Tenuous Claim To Fame

[yorick]

I was in a fight in LA with a certain ginger haired singer who was in an obscure band with some top-hatted guitarist from Stoke.

[Dandelion]

Did Mr Hucknall win?


I once had a few drinks with Tam White, read a week ago that he had died..

Also had a chin wag with "Slim" From The Hamsters.

OOooh and John Otway!!

[risingson]

[quote name='yorick' post='909230' date='Jul 29 2010, 01:49 PM']I was in a fight in LA with a certain ginger haired singer who was in an obscure band with some top-hatted guitarist from Stoke.[/quote]

That's amazing! Hahahaha

Paddy McGuinness was at one of our gigs a while ago. Also supported the Beach Boys (minus the most important member, Brian Wilson) and Ace of Base last summer. Tedious? Absolutely

[stingrayPete1977]

Trevor and Simon were at the Bull and Gate when we played there a few years ago! Simon (I think the taller one?) Was playing Bass and keys in one of the other bands and trevor/simon the other one came down to watch. David Badiel was there most times we played If I remember too.....

Also had a jam with the world famous Jimmy Cricket (come closer theres more) who is a fab sax player.

[EdwardHimself]

[quote name='Big_Stu' post='909131' date='Jul 29 2010, 12:31 PM']..... and with apologies to those who have seen it before; le piece de resistence! this is now mine .......
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I nearly bought a bass rig once owned by Jay James. But then someone with sniping software outbid me literally at the last second. In a way i'm quite glad because it would have been f***ing heavy! Anyway why are there 2 of these threads?

[keeponehandloose]

[quote name='AndyTravis' post='908762' date='Jul 28 2010, 11:27 PM']Sold Norman Watt Roy some Elites bass strings once, he was playing the Witchwood with Wilco...Bloody nice guy.

Peter Green, Gary Moore, Graham Coxon, Noel Gallagher, Nick Oliveri (Queens Of The Stone Age), and Nick McCabe (The Verve)...loads more, but suppose working in a guitar shop helps.

Met David Beckham and Posh a couple of times while working for Topman/Topshop, we used to GIVE them free clothes!

Jordan came in once, midget dog...long before she got WORSE!>?

Met loads of nice famous people, through a few mates who are actor types and bar owners...but some of them have stayed mates, so i'm not going into it...[/quote]

Witchwood is in my hometown,not been in for a while.

[Spike Vincent]

Kim Wilde nearly ran me over once.

My grandson's fathers grandfather invented cats eyes,apparently.

Lemmy is my dad.*


















* This is a lie.

[Heathy]

Kim Wilde? That's nothing.

Russ Abbot once nearly ran me over.

[Spike Vincent]

I know who I would rather get mouth to mouth resucitation from.

[Rayman]

[quote name='Heathy' post='910588' date='Jul 30 2010, 07:50 PM']Kim Wilde? That's nothing.

Russ Abbot once nearly ran me over.[/quote]

Oh what an atmosphere there must have been after that.

[Spike Vincent]

Is Beki Bondage famous?

[Rayman]

[quote name='Spike Vincent' post='910608' date='Jul 30 2010, 08:04 PM']Is Beki Bondage famous?[/quote]

I played 'Bogeys Club' in Cardiff in the 80s, and in the dressing room there was loads of various grafiti and scrawl on the walls, one comment stated "Beki Bondage is a slag". I'm in no position to comment either way of course.

[Spike Vincent]

I am......

[paul h]

I used to deliver chickens to Tony Goggle's house.

[AndyTravis]

[quote name='Heathy' post='910588' date='Jul 30 2010, 07:50 PM']Kim Wilde? That's nothing.

Russ Abbot once nearly ran me over.[/quote]

Sold Kim Wilde a guitar for her son a couple of years ago - She is a very attractive lady (old enough to be my mum, mind) took me a while to calm down after that encounter.

Set Russ Abbot up on a Roland TD kit a good few years ago, a very nice chap (sh*t driver, allegedly) but not a bad drummer at all.

[Rayman]

[quote name='Spike Vincent' post='910646' date='Jul 30 2010, 08:35 PM']I am......[/quote]

Do tell.......

[matski]

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='132824' date='Feb 3 2008, 12:27 AM']My late Mother was once escorted home after a Cliff Richard gig by one Hank Marvin - What could have been, eh?[/quote]

I've got a similar tale: back in the early 60s when my mum was a teenager, her and a friend sneaked out to go and see the Rolling Stones play.

As they were too young to drive, they had to hitch a lift. A car pulls up and the passenger leans out to ask where they are going. "To Hastings." they reply. "So are we, jump in!" replies the guy. When they clamber into the back of the car they realize that they are being given a lift by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Charlie Watts!

