Famous People You Have Met

[lazeeboy]

like i said famous people i have met ,and where ?

i've met so many shirley bassey was an old freind of my family ,as a kid my mother lived next door to her ,met her at the talk of the town in london ,my father worked as a resident trumpet player there ,on meeting her he mentioned this ,and to his suprise she remembered the whole family ,we went to lunch with her and she remembered all the old child hood memories they had together ,very down to earth lady ,not forgotten her roots , tony christie ,tom jones ,and as a kid washed reg varneys rolls every sunday for 50 pence. who have you met and where

[suegha]

Depends on what you mean by famous, however, I have met all of U2. Early in their career, enjoyed a can of beer with them sitting outside a venue where they were performing, had a chat, etc.

Have met many top sportsmen in many fields. I am not impressed by fame, I'm impressed by personality and some celebs are cool some are not!

[gampaan]

I got to sit and shoot the sh*t with Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Cassidy (Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane) at a little bar in Richmond they were playing between sets back about '88. The coolest dudes I ever talked to. Just real people.

I met Jamie Lee Curtis while I was doing HVAC work at an artsy photographer's place she was evidently into. Looked good in person, but a bit rough around the edges...

I also do some work from time to time for Harold Reid of the Statler Bros.

Got to meet Ralph Stanley (Bluegrass legend) at a small bar in Roanoke Va. also.

I met Mark Martin (Nascar Driver)

all I can remember I guess any others didn't make much of an impression on me........

[Totster]

I met "Mad Lizzy" once

Totster

[pumpuiman]

Kevin Spacey

Carly Simon

Dan Akroyd

Jimmy Cliff

Ton Loc

John Kerry

Bill Belacheck(spelling?)

Poison

Warrant

Alice in Chains

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Indigo girls

Lenny from Sha na na

Slayer

Living Color

Los Lobos

Belly

Goo Goo dolls

John Lee Hooker

Etta James

Pinetop Perkins

Room full of blues

Steel Pulse

J. Geils band

Bill Murray

James Taylor

Elizabeth Shue

Karen Allen

Robert Cray

Johnathan Edwards

Def Leopard

And a host of others I can't recall at the moment. I worked security for a few years in my youth....Then as a ships captain to some celebrity playgrounds (Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket) I get a lot of VIP's in my wheelhouse, trying to avoid the common folk

[mr_hippo]

50 years ago, Dad took me to a house about 1 mile from home - 3 cars pulled up a few minutes later and about 10 men came into the house. The house belonged to the parents of Bill Foulkes - Manchester United centre half - the men were most of the Busby Babes and we had a kick-about in the back garden!

Having lunch in the Red Sea Palace hotel in Jeddah, I was joined by a big African chap. I had the feeling that we had met before so I asked him "Do I know you, have we met?" "No but you may have heard of me - I'm Idi Amin."

Posting a letter in Farnham (England) Post Office, I had a chat with Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery - he was collecting his pension.

Not met but in the same photo - Osama bin Laden

[BFD]

I only consider it 'meeting' them if I have at least one beer with them:

Mike Patton from Faith No More/Mr. Bungle

Jeff Martin from the Tea Party

Jason Lee

David Cross

Slipknot

Strapping Young Lad

I toured around Western Canada/United states for a while, so there are a few more bands that I can't remember (I had a lot to drink that year).

BFD!

[Mozikillah]

Tata Young..

[Khutan]

I met "Mad Lizzy" once

Totster

I nearly hit "Naughty Nigel" with my Pick-Up a few years ago in Klong Toey. He gave me a glare - does that count?

[Ulysses G.]

A Thai freind works as a maid for a very famous farang businessman in Thailand and travels a lot with his family.

She met the King of Thailand holidaying in the mountains of Europe and he asked her to treat him as she would anyone else. He didn't want other tourists to know who he was.

She said that he was very kind and even smiled a lot without so much pressure on him to be King.

[Jingthing]

I met:

Harvey Milk

Allen Ginsberg

Abbie Hoffman

Jerry Ruben

the Egg Lady (John Waters films)

Divine (John Waters films)

John Waters

Meatloaf

John Malkovitch

George Wallace

Eartha Kitt

Edited September 20, 2007 by Jingthing

[JimmyTheMook]

I had a car accident in LA with Andrew "Dice" Clay , Ohhhh !!!

[Ulysses G.]

Mohammed Ali

Cat Stevens

The Greatful Dead

Linda Ronstadt

Tom Bosley (of happy days)

Jack LaLanne

Craig T. Nelson ( the star of "Coach")

Arthur J. Goldberg, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court

Brooke Adams of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland

Little River Band

Etc.

A bunch of 2nd rate movie, TV , and music stars that I met staying in the different hotels that I worked in.

Edited September 20, 2007 by Ulysses G.

[Juzrelax]

WWE Wrestlers including Goldberg, Booker T, Ric Flair, Disco Inferno and Kevin Nash.

I was actually dancing on a stage at a Melbourne nightclub a few feet away from Kevin Nash. I am 6'1 110 kgs, but ######, I felt like a midget standing next to him.

Although not famous, I have sparred a fellow that was at one time sparring parters with Muhhamad Ali.

I have also met quite a few Aussie rules footballers which I have had a beer with.

Edited September 20, 2007 by Juzrelax

[Neeranam]

HH The Dalai Lama.

