When I was about 7 I met Abdulah the Butcher at a hotel in PR. I was pretty shocked and freaked out, I mean this guy would eat raw pieces of steak for fun. My dad talked me into going over to get an autograph. I went and he turned aroudn but didn't see me because I was so short. He then bent down grunted and signed a piece of paper. My pops said I was white as a sheet when I got back.
When I was 15 and running around Montreal one summer, I met KISS at SuperSex. A friend who I was with is from the same town as Paul Stanley and they struck a conversation in the bathroom, they then invited us over to their table. Fun guys paid for all the drinks and girls.
I've seen and met a lot of famous people since I moved to NY. Heather Grahm was hanging out at Max Fish the other day, I didn't talk to her though, pretty blonde women make me nervous. I once confused Dustin Hoffman for Anthony Hopkins on the street, kept asking him about Silence of the Lambs, but he wasn't having it and told me to fuck off.
Hey, wtf is up with your girl and the stranger? Details plaese. That sounds like some Rambo shit from the jump.
Maybe that's just me though
wow, I was really drunk when I started this thread last night. Long story short: we are in the middle of an extended and very sad breakup.
I was djing a last minute V-Day party, and she was at an online magazine release party. Her best friend calls me from her phone telling me I gotta come and get her because she is hella drunk. So I walk the 1/2 hour to the bar she's at - which along the way is where I saw Meth - and she's already gone, and left her coat and credit card. So I take those, and take the train home to find that scene. It's not like they were doing anything either, both fully clothed on top of the blankets, and he just brought her home. But it was just f-in pissy.
Hey, wtf is up with your girl and the stranger? Details plaese. That sounds like some Rambo shit from the jump.
Maybe that's just me though
wow, I was really drunk when I started this thread last night. Long story short: we are in the middle of an extended and very sad breakup.
I was djing a last minute V-Day party, and she was at an online magazine release party. Her best friend calls me from her phone telling me I gotta come and get her because she is hella drunk. So I walk the 1/2 hour to the bar she's at - which along the way is where I saw Meth - and she's already gone, and left her coat and credit card. So I take those, and take the train home to find that scene. It's not like they were doing anything either, both fully clothed on top of the blankets, and he just brought her home. But it was just f-in pissy.
Next time use her credit card to buy some records and take a shit on her coat.
In vegas, I catch celebritys here and there.. the funniest moments to me:
At the Boulevard Mall, Suge Knight stood behind me with 2 body guards at Hot dog on a Stick. He bought a lemonade.
At Body English I talked with David copperfield for a bit, then he made 13 females dissapear into his hotel room.
I saw Oasis being kicked out of the MGM.
The Amazing Johnathon swears he knows me, and buys me a drink everytime I see him at the beauty bar.
Went to an after party to meet James brown after a performance, he thought I was in his entourage and threw me his sweaty rag. Looking back, I should've kept it and sold it on Ebay. Dammit.
seen sean penn in beverly hills(just missed harrison ford apparently) kelly osbourne waved at my mrs..
best celebrity story i ever heard..
Theres a bloke who lived around the town i used to live in England called Reggie.Loudmouth type,gold rings that type of bloke.Anyway,Reggie is in some top notch restaurant in London trying impress a prospective client(Reg runs a building firm) when he spots Rod Stewart.He sees Rod go to the bathroom so he excuses himself and goes in there himself.While washing his hands he strikes the typical conversation with Rod (big fan,love your music blah blah) and then tells Rod he is trying to impress this client to win a contract and asks Rod if he can help.Rod doesn`t seem too enthused,but when Reg says that all he has to do is walk over on his way out stop by and say hello like he knows Reg he agrees..
Reg and Rod go back to their tables and carry on with their meals.Sure enough Rod is leaving first so he walks over to Reggies table and says.. 'hey Reggie..how you doing?' Reggie replies 'not now Rod,i`m busy doing buisness here yeah?' Rod leaves speechless.
