Famous musicians you have met ......

bigjon

bigjon said:

Chris Martin of Coldplay was a camper in my group when I was a leader on church camps in the mid nineties. He was just discovering open tunings on the guitar and discovering his deep gruff soul-singer voice!

2nd row from the back, bigjon all the way over on the right-hand side, Chris Martin 7th from the right, just to the left of the middle window

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johnnyurq

Fish Pre and post Fame

Most of The Stranglers

All of Stiff Little Fingers

All of The Pretenders

Mick Jones & Topper Headon from The Clash

All Of Hue and Cry

Various other bands and musos when working in Theatre

Siouxsie Sioux and most of the band

Dave Sharp from the alarm (we were booked to support a solo gig up here but sadly fell through, our bass player was a roadie for them) Plus Gaz Top strangely through  Get Fresh rather than as a n Alarm head roadie.

A few others I cannot remember at the mo.

Paul_C

Steve Rothery (as mentioned elsewhere)
Isla St Clair (fixed her acoustic a couple of times
Billy Sheehan (clinic)
Captain Sensible (drunk, gig)
Steve Lawson (solo bass guy)
John Bradbury (The Specials)

support gigs, chatted to:
Neville Staple (The Specials)
Chaz Jankel (The Blockheads)
Mick Gallagher (The Blockheads)
Ranking Roger (The Beat)

bazxkr

David Coverdale twice

Mickey Moody

Neil Murray

All whilst with Whitesnake

Ronnie James Dio

Steve Morse

Roger Glover

+ loads of others at back stage party after 1999 Albert hall concerto thingy

Cheers

Baz

viz

It's great that so many of these famous musicians are really nice and friendly

Handsome_Chris

Elliott Randall (Steely Dan).

Joe Satriani. 

Stuart Hamm.

Ed O'Brien (Radiohead)

Phil Selway (Radiohead)

Neil Murray.

All were really nice unassuming guys.

oh and

Jonathan King. 

It's not all good.

IanSavage

Umm...there's a few...

Fear Factory

Machine Head

Three Colours Red

All of The Wildhearts at one stage or another (including touring with Ginger)

Sorry And The Sinatras

Tony Iommi (at a trade show, was a bit of a dick)

Scott Ian

Lemmy (at a Motorhead aftershow)

Mick Taylor (tech'd for him)

Ian Siegal (ditto)

Matt Schofield (ditto)

Peter Green (in a guitar shop in Manchester, he really is a bit weird)

Captain Sensible

Status Quo (very briefly at a Bulldog Bash)

Buster Bloodvessel (ditto)

The Gaslight Anthem (lovely men)

Spike from The Quireboys

Tyla (of Dogs D'Amour, again toured with)

Therapy? and Terrorvision (again, Bulldog Bash - got hideously pissed with Terrorvision)

Duff McKagen (signing session, so tres brief - he took of his aviators to talk to my daughter though)

Mani (from Stone Roses, came to one of my old band's gigs, said he loved us and signed my bass - he was wankered though)

Ainsley Lister (through IGF)

Ricky Warwick and Pete Friesen (of The Almighty, the former supporting him on some acoustic shows, the latter at IGF)

I'm sure there's more, shall go through the photo albums...

DulcetJones

And I just remembered I had a chat with Rik Emmet, guitarist with Canadas other power trio "Triumph" and former GP columnist a couple of years ago.  He was doing some solo acoustic gigs and hung out for a while with a couple of us fanatics after his set.  Nice guy, and wicked acoustic blues(along with his stadium rock electric skills).  I don't know how widely known Triumph is or was but many feel they were overshadowed by the phenomenal success Rush enjoyed. 

