Claims To Fame, or "I touched a celebrity"
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Hmmm…I waited on Malcolm McDonald from MadTV. He was very nice, though I didn't really talk to him that much. I saw Robin Williams several times out and about in SF, but never really talked to him.
Probably my best story is after Sean Penn had wrapped shooting for "Milk", he came into the bar where I worked. I had just gotten off shift, and was out front talking to our door guy. We joked with him about not letting him in without an ID, which he gamely played along with. After he had gone inside, the bartender who was working comes running up to the door and was like, "Sean Penn just ordered a white russian and our milk is fucking sour!" I ran down the block to get some milk for his drink. He thanked me on the way out.
Some of the SF Giants used to frequent my bar, too. Most notably, Brian Wilson aka The Beard used to come in alone, and just stand at the end of the bar all by himself.
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well, i have a story of my own. but it ended up rather awkward.
he's a american born chinese celebrity from hk, his name is kevin cheng and he happened to be in singapore at that time. i was at a mall just chilling over coffee and ended up spotted him and some girls having a photo moment. i guess he was probably just taking in the sights around town. so i thought i gave it a go. so i picked up after him and some how he went down this alley that was leading to the toilets and i just managed to catch up with him when he was coming out. apparently i was so star struck that i was lost for words and the only thing i could muster was asking him if he acted in this hk drama that i watched, which was kinda obvious and he said yes.
man, looking back now and then, i just couldnt figure why i didnt ask him for a photo or something.
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Guns n' Roses in 1987 in a small Missouri town called Cape Girardeau. This is a pretty cool story. I was 16 years old, and I'd just recently gotten my drivers license. The local arena announced Alice Cooper with LA Guns and Faster Pussycat opening, so I thought that sounded pretty kick ass and I camped out at the arena the night before tix went on sale, and scored front row center seats. The show was still a few months away, and right around that time Appetite for Destruction was released, and it quickly became my favorite album even though no one but me and a few friends had heard it at the time. Next thing I knew, LA Guns and Faster Pussycat were off the tour and were being replaced by Guns n' Roses, so I was even more stoked. Two days before the show, me, a friend, and my little brother who was 7 at the time took my car to the local shopping mall. We were walking around, and suddenly two guys walked past us who were clearly not from Missouri. It was Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin. After overcoming our shock and disbelief, we ran after them and asked if they were indeed who they obviously were, and they were shocked anyone in the mall recognized them. They invited us to hang out and walk around shopping with them for a while and were telling us a bunch of crazy stories about playing to a warehouse full of Mexicans that knew every word to every song, and filming the video to Welcome to the Jungle on a Sunday at a club called Scream. After a while, Axl said they were heading back to their hotel. I asked where they were staying, and it was a hotel almost a mile away, so since they had walked to the mall, I offered to give them a ride, and they accepted. We got into my car, and Izzy asks if he could play a cassette that he had bought, and puts it into my stereo. The first song was Rock and Roll Radio, which Axl cranked and started singing along to at the top of his lungs. In. My. Car. So away we go, me, my 7 year old little brother, my friend, Axl Rose, and Izzy Stradlin, in my 1974 Chevy Nova, rocking out to the Ramones. When we got to the hotel, Axl invited us up to his room, and proceeded to bring in the rest of the band minus Slash, who was in the next room down with his "girlfriend". We hung around for about an hour in Axl's room before I had to leave to pick up my sister. I told Axl that I had front row center seats, and he said "well I guess I'll see you at the show then". Two days later, I'm front row center and GnR are playing still the best show I've seen or heard them play, when in between songs, Axl says "hey everyone, I just want to introduce you to my buddy Chuck" and directs the guy manning the spotlight to shine it on me. "Chuck's a kickass dude, everybody give it up for Chuck." Shit you not. I was an instant legend at my high school, especially a few months later when their popularity exploded and they turned into the biggest band in the world.
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@xtcclassic I dine out on this story all the time….
