne and I talked more than Dennis and I. I would have loved to have met a Beatle. Still a chance. I bet Pete Best is availble if anyone wants to give him a call.

Chuck Norris and Ronald...doesn't get much cooler than that!

I met Pete Best.

foolintherain wrote:I met Pete Best.

I forgot
I also met Chuck in Vegas and Steve Walsh same tour
I met John Panazzo in 81 .
Got his autograph.

Does ~exchanging words" with dennis and glen count? lol j/k met and got jy's autograph in 07 and finally meeting todd in person after 3 years of e mails last year.

I met Jani Lane, the lead singer of Warrant at a Waffle House back in '97. My friend is a huge Warrant fan, and he swore up and down that he saw Jani sitting at one of the other booths. We went over, and my friend asked if it was him. There wasn't a whole lot of interaction, but he was cool enough to give my friend an autographed napkin, lol.

BlackWall wrote:I met Jani Lane, the lead singer of Warrant at a Waffle House back in '97. My friend is a huge Warrant fan, and he swore up and down that he saw Jani sitting at one of the other booths. We went over, and my friend asked if it was him. There wasn't a whole lot of interaction, but he was cool enough to give my friend an autographed napkin, lol.

was he working there?

I just couldn't resist that one.

lol.. Oh, did I leave that part out?

Met Styx (with Dennis and Todd), Cheap Trick, Loverboy. Had breakfast next to Loverboy and they were in the hotel room next to my wife and I. Cool guys.

I met Paul once.

"I met Paul once."

McCartney? You mentioned your meeting with Pete Best first (lol) So how was Sir Paul?

LordofDaRing wrote:"I met Paul once."

McCartney? You mentioned your meeting with Pete Best first (lol) So how was Sir Paul?

I was staying at the same hotel as him a couple of years ago and I saw him in the hall over the course of about a week and we would talk a bit when we would pass and I never made it obvious I knew who it was or anything like that and after a couple of days of conversations he said he wanted to get away from the hotel to out in the country and did I know anywhere, so the two of us went and rented some bikes and I drove him out into the country and rode the bikes for the whole day.
It was pretty surreal now when I think about it.

I came THIS / / close to meeting Sir Paul when he was in town, very long story, but should be a happy one on his next tour.


Okay, after making this list, it turns out to be bragging for me (ready for the usual non-posters to make their appearance to cut me down) here is my list of just musicians (I'm probably missing a few). I also interviewed a few for my little tv show

As for non-musician, I met most if not all the early 1990's Green Bay Packers team and many players after, quite a few of the Milwaukee Brewers from the 1980's to current, the entire Milwaukee Admirals team and many other hockey teams, Nascar drivers, Cart drivers, Milwaukee Bucks players past & present and pretty many Film & TV actors/actresses.

I have pictures of 98% of the people that I met over the years & MANY stories of each person!!!

Here is my list of Musicians .......


Dennis DeYoung – interviewed (talked with numerous times over the years)
Dennis’ band - Tommy D, Jimmy, Kyle, Tom Sharpe (interviewed), John, Dawn Marie
JY – interviewed
Glen Burtnik
Roger Hodgson – interviewed (talked with a few times over the years)
Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz (Weird Al’s drummer) – interviewed
Jim West – (Weird Al’s guitarist) - interviewed
Gunnar & Matthew Nelson – interviewed
Chris Cannella (Autumn’s End) - interviewed
John Waite – a few times over the years
Rik Emmett (solo/Triumph)
Jack Blades (Night Ranger/Damn Yankees/Shaw & Blades)
Kelly Keagy (solo/Night Ranger)
Jim Peterik (Survivor/Ides of March)
Jimi Jamison (solo/Survivor)
Kevin Chalfant (solo/The Storm/707)
Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree)
John Wesley (Porcupine Tree-touring)
David Pack (Ambrosia)
Don Barnes (.38 Special)
James LoMenzo (Megadeth/White Lion/Ozzy Osbourne)
Dave Grissom
Michael Lardie (Great White/Night Ranger)
Jakob Dylan (Solo/the Wallflowers)
Les Paul
John Mayer
Derek St. Holmes (Ted Nugent)
Michael Harris (Idiot Pilot)
Daniel Anderson (Idiot Pilot)
Shane Told (Silverstein)
Josh Bradford (Silverstein) – fun interview
Brandon Saller (Atreyu) –interview
David Cassidy
Barry Williams
Ian Mitchell (Bay City Rollers)
Kyle Vincent (solo/Bay City Rollers)
Dean Torrence (Jan & Dean)

