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It's been awhile but back in the day when I used to live in larger towns I ran into and spoke to a few. Michael J. Fox, George Carlin, Willie Stargell, Dave Parker (both those are baseball players), Bill Clinton, Sen. Alan Cranston.

 

My mom and dad went out to eat with my sister this fall in Pittsburgh and sat at a table next to Franco Harris. My mom told me this and said she gave him a little wave and then left him alone because he was treating elderly relatives to dinner. My mom tells me this long story and I spoke to my sister later the same day. So I say, "I hear you ate dinner next to Franco Harris!" and told her what mom said. She says , "What?? My chair was sitting so that my back was to that table. Mom didn't even say anything! I wondered who she was waving at!" :facepalm:

Hey! If someone doesn't know Willie Stargell or Dave Parker, let them figure it out on their own. It may give them a nice sports education. Hell, maybe they'll see the We Are Family video. I was a kid back then and I always wanted a Pirate cap.

I was a kid too, in middle school I think ?? We used to take the bus to Pirate games in the summer and hang around the players' parking lot afterward, to get autographs. The Pirates were very friendly when they won. Gotta love the openness of the 70's !

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My mom and dad were in Carmel for the weekend at some low key cool pet friendly tiny hotel years ago. My dad went downstairs to hang out at the bar as my mom was getting ready to go out to dinner.

Well Robert Englund came up to my dad and sat down next to him. They both had a drink together. Robert was a very nice and funny guy. They talked about Freddie Kruger a bit but funny enough my mom and dad loved that "V" tv series decades ago. Robert was very impressed that my dad knew about his acting role in that sci fi tv show!

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It's been awhile but back in the day when I used to live in larger towns I ran into and spoke to a few. Michael J. Fox, George Carlin, Willie Stargell, Dave Parker (both those are baseball players), Bill Clinton, Sen. Alan Cranston.

 

My mom and dad went out to eat with my sister this fall in Pittsburgh and sat at a table next to Franco Harris. My mom told me this and said she gave him a little wave and then left him alone because he was treating elderly relatives to dinner. My mom tells me this long story and I spoke to my sister later the same day. So I say, "I hear you ate dinner next to Franco Harris!" and told her what mom said. She says , "What?? My chair was sitting so that my back was to that table. Mom didn't even say anything! I wondered who she was waving at!" :facepalm:

Hey! If someone doesn't know Willie Stargell or Dave Parker, let them figure it out on their own. It may give them a nice sports education. Hell, maybe they'll see the We Are Family video. I was a kid back then and I always wanted a Pirate cap.

I was a kid too, in middle school I think ?? We used to take the bus to Pirate games in the summer and hang around the players' parking lot afterward, to get autographs. The Pirates were very friendly when they won. Gotta love the openness of the 70's !

A great era for sports. :yes:

 

How about sidearm slinger Kent Tekulvey?

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My random encounters? I have a ton.

 

Of course you all know my Neil Peart encounter.

 

Carl Weathers

James Brown

Mark McGwire

Jose Canseco

The Eck

Tony LaRussa

Rickey Henderson

Chris Mullin

Jason Newsted

Brad Gillis

Jack Blades

Rudy Sarzo

John Davidson

Ray Fosse

Joe Morgan

Mike Davis

Vince Neil

Khalil Mack

Mark Davis

Tom Flores

Greg Papa

Cliff Branch

David Coverdale and Tawny Kitaen

Eric Martin

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My random encounters? I have a ton.

 

David Coverdale and Tawny Kitaen

 

 

Threesome?

 

Hahaha! Nope! In the lobby at Bally's in Reno after seeing Andrew Dice Clay! Both were wearing sunglasses. Of course I had a few beers in me so I ran up to them and said HELLO! They just looked at me and ran out of the lobby and into a limo.

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Yes!

 

He is a total mean asshole in person. I used to work with his son at Safeway. He was a wonderful kid. He didn't care for his dad either. Matt Weathers is Carl's son. A great guy. Unlike his dad.

 

He’s still sore for losing the title to Balboa back in ‘79

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Yes!

 

He is a total mean asshole in person. I used to work with his son at Safeway. He was a wonderful kid. He didn't care for his dad either. Matt Weathers is Carl's son. A great guy. Unlike his dad.

 

He’s still sore for losing the title to Balboa back in ‘79

 

Hahaha!!! That could be true!

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It's been awhile but back in the day when I used to live in larger towns I ran into and spoke to a few. Michael J. Fox, George Carlin, Willie Stargell, Dave Parker (both those are baseball players), Bill Clinton, Sen. Alan Cranston.

 

My mom and dad went out to eat with my sister this fall in Pittsburgh and sat at a table next to Franco Harris. My mom told me this and said she gave him a little wave and then left him alone because he was treating elderly relatives to dinner. My mom tells me this long story and I spoke to my sister later the same day. So I say, "I hear you ate dinner next to Franco Harris!" and told her what mom said. She says , "What?? My chair was sitting so that my back was to that table. Mom didn't even say anything! I wondered who she was waving at!" :facepalm:

Hey! If someone doesn't know Willie Stargell or Dave Parker, let them figure it out on their own. It may give them a nice sports education. Hell, maybe they'll see the We Are Family video. I was a kid back then and I always wanted a Pirate cap.

