Wow Jim, Firesign Theater, I loved those guys. Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers was great stuff. Porgy and Mudhead in High School Madness

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Life...... It's sexually transmitted and always fatal

Jeff Healey ...sat next to him at a blues festival in Dana Point California and than he played that night too

Pat Travers...a couple different times.I used to go and see him at least every couple a months

Robin Trower..... at a small venue in Riverside, California before his gig .He gave me a pick that night

Joe Walsh.....lives very close to me and met him at the coachhouse in San Juan Capistrano, CA.

Steve Morse....at a Rush concert he opened for them in Los Angeles at the forum

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1986 Fender Sidekick Reverb 35
1990 Fender Red Knob - "The Twin"
1992 Fender Newporter - Acoustic
2000 Fender American Series Strat - Natural ash
2010 Fender Mustang 1
2011 Fender Blacktop Jazzmaster -Sunburst
2012 Fender Champion

I've met Cage The Elephant and the entire current Melvins line-up. Melvins were some of the coolest guys I've ever met, great senses of humor, down to earth, etc..

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

I was a huge Firesign fan, and back in the late 80s I started a group called Renaissance Radio Theater. We wrote and produced spoken word radio with life music and SFX, and produced comedy and drama (won a Best Drama award at the International Radio Festival for a old-timey horror show). We met a bunch of famous radio guys that nobody here would know at the NAB shows, but the highlight was an hour-long conversation with David Ossman, who is just as smart and funny as you'd expect. At the time he was a working on a revival of Orson Welles' "War Of The Worlds" that was going to be performed essentially live, in one take, at Skywalker Ranch.

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Jim Bordner
Gravity Music - www.gravitymusic.com
Composer, producer, Egnater Artist

Kate Bush - twice, once at an album signing and once in a hotel during her one and only concert tour. She was stressed and anxious on both occasions, but very sweet all the same. Incredibly elfin and with eyes that can stop your heart dead. Her band were very protective and pretty much surrounded her to make sure no-one got out of line. She was very young then. Always a musical heroine of mine - still is. Very private person these days and a home & family girl. Encounters would be extremely rare now.

Jon Lord (intelligent & articulate), David Coverdale (called everyone "lovey"..), Glenn Hughes (so off his head he was on an another planet), Ian Gillan (several times - friendly and always makes time for fans. Sat on the stage a couple of times with the Ian Gillan band - didn't kick me off and gave me a tambourine to rattle). Ian Paice (delightful man -saw him at a drum clinic) Steve Morse (music shop in Bham promoting his Music Man sig guitar - I was trying out a Strat when I saw him. I started to play the intro riff to "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" which is one of his Purple signatures tunes. He froze and looked around to see where it was coming from - than gave me wave and came over for a few words. Then I got hassled by a sales guy trying to sell me Steve's new Purple Sunset signature Music Man.. wow Steve Morse is really short..).

Tony Iommi (bit of a twat - maybe he'd had a bad day) and whoever was in Black sabbath at the time at a Bham Rehearsal facility.

All the members of Thin Lizzy (Snowy White era) backstage at the Odeon Bham. Remember Scott Gorham drunkenly telling me why Richie Blackmore was a c**t, which was very funny. Phil Lynott was perving over anything in a skirt. Snowy White gave me a can of warm lager..

Bill Nelson (Be Bop Deluxe) in Bham City Centre during the day before a gig that night (Drastic Plastic tour). He was tailing his wife around the boutique shops in New Street and looked very bored. he was pleased to be recognised and we had a chat about what he plans he had for the Band after the tour. I probably knew they were going to split before the rest of the band did! "Got to embrace the new wave mate, no-body wants guitar heros anymore.. Time for something more current.." He waited while I went to a newsagent next door to buy a note pad so we had something he could sign. Bill remains an absolute hero of mine and his superb guitar playing has been a major influence. Saw him again a few yrs ago at a small venue on a 30 yr Be Bop retrospective tour he had put together. Great night and still mind bending playing. He played a musical tribute to DJ John Peel.. he very carefully signed my Strat scratchplate for me (he used his full signature as he could see it was important to me) that I'd bought with me in the hope that I could see him after.

And quite a few others - but the mists of time come down and I don't remember them all. Some Scorpions guys, a few Judas Priest etc Only the ones that made an impression.

A few got away - never met Elton who's been another personal musical hero, and never met Richie Blackmore. But I'm seeing Blackmore's Night in October, so maybe then. But I won't be holding my breath..

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Fender Highway & Classic 60s Strats, Fender Toronado, Telecaster, Gretsch Projet, Charvel 3, PRS SE Soapbar II & Custom 24, Burns Batwing and many others!

"Careful Porgy, Bottles will want to give you a sleeve-job!"
Met these crazy guys and got to shake hands and talk to them as well as get their autographs.

Met lots of folk but usually it's just a quick hand-shake before or after a show.

