busbus wrote:the lead guitar player from Soul Asylum

It's hard for me to read this and not laugh at how preposterous the idea of there being a lead guitarist in Soul Asylum is.

I was taken to the ballet by my mums friend as a kid at the Hippodrome in Birmingham. We're just sat in the bar waiting for the show to start and out of nowhere, Rusty Lee appears and asks if she can sit at our table with her friend. We agreed because Rusty Lee is/was a talented tv cook and has a funny laugh. Which she used.

I once pissed next to the bassist from Converge, and he was wearing a Big Black t-shirt.

I commented that it was a cool shirt, and he was like "DUDE man, those guys were nuts...crazy crazy people. They scare me..." or something like that. Pretty funny.

I once had a long (about 90 minute talk) with Bill Paxton about his movies. Yes, he did comment on my name (remember him in Weird Science?), and he said "Oh nice...a man of my own heart" as he shook my hand.

Alright those are the funny celeb stories.

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m.koren wrote:

dansoderburg wrote:

johnnyemphysema wrote:I once told all the members of Loverboy that Rush was a far better band and that that wasn't saying a whole hell of a lot. I was working at a coffeeshop...they didn't tip.

all of the members of Loverboy came in together to buy a coffee?

How did they react ? (aside from not tipping)

The city Oshkosh, the state Wisconsin. It was a humid afternoon when a man in tight black jeans and a tight black shirt walked into my shop. He wandered about the shop for a minute before asking what vegetarian sandwiches we had. I gave him a run down of our meat friendly menu and he decided the hummus pita lettuce, tomatoes and roasted red peppers. I prepared his meal while he was in the bathroom, chick peas get his bowls growling I assumed.

Meanwhile....

A thin man enters the store in a Nike lycra suit and fingerless leather gloves. He has an upturned billed cap and wrap around sunglasses, not uncommon to the coffeehouse. He asked me where the running trails were around town and I pointed him in the right direction but before he could head out the door in the shorts that left nothing to the imagination the vegetarian came out the can. They started talking and it was obvious they knew each other.

The Vegetarian and The Bulge sat at a table and soon there after a guy in jeans and a black shirt came in and took his seat. I, being the maven of customer service, talked them up only to find out that they were the lead singer, bassist, and drummer for Loverboy. I acknowledged my familiarity for the band. I regaled them by remembering listening to the track "D.O.A." in my fathers '87 Dodge pickup, which they asked me if I was going to be at the show.

I said no I had to go home after I get done cleaning up and beside Rush was a better Canadian band and it wasn't saying much. They, Loverboy, just looked at me and continued with their conversation for a few minutes more before lycra guy got up and went for his run. They all trickled out are that and I closed up shop for the evening. Apparently they played a really good show that night; I would like to think they were trying to show up Rush.

I met Robert Shapiro once at a book signing. He put his arm around young me for the picture my mom took. It confused the hell out of me because I didn't know whether to put my arm around him too. Wound up alternating every few seconds. It was weird.

johnnyemphysema wrote: Apparently they played a really good show that night; I would like to think they were trying to show up Rush.

Mission accomplished...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUcBvGscpwo
Bonus points for Mike Reno looking like Emilio Estevez.

lemur68 wrote:Also, Richard Simmons did an assembly at my high school.

For God's sake, do tell !

busbus wrote:I let Mike Watt use my bass one night after he left his in Iowa. He kept complaining about the action on stage.

mike watt plays with very high action.

that damned fly wrote:

busbus wrote:I let Mike Watt use my bass one night after he left his in Iowa. He kept complaining about the action on stage.

mike watt plays with very high action.

He told me how he had to borrow one of Les Claypool's basses for a jam and that he couldn't believe how anyone could play a bass with almost no action and spaghetti-gauge strings (.30-.90 or thereabouts). He also admonished me for playing bass through a guitar rig (during my Lemmy-phase) but then he had J. Mascis force him to do the same a few months later !

m.koren wrote:

that damned fly wrote:

busbus wrote:I let Mike Watt use my bass one night after he left his in Iowa. He kept complaining about the action on stage.

mike watt plays with very high action.

He told me how he had to borrow one of Les Claypool's basses for a jam and that he couldn't believe how anyone could play a bass with almost no action and spaghetti-gauge strings (.30-.90 or thereabouts).

i can't believe it either.

i mean i understand some people just have little girl hands, but still.