DaveyJones
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kenobi65 said:Just met Peter Frampton; he's visiting our ad agency for some reason.Got an autograph and everything; he's a very nice guy.
so he was Live.
Friday Brush with Celebrity
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so he was Live.
DaveyJones said:so he was Live.
One might even say he came alive.
Over the 7 years I've been here, I've met a couple of celebrities who've come to the offices, mostly because they're doing work with us, including Trace Adkins (country singer) and Ernie Banks (Hall of Fame baseball player).
I also got to meet Mark Bowden, the author who wrote "Black Hawk Down". At that time, he was just finishing work on "Guests of the Ayatollah", a book about the Iran Hostage Crisis of '79-'80; I got to have a very nice conversation with him about that time in history (he and I were the only ones in the meeting old enough to actually remember it).
I've got an autographed photo of Johnny Cash, from when he did some work with us, though I didn't get to actually meet the man -- it was about a year before he passed away, and he wasn't well; our creative team had to go down to his farm outside of Nashville, for him to do the recording.
Oprah Winfrey came here once, but that was because her cousin works here. Apparently it was quite the mob scene.
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Fiery James
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diaglo said:
I ran into Kevin Bacon in an elevator. I was going in, he was coming out!
Skinny guy!
Now you and I are 1 degree of Kevin Bacon apart.
- James
Thunderfoot
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When I was 7, my mom was a stay at home type but was looking for a job. She found employment as an electronic technician at a small five person operation that was a division for this larger corp out of Chicago. She worked in what used to be the old high school in the town in which I grew up.
She had to solder components to circuit boards - a lot of them and it was only a temporary position. After a couple months they got word that the boss was coming down. "Bruce" showed up driving an old stationwagon, wearing a flannel shirt, cut off blue jeans and sandles (this was the 70s - so think hippie), scruffy beard, etc. He had some cases in the car for them to start installing the components into, they were bench model cases.
They asked "Bruce" why he was driving the stationwagon and he stated that the Ferrari was in the shop and that Lamboughini didn't have the room for the cases and that the limo was a little too austentatious for this trip. My mother being the tactful cahrming person she is, said" you have, a Ferrari, a Lamborghini and a Limo and your driving a sationwagon dressed like that...right!" Everyone esle laughed and she thought nothing of it.
Later, afterwork everyone sat down and was listening to records and singing along. Mom was listening to "Bruce" sing and thought, wow, he has a really good voice and that she thought, I know I've hear that voice before...the "Bend Me, Shape Me by the AMerican Breed came on and Bruce took off on a vocal tear -mom's boss was Bruce Gordon, former lead singer of the American Breed, She found out that the equipment they were building was for a touring group - a little band known as Kansas for their upcoming Leftoverature tour in 77'.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE - When the group came to Southern Illinois for the tour my mother got tickets and backstage passes, obviously I was a little young to go see the show, but she found out via a phone call that I answered, the voice asked, "Is Jhan Miller there?" and the usual small talk ensued, before I got my mother. The person on the line was the lead guitar player for the opening act, Rick Neilsen of Cheap Trick...that was who asked for my mom.
She had to solder components to circuit boards - a lot of them and it was only a temporary position. After a couple months they got word that the boss was coming down. "Bruce" showed up driving an old stationwagon, wearing a flannel shirt, cut off blue jeans and sandles (this was the 70s - so think hippie), scruffy beard, etc. He had some cases in the car for them to start installing the components into, they were bench model cases.
They asked "Bruce" why he was driving the stationwagon and he stated that the Ferrari was in the shop and that Lamboughini didn't have the room for the cases and that the limo was a little too austentatious for this trip. My mother being the tactful cahrming person she is, said" you have, a Ferrari, a Lamborghini and a Limo and your driving a sationwagon dressed like that...right!" Everyone esle laughed and she thought nothing of it.
Later, afterwork everyone sat down and was listening to records and singing along. Mom was listening to "Bruce" sing and thought, wow, he has a really good voice and that she thought, I know I've hear that voice before...the "Bend Me, Shape Me by the AMerican Breed came on and Bruce took off on a vocal tear -mom's boss was Bruce Gordon, former lead singer of the American Breed, She found out that the equipment they were building was for a touring group - a little band known as Kansas for their upcoming Leftoverature tour in 77'.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE - When the group came to Southern Illinois for the tour my mother got tickets and backstage passes, obviously I was a little young to go see the show, but she found out via a phone call that I answered, the voice asked, "Is Jhan Miller there?" and the usual small talk ensued, before I got my mother. The person on the line was the lead guitar player for the opening act, Rick Neilsen of Cheap Trick...that was who asked for my mom.
