name your experiences w/ famous people

[LowFalutin]

got a dip of Skoal (the last of the can) from Elvin Bishop,
the night before his show at Brassy's nightclub in Cocao Beach, FL,
around spring break, '83.

 

[richards666]

Bob Probert got shit faced with him at his place, had to put in windows

 

[mojave green]

wifey and i on universal studio tour and drove by morgan freeman dressed all in white. wifey bout jumped out of tram fer fuk sakes!

 

[Marcellas]

Believe it or not; my parents met the Grateful Dead a few times, and my Dad smoked a joint with Jerry right before they played a free show (Pigpen sitting next to them with a bottle of whiskey)..

One time the whole band came into a diner nearby the venue late after a show, and had breakfast with my parents and their friends (there's more to that story, quite interesting!)

 

[seasonsoflove]

I'll fire this thread back up lmao. I was walking through the Americana at Glendale in 2014 like every day before, and my brother behind me whispers "That's Rob Corddry!!". I look up, and standing there at the hotel valet check-in is, in fact, Rob Corddry with his girlfriend or whatever(apparently he's been married for the last 21 years, so I'll just go ahead and say it was his wife lmao).

Hot Tub Time Machine was still fresh in my memory, and it really is a weird feeling to see someone you recognize so well from the screen, out in the wild. The last thing I would have ever fucking done is try to approach him for a word, there's just no justification for that, and you may not understand that until you feel what it's like for yourself lol.

But anyway, I was pretty stunned to see him standing there so I turn around and walk back by(I'm on the other side of the sidewalk, so Im a good 40-50 feet away, and it's pretty crowded as usual so I definitely made sure I wouldn't creep him out, but as I walk off I look over and he happens to look up out of the corner of his eye and gives me the classic fucking Rob Corddry side-eye eye contact, and looks right at me lmaoooooo. He didn't particularly seem to be having a great day even though he was at one of the nicest hotels in Glendale lol.

I guess the moral of the story is no matter how rich and successful you are, your girl will still leave you outside the fancy hotel to do the checking-in and fucking with the valet bullshit. LOL

peace out

 

[armedoldhippy]

known a couple of professional athletes and musicians, and saw Richard Nixon as a teen. his limo went by too fast & i didn't get to throw my rock...

 

[Dropped Cat]

Gates McFadden at a convention, lightly attended, got to chat with her for some time.
Said she thought the show would be canceled after the the first season, who knew.

Barry White at MIA airport bar, nice guy, paid my tab, talked about gardening and scoring chicks. His conversational voice was warm and inviting.

Carl Sagan at a symposium in MIA, chatted about the big bang singularity and the lack of a center to the universe, nice guy, smelled like garlic, lol

Tony Bourdain lower Manhatten sushi bar c2006, solo trip to the city,
had some sashimi and house saki, he joined my invite, a stranger to me.

We talked like for a long time about line work and stress management.

Tab was a couple hundred bucks, we went back and forth about the tab.
I paid and he invited me to his restaurant for lunch.

Never went.

Learned later about his celebrity, so sad about his ending.

Karen Summer, stripper at Tootsies, MIA. She was glad to know I
recognized her from early porn, handie in the VIP room, nice girl.

Brian Dennehy, MIA , at Miami Seaquarium, with Michael Talbott of Miami Vice.
Cool dude, laid back and talked about his kids, three girls. Nice guy

I've been told I bring out the best in people, and all my celebrity encounters were
memorable in that regard.

