KarinGarage Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 I'm a bartender and i had the pleasure of taking care of John Bell and JoJo hermann of widespread panic! they were staying at the hotel just down the road from my work.it was funny because at first i didn't recognize them, but thought they looked familiar, so i'm asking them where they're from and if they're in town on business and so forth, and then it clicked. needless to say, i flipped. it was very cool to get a chance to talk about music, the tour so far, and jimmy herring playing with them an all. they are very nice guys.anyways, just thought i'd share that with everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wooly Mammoth Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 very cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nattyMatty Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Neat! I had a smaller experience in baltimore at a subway shop when the sax player from rat dog came in and orderd a 6" inch tuna sub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenSeasJim Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Nice. I once served Tom Wilson (Junkhouse at the time) at the Dundurn Beer Store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 nice! i would looove to hear that scratchy whiskey voice talking to me....sigh.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdy Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 sweet story karin! have fun at the show tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shitidiot Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 who's widespread panic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarinGarage Posted October 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 would've been even better if he'd had slipped me some backstage passes! oh well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hondo Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 I once met Jay Cleary from Nufunk concerts at the big burrito in Kensington...that was serious. Nice guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
questcequecest? Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 would've been even better if he'd had slipped me some backstage passes! oh well!am i the only one thinking "you should have showed them your box"?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark tonin Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 would've been even better if he'd had slipped me some backstage passes! oh well!am i the only one thinking "you should have showed them your box"??Hilarious!Thanks for sharing the story Karin and have a blast tonight!Peace, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nattyMatty Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Creig! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarinGarage Posted October 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 ha! why didn't i think of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwa. Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 WICKED!Mike Gordon once drove his golfcart by me. meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wassink Wild Card! Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Me too Schwa. At Darien this past summer.So weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartamophone Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 That's rad. It's really cool that you got a chance to meet them out of context and could have a chilled out interaction.DId JB order a JB? No? Lame joke? Thought so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 (edited) I'll never forget the morning after moe. in Troy, NY (I think that's where it was? halloween '02)...we're in the hotel, back and forth from the room to the car packing up, and jaybone comes strolling down the hall chatting up a storm with some guy...::meet at the elevators::Jaybone: "Hey guys. Have you met my friend, Chuck?"With sunglasses tight over his eyes, and voice raspy, Chuck mustered, "Hey."edit to add...the story doesn't seem so exciting, but being there was freakin' hilarious! what a moment Edited October 20, 2006 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 I remember being in Albany in 2003 (I think) and Rob Derhak ended up coming into the lobby, drunk as heck, trying to find out what room he was in...which would have been fine, except that he was actually staying at a different hotel...Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimafleck: the living legend. Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 rob durhak touched me once....down there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-towns Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 I can't wait to touch you up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irie Guy Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 Well I guess I will brag a little here. My wife and I met Dave Schools way back in Dec 99 in the Atlanta airport. We got on the tram to go back to the main terminal and Dave got on the train. Talked a little bit at the time about them not playing Canada and a few other things. He was a genuine nice guy.Going back a little bit more when the Furthur Festival ventured to TO we were vending inside Molson Amphtitheatre and when my wife went back to the car at one point she bumbed into Mickey Hart and shot the shit with him about a few things. The stranger thing was later that night when we were crossing the border heading to Hershey who is standing in line in front of us at the Fort Erie Duty Free. Bob Weir. It was late and he was buying himself a bottle of Crown Royal. We shared a few words and he wished us well on our drive down to Hershey.Later that same summer I had the pleasure of meeting Ziggy Marley talking to him and shaking his hand. This was while we were working at the CNE. That same stretch we got Ken Kesey's autograph whil the Furthur bus was on display at the CNE.Going way back when I was 16 I was wondering down Kings Rd in London England. I came out of a store and walked straight into Rick Okasek. Don;t know how I didn't see him coming he must be 6'5". Anyhow those are our brushes with ROck Royalty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 i think my favourite random meeting has to be meeting george clinton and brian eno (on different days) at a rest area (the same one both times!) on the highway in japan. george and co. were parked next to us. brian i met inside while buying snacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 Mike Gordon once drove his golfcart by me.Mike Gordon stepped on my foot and apologized when Phish played the Concert Hall in August of '93. I was wearing sandles, so it kind of hurt - the stepping, not the apology.Iggy Pop also stepped on my foot during a Medeski Martin & Wood show at the Guvernment. He also politely apologized. He was playing next door at the Warehouse later that night, and I think he was touring whatever album it was where MMW played on a few of the tracks. Iggy Pop is a *really* small dude.Celebrities seem to enjoy stepping on my feet. I'm not sure why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popo weenie Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 i once sat in the park and drank wine with bubbles and ricky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattm Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 At moe.down this year I said Mike Gordon would come to the tent and kept looking around for him. I don't think anyone believed me but he did come to the tent and I got to say hi which was really nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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