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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby Muskrat » 29 Mar 2021, 21:52

LMG wrote:It was outside the BBC and the Yes keyboardist was not looking where he was going as he crossed the road while intent on eating a sandwich...


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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby Hightea » 30 Mar 2021, 00:04

LMG wrote:
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Rick Wakeman?


Damn! Rumbled!

Although funnily enough, when I shared a house with The Slider, one day he came home and mentioned he had nearly run over Rick Wakeman with his motor scooter.

It was outside the BBC and the Yes keyboardist was not looking where he was going as he crossed the road while intent on eating a sandwich. John stopped and looked back and shouted he should look where he was going, before realising he was addressing the creator of both Journey To The Centre Of The Earth narrated by David Hemmings and Return To The Centre Of The Earth featuring Patrick Stewart.

He suggested it would have dreadful, as he was such a fan of Yes, had he collided with and injured - possibly even killed - his keyboard idol. I said it was resonant of the regretful claim of a WWII Luftwaffe pilot that he had shot down the airplane of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince, a book he had loved as a child.

John said 'Never heard of him - but we're saying in the special section of Hell reserved for people who killed their heroes, there might well have been Mark Chapman, this German guy you're talking about, and me...'

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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby LMG » 30 Mar 2021, 00:07

Hightea wrote:
LMG wrote:
Hightea wrote:
Rick Wakeman?


Damn! Rumbled!

Although funnily enough, when I shared a house with The Slider, one day he came home and mentioned he had nearly run over Rick Wakeman with his motor scooter.

It was outside the BBC and the Yes keyboardist was not looking where he was going as he crossed the road while intent on eating a sandwich. John stopped and looked back and shouted he should look where he was going, before realising he was addressing the creator of both Journey To The Centre Of The Earth narrated by David Hemmings and Return To The Centre Of The Earth featuring Patrick Stewart.

He suggested it would have dreadful, as he was such a fan of Yes, had he collided with and injured - possibly even killed - his keyboard idol. I said it was resonant of the regretful claim of a WWII Luftwaffe pilot that he had shot down the airplane of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince, a book he had loved as a child.

John said 'Never heard of him - but we're saying in the special section of Hell reserved for people who killed their heroes, there might well have been Mark Chapman, this German guy you're talking about, and me...'

Ha cool story - I almost ran over one of the Strokes


I take it there were people looking so you couldn't go back for another attempt?
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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby Hightea » 30 Mar 2021, 00:30

LMG wrote:
Hightea wrote:
LMG wrote:
Damn! Rumbled!

Although funnily enough, when I shared a house with The Slider, one day he came home and mentioned he had nearly run over Rick Wakeman with his motor scooter.

It was outside the BBC and the Yes keyboardist was not looking where he was going as he crossed the road while intent on eating a sandwich. John stopped and looked back and shouted he should look where he was going, before realising he was addressing the creator of both Journey To The Centre Of The Earth narrated by David Hemmings and Return To The Centre Of The Earth featuring Patrick Stewart.

He suggested it would have dreadful, as he was such a fan of Yes, had he collided with and injured - possibly even killed - his keyboard idol. I said it was resonant of the regretful claim of a WWII Luftwaffe pilot that he had shot down the airplane of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince, a book he had loved as a child.

John said 'Never heard of him - but we're saying in the special section of Hell reserved for people who killed their heroes, there might well have been Mark Chapman, this German guy you're talking about, and me...'

Ha cool story - I almost ran over one of the Strokes


I take it there were people looking so you couldn't go back for another attempt?

Ha no but a few weeks later I kicked Nikolai(bassplayer) at CBGB

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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby C » 30 Mar 2021, 11:18

LMG wrote:Tom Robinson
Chris Hillman
Captain Sensible
Phil Manzanera
Roy Harper
June Tabor
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Lene Lovich
John Cooper Clarke
Bill Nelson
Gaye Advert
Rick Wakeman
Hugh Hopper
Jakko Jakszyk
Martin Carthy
Rod Argent


Rod Argent....?




