cesb wrote:"Out of my WAY, Brian May."

fucking hilarious.

Flaneur wrote:Asked short-story writer Lorrie Moore to dance at a zydeco show in Madison, was rebuffed.

That's a shame. I've met her, too, and she is verrrrry easy on the eyes.

I haven't met many famous people, i'll leave this to actual conversations.

I was not looking where I was going in front of Constitution Hall once and I ran full on into Gloria Steinem. She looked annoyed. I was 15 and I think I muttered "oh! i'm sorry" She continued looking pissed and walked away.

Went to ATP in 2002 at UCLA. Saw lots of the bands walking around during the days. My friend and I talked a little with Malkmus, John Boen, and Dave Pajo at the walk up Taco Bell. We also talked for about half an hour with Jack Brewer from Saccharine Trust. We talked mostly about construction work. He was nice as hell.

I helped Pharrell Williams find dvd's and books about the knights templar for 45 minutes or so one time at work. He's not too tall if you couldn't tell. He called me, "sir," he had a HUGE guy with him and a tiny young lady. As I was walking him to a section a skater kid noticed him:

Skater kid: Oh shit!
Pharrell: Wassup, man.
(handshake thing)
Skater kid: shit.

burun wrote:I imagine King Diamond being very, very tall.

You have a very powerful and active imagination.

John McCain came to the CBOT while me and Peppers worked there and I got to walk around with him for awhile. My opinion of him has since soured a bit but at the time I thought he was a really great, genuine guy.
He used the word 'goofballs' when talking about Bush and his people which I thought was fantastic.
Daley used to come all the time, his bodyguards pushed me against the wall once because I walked up and tried to ask him about problems with the CTA once.
He told them to relax, said 'I'm working on it' shook my hand and walked away.
My dad got really drunk with Stevie Ray Vaughn at Dallas airport years ago, he said he was one of the nicest guys he's ever met, still talks about it.

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Boombats wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:Al walked away and a couple minutes later, the bartender came up to us and said my friend had to leave because he'd offended one of the bar employees. I told him that the guy he'd just talked to was Al Jourgenson, and he started laughing. He said, "Alright man, whatever you say!" And we left.

I don't get it, was Al an employee, or did the bartender think he was your "offensive" friend, or??

I can guarantee you every bartender at that place knew exactly who Al Jourgenson was. Again, if my memory serves me correctly, I think Al did DJ once in a while at Crash Palace, so he could have been considered an employee. I think he also presided over at least a few afterhours parties that went on there.

True. Al Jourgensen used to hold court there pretty much every weekend. My friend Mark was a barkeep there, at least in the early days...I can't imagine him throwing somebody out for being rude to Al Jourgensen, though, as being rude to him was sort of a sport there, wasn't it?

I wonder where Rick Ramale (sp?) (owned Dreamerz, then Crash Palace) buggered off to?

He moved to Boston for about 10 years but the last time I ran into him he was back in Chicago, living in Bucktown and working in Web design or something.

But yeah, Al used to dj at the Crash Palace quite often. And yeah, the barkeep told us we had to leave because my friend asked Al, "why don't you take your shit somewhere else?" He might have called him an asshole too, but I'm not sure about that part.

I 'programmed' the drums on an early Black Eyed Peas record. I did not get to meet them though.

I met Warren Ellis from the Dirty Three. I had a drink with him and ended up sculling the minibar at his hotel with him(his idea), then he held me up whilst I spewed into the toilet, and patted my back, telling me everything would be fine. When I was coherent, we talked about Tasmanian history, and he was very interested in and saddened by the plight of the indigenous population.

Dunno if this counts: I went to a famous all-ages show in Collingwood where Shellac played with Fugazi. It was when just those two singles had come out, so it was a very very fresh Shellac. During the set, Steve said to the crowd: "this song is about Walter Lindrum. I expect none of you have ever heard of him". My mate Paul who was with me yelled back "Cannon Shot". Steve seemed surprised, said something like "what? Say that again" Paul replied "He invented the cannon shot which had to be banned because no-one could beat him" or something like that. Steve said "That's correct. I'm impressed that you know that".
The rest og the gig was extraordinary, not that these things are related anywhere except in my memory.

Exact semantics may not be correct but that's the jist of it.

Around this time, I worked at 3PBS and met Bill Walsh from the Cosmic Pyschos - well, he worked there as well and used to hang out all the time and was pretty affable. I met a huge host of minor Australian rock wannabes whilst at the station, and the odd touring person.

Forget the HST story Steve, I wanna hear about the 12 famous chicks you've bung