Bjorn Borg’s house was right down the street from the little tiny private high school I went to in Greenwich, CT. One time, I was walking “into town” and heard a swishing noise approaching. Looked over my shoulder just in time for him to pass by on his bike and say “Hello” to me.
Later that same year, I ate dinner at a restaurant right next to WWF honcho Vince McMahon - IIRC, their HQ is in Stamford, CT.
Went to a little comedy club in NYC and there was a surprise appearance by David Brenner - he was polishing his act for an upcoming Letterman. Our seats were practically ON stage and he ended up bouncing a few questions off me.
That’s it! But my ex has got about a million of these… if yer good, I’ll get her to fill in!
I’ve mentioned it before, but I’ve worked with both my college activities board and our local folk/Americana concert series, so I’ve met quite a few folks.
In college, I had dinner with the Indigo Girls and with Andy Richter, and got to meet Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Elie Wiesel, Spalding Gray, the guys from Widespread Panic, and a few others I can’t think of.
Via the concert series, I’ve met Bruce Hornsby, John Prine, Suzanne Vega, Leon Redbone (actually argued with him for about ten minutes over the theatre’s cut of the merchandise sales–that was weird), Arlo Guthrie, Bela Fleck, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, and several others.
Dragwyr:
Are you doing the McBride Master Class? That should be cool as hell. I just bought his Card Manipulations videos on eBay a few weeks ago, so as you can imagine, I’m not quite there.
This is probably too old to count here, but my brother was married (now divorced) to the daughter of Spike and Valley Mae Stroop, Who were pretty famous in the 60’s. They hosted a bluegrass TV show here in Va. called the “Valley Barn Dance” and played several times at the Opry.
Through them, I met Roy Clark, String Bean and Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, great entertainers and human beings all.
Probably not what you’re looking for, but a high point in my teenage years, so I thought I’d mention it.
Actually, I have a pretty cool story for here. Last summer, eight kids from my high school got a chance to sing with Shania Twain at the Fleet Center in Boston. And I was one of them! We sang backup in “God Bless the Child” or something like that. Unfortunately, she never talked to us, but she did say we had good blend during the sound check. And I got to be on the news! All in all, a pretty good day.
PS - The Boston Globe said that we were pretty good, too.
“So the famous Kilmers are all related? I always wondered about that.”
All the ones of whom I am aware.
nacho4sara said:
“I met that Rudy guy (he was a short little guy who played football and had a movie about him made…Parks? I forget his last name). He did a speech at my school and hung out backstage with me (I did lights for tech crew) and even wrote me a college recommendation.”
That Rudy guy’s name is Daniel Ruettiger, or something like that.
In grade school I had a classmate who lived next door to Darrell Green. She says on Halloween he kept all his lights off and even though the cars wre in the driveway, no matter how many times you rang the doorbell nobody answered. Or that might not have been Darrell Green. She claimed to live near a lot of Redskins back in the early 90s.