A big hairy guy came up to me on the street and asked to play my brand new BC Rich. I offered it to him and he did some shredding on it for about 30 seconds then offered to sign it. I declined as I had no Idea who it was. Buddy next to me was shocked that I had turned down an autograph from Kim Thayil of Soundgarden. I could just cry.
OUCH! Well, maybe in 10 years you'll be the one signing the guitars!
"Nothing...can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts."
:-[ ouch...that is painful, i dont think you'll make that mistake again
Don't think I have ever had fame but I was the best man at my friends wedding and I gave a speech that ended up being comedy. I liked when 80 people laughed at my jokes but felt a little bad when I accidently got them to boo the bride. Later that night I got to get up on stage and sing "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" by the Hollies which got me the tinglies all over but then again I was pretty drunk of my ass.
oh yeah...
I was at a large hotel party once and there was some guys there promoting a new cable channel that was to compeate against MTV so they got me and my woman at the time to interview down by the pool area. They asked me what kind of music I liked and all that jazz, at the end they wanted us to do a promo by saying something like
"Get real with (whatever the channel was called)"
I was chewing gum the whole time and ended up spitting it out while saying the line so it came out like
"Get real with..oh crap"
Everyone around me nearly died laughing. The guy doing the show said he was gonna use it too. Again I was drunk and I get to live with the fact the world will see me as the slobbering dumbass I am :D
I am definitely not famous in the least bit, but I get recognized around town as "that guy". That's just because I'm weird though.
Hey I just saw myself in a Thrashers commercial!
The Thrashers are Atlanta's hockey team in case you had no idea what I was talking about.
The Thrashers are Atlanta's hockey team in case you had no idea what I was talking about.
And the parent club of the Chicago Wolves, whose games my brother and I frequent.
Peace
Hey Holliday, you should have invited me to those parties. I have no doubt I could easily be more a jack-azz than you and shield you from the piercing spotlight.
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"Nothing...can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts."
When I lived in New Jersey (I live in the UK now) I used to play lead guitar with 2 different country bands. People always used to ask me for my autograph, or ask for a picture. I thought that was weird, I mean, I wasn't really FAMOUS or anything! Hmmm..I wonder whatever happened to those pictures people took... :o
Once we played at one of the big casinos in Atlantic City, NJ. The country superstar Vince Gill was playing that night too (no, we didn't meet him or anything). At one point I was walking through the lobby and I was all dressed up with my hat, boots, etc and I was carrying my guitar. People literally stopped and stared at me...it made me feel like I was "someone," but come to think of it maybe they were just gawking at the outfit! ;D I tend to think that they thought I was part of Vince Gill's crowd somehow...
"And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." -- George Harrison
A TV show here on Iceland's "Pop TV" has a section they call "Question of the Day" where they go out to a mall or something and ask passers-by something, usually about pop music.
A few weeks back they asked people who was the bass player of Fraebbblarnir. This happens to be me.
Unfortunately only one person knew the answer. :'(
One other person knew the name of one of my predecessors who happens to be dead.
http://www.popptivi.is
http://kuggur.is/fraebbblarnir/fraebbblarnirenska.htm
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Helgi Briem
hbriem AT gmail DOT com
I am definitely not famous in the least bit, but I get recognized around town as "that guy". That's just because I'm weird though.
Are you sure your not secretly me?
Anyways, the first thing that felt like fame to me was as follows: One day Me and my friend Joe are jammin on our accoustics, and we get this idea: let's start a band. So he comes over to my place, with his electric, and we hook up to my amp. We play some pretty easy stuff that we were putting together, and then, outta nowhere, i get the urge to start tapping, i guess its because i cant tap on an accoustic, and thats all i played all week. So he's doin the rythm, and i start tapping. i hear the rhythm go out, so I stop and lok to see if something's wrong, and joes on the ground BOWING! I start laughing my ass off, 'cause i didnt think my tapping was that good. I felt famous then. lol. Then there was my first gig, I was just supposed to play a short blues medley, but the other guy up there didnt know any accompanyment to blues, so he played some stuff ive never even heard of, and i'm improvising for it. I was nervous beyond explanation, so all I could think to do was solo. Not very fast, i wasnt comfortable with the tunes, but after i got off stage, everybody there was goin wild for my twists to the songs he played. I didnt beleive it. I thought theyd be ashamed of me for ruining perfectly good songs, cause I thought I screwed em up real bad, but they liked it. I didnt sleep for two days after that. I was still shaking for an hour after I went home. Good times.
I don't know if this really counts or not, but I designed a CD cover for a relatively well known band around this area and at their release party two people actually came up to me and asked me to autograph the covers. I thought that was pretty cool, and, of course, I autographed them!!! :D
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"Don't wanna ride no shootin' star. Just wanna play on the rhythm guitar." Emmylou Harris, "Rhythm Guitar" from "The Ballad of Sally Rose"
Some years ago, at the Cellar Door in DC, I went to see the great John Mclaughlin. He was there solo and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. About 90 minutes into a almost 3 hour set, the drinks were finally getting to be too much to carry any longer and I had to go bad. I had put off a restroom visit because I couldn't take my eyes off his playing, but, alas- I finally had to succumb. My eyes never left the stage as I headed to the loo.
En route to the restroom, one has to pass in front of the stage and you just sorta duck and hurry past. Apparently, this was not the course I took for the next thing I knew, the place had gone quiet and John had stopped playing. I, too, stopped and looked around to see what the matter was and got interrupted by a voice saying, "Do you mind terribly if I finish this piece?". It was John speaking over the hushed crowd. What hadn't hit me yet was that he was speaking to me for I had stopped directly in front of the stage and was staring so hard that he found it uncomfortable and had stopped playing. Embarrassed, I quickly headed off to the restroom and returned to my seat. Upon my return, my date told me that I had been staring for the better part of 5 minutes, oblivious to the comments of the people in the front row whose view I had blocked, the taps on the shoulder from the stage crew, etc.
Well, if you count this as "fame", every one I know at my school wants me in their band, too bad most of them don't even have drummers. :lol: I think its because I'm one of five people in my grade who can solo, thanks to my guitar teacher and GN. 8)
Stairway to Freebird!
i dated an asian tv star for a while. when we went out on our first date, the hostess practically wet herself. she usually got recognized whenever we went out. i had no idea who she was when i approached her.
