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diggum12
Silver Member
USA
282 Posts |
 Posted - 10/24/2006 : 17:26:31
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Wow. Franzoni played a couple songs w/ Larry Mullen from U2. Who else has had run-ins with popular musicians?
About 7 years ago I jumped out of my Jeep and ran up to Phil Keaggy on a sidewalk and said, "You're one of my most influential guitar heroes and I want to jam with you someday!"
He said, "Well, I'm playing a show here next month. Why don't you come up early and we'll play around."
My jaw dropped. I chickened out. I was really embarassed about my guitar at the time and didn't think he'd take me seriously if I showed up with it.
On another occasion, I got to hang with the guys from Steve Vai's band and sit in the soundbooth for the show. We had free reign of the place that night. What a blast. |
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bossarea
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
3652 Posts |
Posted - 10/24/2006 : 17:49:16
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| I jammed about 3 minutes with James from Cradle of Filth but that's about it for me playing with pros. |
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starr36
Platinum Member
Canada
1172 Posts |
Posted - 10/24/2006 : 22:57:22
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played a gig at a dingy club in a band warz competition, later on the next night, this unkown band named "nickleback" played, it was $5.00. I didn't pay because I knew the soundman.
Just over a year later they were doing stadium tours.
that's as close I've got to being able to "play" with anyone famous.
attended a few cool workshops here and there with professional studioplayers, but, alas, likely would be shamed to play with agreat given that I can't read music and play by ear. this is fine if you play originals or covers. |
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Big Boss Man
Gold Member
USA
564 Posts |
Posted - 10/25/2006 : 02:54:03
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Back in the early 90s my band opened for Tom Constanten (former keyboardist of the Grateful Dead). He had his own band then. Wikipedia actually mentions the early 90s as one of his more active periods. Sadly there is no mention of my band. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Constanten |
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diggum12
Silver Member
USA
282 Posts |
Posted - 10/25/2006 : 05:47:54
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Geez, something here triggered a long lost memory. I'm glad I started this thread. Anyway...
THE MAN himself: Chet Atkins.
I totally forgot that when I was like 4 or 5 (in the late Seventies) I shook his hand. I saw him play, but I really just don't remember it. I remember being in the foyer of some music hall after the show and he popped out and my dad said, "Run over there and shake his hand."
I did as I was told and I felt like bright comet for a moment. Wow. I had totally forgotten about that.
I'm going to try to snag Tommy Emmanuel next year at the Walnut Valley Festival. www.wvfest.com |
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stratman
Silver Member
Australia
283 Posts |
Posted - 10/25/2006 : 07:12:22
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Tommy Emmanuel!!!!!
Didn't actually jam with him but he did an acoustic performance at a local winery once. Only about 50 people there. He just sat in front of everyone - not on a stage so I was sitting about 6 feet from him. He really didn't perform much, just talked about his technique and showed the audience how he played certain things.
Well after the show had finished I hung around while he was packing up and he actually took the time to show me personally how he did some of the stuff. There were a few others as well, but I was the one who actually got to play his guitar while he showed me some chords etc.
I guess it was a very brief, but personal lesson from the CGP himself! I will treasure that moment forever too! He was an incredibly nice guy! |
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StratoSphere
Double Platinum Member
Canada
2232 Posts |
Posted - 10/25/2006 : 13:34:46
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I met Kurt Browning. |
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 10/25/2006 : 18:41:08
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hi all... dublin is(or was) a small place so you run into people all the time...there was a time where a lot of these people would jump up and do a few numbers with the local band...ronnie wood of the rolling stones used to do it a good bit on sunday afternoons if he was in town with a band on the southside and i used to go to see brian downey(drummer of thin lizzy) in a band he had a few years ago and one night they announced a 'special guest'and who popped out but the one and only gary moore......but larry is probably the most famous person i have actually played with....fair play to him for getting up,it was for a friend of ours mother who had recently passed away and the money from the door was going to the hospice where she died...really made a lot of peoples night....not to mention franzoni's...i'm a legend in that part of dublin now.... ..... |
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gurran1928
Gold Member
Sweden
650 Posts |
Posted - 11/09/2006 : 12:48:54
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| I've played with some famous swedish musicians.. but I don't know if people in other countries now about them.. Maybe Goran does.. And they play odd instruments like Saxophone and Trumpet.. |
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gibsygoldtop
Copper Member
USA
21 Posts |
Posted - 12/22/2006 : 14:08:41
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| my band played with dee snider's son's band last month if that counts?? |
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bosshog
Silver Member
Canada
493 Posts |
Posted - 12/22/2006 : 16:43:32
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GibsyGoldtop...after adjudicating on your famous person post...it is decided that we are not going to take it...
it doesn't count |
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diggum12
Silver Member
USA
282 Posts |
Posted - 12/24/2006 : 01:55:03
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quote:
it is decided that we are not going to take it...
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visserman
Platinum Member
1072 Posts |
Posted - 12/26/2006 : 17:35:14
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This man:
http://www.gregkoch.com/axman/index.shtml
I did attend one of his workshops in here in the UK, was hoping that there was a change to play and jam but as it turned out he mainly talked about how he got involved in co-writing the Tutor book he was promoting that night, and he talked about the gear he was used during the night, a bit about himself, how he got into doing jingles for carcompanies ect.ect.
Felt he was genuine guy with a great sense of humour, pitty that most of the people there did request him to play silly stuff by Stevie Ray and even some Zep. Hey why request something like that? But I guess Greg does have the work he does because he is good a mimicking other well-known players, and is not really known for being his own man. Must also be one of the reasons why we do not hear more about him!!
