Closest You Have Been To A Prog Great

Ok, nice tale here about non prog "music star" proximity: One of my brother's friends went to see Satriani (his ultimate guitar hero) on his birthday. Front row. Satriani spit on him...

Zweck wrote: cuncuna wrote: emersontarkus23 wrote: Yeah, that is disturbing. Why would you have a wet dream about Rick Wakeman? Dream about jamming on stage with him, sure, but a wet dream? ¿Why not? ¿Gay people is not allowed to dream now?... beware; remember Hitler... don't be like Adolph... f**k it, we all have wet dreams about Ricky, so this pseudo-musician sh*t is just superfluous. Give it up bitch!         I'm laughing mischievously on the inside.

I certainly don't have those wet dreams... Mr. Wakeman is a very skilled musician, but is also a man that plays the keyboards using on his pijama, with a carpet tied to his neck or something like that. His hands are much too big and I'M HETEROSEXUAL. Anyway, that doesnt mean that no one should have wet gay dreams. I mean, if you're gay, and you dream and you are wet and you like Wakeman's look, then you are all set. As for me, on my wet dreams, I hear the voice of my girlfriend, always complaining about something (the house not clean enough, the mess I call "my stuff"), so, the wet dream ends before the start...

I was about 20 feet from the guys in Dream Theater last night... 5th row on the floor

simply AMAZING!!!

I didn't really talk to prog people. Me and my friends, we bumped into the guys from IQ in a shopping mall in Utrecht. We didn't feel the need to talk to them, to tell the truth. Visiting the concert that night was enough.

Okay, I did talk to Mark Catley, who did make some prog. He made some albums with Geoff Mann as well. He was friendly and intelligent.

cuncuna wrote: emersontarkus23 wrote: Yeah, that is disturbing. Why would you have a wet dream about Rick Wakeman? Dream about jamming on stage with him, sure, but a wet dream? ¿Why not? ¿Gay people is not allowed to dream now?... beware; remember Hitler... don't be like Adolph...

f**k it, we all have wet dreams about Ricky, so this pseudo-musician sh*t is just superfluous. Give it up bitch!

 

 

 

 

I'm laughing mischievously on the inside.

emersontarkus23 wrote: Yeah, that is disturbing. Why would you have a wet dream about Rick Wakeman? Dream about jamming on stage with him, sure, but a wet dream?

¿Why not? ¿Gay people is not allowed to dream now?... beware; remember Hitler... don't be like Adolph...

Hugues Hopper passed at 30cm away in front of me and Alucard to enter the toilets. It was during the last SM concert. Too bad that we had no camera, we should have took a pic with him. (And it's not the first time i saw him close).

Some friends of mine have been to a Camel concert in Paris some years ago and they met the band at a café before the concert and drink some beers with them.

Certainly not prog - I was at a Spring Training Baseball game on 3 March & Peter Gammons of ESPN & a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, came & sat down 4 seats from me. He sat for about 30 minutes watching the game.

Only myself & one other person recognized him. I said Hello & he waved.

Hmm, I've not met that many prog greats!

List:

Richard Sinclair (Hatfield and The North).  Had a chat with him and he signed my copy of Hatwise Choice, as well as my brother's copy.  Very amicable guy.  Also got my CD signed by Phil Miller, but didn't chat to him, I asked Richard to pass it to him, hehe.

Non-prog:

Warren Haynes, Matt Abts and Danny Louis (Gov't Mule).  I've met Warren twice now, another friendly guy, infact, I've got one of his plectrum's (guitar pick), which he threw into the crowd and a couple of signed CDs by him and Matt.  I also have a setlist, signed by the whole band (including Andy Hess, who doesn't seem to be very talkative, he hid in the tourbus and Danny Louis had to get him to sign it for me!).  I also nearly had a drumstick of Matt Abts, but the people behind me got it instead!

Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac/Peter Green's Spinter Group).  My Dad got my CD signed for me, but I didn't actually get to meet him, I was reasonably close to him though.

Otis Grand.  I guess he's quite smallfry, but I've met him and he signed my CD for me, a very genial guy.

I don't there is anymore...

A friend of mine has the e-mail address for Martin whateverhisname is from Opeth, when she met the whole band in America.

Oh yes, almost forgot!

I went to school with the guitarist with Biomechanical and I went to his birthday party when I was about 10 years old.  His older brother I've recorded with as well.

Not a brush with fame... but I went to the same school that Justin Hayward went to and my former music teacher was a school friend of his.

And one more: I was sat next to Jim Christopulos, co-author of the Van der Graaf Generator book, who is also a member of these forums and I once e-mailed Phil Smart (the other co-author of the VdGG book) as well.  Not really brushes with musicians though in that case.

I was sat miles away from Jethro Tull the other week... and was once sat in the front row at a Blues Band concert (Paul Jones, the harmonica player/singer has a BBC radio show over here and has also done some acting).


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Ghandi 2 wrote: One time I saw a picture of David Gilmour on the internet :P

I second that.