I once saw Prince (dude is like 5 foot and was wearing pounds of makeup) in the Village in NYC at this record store.
He was just standing there with his wife as his handler/bodyguard dropped about 3K buying up all of his bootleg recordings they were selling at the store.
It was surreal to say the least.
Also saw Bill Murray walking down Park Ave. with an enormous top hat.
seen sean penn in beverly hills(just missed harrison ford apparently) kelly osbourne waved at my mrs..
best celebrity story i ever heard..
Theres a bloke who lived around the town i used to live in England called Reggie.Loudmouth type,gold rings that type of bloke.Anyway,Reggie is in some top notch restaurant in London trying impress a prospective client(Reg runs a building firm) when he spots Rod Stewart.He sees Rod go to the bathroom so he excuses himself and goes in there himself.While washing his hands he strikes the typical conversation with Rod (big fan,love your music blah blah) and then tells Rod he is trying to impress this client to win a contract and asks Rod if he can help.Rod doesn`t seem too enthused,but when Reg says that all he has to do is walk over on his way out stop by and say hello like he knows Reg he agrees..
Reg and Rod go back to their tables and carry on with their meals.Sure enough Rod is leaving first so he walks over to Reggies table and says.. 'hey Reggie..how you doing?' Reggie replies 'not now Rod,i`m busy doing buisness here yeah?' Rod leaves speechless.
When I was 6 or 7 (I think) my parents and I shared an elevator with Bill Murray in some Chicago hotel. I kept yelling "its ghostbusters, look look look!" or some shit like that hahahah
Ok, back in 1992, I saw Burt Reynolds and the guy who played Mayor Kyle Applegate from "out of this world' together just browsing around.
my HS principal, tom nolan was in out of this world, he played the kooky next door neighbor carpenter or something like that if my memory is correct. he was also the lead in a softcore porn from 1985 called SCHOOL SPIRIT. pranks involving the movie were pulled every semester and they were always funny.
i also saw mark's girlfriend LOHAN a couple weeks ago at a club. she sat down right next to my friend, and i had never seen such a simultaneously drunk and nervous person.
oh, and i saw RON JEREMY over the summer at a porn house party in the valley - my friend was dj'ing. when ron came in, half the people at the party stopped what they were doing to go greet the legend.
I've met a ton of celebs through working in the photography business. The most recent one was Michael Flatley the "Lord Of The Dance". I had heard he was a real jerk but he was super nice and easy to work with.
One of the best moments was when I worked a shoot with Paul Simon, it was him, the photographer and me alone in the photo studio, and he pretty much sang and played a concert for us on his unplugged electric guitar while the photographer shot. I'm not a huge fan of his music, but it was a cool experience. He is incredibly short and really shy too.
I also met Jerry Heller, the infamous manager of NWA/Eazy E a few years ago. He's an old friend of the photographer I use to work for so he stopped by her studio a few times. Once I asked him if he would sign an NWA LP for me and he said sure, but then had to leave town before I could bring one in. Instead he signed the back of a memo that he sent out to one of his artists about not going over his budget or something like that. He was a funny guy, but he definitely gave off the aura of someone that you should not fuck around with.
I was walking down the street in Memphis, minding my own bussiness, I turned the corner and someone punched me in my chest. I jumped back, looked at the person and it was MLK.....I said Dr. King! and he replied I'm sorry I thought you were someone else.
Reg and Rod go back to their tables and carry on with their meals.Sure enough Rod is leaving first so he walks over to Reggies table and says.. 'hey Reggie..how you doing?' Reggie replies 'not now Rod,i`m busy doing buisness here yeah?' Rod leaves speechless.
