Kevin's Watch

John Lee Hooker.



Spielburg,sat with him for about 15 mins at the National Boyscout Jamboree when I was 14.


And Willie.

Steve Earle!

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Warren Zevon


'dats about it.

A Gunslinger wrote:

Steve Earle!

&




Warren Zevon


'dats about it.

O M G!

that's so bizarre!!!

me too

Where to begin...

David Bowie (I faked a press card & got into the conference in '83 & asked him a question!)

Bono of U2 - a LOT of times! First time I got pulled up on stage to dance with him in '83 (BIG year for me!), then in '84 when they came back - also met Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr & The Edge in '90, worked on the Zooropa tour in Italy in '93, hanging in the VIP tent with Naomi Campbell & the other band hos, and most recently on SAME flight to Dublin as Bono (which of course I had to go up and say hi to him & get photos again!)

Doug Anthony Allstars (Aussie comedy trio in the 90s - got on one of their 'live show' videos & met the guys backstage after the show)

Wilhelmenia Wiggins-Fernandez (brilliant opera singer & star of "Diva" - she was "Aida" in a huge stage production here in '98 - I was in the chorus)

plus shook hands with BB King (on '84 U2 tour with them)

Richard Taylor of Weta Workshops (this year's celebrity schmooze)

I'm still waiting to add Orlando Bloom to this list....

I sat and enjoyed a beer with Andy Summers at the 9:30 Club (the old one) in DC back in the late '80s.

Lucimay wrote:

A Gunslinger wrote:

Steve Earle!

&




Warren Zevon


'dats about it.

O M G!

that's so bizarre!!!

me too

Rilly! *sets chin atop folded hands, stares pie-eyed* DO TELL!

For my part, I met SE in back of the Barrymore theatre circa 1991. after imbibing and other stuff, I had it in my head that I lost my ticket, and went around the side of the building to find a pay phone hoping to convince one of my roommates to look for my ticket and drive it up to me (I was in no shape to make a sammich, much less drive). As I passed the busses, out popped steve. He shook y hand, noticed I was cold, invited in the bus. Had a beer. Long story short...he gave me a ticket and told me I was the spitting image of his brother Pat. I found my original ticket in my car a day later. Heh.

Met Warren Zevon in 1988. He had released "Sentimental Hygiene", and at the time, I was selling electronics & stereos for a local company and I happened to be humming "BOOM BOOM Mancini" (a GREAT Zevon offering) whilst selling a set of small speakers to a ravishing lady. She said "Hey...that's Boom Boom Mancini"! Turns out she was Warren's flute player/percussionist on his tour which had a show the next day. Tix n' backstage passes for Sparky!!

Met Bill and Hillary once too...but whatever.

A Gunslinger wrote:Met Bill and Hillary once too...but whatever.

Swingers party?

Cail wrote:

A Gunslinger wrote:Met Bill and Hillary once too...but whatever.

Swingers party?

Feisty aincha? No, nothing quite so grand. Simply a couple of seperate appearances in Madison in 1992. Dude has charisma to spare.

those are way cooler brushes with warren and steve than mine, Guns.

mine were relatively simple.

coupla years ago at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate Park, Steve was playing. I got up front to take some photos (i'll post a couple for ya when i find em and scan em) and he saw me there doing that. so when his set was over i went over to a smaller stage (this is a many stage festival) where Buddy and Julie Miller were playing and Steve was standing there talking to this gray haired woman. hell i just walked up to him and said hey steve great set, i think i got some good photos. and he and the woman turned around to speak to me and it was Emmy Lou Harris. so we shook hands and he said thanks and she said nice ta meetcha and that was that. i didn't want to impose by asking for a photo. so i took some of Emmy Lou's set with Buddy and Julie. (i'll post some of those too)


with Warren it was much the same thing. saw him at the Noe Valley Ministry (yes they have concerts in a church, this is San Francisco after all), and this was back around '92 or '93, i'd have to look at my ticket stub to make sure of the date, anyway, NVM is a very small little church. after the concert we just walked up to him as he and the other musicians and roadies were milling about, just walked up and said great show and shook his hand.

thats it. nothing cool like yours but...still, thought it was bizarre that both of us met those two particular musicians!!

That is bizarre. You got to shake the hand of Ms. ELH?

There is a great story about ELH that Steve tells. When he was just a hanger-on in Nashville, writing songs and singing background for the likes of Kristoferson ,et al, he was hangin' round having a cheeseburger, and in walks ELH. She says "Can I have a bite"...to which he cliams he muttered and fawned, while she picked up the sammich and ate some. Steve claims he couldn't eat the rest and every time he has had one since, he falls in love with her all over again!

She is a HAWT one.

Favorite Warren Zevon song? Mine is...bar none, "Splendid Isolation"....Pete Yorn does a great cover of it.

Met him at Charles de Gaulle airport in 1999, he was surrounded by millions of film gear, must have been off on one of his adventures - said hello to him and went off to catch my plane.

He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!!!

I walked past Linda Hamilton at Dulles Airport a few years ago. And I once saw Fat Bob from the Bachelor/ette at the airport, just after he was the Bachelor.

