Have you had any brushes with greatness? Please limit it to true odd encounters with famous people.?

Question

I got drunk with Pure Prarie League band.

Answer 1

I got my picture taken Terry Taylor (lead singer of Daniel Amos). I know, nobody's ever heard of them, but it was pretty cool for me!

Answer 2

Celebrity doesn't always mean greatness!!!

Answer 3

I am actually not interested in greatness. Greatness is a fleeting thing.

Answer 4

Yes, but these ones are famous only in my country. I worked in one resort and my job was to stop cars and ask for tax -enter. People like people!

Answer 5

When younger just got out of military where i had served since age 15 and  was still familiarizing myself with civilian life was aged in my 20's and green in a lot of ways although had been in war zones and felt old.

It was at the time when music was changing constantly and people where always looking for new major bands,i had been a fan of Led Zeppelin but never knew a great deal about them they where touring there immigrant album and i decided to go it was a full on night with everything on offer for those times and the concert knocked me out.

On leaving i went clubbing i was a member of a fairly hard to get into musicians club but it was girls mainly that drew me there,had a big night on the drink and doing the thing on the dance floor i had hooked up with a girl who wanted me to go home with her but i wanted to party on and she went i stayed

after arranging to meet her later,the club had thinned out a bit and noticing a couple of guys in front  of me i called out to them and said hey come join me which they did,i stuck  my hand out to one he said, Hi I'm Robert Plant i then gave him my name, and ordered drinks

soon after another guy joined and Plant  said to  me you should meet this guy he's famous this is steamboat from the Harlem Globetrotters,hi i said yeah i have heard of him,how would you like to come to a party i asked,they said if it's not to far away yeah we'll come..

A restaurant owner friend of mine was having a party and it was full of bohemian types,lots of free grog and herb, loud music and a great time,then everything got blurry  and hours later woke and tried to put it all back together.

At the Party Robert Plant was Recognized but people where making out they where pretty cool dudes,me included ,some of my friends said to me later how was it you didn't know he was famous i usually said,look i thought i was pretty famous myself at the time and you didn't see me going around making a big deal out of it.

I do remember him as being just a normal guy,i remember other things like his hair thats what made me notice him it was blonde ringlets and looked like a lions mane.

Answer 6

i met the wallflowers at jfk airport in new york... pretty cool, especially since my dad had dinner with bob dylan back before he was famous so it was cool that i met his son.