a little off the beaten path..

wangotango68
wangotango68 Posts: 1,056
edited February 28 in Clubhouse Archives
do any of you have a brush with anybody great? have met anybody famous? i met reggie jackson a couple of years ago at a car show in detroit,real nice guy he really likes his cars.and my mother grew up with john mellencamp in seymour.she has pictures of them when they were kids what a little greaser!!

scott:cool:
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  • Firerider58
    Firerider58 Posts: 95
    edited January 2002
    Got to meet Eddie Money about 21 yrs ago in Ohio. Randy Owen(Alabama) ate at a restaurant that my brother used to own here in Texas shortly before they became famous. I talked with him,,,a really great guy. And my brother was good friends with the members of the 80's band Night Ranger. Partied with them up in Dallas in 1983 after a show. Now,,,If I could just meet Mena Suvari or Tara Reid!! :D


    Ron
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  • TrappedUnder Ice
    TrappedUnder Ice Posts: 975
    edited January 2002
    I've met a bunch of the spurs...they came into the restaurant I worked at a lot... Davids cool..but his wife has no tolerance for the fans....
    I have met - Don garlits, Shirley Modowny (sp), Don Prudome, Gene snow and probably quite a few older funny car drivers- used to go to the winston internationals in Pheonix a lot..and my dad always had passes...even got to the tower...they did not have nice things to say about shrily M. in those days.. being 1st woman and all...

    all I can think of for now- did get Steve garvie's (sp?) and Lou Brocks autograph at one time...when we went to a LA/ST.louis game in the 70's...
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  • CHRIS
    CHRIS Posts: 454
    edited January 2002
    Spring break at Daytona Beach '93. MTV was there. Many famous people were staying at the same hotel as we did. Vince Neal was real short, Pauly Shore was basicly the same as on tv. Takled with Troy Achman for a while. The women on man the women. One of the most fun times I have ever had.
    Chris :)
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  • rskarvan
    rskarvan Posts: 2,374
    edited January 2002
    In 1988, I met Axle Rose, Guns-n-Roses, in W. Lafayette.
    He was wearing a snakeskin leather jacket and bandanna.
    I was working as a clerk at Bar Barry Liquors.
    Axle purchased a bottle of Asti and an 8-pack
    of Bud Bottles.

    Axle graduated HS from Lafayette Jeff.
    I talked to/worked with some of his classmates.
    They described him as a smart, quiet, loner who
    hung with the alternative crowd. Go figure.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited January 2002
    I met Weird Al Yankovich does he count?? ha ha ha

    Other random people i've met.. Jane Goodall, Gloria Stinem, Chad Little (race car driver), Former President George Bush, Patty Duke, Micheal Damien (soap star), Dan O'Brien (best athlete in the world), David Letterman, and a few others no one else would know.
    PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
    Vancouver, Canada Sept 30th, 2012 - Madonna concert :cheesygrin:
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  • mikemokr
    mikemokr Posts: 150
    edited January 2002
    In roughly chronological order, my "brush" list would include: Karol Cardinal Wojtyla (now Pope John Paul II), Emerson Boozer, Franz Klammer, Tip O'Neill, Jackie Onassis, Francis Ford Coppolla, Mike Dukakis, Jesse Jackson, Bruce Babbitt, Al Haig, Al Gore (by phone), Gary Hart, Bob Dole, George H. W. Bush, Jack Kemp, Pat Robertson, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Chris Farley, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bruce Hornsby, Vince Welnick, Dan Healy, Al Sharpton, Moe Tucker, Martin Allcock, Linus Torvalds (by email), Rudy Giuliani, Mario Cuomo, the guy who killed Kitty Genovese in a famous NYC murder in the 1960s (many heard her screams, nobody did anything about it), Robert Reich, Miss America 1994, Bob Weir, Benazir Bhutto, Lenny Kaye, Christie Whitman, Daniel Patrick Moynihan (by phone), Peter Jennings, Dave Mattacks, Steve Earle.

    Not saying they're all great or anything.

    Only detail I'm willing to divulge about any of this is that I served Coppolla's girlfriend a $4 plate of linguine (he didn't eat anything) and he left me a $5 tip. You go guy!
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