I was a kid too, in middle school I think ?? We used to take the bus to Pirate games in the summer and hang around the players' parking lot afterward, to get autographs. The Pirates were very friendly when they won. Gotta love the openness of the 70's !

A great era for sports. :yes:

 

How about sidearm slinger Kent Tekulvey?

 

He was the best! Such a bean pole and so good with that arm! He actually was a color guy for the local channel that broadcast the Pirates for quite a few years; he just retired from that at the end of last season. As you could probably guess, he was very good with breaking down what pitchers were doing and explaining the new (to me) way that pitchers are used now.

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Posted in previous threads, but here goes again.

 

I spent the summer of '69 reserving and assigning tee times at a public golf course in Detroit. One afternoon the course pro gets on the intercom and tells me to pencil him in for a foursome at such and such a time, and not make a big deal of it when they get there. The foursome consisted of:

 

The course pro.

Lem Barney, then a cornerback for the Detroit Lions, and:

Motown legends Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

 

The pro was his usual surly self. Barney was a slob, cargo shorts, polo shirt, sweaty visor, beat up spikes.

 

Smokey and Marvin were in color coordinated outfits, right down to Macgregor clubs and bags, Smokey in cardinal red and white and Marvin in lavender and white. Golf fashion perfection.

 

There was nothing to say but "gentlemen, the 10th tee is yours."

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All mine but last one came in the year I lived in LA -- 1994. I met Jamie Lee Curtis at a charity thing. I asked her what it was like to work with John Cleese (referring to A Fish Called Wanda). She said he's as brilliant as he is funny.

 

I saw Dave Grohl and what was some or most of what would be the Foo Fighters in a diner. First album hadn't been released but a friend I was with had read about his new post-Nirvana band. I guess that was them. So said my friend. I didn't bother him though. Funny that we went to high school in Northern Va pretty close to each other, but several years apart.

 

I stood in an airport security line just ahead of Jim Brown... 5.2 yard per career carry Jim Brown. He was with a very beautiful companion I must say. Wasn't going to throw her out the window I hope. All jokes aside though, along with another Brown, Ozzie Newsome, and hockey great Bobby Orr, my favorite athlete of all time. I apologized for bothering him and then told him that my dad was a huge fan and would tell me Jim Brown stories growing up. He politely thanked me and that was it. I felt good that I didn't visibly annoy him.

 

Last one was Redskins QB Joe Theisman back in the early '80s. He was eating with his family in a DC area Popeyes and like a typical High School idiot I stopped to ask him about an aspect of the upcoming football season. Maybe because I didn't ask him about the Redskins he was cool. Quite friendly actually. His wife was visibly annoyed though. I don't blame her.

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After the show, I was allowed to buy a pitcher of beer from the bar, and drink right outside with several other hippie type beer lovers. We'd been to see Robert Hunter. He came out to drink from the pitcher. When he did, everyone was quiet. There was a lot of moon out and it lit our faces. I was playing harp on and off, and wanted to show Hunter my new style. Should have stuck to what I knew. The 'style' consisted of using harmonica holes in the mouth on both sides, or even sides and a loose single in the middle Chords, but in a different way than normal.

 

The pitcher emptied, Hunter left, the crowd dispersed. There was a friendly woman under my arm, sort of linked, and I went home with her. She liked harmonica music.

 

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I don't really have one. Not with anyone I would consider "famous" anyway. I have met many musicians over the years but very few(if any)would be anyone known to the average person.
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Don't know if this qualifies but a customer of mine owns one of the 3 remaining DeLoreans from the Back to the Future movies, as well as the Toyota 4x4 from the first movie, and the Gibson that Fox played at the end. Jimmy Kimmel used the DeLorean in the skit he did on his show in 2015.

 

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Don't know if this qualifies but a customer of mine owns one of the 3 remaining DeLoreans from the Back to the Future movies, as well as the Toyota 4x4 from the first movie, and the Gibson that Fox played at the end. Jimmy Kimmel used the DeLorean in the skit he did on his show in 2015.

 

Cool!

 

I saw a Delorean going down the highway last week.

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I live in KC, so I've run into a number of Chiefs and Royals players (sometimes I say something, sometimes I don't bother). I haven't met any actors worth mentioning (although I have hung out with Brad Pitt's brother Doug--we all went to the same High School, but they graduated a number of years before me). I also waited on Victoria Gotti when I was in graduate school; her goons tipped me $85. As far as musicians I've met:

 

David Lee Roth

Dave Mustaine

Dave Ellefson

Steve Vai

Kerry King

Steve Harris

Glenn Danzig

Igor Cavelara

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I ran into Ann Murray at a mall. I ran into Prince William at a parade. I ran into Jon Foreman of Switchfoot on my college campus.
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