The Prog Celebrity Tales

Well, I once met the guys of Southern Spain's OMNI, and they invited me to see and hear them rehearse some of their material for 'El Vals de los Duendes' released in mid 2002. This experience happened in August 2001. More about these guys... read the reviews in Prog Archives.

Regards.

No more bad stories...

I have one of those stories where you just wanted to die.  As a kid I played percussion in my high school band.. and in my own little garage band, but after some time watching Carl Palmer, I pretty much gave up hope on being a good drummer.  However, while hanging out with Boz Burrell from BadCo.  I got a chance to play drums with him, Joe Jammer (from Maggie Bell at the time) and Johnny Winter.. at SRS Studios.  I don't exactly remember how I did, but I don't remember feeling embarrassed, so it couldn't have been all that bad..

Emdiar:

I think i can top that, though not with one of my own.  A friend of mine was in Vegas in the mid-70s, hanging out, playing some slots, etc.  He went into the men's room, and was...doing his thing, when another guy walks in, stands in the next urinal, and starts doing his thing.  The other guy starts talking to someone waiting for him at the door, and my friend nearly peed himself - it was Elvis!  When they had both finished, my friend got a chance to speak with him for a moment or two, and got his autograph.

To this day, I've never heard a celeb anecdote as...bizarre as that one.

Peace.

Ian was only on the first album (my favorite lineups are '72-'75 and '81-'84). Besides, I haven't seen a picture of Ian in ages. He reminds me of Dario Argento in that pic!

I kicked Pat Metheny out of a cab we were both trying to catch in Hammersmith once.

I didn't recognise him until I saw him on stage later that week...DOH!!!!

Ummm...my dad met Bill Clinton in Arkansas before he became president.... mainly he just shook his hand...

I'm gonna say it again: THERE IS NOBODY IN OKLAHOMA!!! NO PROG, NO MUSIC, NO CELEBRITIES! I don't think I've seen a single celebrity in person (minus David Copperfield, that doesn't count though...when you see someone doing a show...), let alone a music star or PROG music star!

.......this sucks.........

(maybe I should go to college in the northeast...)

Maybe the reason is that I'm 15 and living in an Oklahoma town everyone would do better to avoid anyway... Maybe the celebrity to normal person ratio in England is higher, with England being about the size of OK... yeah that must be it.

But Still! AAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!

Don't worry about it Penguin...I'm 38 and have never met anyone. I even worked at a rock venue(Poplar Creek-Sear's bought the property and erected a huge building there since-I hate Sears) for 2 years and still met no-one. So we're in the same boat.

Threefates:You need to definately release that book.You definately have one buyer in me for sure. You had one of the coolest life's and I do not think you should be embarrassed about anything..I realize much is censored out here on these forums but I think we all get you weren't playing monopoly with some of these rock stars

P.S...so Rod Stewart took you to a gay bar to meet Lou Reed. No surprise with Lou,but what is the final verdict on Rod so we can debunc or confirm those mythological tales we hear about Rod's sorted sexuality.

penguindf12 wrote: Maybe the reason is that I'm 15 and living in an Oklahoma town everyone would do better to avoid anyway... Maybe the celebrity to normal person ratio in England is higher, with England being about the size of OK... yeah that must be it. But Still! AAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!

England maybe small, but you just try and get from one side of London to the other in less than eighteen months. PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN LONDON SUCKS!!

...er sorry about that.

So Oklahoma is bereft of Prog bands is it? You could start you own prog band/club night and be the King of Prog State wide