Met a lot in my time but Alexis Korner was the friendliest, had a lot of time for me and even showed me his guitar. The original SG ( Les Paul ) He became my all time favourite dude.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins was the scariest but I was only about 14 at the time. He came into a cellar club we played at and had become friendly with the management. His on-stage character seemed to follow him off-stage, I'll always remember him stood at the bar watching us perform and his eyes seem to drill into us.
A real unusual character. Said to have dozens of wives and around seventy kids. I don't know how much of that was true of course but that dude was somethin' else.

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Is that the "I'll Put a Spell on You" dude?

Yeah that's him and like I said, he was somethin' else.

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The Director's Cut is a series of some drastic reworkings of songs from The Sensual World and The Red Shoes - we're not talking just re-mixes, in some cases we're talking completely new recordings. Bush fans seem to be spilt on the album. I'm a global mod on one forum (The Sensual World of Kate Bush - find me under the same name I use here) and there has been a healthy debate on whether or not she should have bothered. Personally, I love the new recordings - This Woman's Work, Moments of Pleasure, Song of Solomon - are incredible - but I guess the album is not exactly essential. However I'd buy recordings of her reading her shopping lists! I always think every album will be her last, but it seems pretty definitive that she's working hard on songs for a new album.

Aerial just blows me away. I rate it as her 3rd masterpiece - after The Dreaming and Hounds of Love.

Whoops sorry to be hijacking the thread..

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I have met a bunch of country artists, due to a friend of mine being pretty known in the business - Never really cared, as I am not a big fan of country, some were cool though

The ones I have met that have been very cool are Joe Bonamassa, Buddy Guy and Ted Nugent! Ted is supercool - Buddy was busy with everyone wanting his autograph - Joe was a gentleman, took time to talk with a buddy and myself, signed some stuff for us, and talked about gear

My mom lived next door to Buck Dharma growing up. I've been to a few of their shows. One show at an arena where i watched from the monitor mixer on the stage. That was cool. That same show, Foghat was playing as well so I was backstage with Foghat too. I didn't meet them because i was busy talking with mr. Dharma and didn't want to intrude on Foghat's area but it was kind of neat even though it was the 90s and well past that era of partying backstage. It was even a little odd to see an entire cooler of Heinies but no one tearing into it. Sort of killed the image of the backstage rock party.

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Well I think everyone figured out (eventually) that the party thing could kill you faster than hitting an Armadillo in Tejas on Rt. 40 W.......... If it didn't put you under then you became an old Geez in TV rehab or a complete burn unit talking to the underpass you lived under.

ARS ( Atlanta Rythym Section) at the Poquoson Seafood fest about 9 0r 10 years ago. They were awesome!

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Experience is the best teacher

When i was working at a recording studio back in the 90s, i got to work on a 7 Mary Three record. I have to say, I wasn't huge into them but they were top notch guys. Real nice people to work with. I was just an assistant engineer on that record but they treated me very well. Made me like them a whole lot more and I really liked the songs on that album. Also met some of the folks from Kansas while working at the same place.

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Thanks for the info -- I'll be sure to give the new recordings a listen and check out your forum!

Chet Atkins -- met him one afternoon at a local music store. He was a friend of the store's owner. Down-to-earth old Tennessee country boy who grew up in a little hick town not far from my city. Talked to him about fifteen minutes. He autographed a packet of strings I had gone there to by and I still have it (now empty of course).

Ronnie Tutt -- drummer for Elvis Presley's band. Elvis appeared in Knoxville in 1975 and they stayed at the old Campus Inn, just off the U.T. main campus. Rented out an entire floor of the hotel. Ronnie was standing outside the hotel alone, beside the tour bus as I walked by. We nodded and we started a conversation that went for a half-hour. Cool guy. Very friendly.

B.B. King -- backstage after a concert at the 1928 World's Fair, here in Knoxville. Friendly and down to earth.

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OOPS!! LOL -- my bad. That should have read: "1982 World's Fair . . . " Geez, I ain't THAT old!!

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"It's about sound and sound alone. Looks are irrelevant. You can have the best-looking guitar on earth, but if the sound isn't there it is nothing more than a beautiful piece of trash. The sound it makes is the soul of any guitar."

Wow, some really great stories here. My list doesn't really compare to a lot of the others, but here are my 'famous musician encounters':
- Les Claypool (Primus) - met in 1991 on their "Seas of Cheese" tour
- Brian Setzer - met in 2000/2001 on his "68 Comeback Special" tour
- Terminator X (DJ for Public Enemy) - 1991 on the "Apocalypse Now" tour
- Scott Ian - 1991 tour with PE
- Marshall Goodman (Sublime / Long Beach Dub Allstars) - met in club mensroom in 2000, "Right Back" tour
- Opie Ortiz (Long Beach Dub Allstars) - 2000 - "Right Back" tour
- Debbie Gibson - 2001 she came to a radio station I was working at.
- Carly Simon - 2001 she came to a radio station I was working at.

All were really nice people. The nicest of the bunch was probably Marshall. We talked for quite a while. He was just a down to earth 'I'm just like you' kind of guy...and actually I'm sure he is.

I've only met 2 but they were both great guys.

1. I went to high school with Vinnie Moore in New Castle Delaware. He is a very nice person, always in a good mood and easy to get along with, not to mention that he is an awesome guitarist!

2. Steve Morse - I went to a guitar clinic that a local music store in Newark, Delaware was putting on. I got to meet him afterwards and I can say that he is just a plain old good guy. He was personable and talked freely to whomever spoke to him.

In 1968 while I was attending Iowa State there was a dance held in the Student Union, but very few showed up to see Booker T & The MGs. I got to stand close enough to these guys to reach out and touch them - no stage, just set up in the corner of one of the ballrooms. Booker T, Donald "Duck" Dunn and Steve Cropper - talk about up close and personal. I could tell they were dying to get out of there after the gig (been there myself plenty of times when the crowds suck), but they were kind enough to chat with me for a while after finding out that I was actually a fan.

In 1982 The Ventures were touring to promote their movie celebrating 25 Years of The Ventures, though the movie was never released. They actually came to a little club in Fergus Falls, MN, called Becker's Supper Club. Though the performance was heavily advertised, only about 35 people (other than the regular bar hounds) showed up to hear them. Bogel was missing (broken leg, they said, but I later found out that there was a legal action involved) but the rest of the guys were there. After the show I knocked on the door of their bus and was invited in and we talked while the three of them took the time to sign all 18 of the vinyl LPs I'd brought with me. We even talked a little about their ill fated venture with Mosrite & Award where they launched a line of high-priced solid-state amps. I brought along the cover from my Mosrite BG-1000 Ventures Model amp and they all signed that, too. Great guys.

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Rockin' since 1963