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- lemmy_k1
I got to smoke a cigarette with the man himself, Lemmy. I have sat next to Peter Weller (RoboCop, Buckaroo Banzai) met Courtney Love and spent some time with the singer from Dramarama. So Cal locals might know Henry DeCarlo from KTLA. I'm sure there are a few more, but that's all that Jump out at me.
- DaveO6
After being up all night I once gate crashed Liam Gallagher and Liam Howlett's party in a private section of the Edinboro castle on Camden. They were celebrating the Prodigy’s number 1 album and were with the Appletons and a load of hangers on.
I was really messed up – had been up all night with my mates and then had to DJ at the pub for an event my friend had arranged. I arrived at noon and because i was still 'charged' from the night before i started playing tech house. At noon. On a sunday.
I'd seen Liam earlier in the day and had gone over to him to say how amazing he was and that the new album (that i could not remember the name of) was amazing.
I finally get removed from the decks and get lost in the afternoon's boozing, clearly getting much worse for wear.
Their gathering was now behind a velvet rope and as I had nothing to do i thought I'd go and have a chat to my old pal Liam.
I plonked myself down and reached for a champagne flute, only to have Liam (Gallagher) - without braking stride of the conversation he was in - look me dead inn the eye and juts say “fuck off mate”.
- bezoar2
My best friend from high school is the nephew of Kerry Livgren, the former lead guitar and songwriter from "Kansas. So occasionally I would hang out at Kerry's house and have dinner with the family. Super nice guy. About 10 years ago Kerry had a stroke and can't remember who I am :( He's doing well though. My first "professional art job" in high school was cover illustration for his upcoming album (was only used for promos).
Kris Kuksi is a close friend of mine and any time I go to his art openings he's introducing me to people. The coolest ones I met are Ron English, Alex Grey, Chris Hardwick, and had brunch with Roger de Cabrol (Dali's former assistant).
- _niko6
I once told a woman that I coined the phrase "pardon my French"
- rootlock2
I once sold Dale Carnegie a pen.
- autoflavour2
Vantagepointradio.com is my current one.. then I name drop Ron English, Tristan Eaton, Nychos, 1UP crew..
or if im talking to people in Australia about electronic music or hiphop I casually drop im friends with Hermitude, Urthboy and a bunch of the elefant trakkers since 20 years at least.
- or that I have VJ'd for EL-P, Blackmilk, Grooverider, Noisiaautoflavour
- MarleyMarl3
I smoked a joint with Justin Timberlake. A solid guy he is.
- That sounds fun.monospaced
- I smoked a blunt with jamie fox at the standard when i was a kidscarabin
- And by kid i mean like... 23scarabin
- BusterBoy3
I've met Barbara Eden (I dream of Jeannie)
- Gardener5
I wrote in to TV show Jim'll Fix It when I was 12 in 1974 and
was 14 when they eventually invited me on the show. I knew
when I first applied to the BBC that the only way I would ever
stand a chance of appearing on the show would be if I asked
Jim to Fix It for me to do something really easy, hence my
request to attack Rod Hull's 'Emu'.
The episode was broadcast Christmas Day 1976 - and to add
extra spookiness, my now wife who was 11 then remembers
seeing me on it and thinking at the time that I was "a bit old"
to be on the show, cheers love!
The Jim'll Fix It badge I was awarded was later auctioned for charity after the Savile scandal broke and now resides in a
Black Museum in a glass case especially dedicated to the show.- another side story - my dad paid me £5 to wear a T-Shirt on the show advertising his 2nd hand shop 'Sellit & Soon'Gardener
- that's quite a claim to fame there, on TV with two of the creepiest celebs of that generation!!dee-dubs
- So did you witness any of the inappropriate Savile behaviour whilst there?dee-dubs
- alas no, though even at that age I could tell he was well creepyGardener
- That's crazy! I used to always want to write in to Jim'll Fix It. Thank god I didn'tBaskerviIle
- https://www.youtube.…SlashPeckham
- haha, yeah thanks!Gardener
- Luckily you were "a bit old" to be on the show.garbage
- I'm thinking you're "a bit old" to be on QBN! hahaah. jk. I thought I was one of the oldest people here and I was 3 in '74.fooler
- dee-dubs1
Darth Vader (David Prowse) listened to the unborn me when i was in my mums pregnant belly!
- Gardener3
The claim to fame I'm most proud of vinyl-wise is selling a copy
of a Banksy painted sleeve on the bay a few years ago. I never
knew I had it until I had a dig through my 12"s one day and came
across it, I have a lot of records that were sent to me via the station for free in the 90's and the fact it was in mint condition too helped. To this day is still the most expensive Banksy vinyl related artwork to have been sold.
- Morning_star2
The band I was in during the 90s supported Devin Townsend's Strapping Young Lad on their first UK tour. He showed me a yoga technique to use on the toilet that encouraged those stubborn 'tour' poo's to vacate one's body quicker and more easily. It works a treat and I use it to this day. Thanks Devin.
The band also stuck hardcore porn on a pillar in front of the stage at Northampton Roadmenders. It was very distracting. However in a cruel twist if karma, when Kerrang review the Underwolrd show they gave our band 5 stars and "the most rocking moment".
