re: Post a random story about meeting a famous musician

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Nice

Was one of the stage hands for a buddy that staged some bi-annual shows. My job was putting out fires, loose ends, electrical and so on. So got to meet a lot of newgrass/bluegrass performers. Doc, Tony, Norman, Sam, John Hartford and so on. Nothing professional just helping a friend with a dream to stage shows.

My fav was the night before a show Vassar Clements hung out with us. We were camping and had a big circle of chairs. And he was just wanting to check out the place. Making sure it was a go I guess. We we're swapping lies and he jumped right in. Pulled out his pipe (tobacco) and alternated stories with us for at least three hours. Entertaining would be an understatement and down to earth.

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GG Allin


Legend

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hopefully he didnt' take a shite on you

I was 21 yrs old & had been dating the (future) mother of my son for about 4 months. I had driven to her house in Cheverly, MD which was about 1/2 hour away, and about 10+ minutes from the now demolished Capital Centre. Not long after getting to her house she asked if I wanted to go to a concert, which surprised me since she wasn't much into music at all. Being the rocker that I was/am I said hell yeah, & we jumped in my trick-painted Z28 before I even asked where we were going, although I assumed it was the Cap Centre. I asked who was playin'...she didn't know or care, but said her brother was in town and would be there. I've been to probably a couple dozen shows there, (including my 1st ever concert - KISS / Bob Seger) and usually knew who was coming thru, but couldn't figure out who was playin'. Got to the Cap Centre and she directed me to a "loading dock" area, where I reluctantly parked. Got out, followed her to a door where a few people were hangin' out and I could definitely hear some music playing but couldn't make it out...she beat on the door and she asked the dude that answered if Jimmy Newman was around. He closed the door and a couple minutes later a different dude opened the door & said come on in. While introducing me to her brother for the first time, he was slapping a big fabric patch/sticker on my thigh. It was my backstage pass for Krokus "The Blitz" tour & Sammy Hagar's VOA Tour. Jimmy kept us toolin' around backstage for most of Krokus' set until the Red Rocker started makin his rounds backstage and I was able to get a intro, handshake, and an autograph on my thigh patch/backstage pass. I was beyond pumped, and went out front to catch a lil' Krokus and all of Sammy Hagar.
This was on Nov 1st, 1984 (i'm goin' with '84 for the "1984 was the best year ever for music" thread) which was the day before my 22nd birthday. The following day, my birthday, Jimmy, who worked for Winterland Productions, took me out to his big U-Haul truck and loaded me up with more Krokus & "I Can't Drive 55" merch than I could give away. Not a bad birthday at all.
Later on, I worked a Kenny Rogers/Dolly Parton show with him...go figure.

Krokus setlist

Long Stick Goes Boom
Eat the Rich
American Woman
(The Guess Who cover)
Heatstrokes
Headhunter
Stayed Awake All Night
(Bachman–Turner Overdrive cover)
Screaming in the Night
Midnite Maniac


Sammy's setlist

This Planet's on Fire (Burn in Hell)
Dick in the Dirt
I Don't Need Love
I've Done Everything for You
Three Lock Box
Baby's on Fire
Two Sides of Love
I Can't Drive 55
Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy
I'll Fall in Love Again
Red
Remember the Heroes
The Girl Gets Around
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Heavy Metal
VOA
There's Only One Way to Rock
Top of the Rock
(Hagar, Schon, Aaronson, Shrieve song)
Bad Motor Scooter
(Montrose cover)
Rock and Roll
(Led Zeppelin cover)

Met the bug-eyed singer of Cameo at Barts on the Lake after OMD/Depeche Mode in 1988. He denied it all night until he came clean as he stepped into his Limo to leave. Dinner with Randy Jackson of Zebra and a friend whose brother grew up with Randy, Guy, and Felix when he did a solo gig at the 19th Hole in Houston, was on guest list too, and Randy picked up dinner tab.
CSB.

I wanna hear more about you meeting GG Allin.

I sat at a table for a couple of hours next to Andy Gibb at Baby O's nightclub in Acapulco in the summer of 1984. Nice, friendly guy. He was wearing white pants, a white shirt unbuttoned halfway down, and about 10 pounds of gold chains around his neck. He was by himself and was trying, very successfully, to pick up women.

Sylvester Stallone was also in there that night. with his entourage. We would run into him several times that week.

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I was working on another rich dude's house ... Dave Mathews ... He gave me backstage tickets to his shows at The Gorge for my tip.

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Something about him assuming you're a fan strikes me as egotistical.

Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes back in the early 90s . Met him one night after a concert in N.O. at The Dungeon . Great guy......totally off the hook that night with the rest of the band. He was f'd up and got more f'd up the closer we got to dawn along with the rest of the band except his brother Rich who was the only halfway non f'd up person. By 500 am he could not walk out of the place. Me and one of his people had to carry him out.....mainly because the rest of the guys besides his brother were essentially catatonic.

Met Jimmy Buffet at a late night Keller Williams show at the HOB in Nola. I was the freeker by the speaker.