I've met and hung out with tons of bands and artists because of my job, but I dunno if that counts. Non music wise I hung out with Gary Sinese (Lt. Dan for those if you who don't know), Kimo Williams, Brian Urlacher, Patrick Roy (hockey camp), and Joe Sakic to name a few. I've got pretty lucky in meeting people over the years.
OH OH OH and when I was little I met the original Red Power Ranger. Which at the time was more exciting than I recall now lol.
I had brunch with Fredrik Åkesson & Per Wiberg of Opeth. Then I took them and the rest of the band (bar Mendez) to Fopp for DVDs/CDs & Vinyl.
I took Bill Kelliher of Mastodon to Forbidden Planet where we discussed all things Star Wars.
On a seperate occasion I took Andy Hurley (Fall Out Boy) also to Forbidden Planet, then got to sit down in a pub with The Damned Things.
I've hung backstage with Akercocke,
Had a good ten minute chat with John 5 (Rob Zombie/Marilyn Manson)
Got to watch Dirty Little Rabbits soundcheck whilst later having an in-depth conversation with Shawn Crahan (who's also the Clown in Slipknot) - they even let me pick the song to soundcheck too.
Also met this lot:
3 Inches of Blood, 4ft Fingers
A, Abgott, Airbourne, Akercocke, Alestorm, American Head Charge, The Answer, Anvil, Apocalyptica, Arch Enemy & Army of Freshmen
Beat Union, The Berzerker, Betty Curse, Bowling for Soup, Bullet for my Valentine, Bleeding Through, Breed 77 & Cannibal Corpse
Conquest of Steel, Cryptopsy, The Damned Things, Dark Tranquility, Decapitated, The Deftones, Destruction, Diablo Swing Orchestra, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dirty Little Rabbits, Dommin & Dragonforce
Feeder, Fightstar, Gallhammer, Hellyeah, In This Moment, Lacuna Coil, Lamb of God & Lamb Quartet
Mastodon, Mindwarp, Ministry, Napalm Death & Nightwish (with Tajira)
Obituary, Onslaught, Opeth, Omnium Gatherum, Panic Cell & Paradise Lost
Reel Big Fish, The Rotted, Rotting Christ, Satyricon, Sepultura, Shadows Fall, Skindred
Society 1 & Speed Theory Soilwork, Ted Maul,
Testament, Therapy?, Trivium, Turisas & Within Temptation
And (unknown) members of Blackout, BMTH, Dir En Grey and YMAS
Vas Kallas (Hanzel und Gretyl), Kerry King (Slayer), Roy Magora (Stone Sour), Gareth Davies (Funeral For A Friend) & Snowy White
Ben Ward (Orange Goblin), Ralph Santolla, Jack Owen and Steve Aheim (Deicide), Jonathan Davies and Fieldy (KoRn), Mark Hunter, Rob Arnold & Matt DeVries (Chimaira) & Corey Taylor (Slipknot/Stone Sour)
Richie Edwards (Stone Gods), Uriah Duffy & Timothy Drury (Whitesnake) ,Lauren Harris
Byron Davis, Doc Coyle & Corey Pierce (God Forbid), Jacoby Shadix & Tobin Esperance (Papa Roach)
Elizabeth Buckingham (Electric Wizard), Blacky and Away (Voivod), Rob and Paul (Pendulum), Kirk and Rex (Down),
& John Fred Young (Black Stone Cherry)
Lemmy & Mickey Dee (Motorhead), Fernando Ribeiro (Moonspell), Brendan B. Brown (Wheatus), Paul Allender and Sarah Jezebel (Cradle of Filth), Neil Fallon (Clutch), Michael Romano (Symphony-X), John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess & Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater), Twiggy Ramirez (Marilyn Manson)
Phil Demmel (Machine Head), Claudio Sanchez (Coheed and Cambria), Ian Hill (Judas Priest), Oxy Moron & Captain Sensible (The Damned) & Adrian Erlandsson (Ex-Cradle of Filth)
OTHERS: Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead Trilogy), Fearne Cotton, Simon McCorkindale (Jaws 3), Rita Haney (Dimebag's Ex-G/F), Russell Howard (Mock The Week), Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters 1 & 2), Chris Ryan (Ex-SAS), Richard Felix (Ex-Most Haunted), Caroline Munro (Dracula AD 1972), & Robert Englund (Nightmare on Elm Street Saga), Adrian Edmondson (Bottom/The Young Ones), Kate O'Mara (Doctor Who)