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^ awesome @xtc
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There's actually a sequel to the Axl Rose story that occurred about a year later when they came back to town with Aerosmith. I'm too beat to type that one out tonight even though it's a shorter story. I've met a lot of celebrities in my day, mostly of the rock star variety. If we start another thread called "touched by a celebrity" I can tell the story about when I was groped by Dave Matthews.
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I have a few.
This is probably the best because it is so utterly embarrassing.
As you may know, I live in one of the largest sailing areas in the world, we are inundated with amazing sailors and especially short-handed sailors. I am in awe of them all, Sir Robin, Alex Thompson, Dame Ellen etc etc…
Dee Caffari is another http://www.deecaffari.co.uk/en/index.php and she used to have her offices close to ours.
I read her book after her last single handed circumnavigation. And I new it inside out. At one point, she was stuck up the mast in the Southern Ocean for 90 minutes, the boat sailing itself, with a storm approaching. At this point, the closest human being to her was in the space station....
Anyway, we were at a party and I popped to the loo, when I got back Paula was chatting to a group of people. I started talking to the only female in the group (of course). I asked her how she knew the host and where she worked. When she told me where she worked, the following ensued:
G - Isn't that where Dee Caffari's place is?
D - I am Dee Caffari!
G - (Digging himself in even deeper) - I want your babies.....I invited her to our next party, she did not come......
True story. Ask Paula, she was listening and was even more embarrassed than me.....
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^hahaha ooops!! Did I say that out loud?!
Another good one… me and a slightly more famous Chuck from St. Louis:
I'd be much obliged if you'd ignore the hair
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That's my boy, @Giles.
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Thats fucking awesome @xtcclassic
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My father worked for over 30 years for the Lufthansa, not as a pilot, but he worked there and had some good connections.
So, my mother and father had some nice honeymoon time in Johannesburg (South Africa). I was not born, but my mom was pregnant.
On the fly home there was some trouble with their seats, the booked business class, got tickets, but there was no place for them, and mommies belly was too big for the economy class.
So they got some nice seats from our local rockband the SCORPIONS, they played a show in South Africa and they we´re on their way back home too.I also met this fine dude(s):
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Hahaha!
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I also have a picture of me and Corey Feldman at the Playboy Mansion.
Something tells me that that's not the wildest thing that happened that night?
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The Playboy Mansion?
Corey Feldman?
Something tells me that's not even half the story!
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Film sets which Pam and I have been asked to leave from…
Jersey Girl (in Central Park, apparently we were talking too loud whilst "BEN IS IN SHOT!!!!", as the guy screamed at us)
Just Like Heaven (shitty Reece Witherspoon rom/com filmed in San Francisco, we were blocking the camera from seeing Reece).
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Some great stories guys and even better pics. MCL sportin some sweet hair bro.
Mega, dennis leary was the man. My fave comedian when i was younger. Trickhell, bill murray is fuckin awesome dude!! Always has been, not because someone made a website and said he was and now EVERYONE loves him. Dude is fuckin funny. PB mansion and feldman plus Henry rollins are no slouch either man. You look sooo diff in that pic with corey tho. Like a columbian hitman lol. Great stories.
Urb, Harry from "harry and the hendersons" is a cool meet. Were you scared at all?
Louisbosco, kevin cheng is fuckin hillarious "gaaaybooy"
Xtcclassic, fuckin GnR bro?? Thats an amazing story dude. I still love GnR, appetite is prob one of the best albums of all time….ya, i said it
Giles, lol. Right infront of the Madame? Haha
Jcmx800, scorps rock. Watched them at a small venue about 4yrs ago. Pushed to the stage with my gf. Bad idea cuz Claus kept tryin to pick her up lolAwesome thread. Ive got a couple minor stories. Ill try and dig up the pics
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I also have met Nick Nolte and Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum.
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I got to meet (and record) Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones and they were all just the nicest blokes. When TJ started doing his old female voices I could barely control the recording software due to laughing so much.
David Walliams….not so funny :|