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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby Jimbly » 30 Mar 2021, 13:37

Ian Anderson
Jon Anderson
Chris Squire
Sting
Peter Gabriel
Donald Lunny
Ronnie Tutt
Bill Nelson
Joe Strummer
Gordon Giltrap
Jackie Leven
Robert Calvert
Bono
Robert Fripp
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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby C » 30 Mar 2021, 13:46

Jimbly wrote:Ian Anderson
Jon Anderson
Chris Squire
Sting
Peter Gabriel
Donald Lunny
Ronnie Tutt
Bill Nelson
Joe Strummer
Gordon Giltrap
Jackie Leven
Robert Calvert
Bono
Robert Fripp


Robert Calvert?


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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby Jimbly » 30 Mar 2021, 14:04

C wrote:
Jimbly wrote:Ian Anderson
Jon Anderson
Chris Squire
Sting
Peter Gabriel
Donald Lunny
Ronnie Tutt
Bill Nelson
Joe Strummer
Gordon Giltrap
Jackie Leven
Robert Calvert
Bono
Robert Fripp


Robert Calvert?


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Incorrect
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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby Tom Waits For No One » 30 Mar 2021, 14:58

Jimbly wrote:Ian Anderson
Jon Anderson
Chris Squire
Sting
Peter Gabriel
Donald Lunny
Ronnie Tutt
Bill Nelson
Joe Strummer
Gordon Giltrap
Jackie Leven
Robert Calvert
Bono
Robert Fripp


Fripp
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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby C » 30 Mar 2021, 15:42

Jimbly wrote:
C wrote:
Jimbly wrote:Ian Anderson
Jon Anderson
Chris Squire
Sting
Peter Gabriel
Donald Lunny
Ronnie Tutt
Bill Nelson
Joe Strummer
Gordon Giltrap
Jackie Leven
Robert Calvert
Bono
Robert Fripp


Robert Calvert?


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Incorrect


Well, there's a fair old list there lad!

Take out the Irish blokes - you've probably met them that leaves Fripp....




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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby Jimbly » 30 Mar 2021, 15:44

Tom Waits For No One wrote:
Jimbly wrote:Ian Anderson
Jon Anderson
Chris Squire
Sting
Peter Gabriel
Donald Lunny
Ronnie Tutt
Bill Nelson
Joe Strummer
Gordon Giltrap
Jackie Leven
Robert Calvert
Bono
Robert Fripp


Fripp


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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby Jimbly » 30 Mar 2021, 15:48

C wrote:
Jimbly wrote:
C wrote:
Robert Calvert?


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Incorrect


Well, there's a fair old list there lad!

Take out the Irish blokes - you've probably met them that leaves Fripp....




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No, he actually spoke to me to ask if I'd enjoyed the gig. I was sitting on the steps of the Edinburgh Playhouse after the League of Gentlemen had played the small club upstairs.

Only two Irish blokes on the list.
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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby Your Friendly Neighbourhood Postman » 30 Mar 2021, 17:19

Brian Wilson

Van Dyke Parks

Pere Ubu (the original band, c. 1980)

Agnetha Faltskog

Frank Sidebottom
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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby Your Friendly Neighbourhood Postman » 30 Mar 2021, 17:20

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Postman wrote:Brian Wilson

Van Dyke Parks

Pere Ubu (the original band, c. 1980)

Agnetha Fältskog

Frank Sidebottom
On the whole, I'd rather be in Wallenpaupack.

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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby Your Friendly Neighbourhood Postman » 30 Mar 2021, 17:20

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On the whole, I'd rather be in Wallenpaupack.

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Re: Famous musicians I have talked to plus a lie

Postby pcqgod » 31 Mar 2021, 04:14

Ramones
Sarah Cracknell
William Shatner
Ian McLagan
Tennessee Ernie Ford
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