Deadman

johnnyurq said:

Fish Pre and post Fame

Most of The Stranglers

All of Stiff Little Fingers

All of The Pretenders

Mick Jones & Topper Headon from The Clash

All Of Hue and Cry

Various other bands and musos when working in Theatre

Siouxsie Sioux and most of the band

Dave Sharp from the alarm (we were booked to support a solo gig up here but sadly fell through, our bass player was a roadie for them) Plus Gaz Top strangely through  Get Fresh rather than as a n Alarm head roadie.

A few others I cannot remember at the mo.

Phew. What a list Johnny. Winner for me.

Lixarto

Met  Pallas, Dumpy's Rusty Nuts and Ozzy's band (w/ Zakk and Geezer) backstage.

Became friendly with Luke Morley after my band supported Terraplane (live in Redcar!) so I knew the guys from Thunder.

Drinks with Fish (once) and Bob Geldof (twice).

On stage with Chuck Berry.

IanSavage

Lixarto said:

Met  Pallas, Dumpy's Rusty Nuts and Ozzy's band (w/ Zakk and Geezer) backstage.

Became friendly with Luke Morley after my band supported Terraplane (live in Redcar!) so I knew the guys from Thunder.

Drinks with Fish (once) and Bob Geldof (twice).

On stage with Chuck Berry.

Zap wins. 

Drew_TNBD

I met Booty Brown from the Pharcyde once; nice guy. Really chatty, but humble too.

EricTheWeary

Biff Byford twice. seemed a lovely man
Lightning Willie. Err, you may have to Google who he is.
My entire conversation with Bernie Marsden consisted of
'hello'
'Hello'
does that count?

voxmanjohn

I have met Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones on several occasions. He drinks in a pub local to where my Grandad lived

Deadman

...wrong thread. Carry on gents.

johnnyurq

Deadman;78219" said:

Phew. What a list Johnny. Winner for me.

Cheers @Deadman but I was lucky to meet most of my Punk/New Wave heroes and favourites, the rest was teching with the lovies whilst working in Theatre.



Forgot Charlie Harper when they played up here when the local 5150 bikers club hired UK Subs to play at a do they had on, we were playing too and CH came in when we were rehearsing and our cheeky bass player started playing warhead and a few other choice bass lines of theirs.

Tom Robinson and his band in the 90's.

Buster Bloodvessel, Annie Lennox and various others at the 1st Loch Lomond Festival. The Jam fooked off and ignored all the fans etc then proceeded to fuck off Jake Burns and the SLF dudes at the hospitality tent when invited for a bevvy.

My old Brian is struggling to remember more but there was a few because I loved going to gigs and was quite good at blagging my way into backstage places.


Edit

I know a bass player who was a session man who was contemporary and worked with Jimmy Page plus all the usual suspects, I did tech and IT work for him and his studio in the noughties. His son is also a musician and has done some Hollywood stuff (Gladiator and others) and title and incidental music for the Beeb along with various other channels.

axisus

Just remembered, I have some photo evidence! 

Billy Sheehan is a great guy and really has time for fans, and Guthrie is just sooo down to earth, he's like your mate down the pub even though he has just met you. He will happily chat for as long as you are standing there. Lucky to have met him a few times and even had my Erotic Cakes T-shirt on for this occasion.

Phil_aka_Pip

Mainly because of sound duties at an Arts Centre some time back:

John Etheridge

Henry Thomas

Mike Messer

Deidre Cartwright

ToneControl

My Godfather  was Arthur  Tolcher, the harmonica player at the end of every Morecambe and Wise TV show

I must have met him at my Christening.

Surely he must be more famous than all your widdly guitarists, everyone has heard the phrase "not now Arthur"

 

My list is (no judgement implied btw) more of who I left alone because I thought they'd probably talked to enough people already:

Robert Plant

Roy Harper

Martin Simpson

 

 

 

 

johnnyurq

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Mainly because of sound duties at an Arts Centre some time back:

Deidre Cartwright

Wow who can forget Rockschool and Dierdre Cartwright, groundbreaking for sure and we really should have an equivalent today.

Some Guitarist though.