Hummmmm.

Clint Eastwood
Johnny Cash
George Carlin
Dimebag Darrell
Brian Setzer
Ace Frehely
Billy Gibbons
Mike McCready
Stone Gossard
James Burton
Johnny Hiland
John Frusciante
Phil Anselmo
Pepper Kennan
Jimmy Bower
...then it gets more underground.

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Give me a Gibson, or a good Strat. And an amp with some damn tubes in it......"Me"

That's the unexplainable caprice of this business. Artists like Gatton and Buchanan not rising as high as their potential stars is totally mind-boggling.

Florence LaRue. In case the name isnt familiar she is a singer and one of the original memebers of The 5th Dimension. What a nice lady she is and still a great singer. When I met her a few years ago she was around 60 years old, but looked about half her age. Still had great energy and stage presence.

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"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Blazing Saddles...

Lets see...

Ziggy Marley (at the Alligator lounge in Breckenridge CO 95')
Cake ( The whole band, same bar 96')
Widespread Panic (The whole band. Millsaps College 94',Vail,CO 96')
Sublime (Breckenridge brewery, 96')
Sandra Bullock (Jaxn, MS while filming "A time to Kill"
Mathew macanahe (mispelled) Jaxn MS "A time to Kill"
BB King (played the Subway blues cafe in 92')
Better than Ezra (Whole band, won a radio contest in 02')
Ronnie Millsap (helped unload his baby grand at a small Jaxn gig)
George Strait (Neshoba county fair 88')

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"I started out with nothing, and still have most of it"

A lot of politicians to name just a few
George Bush
Ate Lunch with Bill Frisk
Jeff Sessions
Bob Riley
Ran for my State Legislature as my party nominee on Judge Roy Moore's platform in 06 and Roy is a long time personal friend.
Arture Davis is a long time personal friend
Ran into Westly Clark while he was running for Pres.
Allen Keys
Spencer Baccus
Bobby Bright
Fob James
Tim James
George Wallace Jr (BTW he is a purty good guitar player!)
List goes on and on
On the musical side
Robert Sweet
Brad Whitford
Neil ZaZa
Many of the 80's and 90's Christian rock and metal artist more than I want to try to list
Know and have played with a bunch of the well known Praise and Worship guys

The most famous person I've probably ever met was Jimmie Vaughan. He did a guitar workshop in Austin last summer and I went. I didn't get to talk to him for too long, but I got to thank him. He was one of the first blues musicians I listened to, and one of my favorite guitar players. It meant a lot to me to be able to tell him that. And he's a real nice person too.

I've also met a large number of Christian rock/praise/metal bands in the last seven years or so. A friend of mine who's a photographer got me backstage at an Audio Adrenaline/Mercy Me/Kutless concert in Dallas a few years ago. That was before I learned to stay cool, blend in, and not get star struck. I was just a thirteen year old fan girl who jumped up and down and pointed at the guitar players when they walked by. But I got to talk about gear with the guitar tech, which was cool.

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Few I forgot.
Used to dog sit for Lee Trevino and Claudia way back in junior high.

Drank a few beers on more than one occasion with Terry and Bobby Labonte.

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Ignorance IS bliss - and I am the happiest person here!

Working in the photo industry in Southern CA for a number of years (not there now), I've met/worked with a few celebs.

Tom Selleck
Jack Nicholson
Danny Devito
Demi Moore
James Woods
Michael Richards
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Eddie VanHalen
Alex VanHalen
Gene Simmons
Paul Stanley
Ace Frehley
Peter Criss
Nancy Sinatra
Hugh Hefner
Pam Anderson
Tommy Lee
Jenny McCarthy
Lorenzo Lamas


During my current gig:

Garth Brooks
Barry Sanders
Nancy Regan
George W. Bush
Barry Switzer
Jerry Jones

Probably forgetting a few but those are one's that come to mind. The cool thing about being a photographer is that it puts you into situations that most people don't get to experience. (I imagine the music industry is similar.)

There's a few interesting stories surrounding some of these - some even made the news. We were doing a Pam Anderson shoot in Cancun, Mexico (1995 - I was assisting, not shooting). One night while relaxing at the hotel bar, I see Pam, a couple of the stylists, and 2 or 3 heavily tatted guys heading out to party (no idea who the guys were). I declined when they asked me go because we were doing a sunrise shoot in the morning (5 a.m.). Turns out, one of those guys was a short-haired (which is why I didn't recognize him), Tommy Lee. He was still pursuing Pam back then, and had followed us to Mexico. I didn't find out it was Tommy Lee (and that he and Pam had got married on the hotel beach the day after I left), until I saw it on the news back in the US.

I don't get star-struck but I fully admit Demi Moore made me extremely weak in the knees! You'd be amazed how some of the above are the coolest and most down-to-earth people you'd ever want to meet. Some of the others ... not so much. (Demi was awesome, though!)

-phil

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Then again, what do I know ... I've only been playin' for 6 months ... !

I forgot to mention in an earlier post,although I didn't meet him I got an email from Roger Mayer the wizard who designed and modded Jimi's effects.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Not to stir ANY political pots( I keep my views to myself) but i met then Gov. Bill Clinton and shook his hand............it was like squeezing jello won't go there, but anyways, he's probably the most famous i have met..

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I can't find the Crossroads, my GPS must be broke....


2001 Fender Highway One, 2004 Fender SE Ash, 2011 Fender 200 SCE '99 Washburn WR120Pro, Amps: Fender Stage 160, Vox Valvetronix 30, Peavey 212 400 watt, Ibanez 50 watt Toneblaster

Hillary Clinton
Gerry Cooney Top 10 boxing contender
Richard Gere
Chief jay strongbow
Tony Garea
Eddie Kirkland

Cooney was training in (believe it or not) a roller skating rink in seekonk mass lol and i shook his hand very nice guy, hillary came to my town in rhode island to give some speech and said hi to me briefly, same with Gere who was here filming hachiko.

The wrestlers i met at north attleboro mass and eddie kirkland i met in a weiner joint as he was in town for a show.

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My lot:
2003 white/white Fender Strat mim
2007 natural ibanez af 105 hollow body
1991 ibanez 12 string acoustic
roland micro cube amp

My parents said I was patted on the head by President Eisenhower when they took a White House tour back in 1953. (I was about 9 months old at the time, so I'm having trouble remembering that one

Out here in LA and with a vendor in the movie biz, I've seen lots of celebs, but can't claim to have actually met them. However:

- Frank Zappa (backstage before a Mothers concert)
- Paul Denman (bass player - Sade) at a coworker's birthday party
- Jody Foster (standing in line with me at a liquor store)
- Buddy Miles (my living room. My old roommate knew him from way back and they reconnected. I got to chat with Buddy for perhaps 2 minutes before they all took off).
- Harry Chapin (back stage at Morrisville College, 1973)
- Don McLean (The Orange -- Syracuse, NY around 1970; my band happened to be playing there the same night. He hadn't released "American Pie" yet though he was fairly well known in folk circles by then.)
- David Clayton Thomas (Herkimer County Community College 1975. My uncle tuned the piano for the band, so I and a friend got prime tix and a chance to walk back stage for a say hi, shake hands and keep movin' shot.)