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I don't know why, but I always get a kick out of any pic where Hendrix is not playing that ghastly Strat. Probably because I hate Strats.
 
Wow yeah, I never would have associated Johnny Ramone with a Hamer. Showing my age and the unfortunate era of music that I came up in, I always associate Hamer with the guitarist from Skid Row :D
 
Tadpui said:
Wow yeah, I never would have associated Johnny Ramone with a Hamer. Showing my age and the unfortunate era of music that I came up in, I always associate Hamer with the guitarist from Skid Row :D
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Johnny's deal with Hamer was fortunately brief and way before Skid Row. And he obviously hated the guitar. He only used it for lip-sync tv situations or as his brief backup while the white Mosrite got retuned offstage. Rumor had it back in the day that Hamer dropped him as a signature artist because he wouldn't use the guitar. Johnny was notorious for being very difficult to deal with because he had strict personal business ethics. When doing radio or tv interviews, the interviewer would ask him to say "I'm Johnny Ramone and I listen to/watch so-and-so". He never would say it unless he actually watched or listened to the show and then he'd embarrass the interviewer for asking him to say such a thing.
 
hahaha
That rock and roll high school video is pretty cool. I'm just surprised that Johnny didn't slug the tranny that was pulling his leather jacket off.
 
jimistone said:
hahaha
That rock and roll high school video is pretty cool. I'm just surprised that Johnny didn't slug the tranny that was pulling his leather jacket off.
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By all accounts, Johnny was a twisted dude with a dark sense of humor. He was mean. He'd beat up his girlfriends. He antagonized everyone all of the time. He was a ruthless dictator within the band. He was a hardcore conservative and some say a blatant racist. He didn't give one single fuck. He looks innocent enough being all skin and bones with his bowl cut and mickey mouse t-shirts, but if you weren't in his inner-circle, you were nothing and he'd treat you that way. Except for fans. He loved the fans, and he was very very nice to me. RIP Johnny, you are okay with me! :D
 
Sha Na Na - they could play well but their show really look everything away from them but they were prepared to sell out so I guess that's OK.
 
rayc said:
Sha Na Na - they could play well but their show really look everything away from them but they were prepared to sell out so I guess that's OK.
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I liked the show when I was a kid. I don't think I got any of it, but I liked watching it. I thought Bowser was funny.
 
jimistone said:
Wow greg, you met johnny?
That's pretty cool.
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Yeah, a few times. I've met all of them except for Tommy. The first time I met Johnny I was about 16 maybe. Yeah, 16, 1989 Brain Drain tour and I totally fanboyed out and was truly speechless.
 
Greg_L said:
Yeah, a few times. I've met all of them except for Tommy. The first time I met Johnny I was about 16 maybe. Yeah, 16, 1989 Brain Drain tour and I totally fanboyed out and was truly speechless.
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Oh man, that's awesome!

You know, I've never met a single celebrity. Not a sports star, not an actor, not a rock star, nothing. Never even seen one of the KC Chiefs around town. Not even the punter or the long snapper..
 
Tadpui said:
Oh man, that's awesome!

You know, I've never met a single celebrity. Not a sports star, not an actor, not a rock star, nothing. Never even seen one of the KC Chiefs around town. Not even the punter or the long snapper..
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I've met quite a few athletes and musicians. And strangely enough I catch pro athletes around town all the time. One time a few years ago I met Craig Biggio at a fucking tractor supply store way out here in my burb of Katy. I was walking through this redneck paradise getting some rabbit food for my kid's rabbit, which is thankfully dead now, and I turn a corner - bam, Craig Biggio, my favorite baseball player. I was flabbergasted. This dude is all hustle and I loved the way he played the game, and there he was pushing a cart full of god only knows what. I didn't even look. So I said, "hey you're Craig Biggio!" Like he doesn't fucking know who he is. He laughed and said "yup". And this was right when it was announced that he'd be a hall of famer, so I congratulated him and told him why I'm a fan and shook his hand and let him go on about his business. He was friendly and I didn't hog up his time so I don't think he hated me. I like meeting sports stars. Besides the Ramones, I don't get too excited about meeting musicians. I don't care about selfies or autographs or guitar picks or setlists or any memorabilia stuff. I'd love to have met Bowie or Lemmy or Lou Reed, but most of the guys I like that are still alive and do actually get to meet aren't anything special anyway. Oh, Iggy, I'd fucking love to meet Iggy. He's special and still alive....for now.
 
Tadpui said:
Oh man, that's awesome!

You know, I've never met a single celebrity. Not a sports star, not an actor, not a rock star, nothing. Never even seen one of the KC Chiefs around town. Not even the punter or the long snapper..
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My best "celebrity meeting" was James Hetfield, mainly 'cos it was such a random chance occurrence. I was in San Fran with my then wife and we were at the zebra crossing by the Levi's shop 'cos I wanted a pair of jeans - James H was standing next to me at the crossing, I turned to my wife and sort of said quietly "Fuck, is that James Hetfield" (she's a massive Metallica fan). We walked over the window of the Levi's shop and James came over and starting looking in the window too. So I just said "Hi, are you James Hetfield" and he said "Yeah, man, who are you" We chatted for a couple of minutes and my mrs gradually melted into a fanboy(girl) puddle. Then we went in to get jeans - kinda weird to have James H trying on jeans in the cubicle next to you. He was a really nice guy

I've met a few other more minor celebrities too - but that's the only world renowned rockstar.
 
Lashing out the action, returning the reaction
Weak are ripped and torn away
Hypnotizing power, crushing all that cower
Armani is here to stay

Smashing through the boundaries
Lunacy has found me
Cannot stop the ARMANI!
Pounding out aggression
Turns into obsession
Cannot kill the ARMANI!

Cannot kill the family
Armani is found in me

ARMANI!
AR-MAN-I!


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The store manager I work with has met so many rocks stars it's pitiful. He has a friend in LA that hooked him up with a dude that is part of the rock scene there, and said "show my buddy from mississippi a good time" when he was in LA last year and that dude took him to a club (that you can't get in unless you're connected). He said he was star struck and speechless that everywhere you looked there were celebrities. Then the dude that got them in there was on the phone and says "Hey man, let's split". He's thinking "why leave?" and asks the dude "where are we going?". The dude says "Over to Lemmys place, he wants us to check out a rock video"
So, they spend the rest if the night drinking and watching videos with Lemmy.
lol
The right place at the right time with the right person I guess
 
let's see .... I have jammed with or met:
SRV
Allman Bros. .... all at once and most of them also individually
Son Seals
Gatemouth Brown
Cher
Cowboy
Marcia Ball
White Trash
Edgar Winter
Piano 'Huey' Smith
ummmm .... that's all I can think of this early in the day but there's a good deal more .....

That and a nickel will buy me ..... anyone know of somnething that's only a nickel?
 
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