 

[unclefishstick]

well...never met him in person but talked with jerry garcia on the phone a few dozen times...smoked pot with ken kesey,mountain girl,and wavy gravy on the "further" bus in oregon...had tea with tina turner on her tour bus after a show,i was on the catering crew...she was super nice,just a total gem...met sting,also a nice guy,loved our food so got to hang with him for far longer than normal for a concert catering,mostly you never see the "talent"....van halen dlr era....extra booze run to the tour bus...fleetwood mac....stevie nicks was a total c*nt...laughed right in richard marx face over his ridiculous poodle hair...got kicked out on that job!

cooked for a few celebs over the years...only met roy scheider,tom bodet,who hardly counts since he was a local,earnest borgnine,jewel,another local at the time so only sorta counts as i had known her since she was like 15...david stern who was the commissioner of the nba,crews from "the deadliest catch"
more than my stoner memory can remember...

 

[Tudo]

Flying home from great lakes basic, while in some food line the gentleman behind me asked for me to please pass over a salt shaker and when I did I saw it was Harry Chapin to which I replied, bring the salt shakers to your table sir? Yes sir and I had lunch with Harry Chapin and his band. Yes we spoke and he asked me if I was going to Vietnam.

 

[brickweeder]

william shatner was filming on a public stairway when I was a kid...he was nice enough to give me his autograph...have no idea what I did with it though.

used to live across from jack colvin (reported from the cheesy hulk tv show)...was just a regular guy...he drove a datson 260z if i remember correctly.

 

[Mtn. Nectar]

met few musicians over the yrs, but only one person I would call famous….. “the Duke”……John Wayne…1971 ….as a kid seen many a time getting his O2 tanks from Sav-On drugstore….but always on the move….one day was inside store getting my fav Ludens Cherry cough drops and see him aisle away….go over and introduce myself... as he put his paw out for a shake….gave me that big smile and pulled one if his pre-signed cards from his wallet for me….patted my shoulder as I walked away…..

going on 52 yrs ago now and memory of that moment never fades….
R.I.P. JW

 

[Chuck Jägerschnitzel]

well...never met him in person but talked with jerry garcia on the phone a few dozen times...smoked pot with ken kesey,mountain girl,and wavy gravy on the "further" bus in oregon...had tea with tina turner on her tour bus after a show,i was on the catering crew...she was super nice,just a total gem...met sting,also a nice guy,loved our food so got to hang with him for far longer than normal for a concert catering,mostly you never see the "talent"....van halen dlr era....extra booze run to the tour bus...fleetwood mac....stevie nicks was a total c*nt...laughed right in richard marx face over his ridiculous poodle hair...got kicked out on that job!

cooked for a few celebs over the years...only met roy scheider,tom bodet,who hardly counts since he was a local,earnest borgnine,jewel,another local at the time so only sorta counts as i had known her since she was like 15...david stern who was the commissioner of the nba,crews from "the deadliest catch"
more than my stoner memory can remember...

Theres a strain named Mountain Girl and reputedly she is involved with it, good stuff, nice candy flavor and strong.
Odie Diesel seemed suitably impressed, possibly even shocked, when I opened a jar of my Headband x Ripped Bubba winner pheno under his nose.
I got shooed away from a 1980s legalization event in D.C. by Jack Herer when I was teen, having kids around was probably a bad look for the NORML crowd

 

[trichrider]

Shook hands with John F Kennedy.

On August 17, 1962, Kennedy visited Pueblo to celebrate the Frying Pan Arkansas Reclamation Project, the huge and controversial water diversion project that brought water from the Western Slope to Colorado Springs and Pueblo (admittedly not such a popular project with people from the Western Slope or environmentalists). Pueblo closed schools and offices for the occasion. Over 100,000 people stood on the sides of Highway 50 to see the President’s motorcade pass on his way to Pueblo Public Schools Stadium. There, 18,000 people in a celebratory mood shrugged off the heat in order to hear Kennedy ordain the Reclamation Project, which he had just signed into law, to be a symbol of the power of the United States to bring water to some of “the bleakest land in the United States.” Kennedy also remarked on the necessity of such projects if the country were to provide water and living space for 300,000,000 people by the end of the Twentieth Century.

During his speech at the stadium i held up a campaign sign at the front of the stage, and after his speech he came and shook my hand along with other kids hands who also held up signs. i was nine years old.