Just forgotten to mention: Noel Redding, and this was just a few years before he passed away. He came to a local musicstore here, and was very easy to go up to him and talk. Did not really get a change to play as he did have his own little band. At that time [it must have been around 1999] he did mainly play pubgigs in the UK, probably mainly around London but anyway..................
You could really sense he was getting old, and that he had done quite a lot of stuff, but I also felt he was not all that great and special [in terms of his playing] his personality was nice and humble, which is really what it is all about eh.??!! He had some family and friends around him and they were all helping him and joking around, great.
He did talk a little about Jimmy, but do not forget, he may also still have felt a little bitter about some of the things which had happened, especially with the royalties. The late 90s were also the period that Hendrix his family did get more involved in the businessmatters to get as much money out of the Hendrix legacy.
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stratman
Silver Member
Australia
283 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2007 : 00:32:07
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Hi visserman.
Greg Koch (IMO) is a fantastic player in his own ruight and also one of the great mimickers of others' styles.
He uses T.C. Jauernig pedals (the Gristle King and DGTM - Diabolical Gristle Tone Manipulator) among others. Fender amps and guitars too mainly. Switched to the T.C.J. pedals from the Fulltone range a while ago. That's how I got into my Gristle King. He's also one of Fender's main dudes that promote the new products/runs clinics etc.. Probably says all that on his website though!! Sorry about starting to rant again
But, I downloaded a few of his MP3 samples and was completely blown away! The guy's a freaking genius if you ask me. And man! Does he get some nice tone too... Love his chicken pickin' playing too.
After listening to the samples I asked him about his opinions on the TC Jauernig range of pedals. Within a day he'd replied to my email and went into quite a bit of detail. Very nice guy. I was very appreciative of his response. You don't get that everyday!
Anyway... so, I bought the Gristle King and LOVE it. I also went on to buy two of his CDs ("The Grip" and "Radio Free Gristle") They are AWESOME, FANTASTIC albums. His playing is sublime and I can hear a lot of coutry influences as well as Zappa/Vai style of "atonal" scales/melodies etc. There's blues, there's weird, there's country... there's all kinds of styles.
Please check this guy out if you're interested - I don't think you'd be disappointed. So approachable too.
I've also bought an instructional DVD of his as well - it's also great.
Right, there's my rant... Sorry!  |
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hudpucker
Copper Member
USA
10 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2007 : 21:05:32
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I've jammed with Nugent and my first guitar teacher was Junior Walker's guitarist.
I also got to play Steve Morse's prototype MM guitar but we didn't actually 'jam' (I'd have been too scared anyway). 
I have more 'I met so and so' stories but as far as jamming goes that's all I got. |
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visserman
Platinum Member
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Posted - 01/10/2007 : 22:55:55
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Originally posted by stratman
Hi visserman.
Greg Koch (IMO) is a fantastic player in his own ruight and also one of the great mimickers of others' styles.
He uses T.C. Jauernig pedals (the Gristle King and DGTM - Diabolical Gristle Tone Manipulator) among others. Fender amps and guitars too mainly. Switched to the T.C.J. pedals from the Fulltone range a while ago. That's how I got into my Gristle King. He's also one of Fender's main dudes that promote the new products/runs clinics etc.. Probably says all that on his website though!! Sorry about starting to rant again
But, I downloaded a few of his MP3 samples and was completely blown away! The guy's a freaking genius if you ask me. And man! Does he get some nice tone too... Love his chicken pickin' playing too.
After listening to the samples I asked him about his opinions on the TC Jauernig range of pedals. Within a day he'd replied to my email and went into quite a bit of detail. Very nice guy. I was very appreciative of his response. You don't get that everyday!
Anyway... so, I bought the Gristle King and LOVE it. I also went on to buy two of his CDs ("The Grip" and "Radio Free Gristle") They are AWESOME, FANTASTIC albums. His playing is sublime and I can hear a lot of coutry influences as well as Zappa/Vai style of "atonal" scales/melodies etc. There's blues, there's weird, there's country... there's all kinds of styles.
Please check this guy out if you're interested - I don't think you'd be disappointed. So approachable too.
I've also bought an instructional DVD of his as well - it's also great.
Right, there's my rant... Sorry!
Hey stratman,
Do not be sorry, you are very right, Greg is great!!, I just feel he does not really have something uniquely of his own. I know this is very hard, and he does have great stuff, can play well, but listening to him is like: Yep I heard that somewhere else. Not a problem, I feel that is probably what he has been working on his whole life: Just wanted to understand what other people do, and how they do it. Doing this will take an awful lot of time, in a way I am like that myself too, but then I also work on just trying to explore avenues which are not so well-known.
I did speak to Greg in person, and yes, he is very nice and patient, and really a great overal guy. You can hear it from his playing too. I mean music is so honest, there are a lot of players, and when you listen you can hear what kind of person they are through the notes they play. Music just does not lie, but then you can cover things up as well,which will hide your identity, and I know, Greg does not do that as he is a very honest guy.
During the clinic where I met him, he mentioned Mark Knopfler a lot, talked about his admiration for him, his sound and his playing. Think of Knoplfer and his style, not entireley unique, but a band like Dire Straight in 1978? No there was noone who did that kind of stuff in bandcontext. Yes there is J.J. Cale [was so surprised when I heard this guy a little later after my Knopler discovery, to find out that he does sound so similar to Mark, but then you have to say that Cale was there earlier, but Cale did not put it into a bandcontext like what Mark did.] Feel that Knopfler does have his own style, and he also comes up with the same stuff every time, still I love his his sound and his ideas. he also seem to be an honest guy as well, listen to his phrases, lyrics and his sound, it is all there really.
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