The biggest celebs I ever saw in person (outside being at a parade, where I've seen many) were Tom Cruise and Paul Newman. About 20 years ago I went to a car race at a local speedway because my Dad had a long-lost friend who was into amateur racing. He got us tickets to the pit. Cruise and Newman were both there. People were mostly leaving them alone, I guess because they saw them all the time at the races (this was just after The Color of Money came out). While we were there, they spent most of the time standing by the concrete barricade, watching the races. At one point, an F1-type of car messed up on a turn, and hit the barricade just by Newman and then flipped over. Newman jumped over the barricade, and was the first person at the car. He helped flip it over with a couple of other guys. That was kind of cool to see. Otherwise, it was hot as hell in the pits and ungodly loud. I'm not into car-racing, and wouldn't ever go back to another race.

Ok, I've got one other Paul Newman story. This is third hand, and I heard it 15 or so years ago, but it's pretty good. A friend in college told me it.

So anyway, a friend of a friend lives in Watertown, Ct, where Newman lives. One day she goes into a Baskin-Robbins to get an ice cream cone. She's in line for a few minutes, and then realizes that Paul Newman and his wife have just walked in and are standing in line behind her. She's a bit self-conscious, but doesn't want to stare at them or act like a nervous goof. Anyway, she orders her ice cream cone, pays and walks out of the store. And then she realizes that she doesn't have her ice cream cone, and she's a little miffed. So she goes back inside and says to the clerk "Excuse me, you didn't give me my ice cream cone!" At which point, Paul Newman turns to her and says "Hey lady, it's in your purse."

that's damn funny.

Farm Ur-Ted wrote:Ok, I've got one other Paul Newman story. This is third hand, and I heard it 15 or so years ago, but it's pretty good. A friend in college told me it.

So anyway, a friend of a friend lives in Watertown, Ct, where Newman lives. One day she goes into a Baskin-Robbins to get an ice cream cone. She's in line for a few minutes, and then realizes that Paul Newman and his wife have just walked in and are standing in line behind her. She's a bit self-conscious, but doesn't want to stare at them or act like a nervous goof. Anyway, she orders her ice cream cone, pays and walks out of the store. And then she realizes that she doesn't have her ice cream cone, and she's a little miffed. So she goes back inside and says to the clerk "Excuse me, you didn't give me my ice cream cone!" At which point, Paul Newman turns to her and says "Hey lady, it's in your purse."

Sounds like something I'd do.

Wow! That's very close to a Redford story someone told me that happened at Baskin Robbins on the plaza in Santa Fe (while he was filming The Milagro Beanfield War.)
Let's see...shook hands with Dave Mason (lead guitarist of Traffic) in Greenwich Village
My whole 5th grade class shook hands with Marlo Thomas (when she was filming her 2nd intro to That Girl and we were on a field trip at Independance Hall)
Had dinner with Henry Fonda (he was my Dad's company's commercial spokesman at the time)
Played doubles with Ezra Pound when I was twelve
Shook hands with Bill Bradley and Walt Frazier of the NY Knicks
Shook hands with tennis greats; Stan Smith, Arthur Ashe and Clark Greabner
Ripped my jeans apart in full view of Judith Jameson (lead dancer for the Alvin Ailey Troupe at the time) during a modern dance workshop (and I wasn't wearing underwear)
Was at party (at a really early age) at our house where Lew Ayers (All's Quiet on the Western Front) was present, somewhere
My prospective Godfather was David Dodge who wrote the Hitchcock thriller: To Catch a Thief
Wrote an article with Jazz Saxsman Ritchie Cole
Oh, and attended a "Connecting with your Inner Self" workshop lead by Shirley MacClaine

Authors:
SRD 6 times
George R. R. Martin twice
Walter Jon Williams thrice
Rodger Vardeman 1
Fred Saberhagen 2
Roger Zelazny 1
Jane Lindskold 1
Ben Bova 1
Connie Willis 1
(the late) Jack Williamson 1
Sylvia Plath 1
Jimmy Santiago Baca twice

Um, I don't know that he's as famous as these people you've met, but I had dinner with Tony DiTerlizzi (co-creator and illustrator of The Spiderwick Chronicles) back in 1998. I was attending Origins International Game Expo, where Wizards of the Coast was promoting Magic the Gathering and other product lines. My friend Quinton Hoover (an artist for Wizards of the Coast) invited me to dinner at the end of the day, and when we showed up Tony and Mike Raabe plus several employees from Wizards were waiting. In the end we went to Strada and Wizards footed the bill for the entire group (go expense accounts!). Anyway, while we were waiting for our dinner to arrive Tony and Quinton drew sketches on the paper liner that was on the table. The sketches went home with me.



www.spiderwick.com/
Tony's website: www.diterlizzi.com/

My friend Quinton:


One of his cards for Magic the Gathering:

danlo wrote:Played doubles with Ezra Pound when I was twelve
My prospective Godfather was David Dodge who wrote the Hitchcock thriller: To Catch a Thief
Sylvia Plath 1

Impressive!

My Mom asked me if I wanted to be baptised at age 4 and I told her "no", my favorite word at the time. I also had a second prospective Godfather, Ike Colburn a famous student of Frank Lloyd Wright who owned a town in Massachusettes, and island in the Azores and a Portugese Palace. A: I was very stupid at the time B: I didn't compromise my religious views or anti-materialism philosophy, I'll go with B

How did you meet Sylvia Plath?