 

[CosmicGiggle]

Way back in 1992, I got to meet and be a fly-on-the way enjoying a conversation between Swami Satchadananda and another Spritual Master from India.

Now, you'd think I'd be hearing some inspiring, esoteric spiritual wisdom from the two giants, but no, instead they heatedly discussed the relative value of Swami's 743 acre compound in Yogaville, VA vs the other guys 2 1/2 acre compound right next to O'Hare airport in Chicago, IL.

....... oh well, enlightenment will have to wait!

 

[moose eater]

I got to meet the original Bozo the Clown as a kid, and years later, in front of the stage at the Lowell Showboat in Lowell, Michigan, perhaps about 1975 or 1976, I handed a fine joint of Colombian Gold (my last joint, if I recall correctly) to Michael Murphy of REO Speedwagon, which he promptly walked away with it, with a towel around his neck as Gary Richrath was engaged in a guitar solo at that moment.

Murphy never handed the joint back. Bogart. (The guy you learn from experience not to invite to a party...)

 

[HempKat]

I got to meet Metallica backstage after a concert they did in the mid to late 90's (during the period where Jason Newsted was the bass player) at a concert hall in Philadelphia. Nothing particularly special happened, it was the typical meet and greet where everyone with backstage passes were ushered thru and everyone got a minute or so with each band member before having to move on. I got James Hetfield to autograph my backstage pass, i got Kirk Hammet to intial a guitar pick i caught when h threw a bunch to the audience during the show, i got Lars Ulrich to do the same with a drumstick he threw oout and I caught, and i got jason Newsted to autograph the ticket that got me into the show.

I also got a chance to ask each of them a question besides "can you autograph..." but it was my first and only time backstage meeting a famous rock band so I was totally unprepaired and ended up just asking pretty typical and cringe worthy fan type questions. As great as it was meeting the band and getting their autographs I enjoyed much more getting to hangout and party with the road crew afterwards. I was only able to do all that because I was friends with a stripper who was hooking up with one of the road crew and she needed someone to driver her to the concert and stay aterwards so she could spend the night with the guy from the road crew. My ticket and backstage pass and a free hotel room was my compensation for providing the transportation to get her there.

 

[GenghisKush]

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[subrob]

Ronda smoked SSH for the first time a few hours after this photo was taken. Loved it. Smoked it exclusively for awhile, didn't like the chem d as much. And ufc fighters are a pretty tight group and word spread a little bit. Kyle and Miles and rymo from slightly Stoopid have hung out w a number of old icmaggers like me, really good friends w two of them who ain't on here anymore. @shauncron used to sell them my og and a couple others. Along w them have hung out backstage w some of their fellow musicians. Don Carlos LOVED ssh. Marlon Asher, others.
When I was 6 or 7, flying on a plane from Frisco to Anchorage, Reggie Jackson had an attendant bring me up to first class to sit with him and talk until we got to Seattle where he deboarded. One of the highlights of my life.
As was mike euruzioni(?) and Phil verchota (gotta be an Olympic hockey fan for this one) staying at my family's home in Alaska during a traveling hockey camp in 81 (do you believe in miracles!? Lol)

 

[moose eater]

I guess in looking back, as I've not really been one to want to touch Jesus' or Steven Tyler's robes through time, and never really been a groupie, it's easy to forget some encounters.

People get the respect they deserve, most often for what they've done or earned, above and beyond. That's my take on it anyway.

There's many 'famous folks' whose hands I would not shake, nor invite to a dinner table in my home.
Kissinger, Nixon, Harvey Weinstein, and many, many more; the list is pretty long really. Some I'd prefer an opportunity to spit or piss on, if there were any personal contact at all.