Theres a bloke who lived around the town i used to live in England called Reggie.Loudmouth type,gold rings that type of bloke.Anyway,Reggie is in some top notch restaurant in London trying impress a prospective client(Reg runs a building firm) when he spots Rod Stewart.He sees Rod go to the bathroom so he excuses himself and goes in there himself.While washing his hands he strikes the typical conversation with Rod (big fan,love your music blah blah) and then tells Rod he is trying to impress this client to win a contract and asks Rod if he can help.Rod doesn`t seem too enthused,but when Reg says that all he has to do is walk over on his way out stop by and say hello like he knows Reg he agrees..
Reg and Rod go back to their tables and carry on with their meals.Sure enough Rod is leaving first so he walks over to Reggies table and says.. 'hey Reggie..how you doing?' Reggie replies 'not now Rod,i`m busy doing buisness here yeah?' Rod leaves speechless.
I was passing through Heathrow airport in London and saw the Beastie Boys with Run DMC and entourage. Run, DMC and JMJ looked pissed off and hung over. Ad Rock was being a fool, kept kicking a trash can for no reason, while MCA and Mike D looked on and laughed. This was in the mid-1980s y'all.
Also seen a bunch of Bollywood actors in India, but that's another story.
In 2002, when I was coming back from S.Korea for mid-tour leave, I saw Don Shula at LAX. What's funny is that I didn't realize who he was until I walked right past him. He gave me a look that said, "This muthafucka ain't gonna acknowledge me!!!"
marshall faulk let me hold his super bowl ring!... those rings are crazy... if i had seen one when i was a kid, i would have tried to be better at football
Theres a bloke who lived around the town i used to live in England called Reggie.Loudmouth type,gold rings that type of bloke.Anyway,Reggie is in some top notch restaurant in London trying impress a prospective client(Reg runs a building firm) when he spots Rod Stewart.He sees Rod go to the bathroom so he excuses himself and goes in there himself.While washing his hands he strikes the typical conversation with Rod (big fan,love your music blah blah) and then tells Rod he is trying to impress this client to win a contract and asks Rod if he can help.Rod doesn`t seem too enthused,but when Reg says that all he has to do is walk over on his way out stop by and say hello like he knows Reg he agrees..
Reg and Rod go back to their tables and carry on with their meals.Sure enough Rod is leaving first so he walks over to Reggies table and says.. 'hey Reggie..how you doing?' Reggie replies 'not now Rod,i`m busy doing buisness here yeah?' Rod leaves speechless.
That shit is TOPS.
Gave me a laugh. Thx Heaps
I like this one, do you know if the Rod Stewart technique he used won his client over??
marshall faulk let me hold his super bowl ring!... those rings are crazy... if i had seen one when i was a kid, i would have tried to be better at football
Dude, that is the truth. I used to work for Raul Alegre, kicker for the '86 Giants, and he let me wear his Super Bowl ring once. It's like a senior ring with a limitless budget: big-ass diamonds shaped like footballs and shit.
A few minutes later, he couldn't find it and must've thought I stole it ('cause that would've been the perfect crime, huh?). Turns out, he'd put it in his pocket.
henry rollins is a great guy... he cracks me up... i met him a while ago when i was working at record stores... had him sign my copy of 3rd bass "derelicts of dialect"... anyone remember that he played vanilla ice in the video for "pop goes the weasel?... i asked him if he could sign it "henry ice" (thinking he might pick me up and throw me into the dollar bin upside down), but he was really cool about it... talking about how he had practiced vanilla's dance moves for 2 weeks... he also assured me that he was wearing a wig in the video. he's a really approachable guy... but the second someone asks to take a picture he puts on his mean face for the camera.
for those who never saw it... in the video for "pop goes the weasel"... henry rollins plays vanilla ice (looks JUST LIKE HIM TOO) and the guys from 3rd bass beat him up with baseball bats... classic stuff.
by the way... the autograph says "yo boooyy, word to ya mutha. HENRY ICE"
minnie driver was on my flight last wednesday. lax to jfk... her face isnt that big in person, meaning it dont go much surface area...
also saw Bruce Willis over at Serendipitys in uptown NY on sunday night. dude picked up my homegirls glove off the floor while he was waiting for the bathroom. Wasnt sure if ashton or demi were in the building.
