How many famous people have you met

eloise · How many famous people have you met

Ian Botham (went to school with him )

Matt Elliott (lived close by when he played for Scotland and Leicester City)

Berti Vogts (met him at Hampden)

Gail Porter (at Waverley Station she is absolutely beautiful)

Xcotty

I've met a few due to jobs, and my music life.
I canny remember them all just now, cos my memory is poo.
But most of them have been great.

WACOlives

That bloody clock's followin' me again !!

I worked for a sound recording co. yonks ago.

We used to record film, commercials etc sound tracks, dubs etc.

Met lots of Brit. and Yankee stars, actors.

Most enjoyable one was Bob Monkhouse. Using our post production and filming section, we made a TV series, where we filmed him doing intros and links with old silent movie clips. He actually owned thousands of hours of old movies.In the final editing and production stages I was his GOFOR, and looked after his daily needs of Brandy etc.He was very adept at editing, cutting scripting.....you name it , he could do it. Very, very sociable, informative and friendly, he was.

In the end after just one show going out on the BBC he was inundated by claims and accusations regarding the ownership of his material, and the last I heard, everything was still in his massive store.

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Don't let the sun catch you crying

Sidsnotwasere

Quite a few,Jock Stein.Jimi's old man Al,Pete Townshend,Roger Daltrey,Rob Halford,Barry Ferguson (sober)

och a wud be here aw nite tbh.

Xcotty

Funniest person I ever met was Harry Secombe, he was fishing.
I used to be a ghillie for posh folk, and met a few famous folk that way.
But he was the best, and you could hear him laugh a mile away.

Sidsnotwasere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd0ONww0rrw

pt 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtcmewIJU2U&feature=related

Perisphere

Race car driver Bobby Allison, at a meet-&-greet in the early 1970s.

When I lived in Texas....
Eric Johnson (guitar player)
Perfect Stranger (country band)
Monte Pittman (I recorded the first EP of his first band, Myra Mains; he moved to California and ended up teaching guitar to Brad Pitt and Madonna, among others)
Robin Hood Brians (recording engineer, studio owner, record producer)
'Mouse' (of 1960s group Mouse and The Traps; real name Ronnie Weiss)
Chuck Wiginton (played bass for Lefty Frizzell and Elvis)
Doyle Dykes (fingerstyle guitarist)
Richard Leo Johnson (another fingerstyle guitarist)
Mike Keneally (onetime guitarist for Zappa)

I ran sound for the last three when they held Taylor Guitar 'clinics' at a friend's music store.

While 'on the job' for KTPB....
Celino Romero and his dad Celin (of the Romero family of classical Flamenco guitarists)
Frederick Fennell (the doyen of wind band conductors)
Doc Severinsen (trumpet--met, but didn't get to record)
Lydia Artymiw (pianist)
Julianne Baird (soprano)
Ed Soph (drummer)
John Hicks (pianist)
Frank Morgan (alto saxist; protege of Charlie Parker)
David Poulter (pipe organist)
Dr Matthew Lewis (another pipe organist)
Denyce Graves (mezzo-soprano)
Warren Jones (DG's accompanist)
Evan Drachman (cellist, and grandson of cellist Gregor Piatigorsky)
Jose Feghali (pianist)
Jeffrey Siegel (pianist/lecturer)
The Canadian Brass
Hilary Tann (Welsh composer)
Ida Kavafian (violinist)
Bruce Sledge (tenor; sang 'Nessun dorma' on the soundtrack of the film THE SUM OF ALL FEARS)
Gillian Keith (soprano)

There were others I recorded but didn't get to meet, including the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, and William Bolcom and Joan Morris.

Since moving here....

Hugh Ashley (musician and songwriter [he wrote 'One step at a time' for Brenda Lee, for one])
Dana

Xcotty

WACOlives

WOW, thats a fair old collection Periwinkle....Would have loved the guitar sessions.

One recording I remember well was when Kirk Douglas had to dub some dialogue onto, I think it was 'Spartacus'.

The scene was of him fighting while lying on his back with various 'contests' going on around him.

He insisted on authenticity and got down on his back on the floor of the studio..boom mike....AND a handful of office and other staff spread round the studio to make grunting and groaning noises !!

A real PRO he was and very charming and appreciative.

Another memory of him, he seemed about 4 foot 6 tall !!

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They're gonna put me in the movies, they're gonna make a big star out of me

BoB

That would be the height of three chanties with the bottom one kicked oot

rickyross3359

Met Ricky Ross after a Deacon Blue concert, don't remember too much about it got his autograph though. My pal said I said to Ricky " I want to shag your missus" but I don't remember any of that.

My first real meet of a favourite of mine since the 1960's was Petula Clark. I was 18 it was October 1974 at the BBC TV Shepherds Bush television Theatre. She was recording one of her "Sound of Petula" series. I was down south studying Theology. She signed her autography on the sleeve of my shirt remarking how thin my wrist was. I also happened to meet Telly Savalas and Gilbert O'Sullivan who happened to be guests on her show. Petula's husband Claude Wolfe went to a pub next door and got her a brandy. Incidentally my mother washed that shirt the first time I went home for a holiday I still haven't forgiven her for that.

Xcotty

Petula has always been very underated in my opinion.
Most folk only know the most commercial songs she done.
But she has a magic voice, and has done some brilliant ballads.
She still has a great voice.

catpurr

I have met Elton John he was an egotistical midgit.
Billy Joel, very pleasant.
Alanis Morrisette, a very unpleasant woman, she is up her own A***
Natalie Imbruglia, one of the nicest people ever, I was her driver that day, and when she found out my daughter was a fan, she phoned her and spent about 20 minutes yapping away.

Lady of Kincavel

I lived close to Billy Connolly in Drymen for some years after he became famous and met him often. That was when he was still married to Iris and he was a regular guy then. Don't know what he's like now.

Sidsnotwasere

Think he jokes about choppin folk's heids aff LoK.

Pammybaby

I have met

Marti Pellow
Dan Falzon (Neighbours Rick Alessi)
Ken Barlow from Coronation Street
Gary Jacobs (boxer)
Gina, Bob, Ruth, Marty, Scott, Shona, Iona and Kelly Marie from River City
Does Smeato count?

Mad Welshie

I used to live not far from Colonel John Hunt, who organised the Famous accent of Mount Everest in 1953.

Met Prince Charles once.

Sidsnotwasere

WACOlives

I partook in a gymnastic display for.. and...met Princess Mags. Bless the tiny lassie.

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