Famous musicians you have met ......

jamiexsilver

Back in 1997. My 1st band used to play a pub in Barnsley called the bodegas. One night we got double booked with a band, the singer guitarist chap was nice enough but I remember him really smelling he needed a shower. His pedalboard was a tea tray with flowers on it like what a nannan would have. He asked if he could use my amp and cab so he didn't have to get theirs out the van. We used to play deftones covers after we'd played we spoke for ages about the deftones, guitars and general shit. Then they played as nice as they were I didn't like the music at all.
Turned out the band was Muse and I'd spent most of the night talking to Matt Bellamy.

I also drove a band called Send More Paramedics when they played Leeds and Reading a few years ago. I met.

Ice T - I also witnessed the chaos after the guys in lightyear wrecked ice t's dressing room and walked across the stage dressed as a pantomime horse.

Dizzy rascal - I gave him directions to the bbc stage.

I hung out with the guys in Sick of it all and municipal waste most of the day.

Philly_Q

I had a brief chat with Mark Owen in the lift at work the other day.

UnclePsychosis

I was lucky enough to meet and shake the hand of a certain Mr Nile Rodgers a few years ago. Was properly star struck.

Back in 2001 I went on a pub crawl with Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol because their manager fancied my mate. Gary is a great guy.

I briefly spoke to Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey from Pulp at a club thing they were DJing at. Jarvis is one of my all time heroes and I was so pissed I don't remember anything about what he said.

I've met quite a lot of jazz artists- Brad Mehldau, The Bad Plus, and Regina Carter are probably the most famous ones.

richardhomer

Philly_Q;1032365" said:

I had a brief chat with Mark Owen

I've heard it only takes a minute....

Philly_Q

richardhomer said:

Philly_Q;1032365" said:

I had a brief chat with Mark Owen

I've heard it only takes a minute....

blueskunk

Moss;1004051" said:

suspiciousminds said:

Just met peter hook after one of his gigs





Poor you...

Fuck all wrong with Hooky!!!!

IvisonGuitars

rsvmark said:

Saw Gary Moore exiting sainsburys in Westage Oxford many years ago. He had a face like thunder- there was no way I was going to say hi

Walkin' by my Selfridges....?

viz

miserneil said:

rsvmark said:

Saw Gary Moore exiting sainsburys in Westage Oxford many years ago. He had a face like thunder- there was no way I was going to say hi

Walkin' by my Selfridges....?

Store of the blues.

mudslide73

Are you sure it wasn't ALDI Meola?

richardhomer

mudslide73;1056987" said:

Are you sure it wasn't ALDI Meola?

Or Tommy 'Ted' Tesco?

Placidcasual79

I met Noel Gallagher in a service station in the early hours of the morning in the late 2000's. I was on my way back from Newcastle after watching a Ricky Hatton fight I think.......

He was with a few mates and a big burley security guard eating a KFC zinga burger. I couldn't give a sh*t about autographs or selfie's, but for better or worse I am a huge Oasis fan.

I was 14 when definitely maybe came out. If you where into music at that time it meant Nirvana, sh*t amy surplus gear and a heavy dose of depressing introspection. 

I wasn't having a bare of that. Oasis came out - had decent trainers and songs with lines like 'I am gonna live forever' or 'tonight I am rock n roll star'. It changed my life. They seemed like normal lads and made being in a band seem a possibility and a laugh. I learnt guitar started a band started drinking Gin and Tonic (feeling supersonic) smoking B&H and never looked back. 

I went over to tell Noel about the profound impact he'd had on my life - unfortunately as soon as I spoke he looked up and said 'F*ck off, I am eating my burger'. 

Fair enough really. 

tabbycat

quite a few of the 90s indie scene, from shoegaze to camden lurch to britpop.

jarvis (pulp obviously, there's only one jarvis) you kind of want to mother. susper-sussed and together on stage but off he was (1993-4) like a drunk gangly teen out too late that you feel that someone should watch out for (and possibly drive home) as probably likely to end up asleep in a wheelie bin if left to his own devices. not one to suffer fools gladly either. but in good company a teddy bear. and serious monomania for his 1970s kitch and esoterica. eats it. music, tv programmes, graphics, cars, sweets, curtain fabrics, cracks in the pavement. photographic memory man. possibly on the spectrum in a deeply endearing way. i think those were his lost-weekend years and he's doing a jim-morrison-v-serge-gainsbourg hiding out in paris thing now. clean, lean, emails his r6 show in once a week the day before deadline. though i can't imagine him drinking coffee from a bowl somehow.

james (gallon drunk) is also one of those 'monster on stage and an absolute charmer and sweetheart off' types. real jekyll and hyde. you imagine he might be an angsty tortured type from the way he smashes up his stuff and cuts loose on stage (c1991-92) but when he comes off he switches into almost a 'front of house' role, and will happily talk with anyone in the audience who wants to talk to him. and not talking down or to, but with. interested in you as much as you are in him. he's so modest and unassuming that he almost seems to be surprised that anyone wants to talk to him after. he's a blinding live musician and a lovely chap.

