so this past monday i got to meet 2 members of the band Queensryche, which if you go back to the glory days of Operation Mindcrime, was one of my favorite bands.
so anyway, i got these guys and their female companions seated in VIP, got the DJ to play some of their music and generally did my job of making sure they're happy.
long story short, the drummer wants to hook me up with free tix and backstage passes for myself and 3 others. he wants me to bring a couple of the girls that work there. no problem i assure him, i find a couple of dancers in short order and everything is set, we're on the guest list.
in the meantime drummer boy gets somewhat drunk and gets into a tiff with his GF. he's respectful about not making a scene in the club, i'll say that for him.
he leaves separately from his party and is outside waiting for a cab when his waitress comes up to me and tells me he's got a $50 tab. i talk to him about it and he says fuck em, let the girls pay. the girls are like 'fuck that, its HIS tab". i run this back by him and he says 'eddie (bassist) will get it'.
while i'm waiting to talk to eddie about it, the drummers girl comes up and shells out the tab, clearly in disgust with her rockstar boyfriend.
then everyone leaves disgruntled.
what is it with people with money?
the crowning glory of this story is calling the House of Blues to confirm my guestlist status and finding out i never made it on the list.

i guess the only reason i was surprised at all by any of this behavior was because i actually liked Queensryche and somehow hoped this would make them better than all the other shitty rockstars i've had to deal with in the course my hospitality jobs.
sigh.

Fuck, When I'm a rockstar I'll be alot less of a dick than them.

Thats right, I said when

Also, what other rockstars have you deal with?

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Fuck, When I'm a rockstar I'll be alot less of a dick than them.

Thats right, I said when

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This is actually a great idea for a permanent-type thread.

I once backed up a Neville brother at JazzFest one year for two songs.

Near-musical-claim-to-fame......Next!

When I saw The Who during their first farewell tour circa '81 or '82, the opening act was Billy Squier. Of course, he was total shit. But it wasn't actually a disappointment, because I already knew that.

My biggest disappointment wasn't due to rockstar behavior, but to the fact that when I saw The Doobie Brothers (in their prime, before they became The Michael McDonald Band), the opening act was supposed to be Mountain but they didn't make it due to illness. It would've been awesome to see Mountain.

Also, when I went to see Linda Ronstadt, her opening act was Stephen Bishop, and I was disappointed that he didn't have his entire head lodged up a water buffalo's asshole.

since i'm whining about rockstar shits, i thought i'd give some props to COOL rockers:
peter steel from type o negative-very cool laid back dude
lemmy from motorhead-totally awesome guy.
other than that i've met and had to deal with: lincoln park, nickelback (before they were famous), orgy (total dicks), beanieman (whoever the fuck that is), culture club, verukka salt, nikki sixx, warrant (she's my cherry pie)
other 'celebs' i bodyguarded kathleen turner for a day when i lived in pittsburgh (sounds good on paper but what actually happened is that i got stuck babysitting her entourage of gay makeup and hair guys while she hid in her hotel room)
various sports stars whose names i don't even know cuz i couldn't care less about sports stars and they never tip anyway.....

I used to drop acid with a limey named Sid Barrett back in the day -- supposedly part of some big-deal psychedelic rock thingy. He wanted to quit the stuff but I was always able to talk him into taking one more hit of liquid sunshine.

I'm not sure how many of you actually know who is this is, but I've smoked blunts with the semi famous rapper Noreaga.

He is actually my friend's nephew. He is also really fat in real life. Well dressed though.

AA, did you have to specify the sexual orientation of KT's makeup and hair guys? After all, this is Kathleen Turner we're talking about - I think that could have been assumed... ;)

I went to see Billy Squire and Ratt when I was a lad. Ratt opened for Billy, and they played Round And Round first, and then eight other songs that sounded like Round and Round. It was in a coliseum, with no seating, and the concert was poorly attended, if you can imagine that. So while the crew was changing the stage over, I split, which I've regretted. Evidently Billy frenched his bass guitarist on stage to fuck with the hillbilly Birmingham crowd for not coming to his little concert.

I've worked with the Tony Award nominee Michel Bell. He's really cool.

I hung out with Helios Creed a little after one of his concerts a couple years ago. He was awesome. It feels good to meet a hero who turns out to be awesome. I've met a couple other guys too. I've met Ween a couple times. My friend actually hung out with them extensively after the last show we went to, but unfortunately I missed it.

I can't wait to meet Mark E. Smith (The Fall) and King Buzzo (The Melvins) one of these days. I'm almost positive they kick ass.

i have a friend in pittsburgh who everytime GWAR plays there, they call him for a weed hookup.

GWAR does drugs?!?

i was shocked too.

Grandma will be crushed...she always considered GWAR to be the Clay Aikens of metal.

I don't want to meet any of my favorite musicians, because I don't want to know that the guy who wrote that song that saved my life is a fucking douchetard.

The only famous person I ever met who was a total dick is Scotty Bowman (Hall-of-Fame hockey coach/GM).

Actually, I forgot to mention that I used to booze it up with Robby from the Goo Goo Dolls, who frequented the same bar in Buffalo I did. He's a nice guy, it's too bad his band sucks.

I'v talked to this prick on a chatroom.

I've met a lot of famous people, and a lot of famous people have met me and they were probably disappointed with my behavior.

I've met... nobody famous. :(

When I met Spanky McFarland, he autographed the inside front page of my copy of a Tom Swift book I'd just bought for my friend for Christmas, and I tore the page out, and my friend got mad at me for giving him a Tom Swift book for Christmas that had the inside front page torn out. Spanky wasn't a dick, but I only saw him for a minute or two. I lost his autograph soon after.

I met Rory Calhoun in the lobby of the Sands Motel in Texarkana one night when my family was staying there. He autographed the back of my Classics Illustrated comic of "David Copperfield", which I think I still have somewhere. I didn't talk to him long enough for him to be a dick, either. He later went on to star as Farmer Vincent in MOTEL HELL.

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i have a friend in pittsburgh who everytime GWAR plays there, they call him for a weed hookup.

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I'm not sure how many of you actually know who is this is, but I've smoked blunts with the semi famous rapper Noreaga.

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I met Rory Calhoun in the lobby of the Sands Motel in Texarkana one night when my family was staying there.

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I shook hands with Jazz drummer Elvin Jones after a concert at UT campus. He seemed pretty cool about two guys rushing up to him and pumping his hand like maniacs after he'd finished a helluva show.

Me and my radio partner at the time interviewed King's X. They were really nice guys. No wonder they never made it big. And they signed my jean jacket.

We also interviewed the Flat Duo Jets. They smelled.

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Was he standing on his hind legs?

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Was he standing on his hind legs?

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I was just about to say "yes", but then I thought: "I'll bet he's just being facetious."

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