Brian Cox (X-Men 2), David Prowse (Darth Vader), Michael Palin (Monty Python), Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett), Colin Baker (The 6th Doctor), Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3), Heather Peace (Ultimate Force),
Simon Callow (Chemical Wedding) & Sean Pertwee (Dog Soldiers)
Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead), John Hurt (Alien), Carrie Henn (Aliens), Bill Oddie & Tim Brooke-Taylor (The Goodies), Charles Dance (Michael Collins), Mike Christopher (Dawn of the Dead), Karen Allen (ROTLA), Paul Freeman (ROTLA), Peter Sallis (LOTSW & Wallace and Gromit), Lord Richard Attenborough (Jurassic Park, Great Escape) and Ian Whyte (AvP 1&2)
I have shaken hands with Jamie Farr from MASH,Greg Brady from the brady bunch,Howard Hessman-Johnny Fever from WKRP IN CINCINATTI and Gary Sandy from that show as well,and recently George wendt-Norm from Cheers.a lof of former stars from the past come here to my city to be in plays at a theater called THE NEW DINNER THEATRE.
I met numerous celebrities, and athletes over the years as a former craps dealer at a high end Las Vegas casino. At first you are impressed and later you realize many of them, Michael jordan, Jennifer Lopez, Oscar De La Hoya, Diana Ross, Bruce Willis, Tony Danza, are assholes while some others, Dennis Rodman, Ben Afleck, Charles Barkley, Ozzy Osbourne, are super cool, and some others...Martin Sheen, Alyssa Milano, David Hasslehoff, Carmen Electra, are just there.
All in all the one I was most impressed with was Bill Gates.
In elementary school, the little girl from "Practical Magic" with the red hair came to our school one day - I have no idea why as I was just ten, but I didn't really care too much.
On a trip to New York City for mission work our group was passing through the street in Times Square to go find a dinner place and we ran into [and pushed through] Justin Timberlake and Joey Fatone [they were coming out of a restaurant and not lookinng where they were going, so yeah, I bumped into Justin pretty hard because I wasn't expecting human traffic.] Again, I wasn't very excited.
That same night went to the huge "Virgin" store and saw Kayne West on the "up" escalator when I was going down.
And when I went to see "Wicked" in Los Angeles at the Palladium Theatre Diane Keaton was there, in orchestra seating. My group was first row mezzanine. I recognized her and pointed her out because I saw what I thought was a man wearing a light suit and big floppy hat, but they turned profile and I could see her hair and glasses. That was pretty exciting, but just because I was the one who found her.
I've never freaked out when I see a celebrity. In fact I was more annoyed then happy when we saw Timberlake and Fatone, cause all the tweens wanted to stop and get their autographs, and I was all, "I'm hungry. Let's go! They're just normal people so don't bother them. [whine whine whine whine.]"
Which is weird, because if it were Robin Williams or some people named up yonder I would have been in shock.
Originally posted by politicsguy
i shook bill clinton's hand once - he was on a tour of ireland at the time
I shook his hand too. Not when he was in ireland though. I was a kid and didn't really understand why I was shaking his hand. He was really nice though.
I've also met Nick Lachey, Jason and Grant from Ghosthunters, Ian Somerhalder, Robert Pattinson, and my favorite, Angelina Jolie. I had her autograph my T-Shirt. I'll have to find it. It's boxed up in my mums attic.