meeting your idols
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Topic: meeting your idols
Posted By: yoel?
Subject: meeting your idols
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 18:15
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the only idol of mine that ive got to meet is steve wilson
-at the release of FOABP in camden, he and richard barbieri played a mezmerizing unplugged set
free entrance aswell, for only 100 people though
but i was there in the fornt row
afterwards he [and richard] signed my album and i talked to steve for like 5 minutes!!!!!!!such nice people, good sense of humour aswell
anyway the point of the thread was, has anyone met a hero of theirs and theyve turned out to be a total t**t?
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 18:24
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No, actually. I've met Panzerpappa and they are really nice, and I almost managed to meet Magma when I saw'em last month. I've met Focus as well, but that was only for signing their latest album for me. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 18:44
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I've met Richard Sinclair, that was pretty cool and he's incredibly nice. I have met one of my idols twice though... Warren Haynes. He's a very busy man though, so I've not had an in depth conversation with him. -------------   
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Posted By: cynthiasmallet
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 18:45
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I honestly think if i saw Peter Gabriel in a train station or something i'd panic ------------- Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat? |
Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 18:45
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Ive met 65daysofstatic, they were really really drunk at the time so it was hard to have a conversation, they were great anyway though ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 18:47
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I met my biggest inspiration on bass, Tony Levin, but I didn't do much more than say hi and get an autograph.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 18:47
My mate Dave had drinks with Muse once in a club. Lucky b*****d. 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 18:47
Le Orme for me... complete gentlemen...stayed for like 45 mintues after
the show to meet and talk with everyone. A wonderful
experience. Not to mention I think Aldo liked me  . May have had something to do with what Andrea C. told him hahhahah.
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Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 18:47
I'd love to meet them. I'd also like to meet the guys from Yugen, Nemo and Taal.
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Bj-1 wrote:Posted By: sircosick
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 20:40
No....... I was only 25 meters in front of Ian Anderson during a live performance JT did in Chile 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 21:36
| 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. |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 21:48
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I've met Sting, Alex and Geddy of Rush, and all were really cool. E ------------- 
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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 23:11
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Hate to stick out here, but I met Nextel Cup driver David Reutimann in the NHIS garage and he is a really nice guy, he was actually pretty shy. I think people don't realize that their "idols" are real people just like the rest of us here. ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: October 31 2007 at 00:54
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Allan Holdsworth plays a lot of small venues and is a very approachable and unassuming fellow. Got to talk to him for a few minutes at a couple different shows. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: October 31 2007 at 01:00
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Sir Robert of Wyatt after Soup Songs at RFH 1999.
We shook hands,has a brief chat and he signed a copy of one of his albums.Luvverly bloke.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: October 31 2007 at 01:13
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I have met all the members of Kansas except Steve Walsh. They were all down to earth cool people but my absolute favorite was meeting Kerry Livgren. The man is special and makes you feel special. One the best encounters I have ever had. I have also met The Flower Kings, Spocks Beard and Jordan Rudess among others. ------------- 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 31 2007 at 09:23
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I've met Anthony Phillips and john Mayhew. Chatted for about three mins or so. Jolly nice chaps.
I also pushed in front of Bill Bruford at a bar once, but I didn't know it was him, until I saw him take to the stage with the Earthworks, half an hour later.. 
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Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: October 31 2007 at 09:25
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i have an autograph of Mr Wilson and Amorphis... ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: October 31 2007 at 09:48
I don't think there's anything weird about that. I'm much the same way. Although it would be interesting to see what my favorite musicians are like in the real world, I don't care enough to actually do anything about it (like waiting for hours to get a chance to exchange a few words). Perhaps if I bumped into Robert Wyatt or something, I might thank him for his music, but that's about it. ------------- 
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: October 31 2007 at 12:05
I'm just this way too. |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: October 31 2007 at 12:19
I know quite a few people who are friends with them,though i havent met them yet........
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: October 31 2007 at 17:31
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He didn't know them before meeting them, he just happened to end up drinking with them.
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: November 01 2007 at 08:55
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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Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: November 01 2007 at 09:00
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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! ------------- http://www.myspace.com/altaic" rel="nofollow - http://www.myspace.com/altaic ALTAIC "Oceans Down You'll Lie" coming soon |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date 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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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: November 01 2007 at 09:21
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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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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date 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  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 
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