- “Some people never got over Vietnam or the night their band opened for Nirvana.” – Robnb
- Tru dat.Morning_star
- Projectile8
My mom (with a bit of my help) saved the Bushmen tribe of South Africa
The true indigenous people of SA, before Xhosa and Zulu people arrived and built farms and pushed them out.
After Mandela, 1994 etc. she went on a crusade to get them rights and land. Until 1970 it was legal to shoot them like a jackall. They literally had no land or money and were dying out. She got together with some lawyers and made a case for them, got them registered etc. etc. and eventually got them 200,000 hectares of land where they could live off the land, hunt, and basically keep their culture alive instead of having to move to the city to find work.
One time they were all at my house when I had a birthday party. My mates came to me wide eyed.. "dude I literally just smoked a blunt with a bushman!!"
Good times, good times. Mom's passed and I haven't checked in on them... but we did what we could.
- Nairn0
@DaveO, re: Gallaghers
My first proper job in London was in studios in Kentish Town. We had a water-cooler near the main entrance, so one morning i went to refill, half asleep and likely stoned-over/hungover. I remember not being on top form, whatever.
As I'm filling I hear shwiff-shwiff-shwiff shwiff-shwiff-shwiff from outside so peer out the main door and see two plastic anorak-clad blokes walking around the stairs, evidently going to the photography studio on the next floor.
I slowly resolve them and upon a sneer from the one in front, finally recognise that it's Noel and Liam Gallagher.
I remember thinking at the time "aww, that's so sweet - I got negged by Oasis!".
- Amazing! I actually remember saying to Liam "how's your kid?" – like i was actually his mate!DaveO
- Nairn0
It's curious to me. I'm very wary about going down the route of my own proper claims to fame as they all basically harken to a period in my life long-past. It'd feel a little e-pill-esque to wallow in the memories of a happier, more successful era.
I will mention one though, not a lovely one - I'm pretty goshdarn sure I am in part significantly to blame for the current culture of Hippy Crack (Nitrous Oxide) usage in Britain.
We did a Glasto at the end of the shroom-selling era (2005?) and took a few big-ass tanks of nitrous to sell. I'd ordered bright yellow latex (biodegradable, i figured) balloons, thousands of which we bought. Great incidental marketing as our brand was yellow and brown. 'Just follow the trail...'.
As far as I know, we were the first to really go to town selling NOx at a festival, whereas (somewhat like shrooms) it was something always done, but quietly, on the downlow. We were not quiet.
I will never forget staring out at the end of the main avenue behind the pyramid stage at something like 3am, from the stall we had, at a sea of yellow balloons covering the entiriety of the avenue. Literally - as far as I could see. I felt sick.
I'd witnessed literally thousands of people get off their face right in front of me - quick inhalation and staggering off, blundering through the crowds, recovering, coming back again for more. I'd seen people empty out their last few quid in their wallets for more balloons. Hence 'crack'. I'd seen people I'd previously respected and an other in my employ try and get women, including young adolescents, to flash their tits for free balloons. I kicked two people out when I saw that shit going on. Fucking assholes.
After we'd sold up, we'd made a tidy penny, but I was aghast at what I'd been part of. Filthy business. I resolved there and then that I wanted no more of any of that sort of shit.
Anyway, everthereafter, NOx became a thing, quickly resulting in a change of law in selling it (I still have two tanks I can't fill up - I should probably sell them on eBay) and now the streets of London are filled with nitrous whip cartridges, befouling by fuckhead bastards.
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Because I'd resolved to leave at that point, I had no part in what came after for the company I'd founded then left. That's when the REAL money came in. Oh well. I have my principles.
*stares at not entirely wonderful bank balance
- lajj4
My dad, who was a sailor in the 60s once had a beer with Mick Jagger and Keith Richard in a Liverpool pub.
A couple of years ago, I was waiting for my coffee at the shop and next to me was Olivia Wilde. She said hi and I said hi back, so we can all conclude that we had a conversation.
- Nairn1
Back in 2001 or so I shared an overland train from Kentish Town with Ulrikkkkka Jonsson one late summer afternoon. She was stood by the door with the low warm sun streaming through, illuminating her flat yet attractive breasts.
We matched a gaze at one point and she idly smiled my way before getting back to her thoughts.
- Nairn1
For reasons that I can't remember, I had VIP tickets to see DJ Shadow at a gig in Kings Cross, London. For whatever reason, I ended up going alone, something which I'd never done before.
I swanned around awkwardly pre-gig and settled in the 'VIP Lounge' or whatever it was, where there was precisely one other person in there - another nerdy-looking ginger bloke.
Being awkward nerdy ginger blokes, we never said anything to each other beyond a bare recognition of the others existence via a slight head nod.
Other guy left and I finished my beer and then went down to the the show when it started.
Turns out other nerdy ginger bloke was DJ Shadow. I had no idea.
- tank022
I danced with Natalia Imbruglia at a Drum & Bass party way back somewhere in Ghent. I remember the line up:
Doc Scott, Trace, Suv & Bassment. I guess it was in 1999 or 2000.