What's Your Musical "Lame Claim to Fame"?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by nbakid2000, Jul 25, 2014.

  1. musicalbeds

    musicalbeds Strange but not a stranger

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    Ontario, Canada

    Nice. Nick is a terrific guy, I've known him since he was a pre-teen. He put on a "lip synch" concert to Kiss music, with three other guys all in full makeup etc....I think I was 14, he was 11. He always wanted to be a singer, it's great to see that he got his wish.
     
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  2. celticbob

    celticbob Forum Resident

    He seems to be. Invited me to his studio one night when I was visiting Southern Ont. but I got lost trying to get there and never made it. He is an amazing vocalist that deserves success.
    Have you heard his Famous Underground disc?
     
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  3. Comet01

    Comet01 Forum Resident

    My family was staying at a Holiday Inn in Bellevue, Washington during the summer of 1970. Rick Nelson (plus a few embers the Stone Canyon Band) were hanging out at the swimming pool as I practiced cannonballs off the diving board.
     
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  4. efraley

    efraley Forum Resident

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    Stephen McCarthy of the Long Ryders adn Bob Rupe of Cracker painted my house 3 years ago. My wife had to remind me to stop bothering them about telling rock and roll stories! They're both great guys!
     
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  5. HGN2001

    HGN2001 Mystery picture member

    I was somewhere on that field, and in Chral Club that year. Good to see Clyde Dengler, Jr., our choral director in that footage.

    Harry
     
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  6. Laservampire

    Laservampire Down with this sort of thing

    I'm internet friends with a guy who used to play bass for a cult 80s/90s alternative band, and another guy who is a big time country music producer.

    I can't mention their names as they are both banned members of this forum, lol.
     
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  7. Kevin j

    Kevin j The 5th 99

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    Seattle Area
    i met frank black once while checking out of a hotel. we talked about thurston moore.
     
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  8. Kevin j

    Kevin j The 5th 99

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    hmmmmmm........
     
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  9. Picca

    Picca Forum Resident

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    Ok...after 10 pages I'm starting to get the thread's meaning...
    I've sipped a coffee next to Ronnie James Dio
    I've sold some records to Perry Farrell (I've been working in a record shop)
    I gave a 45 rpm that I've recorded when I was fifteen to Roger McGuinn (He told me 'I'll never listen to it' and I've responded 'I don't really care')
    John Hammond Jr. wanted to buy my acoustic guitar
    Once I had dinner with some people. We were talking about west coast sixties music and the guy next to me was telling me that he once jammed with the Grateful Dead. He was Terry Cox drummer with Pentangle.
    I went to an after-show with Joe Ely and his very drunk (and late) guitar player Jesse Taylor got naked in the pizzeria. his bassist was Glenn Fukunaga who told me a lot of things about his session (Series Of Dreams) with Bob Dylan.
    I had dinner with an unknown band called Fish Heads & Rice whose guitar player happened to be Gary Talley, in the sixties with Alex Chilton's Box Tops.
    I've worked as a 'local roadie' and I've been once assigned to Fleetwood Mac's backstage (the Rick Vito/Burnette line up) and I've spied the girl's wardrobes. Stevie Nicks's one was full of mignon bottles of Champagne.
    Always as a 'local roadie' i've been forced to carry an enormous reversed black cross on stage for a Black Sabbath show (Tony Martin years). But I shook hands with Cozy Powell.
    ...oh: and Benmont Tench once told me to F**k Off.
     
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  10. drasil

    drasil Former Resident

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    I once joined an internet forum run by a professional mastering engineer.
     
  11. teebo911

    teebo911 The Professor

    My dad was in The Quarrymen... maybe you've heard of them? nah, j/k. lol

    My mom and aunt were good friends with alto saxophonist Greg Abate. They'd play and often walk to school together. When I met Greg last year, he still remembered them very well.

    I also seem to recall that my wife's aunt went to school with Joe Perry of Aerosmith?

    My daughter made funny faces at Al Jardine during the 50th anniversary reunion tour in Boston from the second row. He made a funny face back.

