Famous musicians you have met ......

streethawk

Edit: musicians only. In which case just...

Met Dave Gedge from the Wedding Present at one of their gigs, I was a really big fan and my older sister's boyfriend knew him well. I was only a kid and he made a point of coming over for a chat. Lovely bloke. 

It's no afternoon tea with Lemmy, I know. 

streethawk

jimmyr said:

Many moons ago i met and had a cigarette with John Lennon and Yoko Ono at Marylebone magistrates court, that was way back in 1968 ish, John was very nervous and Yoko asked if i could spare a smoke for John, yes it was a Rothmans, we had a smoke together.
That is my claim to fame.
Jim

freakboy1610

I sort of met my (then) hero Robyn Hitchcock at the Hackney Empire in 1988/89? My 20 year old self was so in awe of him that I could barely speak. He posed for a photo and was (much to my relief) very nice.
I also met the guitarist from Carter USM (Fruitbat?) when I supported them in 97. He too was a thoroughly charming bloke.
Nearly forgot but also met Louis Eliot from Kinky Machine/Rialto. He told us a story about how he'd snorted coke off Lemmy's thumb! He's some sort of Lord don't ya know (Louis not Lemmy) but he keeps very quiet about it.

LooseMoose

Plant, Page and Bonham

Dave Grohl

Nick Mason

Tony Bennett (Legend)

Elton John (Twerp)

And various dweebs from Razorshite or whatever cool 'T-Shirt' band are in fashion

koneguitarist

Albert Lee a few times, first back in 80`s at the Borderline in London.

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koneguitarist

Also Al Perkins, Slim Whitman, Rodney Crowell, Buddy Miller, couple of the iron Maiden guitarists were there when that pic was taken with Albert, they were watching as well. I didn`t ask them for a pic, as I wasn`t sure who they were, my mate had to tell me ">

mudslide73

Our bass player has a photo of himself posing with Alex Lifeson during Rush's first uk tour in 1977. He and his mate sneaked into the soundcheck, got rumbled by security but got to meet the band.

OilCityPickups

I simply wait for the famous musicians to post that they met me

boogieman

Recently. Andy Fraser: He's been my favourite bass player since his Free days. Thoroughly nice bloke, although I probably embarrassed myself by rambling on about old Free gigs I'd seen him play. Deke Leonard: I think the drugs have taken their toll, but a very friendly guy.

In the past: Lemmy, Tony McPhee, Mickey Moody, Jennifer Batten, Brian Eno, all the guys from Eddie and the Hotrods and the Hamsters. All approachable and easy to talk to. Except Lemmy, who was an arrogant tosspot.

bigdawg

quite often bump into Wilko Johnson, last time he was quite literally walking down southend high street without anyone any the wiser...

And have met peter green numerous times as I know some members of his family.

EricTheWeary

bigdawg said:

quite often bump into Wilko Johnson, last time he was quite literally walking down southend high street without anyone any the wiser...

And have met peter green numerous times as I know some members of his family.

there is a Peter Green lookalike who wanders around B'ham city centre quite a lot. A few times I've seen people pointing and saying to each other ooh, do you know who that is..?

Yep, I ran out of famous people early on so going for lookalikes now.
|)

thisisguitar

Reading this thread reminded me I've met some and forgotten them!

Steve Vai

Joe Satriani 

Billy Sheehan 

Paul Gilbert

No Doubt (even gave Gwen Stafani a drunken hug).

Francis Dunnery and Bob Dalton (It Bites)

Nick Harper

Robert Plant

Mike Portnoy

Bastille (great bunch of guys)

Guthrie Govan (had lessons with him for a while)

Oceansize

Paco Peña

Oscar Harrison (drummer from Ocean Colour Scene)

and now I feel like a massive name dropper! 

Bezzer

Not that many, the important ones first (in case he's reading )

Stuart Ryan

Thomas Leeb

Eric Roche

Jimmy Vaughan

John Paul Jones

Phil Campbell

I had a brief shouting conversation with Max Cavalera ... he was funny, but in a rush.

joneve

Only a few that spring to mind and not very famous at that!

Ed Robertson and Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies

1/2 of Hoobastank - The Bassist, Markku and guitarist, Dan Estrin (who appeared to be a total cunt).

All 5 original members of Hundred Reasons before I interviewed Colin and Andy B (vocals and Drums)

drwiddly

Can't compete with John Lennon but here goes...

All of Iron Maiden (Adrian Smith is an old friend)

Phil Lynott and Scott Gorham in the 70's

Rory Gallagher (a genuinely lovely guy)

Chris Squire

Budgie

Stray

Wishbone Ash c. 1999

Doogie White

Ian Paice

Mick Box

axisus

drwiddly said:

Mick Box

Mick Box was so funny, he just couldn't contain himself!

spacecadet

Luckily quite a few.

Paul Gilbert
Guthrie Govan
Albert Lee
Wes Borland
Brian May
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
Jennifer Batten
Steve Rothery
Jerry Donahue
The two idiots from Slipnot (can't even remember their names)
Richie Sambora (best looking man I have ever met)
Andy Timmons
Joe Bonamassa
Ritche Kotzen
Kerry King
Greg Koch
Billy Sheehan
Pino Palladino
Mike Portnoy
Mike Mangini
Marco Minneman
Mark Mondesir
Greg Bissonette
Omar Hakim
Add to the list a load of other blokes and birds you may or may not have heard of that do session stuff for some names.

shagnasty

Met BB King 3 times, a true gentleman, he remembered me from the last time each time we met..............he said !!!

shagnasty

Met Big Jim Sullivan loads of times, RIP Jim

shagnasty

Herbie Flowers took the p1ss out of me a few times.