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my mom dated Tony Danza for a six months. does that count?

Fifteen years ago I took a piss next to Dennis Farina at Ravinia at a Harry Connick Jr. concert.

That was neat.

Does anyone remember the TV show Crime Story?

That was a neat show.

I met Ken Kesey at a Phish concert in '97 (I was there due to temporary homelessness, not to frolic to gae music). I saw the elaborately decorated "Furthur II" bus pull into the lot bright and early. When I approached, I saw Ken standing by a nearby water pump, filling up some plastic jugs. I approached him and said, "Boy, I figured the guy who set all this in motion would get a little more attention." He chuckled, then he asked me my name, and if I'd help him out with the water jugs. When we got on the bus, he asked me if I happened to have "anything to smoke," which I did, so I rolled a joint.

So, I'm sitting there smoking a joint and bullshitting with the author of one of my favorite books, who is also the main character in another book that I had finished reading only a few months before then (Wolfe's_The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test). It was kind of surreal, because many of the people I had recently read about in EKAAT had now gathered around our little broil-session.

I didn't want to over-stay my welcome, so, upon completing the task at hand, I bid them all farewell and exited the bus. I made it about ten feet when someone shouted my name. It was Jerry Garcia's ex-wife (one of them anyway), Carolyn. She said "Ken wanted me to thank you," and she gave me a hug and stuck something in my pocket. It was a whole sheet of acid. Though the gift was not of any recreational use to me, I'm sure it made an extremely gae concert into a fantastic one for the hippies I sold it to afterward.

I've also smoked pot with Serj Tankin and the other guys from S.O.A.D.(not crap IMHO) after they opened up for Veruca Salt(crap) in Chicago a few years ago. He did not give me any acid. What a cheapskate!

I met Sony Sharrock after one of his shows and he was the nicest guy in the world. He spent 20 minutes talking to me about playing with Pharoah Sanders and seeing Coltrane and Dolphy.

sonny sharrock was very very nice to me when i met him as well

i asked him when _monkey pockie boo_ was going to be reissued, and he laughed real hard

If I had a specific question that seemed relevant that would not be stepping on thier toes, I might find the gumption to ask that. But, just meeting somebody for the sake of meeting somebody always seemed a bit odd.

yes, i agree

i have one good story that i can think of

i used to manage a record store in seattle. this was early 90s. randy johnson was pitching for the mariners, and while he was good, he wasn't yet my favorite pitcher and a mortal lock for the hall of fame. anyway, he had some hookup for promo cds. i had heard he was big buds with somebody in soundgarden, so maybe that was it. he would come in every so often and trade in shit towards hard rock, as i recall, metallica and helmet and things like that.

i distinctly remember one time, he was selling a bunch of crap that i didn't really need. he was looming over me from the other side of the counter, haggling about $1 cd trade-ins. it was pretty funny. i recall being amused and somewhat intimidated as i explained that i already had too many copies of the last motley crue or whatever.

Once upon a time at CBGBs I asked Handsome Dick Manitoba for an autograph. I was sitting at the bar and he was zooming past when I asked him, so he stopped and asked me to repeat what I'd just said. So I said "I'd like to have an autograph!" and we was like "huh ?", so I repeated it again and again waving the piece of paper at him when Adny Shernoff comes along, so I talk to him and he turns to Handsome Dick and tells him "this guy wants you to sign this!". He went "Huh" again and here I am 30 years later with the autograph.

Got Adny Shernoff, Jerry Nolan and that _other heartbreakers guitarist, er, Walter Lure ? on the same flyer, gotta look for it now.

Monkey Pockie Boo has been re-issued, both by Get Back and by Actuel/Sunspots. Is that why Sonny laughed so hard?

I'm not sure if Sonny was alive when they were reissued. I told him that I had that Marzatte Watts lp on ESP that he was on and he was surpised that anybody had it or cared about it. Theres a good chance that if it was reissued that he had no idea, and I doubt he owned the rights to it anyway.

sonny was six feet under by the time when _mpb_ and _black woman_ got reished

i'm sure he laughed down there also

the vibe i got from him was: no one cared then, why would they care now? only w/no trace of the bitterness that sentiment might normally imply.

tmidgett wrote:
the vibe i got from him was: no one cared then, why would they care now? only w/no trace of the bitterness that sentiment might normally imply.

That is so spot on !!!!

Sonny was the real deal.

Can't beat Sonny Sharrock but I watched England VS Nigeria in the World Cup on my sofa in my underpants sitting next to Damo Suzuki, formerly of Can. he kept laughing and telling me England sucked.

I also met PJ Harvey with my friend Stuart and his Mum. Stuart then told his Mum he had an erection all the way through the chance meeting. I am unsure as to whether she noticed (PJ I mean).

I also went to a large rock festival and was sitting in one of those portacabins when I found out the band I was with were opposite the Manic St Preachers' cabin. I was introduced to the drinking joy that is a Jumping Jack Flash for some time and then later shouted some anti-Welsh and anti-overweight style abuse at them as they walked offstage into their trailer. I'm actually pretty sorry for that.

my friend Mark reconditions recording gear and did some work for Robert Plant who he said had a head "like a lion" and was "fucking huge".