Only story worth mentioning is when I DJ'd for Chip Fooze (Dude who does the show Overhaulin' on TLC). Didn't meet/talk to him till the day of the party and really not until he got upset that I played the wrong song for him and his wife to dance to - even though his assistant fucked up and gave me the wrong song. But minutes later he was over it and rockin the white man's overbite while dancing. Definitely
Once chatted up with E-Swift at LAX. Both of us were waiting for a plane to arrive (when you could do that inside the terminal). Dude was real cool and mellow, was around the time Likwidation came out.
Saw Tracey Morgan on Melrose, dude was just shopping/walkin around and people were sayin hi (inlcuding me). He said hi back and we both kept walkin.
Saw Erykah Badu on the tram going to Disneyland. It was kind of late (around 7pm) and it looked as though she was just getting there. She had her son, Seven, there as well and he was all amped for being at Disneyland.
Saw MC Hammer at Nike Town in Beverly Hills about 2 years ago. I told my cousin, "yo thats mc hammer" and my cousin got all excited like a kid. Was kind of funny.
Lastly (damn, didn't realize I've seen some people!)... A few years ago I saw Rodney Dangerfield riding around in his robe and on a motored wheel chair at MGM. Dude looked like shit - like he was hung over and hadn't been outta bed in days.
most recently, that group 112 was on my flight from ATL out here to Tucson on New Year's Eve day. it wasn't all that exciting. their security guy was ginormous.
Were you the guy that lived next to Corey in Canada? Tell us about it. I want to hear more. ARE YOU COREY FELDMAN?
LOL! Nope, I ain't Corey Feldman. Here's the story (with some backstory):
Corey (Haim) was my neighbor for a few years, but I knew him going back to when he was doing well with his movies. I was friends with his cousin & we had some mutual acquaintances in Montreal. He was always a very chill, nice guy. Probably too nice/naive because lots of people took advantage of his generosity & screwed with him business wise. Over the years, I watched his finances decline. You'd see him roll up here in a Porsche & then the next year in a Mazda. Was some wacky schitt. One Sunday morning, I wake up because I hear voices in my living room. I stagger out of bed & guess who's chilling out in the kitchen? Corey Haim. He needed to use the phone because he just moved in next door & his wasn't connected yet. My moms had let him in. I hadn't seen him in a while & I was bleary eyed. It took a second for us to recognize each other, but when we did he was like "Dude? DUUUUUUUDE!!!" Anyhow, he had come back to Montreal & had taken an apartment right next door to me w/ his mother. There were some pretty crazy stories to come out of the next few years. Corey was a interesting neighbor & he had some other relatives who lived on our floor who were cool. We had fun. So, yeah, getting back to the CPR thing. One night, I go out with friends, get back home & I'm just climbing into bed when my mom knocks on my bedroom door: she's like "H**ie, its Corey's mother -there's something wrong with Corey." I go next door & see Corey sprawled out on the floor, unconscious. I don't know anything about medicine, but I thought he was dead. His lips were a funny color & he looked blue-ish. His Mom is in shock & doesn't even have the presence of mind to call 911. She's paralyzed with fear. My mom gets on the phone with the police & tells 'em to send an ambulance. Corey's mom is sobbing. I'm bugging too - I have a little first aid training - I started giving dude CPR, hoping his eyes would open or some color would come back to his face. At that point, the ambulance people show up & start working on him. One dude gives him a shot & he slowly starts to come to. It was surreal. The ambulance tech was like "hey, I think I recognize this guy". It was really sad. Then, Corey sits up, like he just woke up out of a nap, & is like "WTF is going on?" He was disoriented & didn't want to go to the hospital because he said he felt fine. I talked him into it, tho. I remember my exact words were: "dude, go to the hospital. 5 minutes ago, you looked like a fucking smurf. You need to see a doctor" Anyhow, I escorted him to the ambulance, holding him up by the arm. It was like a scene out of a goddam movie.