Entire Bands

REO Speedwagon – Kevin Cronin, Neal Doughty, Bruce Hall, Dave Amato & Bryan Hitt
Loverboy – Mike Reno, Paul Dean, Doug Johnson, Matt Frenette & Spider Sinnaeve
The Avatars – Ian Zander, Mark Gustafson, Scott Ford & Dustin Copeland - Interviewed
The Beautiful Girls - Mat McHugh, Paulie B & Bruce Braybrooke - Interviewed
Three – Joey Eppard, Billy Riker, Daniel Grimsland, Chris Gartmann & Joe Stote – Interviewed
Bullet for My Valentine - Matt Tuck, Michael Paget, Jason James, Michael Thomas
The Cowsills - Susan, Bob & Paul Cowsill

SuiteMadameBlue wrote:I came THIS / / close to meeting Sir Paul when he was in town, very long story, but should be a happy one on his next tour.


Okay, after making this list, it turns out to be bragging for me (ready for the usual non-posters to make their appearance to cut me down) here is my list of just musicians (I'm probably missing a few). I also interviewed a few for my little tv show

As for non-musician, I met most if not all the early 1990's Green Bay Packers team and many players after, quite a few of the Milwaukee Brewers from the 1980's to current, the entire Milwaukee Admirals team and many other hockey teams, Nascar drivers, Cart drivers, Milwaukee Bucks players past & present and pretty many Film & TV actors/actresses.

I have pictures of 98% of the people that I met over the years & MANY stories of each person!!!

Here is my list of Musicians .......


Dennis DeYoung – interviewed (talked with numerous times over the years)
Dennis’ band - Tommy D, Jimmy, Kyle, Tom Sharpe (interviewed), John, Dawn Marie
JY – interviewed
Glen Burtnik
Roger Hodgson – interviewed (talked with a few times over the years)
Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz (Weird Al’s drummer) – interviewed
Jim West – (Weird Al’s guitarist) - interviewed
Gunnar & Matthew Nelson – interviewed
Chris Cannella (Autumn’s End) - interviewed
John Waite – a few times over the years
Rik Emmett (solo/Triumph)
Jack Blades (Night Ranger/Damn Yankees/Shaw & Blades)
Kelly Keagy (solo/Night Ranger)
Jim Peterik (Survivor/Ides of March)
Jimi Jamison (solo/Survivor)
Kevin Chalfant (solo/The Storm/707)
Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree)
John Wesley (Porcupine Tree-touring)
David Pack (Ambrosia)
Don Barnes (.38 Special)
James LoMenzo (Megadeth/White Lion/Ozzy Osbourne)
Dave Grissom
Michael Lardie (Great White/Night Ranger)
Jakob Dylan (Solo/the Wallflowers)
Les Paul
John Mayer
Derek St. Holmes (Ted Nugent)
Michael Harris (Idiot Pilot)
Daniel Anderson (Idiot Pilot)
Shane Told (Silverstein)
Josh Bradford (Silverstein) – fun interview
Brandon Saller (Atreyu) –interview
David Cassidy
Barry Williams
Ian Mitchell (Bay City Rollers)
Kyle Vincent (solo/Bay City Rollers)
Dean Torrence (Jan & Dean)

Entire Bands

REO Speedwagon – Kevin Cronin, Neal Doughty, Bruce Hall, Dave Amato & Bryan Hitt
Loverboy – Mike Reno, Paul Dean, Doug Johnson, Matt Frenette & Spider Sinnaeve
The Avatars – Ian Zander, Mark Gustafson, Scott Ford & Dustin Copeland - Interviewed
The Beautiful Girls - Mat McHugh, Paulie B & Bruce Braybrooke - Interviewed
Three – Joey Eppard, Billy Riker, Daniel Grimsland, Chris Gartmann & Joe Stote – Interviewed
Bullet for My Valentine - Matt Tuck, Michael Paget, Jason James, Michael Thomas
The Cowsills - Susan, Bob & Paul Cowsill

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