    I've shaken the hand of two people who have played with Charlie Parker: Phil Woods and Roy Haynes. That's like a second-hand handshake with God himself.

    That's all I got.
     
  12. musicalbeds

    musicalbeds Strange but not a stranger

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    Yep, he sounds great, and the band is tight. Unfortunately, not my type of music so I can't review it properly, lol.
     
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  13. drumtalking

    drumtalking Member

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    California
    While in high school, I played in a band that opened for the Doors at the Fillmore Auditorium in January 1967.
     
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  14. majorlance

    majorlance Forum Resident

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    I think I was at that Mondale rally myself...at JFK Plaza, right? Forgot all about it until I saw your post. Did Stills sing Change Partners?
     
  15. majorlance

    majorlance Forum Resident

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    From what I understand, it was Fleagle who got all the action. Drooper, not so much.
     
  16. RichNY

    RichNY Forum Resident

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    New York
    Was this Downingwood in Irvington? If so, I live in Dobbs Ferry and in the late seventies we used to ride our bikes up there and look for Ace. We knew he had the yellow Corvette and saw that, but never saw him. He did get arrested in Dobbs Ferry for a DUI once around that time. Fun fact-He was wearing two different color sneakers at the time.
    My earlier post in this thread was about Ross the Boss from Manowar and he lived in the same place in the '80's.
     
  17. goodboyfred

    goodboyfred Forum Resident

    I Forget what Stills sang but I remember BB King played also. JFK Plaza
     
  18. sonofjim

    sonofjim Senior Member

    My wife and I were standing in line for Hairspray with Harvey Firestone on Broadway a few years ago (she really wanted to see a show and my brother got us house seats) when a large black SUV stopped in the street next to us. A man jumped out of the passenger seat that I immediately recognized as Billy Joel. As he came to the sidewalk between two parked cars my wife stood right in his way with her back to him. I said, "Tish, step aside for Mr. Joel there." He smiled and said thank you.

    He then proceeded to the rear of the line we were standing briefly before a door opened and someone said, "Bill! Come on. You don't need to wait in line." He went in and I figured that was that. Pretty cool though.

    As it turned out, when we got to our seats (which were front and center compliments of my brother) we were merely a few seats from where Billy was sitting. He graciously greeted the excited people around him before the show and during intermission. I never knew much about him personally but he struck me as a pretty cool guy that night. Whatever off color story about him I may hear, that I will always remember.
     
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  19. petem1966

    petem1966 Forum Resident

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  20. Shriner

    Shriner Forum Resident

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    I had a similar thing happen to me a couple of decades ago -- I looked (at the time) remarkably similar to Andy Partridge (I was - and am- a big XTC fan, but the look was coincidental -- same basic hair cut, brown/blond hair, same chin and round glasses -- probably a million guys look like that.). Some clerk at a gas station said "do you know who you look like?" and I was surprised somebody actually would make that connection. Do I win for lamest post?
     
  21. mwheelerk

    mwheelerk Sorry, I can't talk now, I'm listening to music...

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    Gilbert Arizona
    I will stretch the line a little thinner and say I have received two PM's from band members on this forum as the result of posts in a thread about their bands.
     
  22. Harvest Your Thoughts

    Harvest Your Thoughts Forum Resident

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    On your screen
    What bands?
     
  23. dkmonroe

    dkmonroe A completely self-taught idiot

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    Atlanta
    Now that's an event that needs its own T-shirt! :laugh:
     
  24. mwheelerk

    mwheelerk Sorry, I can't talk now, I'm listening to music...

    Location:
    Gilbert Arizona
    One was from Bobby Whitlock during the famous Derek and the Domino thread about six years ago. The other was from a gentlemen named Andy who fronted a band I inquired about through a thread called Jarvis Humby.
     
  25. Harvest Your Thoughts

    Harvest Your Thoughts Forum Resident

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    Ok. I don't know of either of them. Either I'm lame, or it reinforces your lameness. ;)
     
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