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Post by pi on Nov 5, 2019 23:06:26 GMT -5
Pls REQUEST by replying to this tweet!
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Post by Q3 on Nov 5, 2019 23:23:01 GMT -5
lol....my husband once sat next to Eric Clapton on Concorde to NY. They had very easy conversation for half an hour. My husband only twigged who he was when the stewardess came to break the news that Eric’s guitar hadn’t made it onto the plane - poor guy had a show to do and wasn’t happy! My husband’s cousin was once on a ski gondola in Switzerland with David Bowie! And nobody else! They had a nice conversation during which cousin didn’t let on he knew who it was. My dream has always been to meet Mick Jagger. Another cousin was a server in a restaurant one summer and served Mick. He said he was polite and tipped well. Oddly, I have met them both.
I once sat down in a chair in a United Red Carpet Club with a long layover at LAX -- and after I got settled and ordered a drink, turned and saw I was sitting next to Mick Jagger. It was in the 1980's, so celebrities we not as isolated as they are now when they travel. It was good I had a drink so I could do something while I tried to figure out what to say. My brilliant opening line was, "Why hello, you're Mick Jagger." Very cool and sophisticated. In any case, he was very nice, and I think used to people being braindead around him. We talked for about 30 or 40 minutes. Then his PA or some other assistant type arrived and took him away.
My big takeaways were that he is quite short and has a huge head and even huger lips. In retrospect, I do not think the lips were natural.
My first Marketing-ish job was as a PR assistant/intern for the concert promoter who did David Bowie's 1972 Ziggy Stardust Tour -- just the USA concerts. I was 19, and looked like I was 14, and was in the lowest of the lowest of the "go get coffee" jobs. Bowie had an entourage even then -- and he was playing theaters and amphitheaters. In any case, I can't say that I knew him but I saw a lot of him and was on most of the tour. Honestly, he did not treat people very well and, although I love his music, I do not believe he was a very nice person. He seemed rather cold, detached, self-absorbed, and hyperactive -- always in motion. Later I worked on promotions for RCA (his label at the time) for a couple of summers, and my opinion did not change. This was a time period fueled by cocaine, Quaaludes, reds, and other drugs that probably altered the way people treated each other and acted -- so perhaps I got a view of a not typical time in his life. Not that the mid-70's were a normal time for anyone.
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Post by sizzling63 on Nov 5, 2019 23:26:17 GMT -5
Has anybody seen the Fantasy Springs concert advertised anywhere?? Not sure how people would find out unless they knew?
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Post by sizzling63 on Nov 5, 2019 23:27:54 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Nov 5, 2019 23:31:10 GMT -5
And Shazam
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Post by Q3 on Nov 5, 2019 23:31:34 GMT -5
The Overglow Live Sessions has been of repeat for me since I first listened to it.
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Post by pi on Nov 5, 2019 23:34:17 GMT -5
The Overglow Live Sessions has been of repeat for me since I first listened to it. Same! Really addictive and sooo good with earbuds!
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Post by didilynn on Nov 5, 2019 23:56:09 GMT -5
I once met Jonathan Cain (member of the band Journey) at an airport, we sat and had a drink and watched a football game together. I had no idea who he was until he told me. He lived In Marin County at the time, pretty close to me in Sonoma County and we talked about growing wine grapes (I think I may have dissed Marin Co as a wine growing region, whoops). Now I find out he's since divorced his wife and married Paula White "spiritual adviser" to the president.....
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Post by nonotme on Nov 6, 2019 2:26:17 GMT -5
Back in the day, at places like the Fillmore and other venues in San Francisco, the musicians sometimes mingled and had casual conversations with the concert goers. I met a few well known names that way. Here's one story:
Some friends and I drove up to San Francisco to go to the Fillmore as we did now and then. There were three bands. While the first band was playing a skinny guy wearing green velvet pants, who had an English accent, asked me to dance. We danced for about half an hour, chatting between songs. As the band was about to play its last song of the set he gave me a hug and said he had to go to work.
When the next band - the Jeff Beck Group - came on, there he was, the bass player. I was surprised. Turns out he was Ron Wood, who later joined the Rolling Stones.
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Post by SophieB on Nov 6, 2019 2:49:05 GMT -5
Fun memories...
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