Posted by zeta at rrcs-midsouth-24-199-216-8.biz.rr.com on June 04, 2003 at 16:21:54:
In Reply to: Mine... posted by jkm822 on June 04, 2003 at 16:13:26:
: : I'm sure this has been covered here at some point, but... Tell your celebrity stories. Who have you met? How? What were they like?
: Kevin & Jay, they were working at the Stash. They were... hurried; they wanted to close up so they could go to Toys R Us and pick up an order of action figures.
: Davy Jones (of the Monkees. Shut up, I was, like, 12), he was doing a signing tour of his biography in 1988. He was dealing with hundreds and hundreds of fans; he was polite, but that's about it.
: Ozzy Osbourne, at the corner of Broadway and 52nd. I was on my lunch break, and standing on line for an ATM; he came out of the building the ATM was attached to. He didn't say anything, but he winked at me as he went by.
: Paul Simon, at the corner of 8th and 52nd. I was on my lunch break, and we were crossing the street at the same time; he headed into SIR Studios. I didn't talk to him, as it was during the run of the Capeman, and he looked supremely pissed off.
: Sting, on 52nd between 8th & 9th. I was on my lunch break (sensing a theme here?), and he was doing a photo shoot in front of the school there. I didn't see who it was until I was almost on top of him, 'cause he was wearing this huge, goofy-looking hat that totally covered his head and face until you looked at him dead on. When I did figure out who it was, my jaw dropped open. Didn't get to talk to him, but when he saw my reaction, he grinned, winked, and saluted me.
: The Smithereens - all of them. Not big news to most of you, but it was huge to me.
: Rockapella - all of them (including Sean Altman, a few times, later on; he'd already left the group by then). Ditto.
: Chuck Mangione (most of you probably don't even know who he is...), he was on the record label I worked for on 52nd.
: Ditto for Livingston Taylor (James Taylor's brother), Jon Faddis (kickass trumpet player, if you've seen Blues Brothers 2000, he was in the other band at the battle of the bands), and David Mamet's wife Rebecca Pigeon, among others.
: Those are all the ones I can think of, just now.