Have you ever met any really famous Rock/Pop stars?

[Hamann Pineapple]

Used to put stages up in Oz, met Slash and Prince.

 

[squirtyflower]

Once interviewed Ian Curtis
Had a pee next to Pete Shelley
Helped David Byrne get his gear into a venue
Bumped into Neil Peart and Geddy Lee at the old Virgin store on Lever Street and they signed the Rush album I was buying

Are the ones I recall

 

[The Flash]

Loads, met each member of The Smiths, Oasis and James.
Played football with Rod Stewart.
Met Michael Stipe in San Diego and he was a ****, sadly.
Steve Jones, Billy Duffy and Ian Astbury used to play footy in the same league as me a few years back in Hollywood.
Also met and chatted with Blur, Ian McCullogh and Foo Fighters at a radio station gig.
Gave Mani a lift in L.A.
I know Mark Burgess and I am fairly good mates with David Gedge from The Wedding Present.
Also met Mark E Smith, Paul Ryder, Paul Heaton, Inspiral Carpets, Ice T and Buzzcocks
I'm sure there's a few more, but its late and I'm off to bed.

Pfft...

 

[Aphex]

Recorded with Puressence. Was briefly in a band with one of the guys from Nine Black Alps.. And met John Walker of The Walker Brothers.

Met Shaun Rider a few times.

 

[BillyBonds]

Ry Cooder outside the Apollo.About a dozen of us waiting for him,he sent a gofer to the Apsley Cottage for beer all round,and chatted away for 20 minutes or so.Lovely bloke.
Also collided with Jimi Hendrix as he was coming out of a music shop on Oxford Road,1967.He was on at the Odeon that night

Two of the finest in one post. I was listening to Ry Cooder live on the OGWT that someone put up recently if you're interested ...
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc-9RmT0ARM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc-9RmT0ARM</a>

Met Bob Marley on the Kings Road not long before his death. Also met Peter Green and had an afternoon with Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. Also been backstage with Quo a few times and met ZZ Top a few times.

A few weeks ago I was surfing with Ben Howard, really nice chap.

 

[totallywired]

Paul Weller, on the Jam`s tour bus, backstage a few times, before and after show drinks with him and the band.

 

[stony]

Was on holiday in Antigua in 2009 and Ray Davies of The Kinks was staying there for a couple of nights, with his band.
They'd been booked to do a private gig at a flash hotel a few miles away, for an American millionaire - for his birthday!

Ray and the band were all easy-going, and good to chat to.

On the night of the gig, they were in the bar before setting-off, and Ray asked me if I wanted to go with them. When I explained my complete lack of musical talent, he offered that "I could play the maracas, and just stay out of the way on the stage"

Not wanting to destroy the obviously expensive birthday celebrations, and ruin the reputation of a music-god by having an out-of-rhythm maraca-player murdering classics like Lola and Sunny Afternoon, I declined.

I regret that - I could have officially been the "120th Kink"

Our Steve's mate John wasn't too keen on the Davies bros. He was hanging around with them before they were The Kinks, and they all started a band together. Ray told him to quit the drugs or leave the band. He stayed on the drugs, they kicked him out, and a couple of months later they hit the big time.

He stayed a junkie until he died a couple of years ago. He was a really nice lad, and remarkably he wasn't very bitter about being booted out of the band. He wasn't too keen on the Davies bros, but he knew it was his fuck up. Great guitarist and he had the best laugh in the world, sounded like Sid James on acid.

 

[Ronnie the Rep]

Snogged David Coverdale (white snake) no idea who he was

Went to school with jimmie Glennie (James)

Went to school with Paul Stewart (footballer)

are you Mrs Rep? she snogged Coverdale as well (at least that's what she said she did ! )

 

[Blue Is the Opposite of Blue]

I met all of OneRepublic about 12 months ago. I guess they're not that famous but they've got a couple of huge singles under their belt that people are unlikely to forget for some time.

I think my problem is that I'm mainly into artists who won't get played on the radio, and the fact that it's getting even harder to meet really famous people because of the amount of security there is at huge arena events.

 

[The Flash]

Snogged David Coverdale (white snake) no idea who he was

Went to school with jimmie Glennie (James)

Went to school with Paul Stewart (footballer)

are you Mrs Rep? she snogged Coverdale as well (at least that's what she said she did ! )

BlueBareBoobs was snogging him, er, further south.