Others I've never met, but have heard speak, and would get on the ground on my knees and likely be wanting to do the Wayne & Garth "We're not worthy" gig. Col. Hugh Thompson who flew the recon chopper that landed at My Lai and ordered the door gunner on the M-60 aboard an accompanying gunship to drop the next GI who shot into the ditch after Col Thompson had taken control of the scene. I heard him speak.. The inner and outer conflict when morality leads one to confront family or tribe in a no-bullshit manner. Harsh but meaningful stuff.

In the early 1980s I met Nikki Giovanni at University of Alaska Fairbanks, when Professor Elmer Haymon had brought her up to do a reading of her poetry and speak. I was given a poem on now-yellowed mimeograph paper by a student teacher in the minimum security 'campus' I was at in 1972/1973. The poem was entitled "Atrocities" and was from her book 'My House'.

She nor Elmer had any reason to understand why a white boy from the suburban and rural background I was from had the affinity or affection and respect for a Black female poet from that era. And I wasn't afforded time to explain, other than to tell her that I'd carried that yellowed paper in my archives for over a decade and would carry it for decades more. I still have it.

The poem began with:

"In an age of napalmed children

With words like the enemy is whatever moves...."

It was a product of its time and raw in its confrontation of a general description of many things. Reading it while more or less incarcerated as a youngster was heartfelt. We were all in the same 'revolution' though some of us had rougher starts.

At the 13th International Conference on Drug Policy Reform in 2000, when we more or less took over a long-time downtown D.C. hotel, and the maids and housekeepers, et al, were blown away by the presence of open doors on several floors, with cannabis smoke wafting in the air, and at one point, the D.C. Police force doing the round-about in front of the hotel like a marching parade in cars or something, with maybe 15 cruisers as a show of "We know what you're doing in there", I met some long-time heroes of the movement, who, because of my involvement with Prop 5 at that time (legalization with restitution for those previously busted for pot in Alaska), some/many of whom treated me like a celebrity much of the time, though in contrast I was a nobody, being enshrined by the royalty of the drug reform biz.

Humbling and more.

Keith Stroup NORML, Ira Glasser from the ACLU, Dominick Holden of Seattle Hempfest, Chris Conrad and Mikki Norris authors and expert witness testimony in California, Dana Beal of the Green Panthers, C. Gary Wainwright, attorney, from New Orleans, La., and many more.

I met some of the more noteworthy families referenced as direct or collateral damage in Mikki Norris' and Chris Conrad's book 'Shattered Lives: Portraits from America's Drug War'. Outrageous stories that helped to fuel the fire in the belly, to the point that, like numerous meaningful gatherings and events, I was changed for a long time to come. The stories rearranged my sense of being; powerful stuff.

I met Dr. John Morgan, M.D. and his co-author and significant other, Lynn Zimmer, PhD, both now deceased, who wrote 'Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts.' which I would go on to send, along with other studies, like Professor Robb's 'Marijuana and Actual driving Performance', to school boards and legislators, putting their 'mercenary clinicians' on notice re. the credentialling board's ethical mandates to stay current and accurate in the areas they taught or worked in.

I met Nora Callahan from the November Coalition, and had to leave due to my melting down in an embarrassing moment during her speaking there, as she described her brother, whom she identified as being in prison on a minimum mandatory sentence "for being a good gardener," who died in prison, at which time the family was told that because he'd died on the inside, a convicted 'criminal', he had to be buried in the prison cemetery, not in the family's choice of burial ground. I broke down and exited at that moment. I could no longer compose myself.

The chatter from semi-anonymous stalls in the restroom, knowing who the speakers were by voice and statements, was often hilarious. A great bounce-back from Nora Callahan's story about her brother, that had sent me to the restroom in the first place.

These are some of the 'famous people' I've met, for which the encounters are still cherished. Proud to have known these very human courageous people. Some of whom would later help out in televised or aired debates, when good intel was needed on short notice.

 

[subrob]

Oohhh...speaking of scumbags you wouldn't want to shake hands with...can't forget dickie...back in '91