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Points: 2078 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 31 2007 at 12:19
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

My mate Dave had drinks with Muse once in a club.  Lucky b*****d. Angry
 
I know quite a few people who are friends with them,though i havent met them yet........
 
 
 
 
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 31 2007 at 17:31
He didn't know them before meeting them, he just happened to end up drinking with them.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2007 at 08:55
Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Am I weird for not considering any musician, athelete, etc. an "idol"?  I don't have any deep desire to meet any of these people in real life, despite having admiration and respect for their talents.


I know what you mean - maybe it's my age, but I don't think I idolise anyone as such - I'd like to meet Neil Peart, but he is obviously such a private person I'd probably end up apologising for saying hello - remember:

"I can't pretend a stranger is a long awaited friend"

In the past I've met & had a beer with Lemmy, had Eddie Clarke (again from Motorhead) nick my seat at a Def Leppard gig (hey, I was 17 OK & knew no better! ) so had a great chat with him (they'd just got back from their first tour of the USA, supporting Ozzy) & as a child, nearly got run over by Aker Bilk (old British jazz-man), for which my mother had a real go at him for driving too fast...

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Points: 3839 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2007 at 09:00
A couple years ago Bela Fleck played at Virginia Tech, and I was on the production crew for the concert.  I got to haul Victor Wooten's gear ( a big day for a young bass player).  After the show, the band hung around the theater to chat with anyone who wanted to stay, so I got to chill out with Vic Wooten for a while before we started load-out!
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Points: 12818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2007 at 09:07
Back stage with the whole of Gary Husband's Force Majeure at Birmingham: Husband, Jerry Goodman (very chatty, and signed my Flock CD!!!!), Randy Brecker (very dry humour), Matthew Garrison, etc.
 
 


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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2007 at 09:21
I just hope old Prog Archives guru Maani doesn't see this thread - his experiences from working at Madison Square Garden are awesome.

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Points: 7659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2007 at 09:33
I am still very pleased with my two interviews at the home of fellow Dutch proghead Arjen Lucassen (we watched music video's and listened to albums from his very extensive record collection (from Hawkwind and Pink Floyd to Triumvirat and The Beatles), my short meeting with Christian Decamps in the dressing room before the second Ange gig in 30 years in Holland, my shake hands with Peter Gabriel before a concert in Utrecht and my meeting with Thijs Van Leer at a festival in Arnhem, I even helped him to carry his Hammond organ from his small van to the stage Approve And when Japanese bands Gerard and Ars Nova toured through Europe, I succeeded to do interviews with both bands, especially my meeting with the #1 Japanese keyboard wizard Toshio Egawa was very pleasant, I am a huge fan of Gerard their super-bombastic keyboard driven progrock Clap
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