What or Who Have You Seen ?

[redxblack]

As a spectator, watching Nick Lidstrom play for two decades has been wonderful. Meeting Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay was pretty wonderful. Terrible Ted is one of my personal heroes. Most of the "celebs" I've interacted with have been academics (Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, James Loewen, etc)

I've met a bunch of hockey players and underground musicians (punk/hardcore/metal), but no current "superstars." I used to be pretty active in b-horror movie culture and met a lot of horror and grindhouse actors/directors. Alex Vincent (the little kid from the first Child's Play movie) wanted to beat me up in a karaoke bar once. That was good times. Gunnar Hansen (the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Leatherface) was one of the nicest people I've ever been around. I was able to get Jeremy Bulloch to autograph my Boba Fett helmet. 

[happily everafter]

soooo... you've seen James Taylor naked.

[cokey]

Been to gracie mansion, various buildings and apartments worth more then some towns/states..  met oil tycoons and many of actors. Chatting with all of them is easy for me.. been places underground and up above most people never knew existed ... ah the life of a cable guy..  use to workfor various clubs back in the late 90s early 00s.. celebs all over.. Derek jeeter looked like a crackhead, JZ is prettg cool to chill with.. marky mark is pretty damn small... 

[fastwin]

Wow. Here's a sbkplanet.com pic of my signed Fast Freddie poster (well the one in their pic isn't signed but mine is! ) that I posted about on page 3 of the thread. Cool.

http://www.superbikeplanet.com/image/archive/fansorfantics/garyposters/3/j.htm

[DoubleEagle]

I have seen in person almost all the older greats of Golf , Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Lee Trevino and spoken to the greatest Professional Golfer ever Jack Nicklaus.

I have been playing on Golf Courses and witnessed 7 Hole in Ones , 2 of them mine.

I have witnessed a rare Double Eagle on a par 4 hole , that being a Hole in One by none other than ME !

I have seen Richard Nixon's Motorcade drive by my house when I was a kid.

I watched a speech by Barry Goldwater when he was running for the Presidency of the US.( early '60s )

I received a personal letter from Ferry Porsche .( early '70s )

I saw a friend being taken away in handcuffs by the FBI for selling them 500 hits of LSD , I was 10 minutes late in meeting him in the Park ....I kept on driving.

I would have gone to prison too if I'd been on time.
( Summer of my 20th birthday )

Met Bob Richards , the 1st Olympian to be on the Wheaties box.

Met Ken  " The  Hawk " Harrelson on a Golf course in Tampa Florida one winter in '76.

Have seen Jimi Hendrix and the Experience, Beach Boys, Steve Miller Band, Traffic, Ten Years After, Chicago, Mountain, Grand Funk Railroad, saw Uriah Heep from the 3rd row of the Ohio Theater in '71, James Gang, Jethro Tull, original Black Sabbath , Electric Prunes, Keith, Soft Machine, Boot Jack, Ezra Pound , J. D. Blackfoot, McGuffey Lane, Blood Rock, The Band, Purple Bacon, Bee Gees, Chad and Jeremy, Mary Hopkins, Peter and Gordon, Herman's Hermits, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Bob Seager and the Bob Seager System ,Alice Cooper, Savage Grace, Brownsville Station, Mott the Hoople, and Rod Stewart .

I have seen and owned a James Bond car , the BMW Z-8.

I have seen and driven for the better part of an afternoon,  a new Bentley Arnage and a new at the time , Ferrari 456 GT.

I have seen and driven a '70 Maserati Mistral .

I have driven a new Aston Martin Vantage w. the best sounding Sport Exhaust next to the '70 Mistral.

Driven a new Maserati Coupe.

Saw Sandy Koufax pitch and also Don Drysdale , both against the Pittsburgh Pirates w. Roberto Clemente whom I got to see play a couple of times when I was a kid.

Saw Lou " the Toe " Groza , the great old time place kicker for the Cleveland Browns, and knew his grandson who was a Realtor.

Also have seen the " Man in the Moon ." 

Dolph     

[Mother]

Also have seen the " Man in the Moon ." 

Dolph     

me too

terrible movie

[DoubleEagle]

I forgot to mention, I rode up to the gate of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mansion here in Ohio on my bike , lifted up my Visor , looked into the Camera and said ..." I'll be Back ! " ...then rode away.

Yes Arnold owns a very nice BIG place in Ohio....or did at the time.

Dolph     

[77south]

I saw the southern lights and a lunar eclipse on the same night in the middle of winter in Antarctica.  Never met anyone famous though.

[ducatiz]

I shared a cab with Carly Simon a few years back, riding in the rain from times sq to ues. 

I saw Monica Lewinsky in Bed Bath and Beyond right after the bj controversy.  I wanted to ask her if she was looking for stain remover.

About 10 years ago, I was sitting on w 40th or so at a bistro and Al Franken walks by -- I yelled "Hey Al, is it still the Al Franken Year?"

[rgramjet]

Saw Andie McDowell at the airport as my now wife and I were on our way to elope in Antigua.......she gave me a smoldering stare......could have been disgust, I'm not sure.

Clint Eastwood held the door for my wife at The Hogs Breath Inn in Carmel, CA.  He gave my wife a serious up/down!  Her feet didn't touch the ground for the rest of the evening.

Grew up working in the home of Walter Ridder from Knight/Ridder newspapers......they had a great Christmas party every year.  Also worked in the houses of local newsmen Marvin and Bernard Kalb and Daniel Schorr.

I considered the late General William Odom, former head of some large government agencies a good friend and client, in that order.

[DoubleEagle]

I saw the southern lights and a lunar eclipse on the same night in the middle of winter in Antarctica.  Never met anyone famous though.

How cold was it then ?

Dolph     

[77south]

It was probably only -20F or -30F which was about average for the winter in McMurdo station.  August was the coldest month which averaged about -40F.  That's when the big hurricane blizzards blew up and wind chill could get down to -100F and send anything not tied down to Oz.

[Drunken Monkey]

Pete Townsend once wrote me a fan letter.

Met Frank Zappa (I was a huge fan and he was, unfortunately, a dick)

I personally delivered some floppy disks to Niel Young.

I once talked to John Paul Jones (tech support call)

Met Thomas Dolby at some dot-com party a decade ago he called me "one of the gods of music software"

Back in my youth I wrote electronic music software until I realized I was combining a programmer's salary (   ) with a musician's salary ( )

The only person of note I've met since then was Bill Gates (at a 'new hires' meet and greet at Microsoft) and frankly he was a lot less cool than the folks I met in the music industry.

[fastwin]

I saw Monica Lewinsky in Bed Bath and Beyond right after the bj controversy.  I wanted to ask her if she was looking for stain remover.

I've always wanted to ask Bill if he ever smoked that cigar??

[Triple J]

Met Frank Zappa (I was a huge fan and he was, unfortunately, a dick)

The only person of note I've met since then was Bill Gates (at a 'new hires' meet and greet at Microsoft) and frankly he was a lot less cool than the folks I met in the music industry.

Either of these really surprise you?