I've met a bunch of famous people for various reasons:
Coincidence: I was waiting to pick up a friend at the airport, and Jimmy Carter got off at the adjacent gate. I shook his hand. One of my college buddies was Liz Jackson, daughter of Phil Jackson...never met him though.
Location: I live in the Dallas area, quite near the Cowboys' offices & practice fields in Valley Ranch, and there are celebs all over the place. The Metroplex is lousy with them- its a great place to live- I'd imagine that only cities like NYC, LA and Miami have more per sqare mile. Examples: The Stars (hockey team) used to hang out at my local Japanese restaraunt, ZZ Top used to go to my neighborhood Mexican restaraunt, I've seen Shawn Bradley (Mav's center) at IHOP, met Troy Aikman at Bennigans & Hooters, I've met Ken Hitchcock (Stars Coach) and Herschel Walker (Cowboys/Vikings RB) in grocery store lines, Clarence Gilyard (the black guy on Walker, Texas Ranger) went to my church, sat in a restaraunt with my back to Jerry Jones (Cowboys owner), and encountered Martina Navratalova and Richard Simmons at Nieman Marcus.
Right place & time: I had a buddy who interned at Kerrang! magazine, and when she returned to the USA, was supposed to be a freelancer for them, but she didn't have a car. Therefore, I drove her to concerts for which she wrote the reviews or interviewed bands, and got to see shows at cut rates and get backstage! I got to meet Pat Travers, LA Guns, Rick Emmit, Queensryche, King's X and many, many more...mostly bands you've never heard of, like Dirty Looks and Shark Island.
Then there was working SXSW. I sold T-shirts & CDs to people like Robert Plant and David Geffen. That just kind of warps your brain.
If I look around me, my Mom was friends with the Neville Brothers before they became famous musicians...and more than one of them was considering a life of crime.
Coincidence: I was waiting to pick up a friend at the airport, and Jimmy Carter got off at the adjacent gate. I shook his hand. One of my college buddies was Liz Jackson, daughter of Phil Jackson...never met him though.
Location: I live in the Dallas area, quite near the Cowboys' offices & practice fields in Valley Ranch, and there are celebs all over the place. The Metroplex is lousy with them- its a great place to live- I'd imagine that only cities like NYC, LA and Miami have more per sqare mile. Examples: The Stars (hockey team) used to hang out at my local Japanese restaraunt, ZZ Top used to go to my neighborhood Mexican restaraunt, I've seen Shawn Bradley (Mav's center) at IHOP, met Troy Aikman at Bennigans & Hooters, I've met Ken Hitchcock (Stars Coach) and Herschel Walker (Cowboys/Vikings RB) in grocery store lines, Clarence Gilyard (the black guy on Walker, Texas Ranger) went to my church, sat in a restaraunt with my back to Jerry Jones (Cowboys owner), and encountered Martina Navratalova and Richard Simmons at Nieman Marcus.
Right place & time: I had a buddy who interned at Kerrang! magazine, and when she returned to the USA, was supposed to be a freelancer for them, but she didn't have a car. Therefore, I drove her to concerts for which she wrote the reviews or interviewed bands, and got to see shows at cut rates and get backstage! I got to meet Pat Travers, LA Guns, Rick Emmit, Queensryche, King's X and many, many more...mostly bands you've never heard of, like Dirty Looks and Shark Island.
Then there was working SXSW. I sold T-shirts & CDs to people like Robert Plant and David Geffen. That just kind of warps your brain.
If I look around me, my Mom was friends with the Neville Brothers before they became famous musicians...and more than one of them was considering a life of crime.
Rodrigo Istalindir
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Most recently, I saw Jerry Springer Christmas shopping at the mall. He looked extremely sad; either he was having a really bad shopping day or he was really tired of people coming up to him.
When I was a kid, my dad was an administrator at a college, and the people that organized lectures and such worked under him. Our house was right across from the lecture hall, so there would often be a cocktail party before or after the lecture. There were a number of reasonably high-profile (at the time, anyway) political and academic guests, but my favorite guest was Vincent Price. I was in a serious 'Creature Feature' craze at the time, reading all the monster comics and assembling the plastic models and such. He was really nice and gracious as I bugged him with questions and showed him the models and stuff.
When I was a kid, my dad was an administrator at a college, and the people that organized lectures and such worked under him. Our house was right across from the lecture hall, so there would often be a cocktail party before or after the lecture. There were a number of reasonably high-profile (at the time, anyway) political and academic guests, but my favorite guest was Vincent Price. I was in a serious 'Creature Feature' craze at the time, reading all the monster comics and assembling the plastic models and such. He was really nice and gracious as I bugged him with questions and showed him the models and stuff.
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