small-time name-dropping

I've met Julia Louis-Dreyfus' father. My dad knew him.

Clare Torry, who sang on Pink Floyd's "Great Gig In The Sky", spent the night at our house, years before we moved in (it used to be a B&B).

great vocal

Hate it (controversial music opinion alert).

that’s awesome Heez, in every photo of Bill Doss I’ve seen he looks like the happiest friendliest dude.

my back surgeon (a friend of my parents) was Townes Van Zandt's first cousin

Marcia Cross liking my tweet once is better than ANYTHING in person in my life TBH

lol what did she do to piss off Chachi?

Mike Score of A Flock of Seagulls was extraordinarily rude to me (and several other people) while waiting for an interview to start in 1988. Actual quote: "Don't you KNOW WHO I AM?".

Ivan Novak of Laibach was extraordinarily nice to me (and several other people) while waiting for an interview to start a few years later.

Rob L on a plane v good. Reminded me that I flew on a similarly small plane from CT to NYC with Michael Richards during peak Seinfeld which seemed huge at the time.

One of my high school history teachers cousin is Dr. Frank from the Mr. T Experience.

NO

Oh wait i thought you said Dr Frank was your teacher lol.

That is still very cool though! I was a big fan when I was in high school.

heh, it was a catholic high school and my history teacher was very conservative so he seemed a bit sheepish about the association, but he did once hook up a classmate who was a superfan with some merch and signed CDs.

sometime around 2008-2009 a friend an I were looking to rent an apartment together in Boston and we found this listing around Union Square. We arrive about 10 minutes before our showing and are just sitting outside on the stoop as the property manager is finishing up showing the place to another potential renter. The manager and the client are making some small talk within earshot of us and we both hear the manager asking the client if they watch television. The manager starts going on to this incredibly sweet story about how one of his children is on television and how proud they are. The client asks what show and the manager says "her name is Amy and she works on this show Saturday Night Live." My friend and I, who had been going to the Del Close Marathon for years now at that point, suddenly give each other this look of "wait, that's Amy Poehler's dad!"

We didn't end up getting the place, but I've always been touched by how genuinely sweet and proud her father was at bringing her up to complete strangers he was showing an apartment.

lol what did she do to piss off Chachi?

I took a film class from a dude who worked on the California Love video

Why am I calling him a dude, that is so disrespectful. He’s a scholar ffs.

One of my school acquaintances did hair and makeup for the Wonder Woman movies

One of my former co-workers worked on a High On Fire music video when she was in college. She was very surprised that I knew who they were and was a fan as she thought they were just some nobodies. Apparently Matt Pike was surprisingly charming but smelled bad.

that was apparent to me already!

that’s awesome Heez, in every photo of Bill Doss I’ve seen he looks like the happiest friendliest dude.

― brimstead, Thursday, 7 March 2024

Like I could go on for hours about how cool and nice he was. This was the early 2000s, when he was split from OTC. A lot of musicians worked at the GOS lab because you could bolt and go on your and come right back to your job. They were all making like 8$ an hour so it was the first time I realized being a big indie dude didn’t add up to much financially.

He was maybe 12 years older than me and I was very nervous around him at first. He was super sweet. We talked a lot. After I left he started touring with apples in stereo, he would get me backstage passes and stuff. I miss him a bunch but glad he got to do that big pitchfork fest before he passed.

tim raines retweeted me once after i tweeted about his HOF induction

ashley monroe commented on one of my instagram posts after i shared a pic from a live gig of hers i attended

related to ENBB's post upthread, a friend of mine went to school with David Gilmour's daughter.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ej-MuvHWoAAsfmO?format=jpg&name=900x900

I just saw Rory McGrath in Cambridge Station, he has aged a bit and has gone completely clean-shaven, but I'm positive it's him because I've seen him around Cambridge on three previous occasions.

If you don't know who Rory McGrath is, there is no need for you to find out.

mark s can tell you everything you need to know

10 years ago I had a garage sale and I posted preview pictures of what I was selling to Twitter. One of the pictures was of the Nov 23, 1963 San Diego Union Tribune with a giant JFK assassination headline. The one person who liked the photo was Keith Levene of PIL.

Sweet.

I helped John Paul Jones order a drink this weekend

Huh. You'd think he'd be fairly well-practiced at that by now

Probably used to get servants to do it in the old days. By the way, many of these name-drops are hardly small-time, this one being a case in point.

My girlfriend's dad produced REO Speedwagon's 'Hi Infidelity'.
If anybody has any questions about the birth of the Midwestern power ballad, I'm here for you.

I used to live in the same street as a pre-fame Chas Smash. Later, Alvin Stardust moved into the same street too, although Chas was in Madness by then so they weren't there at the same time.

So Chas had moved up in the world while Alvin was on his way down. That's show business!

How do you know I wasn't living on the Bishop's Avenue?!
(it was in fact W!nd3rm3r3 Road, N10)

Alvin was doing the Rock Gospel Show by that point, so yes a move down in the world.

My girlfriend's dad produced REO Speedwagon's 'Hi Infidelity'.
If anybody has any questions about the birth of the Midwestern power ballad, I'm here for you.

― mr.raffles, Thursday, March 28, 2024 8:25 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Who was the friend who heard it from a friend who...

many of these name-drops are hardly small-time

I think it's the triviality of the context as well as the lack-of-fame of the name that makes it small-time.

Yeah, like "Jimmy Page once stepped on my foot" is a big name but a small time interaction.

The bassist from Metallica was once on our flight from the Bay Area to L.A. (not Jason Newsted, the newer guy). He was just chilling at Southwest waiting for his boarding group to be called with everyone else… I think he was even holding a guitar case.

Xp. “ I was in a mid sized southern town. A jazz and experimental music fest was happening. I was at the bar next to the hotel a lot of headliners were staying at. An older guy stood next me. When the bartender asked me for my order, I deferred to the older guy out of respect. When I returned to my table my friend said ‘Dude, was that fucking John Paul Jones?’ I discreetly looked up what John Paul Jones looked like in 2024 and determined that it was in fact him. At least enough to my satisfaction to post the interaction to music board.” Is how how it really went down. But there are a bunch of writers here, so I tried to be concise.

I saw Nick Lowe at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition last year, also the antique shop around the corner is run by John McCoy, the scary bald guy with the aviators who played bass in Gillan.

And Mammoth

A few years ago a charity I was working for was offered some pro bono “digital change consultancy”. I phoned up the guy to discuss exactly what that would mean and it was Rudy from A.R. Kane.

I once sold drugs to Andrew Wyeth (literally, was working at a pharmacy down the street from his house).

The guy from spoon was once in my apartment.

I used to live in the same street as a pre-fame Chas Smash

Was his house in the middle of your street?

The guy from spoon was once in my apartment.

Presumably in the kitchen, one hopes.

Presumably in the kitchen, one hopes.

No, the bedroom