Next time, I should tell you about the time Corey drove across the USA in a beatup Toyota Celica, which he dubbed "The Red Zepplin", with a Great Dane in the back seat, listening to my copy of Paul's Boutique the whole way or the time he scared my kid sister schittless. That shit was gold.
Peace
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wow you saw corey almost dead. I take it he OD'ed since you said the paramedic injected something into him and watched him grogely come to.
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When I was about 7 I met Abdulah the Butcher at a hotel in PR. I was pretty shocked and freaked out, I mean this guy would eat raw pieces of steak for fun. My dad talked me into going over to get an autograph. I went and he turned aroudn but didn't see me because I was so short. He then bent down grunted and signed a piece of paper. My pops said I was white as a sheet when I got back.
When I was 15 and running around Montreal one summer, I met KISS at SuperSex. A friend who I was with is from the same town as Paul Stanley and they struck a conversation in the bathroom, they then invited us over to their table. Fun guys paid for all the drinks and girls.
I've seen and met a lot of famous people since I moved to NY. Heather Grahm was hanging out at Max Fish the other day, I didn't talk to her though, pretty blonde women make me nervous. I once confused Dustin Hoffman for Anthony Hopkins on the street, kept asking him about Silence of the Lambs, but he wasn't having it and told me to fuck off.
wow, I was really drunk when I started this thread last night. Long story short: we are in the middle of an extended and very sad breakup.
I was djing a last minute V-Day party, and she was at an online magazine release party. Her best friend calls me from her phone telling me I gotta come and get her because she is hella drunk. So I walk the 1/2 hour to the bar she's at - which along the way is where I saw Meth - and she's already gone, and left her coat and credit card. So I take those, and take the train home to find that scene. It's not like they were doing anything either, both fully clothed on top of the blankets, and he just brought her home. But it was just f-in pissy.
Next time use her credit card to buy some records and take a shit on her coat.
"Oh my god! Somebody shit on the coats!"
-Dane Cook
Been listening to that at work all week.
At the Boulevard Mall, Suge Knight stood behind me with 2 body guards at Hot dog on a Stick. He bought a lemonade.
At Body English I talked with David copperfield for a bit, then he made 13 females dissapear into his hotel room.
I saw Oasis being kicked out of the MGM.
The Amazing Johnathon swears he knows me, and buys me a drink everytime I see him at the beauty bar.
Went to an after party to meet James brown after a performance, he thought I was in his entourage and threw me his sweaty rag. Looking back, I should've kept it and sold it on Ebay. Dammit.
- spidey
kelly osbourne waved at my mrs..
best celebrity story i ever heard..
Theres a bloke who lived around the town i used to live in England called Reggie.Loudmouth type,gold rings that type of bloke.Anyway,Reggie is in some top notch restaurant in London trying impress a prospective client(Reg runs a building firm) when he spots Rod Stewart.He sees Rod go to the bathroom so he excuses himself and goes in there himself.While washing his hands he strikes the typical conversation with Rod (big fan,love your music blah blah) and then tells Rod he is trying to impress this client to win a contract and asks Rod if he can help.Rod doesn`t seem too enthused,but when Reg says that all he has to do is walk over on his way out stop by and say hello like he knows Reg he agrees..
Reg and Rod go back to their tables and carry on with their meals.Sure enough Rod is leaving first so he walks over to Reggies table and says..
'hey Reggie..how you doing?'
Reggie replies
'not now Rod,i`m busy doing buisness here yeah?'
Rod leaves speechless.
He was just standing there with his wife as his handler/bodyguard dropped about 3K buying up all of his bootleg recordings they were selling at the store.
It was surreal to say the least.