Macca, Charlie Watts, Chrissy Hynde, Rod Stewart and Ron Wood at the same time and they signed albums for me, Dave Bromberg, Tom Rush, John Jorgenson and Albert Lee, Jon Pousette Dart, Johnny A, most of the J Geils Band, most of Boston, most of Aerosmith, Pete Townsend, Ian Anderson, John WIlliams, Arthur Fiedler of Boston Pops, Ronnie Earl, Bonnie Raitt ...lots of folkies when they used to come thru Passim in Cambridge, probably forgot a bunch. I should have had an autograph book with me but at the time I thought is was so "uncool".

Again, for the most part it's just a handshake and "Hi, how are ya..." Stewart and Wood when I met them had already had a few and to be honest, I couldn't understand what they were saying to me! They were laughing a lot....

They thing that struck me most when meeting these Stars is most of these folks are short! I'm 6'1" but many of these people were lucky to hit 5'8". Always struck me strange...

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"You can't spend what you ain't got, you can't lose what you ain't never had" ~ McKinley Morganfield

NICK DANGER - THIRD EYE

Geez I loved that stuff "way back when"......



Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

I had their entire catalog so completely memorized that when I was on the road playing solo, I used to pepper my sets with oddball commercials for Ralph Spoilsport Motors and Arnie's Whole-Beef Halves:

"*Click* ...urrounded by a thin, thin, thin 16 millimeter shell. And inside? It's delicious. That's Arnie's Whole-Beef Halves. Thirsty? How about some of this Filipino creamy comin' in shorts and quarts? And tubs of slaw! Sorry, only one tub per family. That's Arnie's Whole-Beef Halves... We deliver... Everywhere. (pinch nose for flat, monotone tag) Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or M."

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Jim Bordner
Gravity Music - www.gravitymusic.com
Composer, producer, Egnater Artist

"They never deliver to the hills!"

So other Firesign Fans here!! Never know when you'll meet them....

"Want to squeeze the wheeze?"

"No anchovies? Sorry, I only deal in Danger."

"Ed Ames to please...and so does Louise."

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"You can't spend what you ain't got, you can't lose what you ain't never had" ~ McKinley Morganfield

I guess I'm not the only "real" geezer here!



Arjay (who actually rolled a doob from the included Zig-Zag in "Big Bambu")

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

Tyronne, so close! But the actual line is:

NICK: (answering phone) Nick Danger, Third Eye.

MAN ON PHONE: (thru filter) Uh... I'd like a pizza to go and no anchovies?

NICK: You've got the wrong man! I spell my name... DANGER!

SFX: phone slam.

MAN ON PHONE: (thru filter). What?

Organ music up

ANNCR: The makers of Fantastic Cigarettes, long in the leaf and short in the can, bring you another true story from the tattered case book of.....

A friend of mine, every time he calls, still delivers the "pizza" line when I answer, and then I have to say, "You've got the wrong man etc."

Arjay, I did not see the "number" with my own eyes, but I played in a band for years with a guy who said he did the same thing.

I'm going to start a Fans of Firesign thread so I stop hijacking this one.

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Jim Bordner
Gravity Music - www.gravitymusic.com
Composer, producer, Egnater Artist

Just so everybody knows; if thouston shows up, he wins the thread. The guy knows EVERYBODY!!

Richie Havens (bought a songbook of Rod Stewart songs)
Steve Miller and Phil Lesh (at a NAMM show)
Said hi to Leon Russell
Spotted Link Wray on the streets and walked up and talked to him. He was cool.
Back stage with George Thorogood & the Destroyers
Hung out a while with Eddie Van Halen at a NAMM introduced him to Seymour Duncan
Shook hands with Robert Cray
Skunk Baxter at the Roland booth (NAMM)
Leo Fender at NAMM
Bill Lawrence at NAMM
Dick Dale came over and talked to me when my band played for Surfer Magazine
Talked to Roger McGuinn at his gig.

well, if you meet him, make sure you spell it right... "Ritchie"... (been a purple fan for quite some time).
steven tyler at radio shack, the north river arts festival, and the marshfield fair. really nice guy.
adrian belew, robert fripp, trey gunn... a friend did the catering for the king crimson show and i had the honor of helping her set the table. fripp was distant, gunn was cordial, belew was like we were friends since grammar school... great guy, great show.
brooks williams (singer songwriter) had dinner with us at our house.
pierce pettis - gave him a ride from cambridge to our friend's house in fitchburg.
lenny white at what was the axis club in boston... didn't have his hat that night, but it was still a good show.
all good people, some more friendly than others, but all good.

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Dick Dale and Michael Angelo Batio

I'm green with envy that you got to meet Kate Bush. I've been in love with her for about 25 years!

I spent about a year working at the front desk of a hotel on NYC. During that time I was fortunate enough to meet Robby Krieger of the Doors and Neal Schon of Journey. Both gentleman were very nice and gracious. I've also had the pleasure of meeting Robby Takac of the Goo Goo Dolls (fellow Buffalo native), The Barenaked Ladies, Brian Willoughby of the Strawbs, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary, Andrea Bocelli and Placido Domingo.