martin (gene) is a funny one. back when gene were a thing (c1994) i ended up (had a friend closely involved with them) huddled around a small table with them in the lounge of the hotel they were staying post-date. if you saw gene back then he was the king of suave, all shiny suits and crooning for vegas, like ben in blue velvet. but the instant we got back to the hotel he's out of his suit and into a cardiff city football shirt, a pint in each hand and holding forth in the bar with lurid stories like a dock worker on a bank holiday weekend bender. total trouper. again a very lovely guy and great fun, but absolutely not what you get on stage.

they are a couple that were memorable because they were so unlike their stage personas.

some i met were a bit disappointing in real life, though that may have a lot to do with what my expectations. not going to mention names as those could have been nights when they just weren't feeling it. i've absolutely hated what little touring i ever did. didn't even want to be on stage for lots of it let alone talking to anyone afterwards about it. i can understand how some artists, particularly on long tours, go diva hermit just to preserve some personal space. so i admire anyone who can do a set and socialise after. that's giving a lot i think.

richardhomer

Placidcasual79;1057290" said:

I went over to tell Noel about the profound impact he'd had on my life - unfortunately as soon as I spoke he looked up and said 'F*ck off, I am eating my burger'. 

Fair enough really. 

Or maybe he could have given you 30 seconds of his time, then politely explained he needed to eat?

I know someone who used to work in Spain who was at Alicante Airport when Liam came through. Apparently he was hassled for numerous autographs and selfies - yet remained smiling and pleasant throughout.

Yet he's the one with the 'awkward' reputation....

mudslide73

I saw Mick Quinn from Supergrass in Kefalonia airport in the early 2000s. I knew who he was, he knew I knew who he was - but he was with his wife and kids so I just left it. I'm a massive fan of theirs but he was on holiday.

I had a similar thing with Tony Iommi and Andy Townshend(!) at a Jeff Beck gig at Symphony hall. We left the venue a bit of a long winded way to avoid the crush and happened upon this unlikely partnership as they were presumably making their way to meet Jeff - they both looked very relieved when we just waved and said "hello" as we passed rather than wanting a long chat. They'd clearly waited to avoid "the punters" so why ruin it for them?

IvisonGuitars

Suggs was at our gig on Friday night. He asked if we knew It Must Be Love as he'd like to sing it with us. We didn't so he didn't. Nice chap though.

fields5069

Let me see. I pissed in the urinal next to the one Jim Bowen was using, in the Park Hotel in Lancaster, in 1989 or so. Hang on, you say, he's not a musician. Well he was growling some mean jazz vocals that night, I can tell you.

Umm, I'm struggling here. I intimated to his face that the lead singer of the Janitors was fat, again in about 1989.

And just a couple of months ago, I made Nicky Wire-Jones get out of my way in the local corner shop. There's only room for one of us by the fridge, Nicky mate, and I need beer.

chromatuna

Lemmy was charming and bought my friends and I drinks when we turned up early and broke to a Motörhead gig in 79 or 80  

Iommi and Butler also charming, just hanging out in the pub behind the Hammy Odeon on either the Tech. Ecstasy or Never Say Die tour, can't remember which. They were like Gods to us at the time but were so friendly and down to earth 

Various Marillion guys cos I was in a band with Mark Kelly before he left us for them

Roine Stolt of Flowerkings, Transatlantic etc borrowed my Yamaha SG as a backup for a budget tour once (the Tangent I think). The SG never left its case, his Parker didn't let him down that time.Lots of guys from those bands

Probably others but those come to mind at the mo

Oh just remembered Brock and Turner at various festivals early 80s. In fact Hawkwind borrowed our backline, drums and keyboard player for an impromptu set at Stonehenge once. Brock borrowed my Lab Series 2x12 combo and Roland Space Echo. Lovely chaps both, always better together IMHO

Various Here & Now folks at various times (not the 80s music revival show!)

Placidcasual79

richardhomer said:

Placidcasual79;1057290" said:

I went over to tell Noel about the profound impact he'd had on my life - unfortunately as soon as I spoke he looked up and said 'F*ck off, I am eating my burger'. 

Fair enough really. 

Or maybe he could have given you 30 seconds of his time, then politely explained he needed to eat?

I know someone who used to work in Spain who was at Alicante Airport when Liam came through. Apparently he was hassled for numerous autographs and selfies - yet remained smiling and pleasant throughout.

Yet he's the one with the 'awkward' reputation....

Nah - I am quite happy with what happened tbh. He kept it real. He wasn't aggressive - it was quite amusing. I'd rather that then a tokenistic 30 secs of patronising head nodding. I don't go in for all this doing it for the fans biz. They started a band for themselves to change their lives. Good luck to em. 

rlw

Many, many, many years ago I met the whole of Wishbone Ash when they cadged a round of tea off me in the old Cafe Macarbre in Wardour Street.  This was before they had a recording contract mind.

Placidcasual79

stimpsonslostson . As was John from RHCP.

What was he like? Big fan....