They got to go backstage, watch the gig from the wings and were invited to join the band at their hotel for a party afterwards. They made their excuses and left...

[matski]

I saw the Dalai Lama in Warsaw a couple of months ago. I waved at him, and he did his 'namaste' bow thing at me.

[witterth]

[quote name='paul h' post='910650' date='Jul 30 2010, 08:38 PM']I used to deliver chickens to Tony Goggle's house.[/quote]
I know,
I saw you do it.

[TimR]

[quote name='Spike Vincent' post='910587' date='Jul 30 2010, 07:48 PM']Kim Wilde nearly ran me over once.[/quote]

She lives close to me. Both my Dad and the guitarist in his band used to often play with her dad Marti Wilde.

Jim Rodford of the Kinks stood in and played a couple of numbers with my band once. I think I will be sharing the stage with him at the end of August. He's in the headline band, we're third from top.

Elvis Costello's keyboard player Steve Nieve bought a Elka keyboard from my dad. He sent someone to our house who paid in used £5 notes. They had suffered catastrophic organ failure at the gig the night before.

The brother of a guy who I work with is married to Shena Easton's sister.

I have been on Blue Peter. That's not tenuous I'm afraid. It actually means I am famous so don't know if this counts.

[Spike Vincent]

[quote name='Rayman' post='910780' date='Jul 30 2010, 10:32 PM']Do tell.......[/quote]




My lips are sealed,but I'm not exactly in a unique position regarding her horizontal pleasures. On a similar note,I also used to know Richard Hammonds wife Mindy quite well a few decades ago.

[Yeatus Fajitus]

[quote name='yorick' post='909230' date='Jul 29 2010, 01:49 PM']I was in a fight in LA with a certain ginger haired singer who was in an obscure band with some top-hatted guitarist from Stoke.[/quote]

I hope you twatted him in the Adam's apple for me! HARD!

My tenuous links:

There is some rumour that my Missus is related to Lemmy through her Gran (sister or cousin we think) but we have no empirical evidence to back that up. That's Lemmy not Limmy!

The guitarist from my last band plays in a beatles tribute that have played with Dodgy and the drummer from Dodgy liked them so much he stood in for the drummer a few weeks later when he went on holiday.

A singer from an older band supported Paul Diannos (sp?), ex of Iron Maiden, punk band at a local boozer

Andy Scott from the Sweet lives locally and he quite often plays at the local carnivals rock night

Moose Harris from New Model Army lived locally and I'm not 100% sure he didn't used to be a couple of years above me at school

I met Dave Mustaine, Dave Ellefson (good blokes) and Marty Friedman (egotistical cock)and at the same gig met Alice in Chains on their first tour in the UK and Ricky Warwick

I've shaken hands with the guys from Therapy? and Defenestration (where are they now)

I've served Norris McWerter in a local supermarket and met Ian Holm (Alien, Borrowers, Fifth Element, etc, etc) and his missus at the time (the bird from ever decreasing circles)

I've seen Eve Vorley of 1990's Sunday Sport fame with her babylons out

I'm sure there are some more including one involving the son of the reverand that wrote Thomas the Tank Engine but we'll leave that for another day

[cheddatom]

This Saturday I was at the same wedding as a girl who once had her nipple sucked by Dizzie Rascal.

[ShergoldSnickers]

I was in 'Carnage in Poland' in the early 80s, an immediate precursor to the [url="http://www.redguitars.co.uk/"]Red Guitars[/url]. The drummer, [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_O'Brien_(writer)"]Sean O'Brien[/url], is now an internationally renowned poet.

I remember doing one gig at the Bishop Grosseteste college near Lincoln. Sean was reading some poetry to an audience of Agriculture students before the band came on, and there was a monumental and obvious comprehension gap. One pissed off drummer.

OK, time for the band. After the second number, it was obvious we weren't going down well as a band either, and suddenly the disco came on. We turned up as much as we could and carried on, to a by now jeering audience. One drummer now in apoplectic mood. Not good with Sean. Parts of drum kit started sailing past my ear at the audience. As aerodynamically unstable as a floor tom might be, it will still arc nicely through the air if chucked with considerable force. Fantastic sound on landing as well. The audience instantly legged it, sensing this might be similar to an enraged bull moment, leaving us to pack up and get out before reinforcements arrived with pitchforks and burning torches.

A bit of a strange night all told.

Edited for typos.

Edited August 2, 2010 by ShergoldSnickers

[chrisd24]

[quote name='cheddatom' post='912581' date='Aug 2 2010, 10:34 AM']This Saturday I was at the same wedding as a girl who once had her nipple sucked by Dizzie Rascal.[/quote]

His mum?