[mikethevigoman]

like i said famous people i have met ,and where ?

i've met so many shirley bassey was an old freind of my family ,as a kid my mother lived next door to her ,met her at the talk of the town in london ,my father worked as a resident trumpet player there ,on meeting her he mentioned this ,and to his suprise she remembered the whole family ,we went to lunch with her and she remembered all the old child hood memories they had together ,very down to earth lady ,not forgotten her roots , tony christie ,tom jones ,and as a kid washed reg varneys rolls every sunday for 50 pence. who have you met and where

Ken Dodd !

[Spee]

Almost 10 years ago, I was on an out of town business trip and looking for a place to eat dinner. In a magazine, I found a place nearby that doubled as a restaurant and club. Their advert said that blues harp legend Charlie Musselwhite was playing there for one night only. So I went in early, had a nice steak and later on enjoyed two sets of fantastic music. The club was small and intimate and there were only about 20 people in the joint the whole night. Everyone was able to sit up close all around the stage. He talked a lot with the audience between songs and hung out between sets. Everyone had a chance to walk up, say hello, and chat for a few minutes. There's a lotta hard miles in those shoes.

[retirednavyman]

My father used to work as a stevedore for a furniture company in Manhattan. He met Jimmy Cagney and was friends with him. Does that count?

[sbk]

Seal came into our place on Koh Phangan for a beer in 1995 (when kiss from a rose hit big). I didn't have a clue who he was, never heard of him and asked him where he was from

Met a Thai gameshow host/actor (Nino) on Bangkok Air out of Samui earlier this year. Very nice guy--very friendly and quite impressed with my Southern Thai accented Thai language ability

[batami]

I met:

(President) Jimmy Carter - at a house building project in Mexico that he was working on - genuine, laid back, nice guy

Margaret Thatcher - at a garden party at No10 - she came up said the obligatory "pleased you can come, do enjoy yourself, must find XXXXXX" (which ever Minister was in for an ear bashing at that time); physically very small but clearly unfettered energy and a lot of charisma

Martin Lewis BBC's 1980's posterboy Newscaster and Anchor man -- fell from grace when he accused BBC of focusing on the negative too much, and , of course, like the rest of us,he was getting"old" and replaced by younger faces - sad - he was a genuinely good guy too but became too outspoken for BBC's tastes and he was relegated

My mother's elderly friend who worked as maid in a big house in Manchester when she was young and escaped down drainpipes to have the night out, later recalled her stories on BBC -- but I guess that doesn't count

[lazeeboy]

I met:

(President) Jimmy Carter - at a house building project in Mexico that he was working on - genuine, laid back, nice guy

Margaret Thatcher - at a garden party at No10 - she came up said the obligatory "pleased you can come, do enjoy yourself, must find XXXXXX" (which ever Minister was in for an ear bashing at that time); physically very small but clearly unfettered energy and a lot of charisma

Martin Lewis BBC's 1980's posterboy Newscaster and Anchor man -- fell from grace when he accused BBC of focusing on the negative too much, and , of course, like the rest of us,he was getting"old" and replaced by younger faces - sad - he was a genuinely good guy too but became too outspoken for BBC's tastes and he was relegated

My mother's elderly friend who worked as maid in a big house in Manchester when she was young and escaped down drainpipes to have the night out, later recalled her stories on BBC -- but I guess that doesn't count

played snooker many times with ray winstone and niall quinn........

[jaiyenyen]

Had a few beers with the Tubes in thier tour bus, backstage at Knebworth. Frank Zappa was there too, nice man.

[lazeeboy]

wen i was an aprentist barber used to shampoo pat jennings ,jimmy greaves and peter simpsons hair ,in the early 70s,non were good tippers........

[Spee]

In a previous career life, I worked with many astronauts and scientists on several space shuttle missions. In pre-flight mission training, I worked with the first two Japanese astronauts, the first black American woman astronaut, and the first husband/wife astronaut team. After one mission, I was invited to a special showing at the Washington DC IMAX theatre, where the shuttle commander and a mission specialist showed all of the raw IMAX camera footage from a recent mission and gave their personal unrehearsed narrations. I worked with a bunch of world-class American and Russian scientists in planning parts of the research programs for the shuttle missions to the Mir space station back in the mid-nineties. Not a person, but I got to go to the top of the launch pad to do some pre-flight experiment tests in one of the shuttles, got to watch a shuttle launch from the closest place possible near the vehicle assembly building, and got to walk all around under one of the shuttles after it had just been taken off the top of the 747 at the landing strip.

[suiging]

Always wanted to meet Shane from the Pogues. Drank every bar in BK dry trying to find the man, never did.

Was his presence an urban myth ??

[Old Croc]

Always wanted to meet Shane from the Pogues. Drank every bar in BK dry trying to find the man, never did.

Was his presence an urban myth ??

Saw him once getting off a plane in Australia. Too pissed to fill in his arrival card, stumbled all over the arrivals area. His fellow band members didn't want to know, nor help, him.

[farangconnection]

I once met Lampard.......................................10, not Frank

[britmaveric]

Prince Charles

Princess Di

Tony Blair

GH Bush

GW Bush Jr

Vanna White

Pat Cash

John McEnroe

Rowan Atkinson

Few others can't think of right now.

[tijnebijn]

Syvester Stallone at Chiangmai airport recently.

And he is not small at all !

[tycann]

Saw actor Willem Dafoe in Bkk all lovey-dovey with a barely-legal Thai boy dressed in cut-offs and a tight white T-shirt.