Also saw Bill Murray walking down Park Ave. with an enormous top hat.
I bout dang near fell outta my seat....
my HS principal, tom nolan was in out of this world, he played the kooky next door neighbor carpenter or something like that if my memory is correct. he was also the lead in a softcore porn from 1985 called SCHOOL SPIRIT. pranks involving the movie were pulled every semester and they were always funny.
i also saw mark's girlfriend LOHAN a couple weeks ago at a club. she sat down right next to my friend, and i had never seen such a simultaneously drunk and nervous person.
oh, and i saw RON JEREMY over the summer at a porn house party in the valley - my friend was dj'ing. when ron came in, half the people at the party stopped what they were doing to go greet the legend.
One of the best moments was when I worked a shoot with Paul Simon, it was him, the photographer and me alone in the photo studio, and he pretty much sang and played a concert for us on his unplugged electric guitar while the photographer shot. I'm not a huge fan of his music, but it was a cool experience. He is incredibly short and really shy too.
I also met Jerry Heller, the infamous manager of NWA/Eazy E a few years ago. He's an old friend of the photographer I use to work for so he stopped by her studio a few times. Once I asked him if he would sign an NWA LP for me and he said sure, but then had to leave town before I could bring one in. Instead he signed the back of a memo that he sent out to one of his artists about not going over his budget or something like that. He was a funny guy, but he definitely gave off the aura of someone that you should not fuck around with.
I was walking down the street in Memphis, minding my own bussiness, I turned the corner and someone punched me in my chest. I jumped back, looked at the person and
it was MLK.....I said Dr. King! and he replied I'm sorry I thought you were someone else.
That shit is TOPS.
Gave me a laugh. Thx Heaps
Also seen a bunch of Bollywood actors in India, but that's another story.
I like this one, do you know if the Rod Stewart technique he used won his client over??
Dude, that is the truth. I used to work for Raul Alegre, kicker for the '86 Giants, and he let me wear his Super Bowl ring once. It's like a senior ring with a limitless budget: big-ass diamonds shaped like footballs and shit.
A few minutes later, he couldn't find it and must've thought I stole it ('cause that would've been the perfect crime, huh?). Turns out, he'd put it in his pocket.
for those who never saw it... in the video for "pop goes the weasel"... henry rollins plays vanilla ice (looks JUST LIKE HIM TOO) and the guys from 3rd bass beat him up with baseball bats... classic stuff.
by the way... the autograph says "yo boooyy, word to ya mutha. HENRY ICE"
also saw Bruce Willis over at Serendipitys in uptown NY on sunday night. dude picked up my homegirls glove off the floor while he was waiting for the bathroom. Wasnt sure if ashton or demi were in the building.
-rich
Once chatted up with E-Swift at LAX. Both of us were waiting for a plane to arrive (when you could do that inside the terminal). Dude was real cool and mellow, was around the time Likwidation came out.
Saw Tracey Morgan on Melrose, dude was just shopping/walkin around and people were sayin hi (inlcuding me). He said hi back and we both kept walkin.
Saw Erykah Badu on the tram going to Disneyland. It was kind of late (around 7pm) and it looked as though she was just getting there. She had her son, Seven, there as well and he was all amped for being at Disneyland.
Saw MC Hammer at Nike Town in Beverly Hills about 2 years ago. I told my cousin, "yo thats mc hammer" and my cousin got all excited like a kid. Was kind of funny.
Lastly (damn, didn't realize I've seen some people!)... A few years ago I saw Rodney Dangerfield riding around in his robe and on a motored wheel chair at MGM. Dude looked like shit - like he was hung over and hadn't been outta bed in days.
most recently, that group 112 was on my flight from ATL out here to Tucson on New Year's Eve day. it wasn't all that exciting. their security guy was ginormous.
wow you saw corey almost dead. I take it he OD'ed since you said the paramedic injected something into him and watched him grogely come to.