re: What is the greatest hookup you ever got?

Like EVERYONE has said, this thread title is misleading. Ha.

I used to know Tom Benson's grandson pretty well. Back when he owned the Voodoo, I used to get calls all the time to attend the game in the owner's box. One game, a frick ton of Saints players/coaches came. Got to meet S. Payton and a couple others. Pretty cool, but what was alright was once it was too crowded, Tom told his GS, 'T, why don't you and your friend go to the seats to watch the game.' Seats were on the 25 yard line on the rail.

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I get to go to charity events, dinners, pga golf tourney, mardi gras party passes, etc throughout the year with friends and vendors.
I think my favorite was a buddy hooking me up with a ticket in a suite for one of the LSU national championship games in the dome.

Playing Old Waverly (Top 100 course in USA) free about 6 times in the past year.

Left off one of my favorites. Had a friend who worked for Miller and he'd give us free jazz fest tickets and Miller Lite tent passes every year. And when the people eventually took all our free beer tabs, he'd either give us a handful or just bust out the six packs. He also let us know which bars he was "working" and we would meet him out and get hammered for free.

Yes indeed, especially with those misting fans when it's hot as hell.

Big guy named Kevin was my guy. He got us voodoo tent passes too, but those dicks ID'd

In the late 90's a friend of mine and I painted a house for this DJ in Birmingham. This was when we had The X as our main non-country radio station and it was a badass station that broke a lot of bands, pulled a lot of really good bands in to play, and generally made for a very unexpectedly awesome music scene here in the 90's. If there was a show in town, I went for free and about half the time got to meet and hang out with the acts for a bit before or after the show. I have a couple cigar boxes jammed packed full of concert tickets I never paid a dime for all in about a 4-5 year span.

He also hosted gelatinous fury (jello wrestling) on thursday nights at this bar downtown and he would let us in and comp our drinks since he didnt drink very much. The situation also led us to knowing the jello girls QUITE well also and we dated a few of them on and off. Ended up actually hooking a friend of mine up with one of them and they are married with kids now.

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Did you catch RATM at the Sloss(96, I think)? Great show.

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I graduated HS in 97 and this was not terribly long after then so thats a no.

ETA: guess I should change that to "late 90's" lol

Hurricane Shane

I think he is still DJ'ing on one of the crappy stations now but we have no good rock stations anymore so all I listen to on the radio is country or sports talk

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No shite? Cool dude, met him a few times.

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Yeah, he let me and my buddy come up and sit in the studio when Carlos Mencia was in town once. This was right about the time carlos was just starting to make a name for himself so that was pretty cool.

ETA: Funny part about that was I was laughing my fricking arse off at him, like almost couldnt breathe at one point, and my buddy was too terrified to make a sound cause he didnt think we were supposed to be making any noise. After it was over Carlos looked at him and said something along the lines of "tough crowd" and Adam said he didnt think we were supposed to be making noise and Hurricane says "You dumbass, thats why I called you and told yall to come up. So there would be people in here besides me to laugh on air!"