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....have you guys met? Thought it might be fun to list our craziest stories about meeting famous people. Or simply a list, w/e you feel like.
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Met Fred Thompson at the UNLV game ('96?). It was the season opener after Neyland was expanded. Also, had the chance to sit down and talk to Charlie Daniels backstage at one of his concerts. Really laid back, nice guy.

That's it for me, not really impressive.
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Not the most famous person I've met, but my favorite story is meeting Daron Malakian of System Of A Down. I was visiting my cousin in Hermosa Beach, and we decided to take a trip to Guitar Center on Sunset Blvd. It's store #1 and huuuuge. I end up walking back into the acoustics section, and I see him off to the side sitting on a stool playing a 12 string Rickenbacker, absolutely tearing it up. I stopped and fanned out for a second. Chatted with him. I bought a Boss flange pedal a bit later, I should have had him autograph it. :lol:

Other than that, Blazers players locally and multiple times... Greg Oden (nice guy but dumb as a box of rocks), Brandon Roy, Joel Przybilla, Lamarcus Aldridge, Channing Frye, Steve Blake. Some from back in the day, Scottie Pippen, Rasheed Wallace, Brian Grant among those I remember.

I was a home theater salesman at the Best Buy in Tualatin, which is right across the way from the Blazers practice facility, so I have sold a few of them TV's.

Another story from the Rose Garden, I got courtside seats to the Cavs game last season, and sat three seats over from Phil Knight. It was during the shootaround, a couple guys were talking to Phil. Lebron comes over and literally picks one of them up, moves him out of the way and starts talking to Phil. I said "Damn, Lebron!" out loud, and he shot me a weird look.

Accidentally walked backwards into Bill Maher at LAX. :lol:

There's more, those are the ones I remember most.
 
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Orangekush423 said:
....have you guys met? Thought it might be fun to list our craziest stories about meeting famous people. Or simply a list, w/e you feel like.
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My Dad flew with actor Paul Newman during WWII in the Navy. Dad was a gunner and Paul Newman was a Radioman. . .Paul and his wife Joanne Woodward came to visit my Dad a couple of time in the mid 50's when I was young. They actually kept in touch for quite some time and Dad was very sad when Paul passed away. Interestingly, both Paul Newman and my Dad had actor Robert Stack as a gunnery (sceet) instructor!

Mike
 
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Well, when I was a kid I met Lester Flatt.

And when I was working room service at the Memphis Mariott downtown, I delivered food to Harry Belefonte once (and spoke with him for a while) and John Amos (dad from Good Times) another time. My girlfriend at the time who worked at the same hotel delivered food to Jerry Seinfeld.

I also met the entire rap group Bone, Thugs and Harmony.

And if this counts, I shook hands with Billy Joel at a concert of his.

Pretty short list.
 
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^ Rap group reminds me...

I got to hang out with Cypress Hill for a while at a local wakeboard competition my friend was in a few years ago.
 
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My brother-in-law used to run a celebrity golf tournament in Virginia Beach for Bruce Smith.

This one particular year, a few of the celebs went on a deep sea fishing trip. Most of the celebs were staying in a hotel in Norfolk and the guy who took them to VA Beach for the fishing trip could not be found when it was time to pick them up. I offered to pick them up thinking it would be cool to chit chat with them on the way back.

So I get there and pick up Derrick Thomas, Cortez Kennedy, Tony Siragusa, and Charles Oakley. As soon as they get in the van, they tell me I need to get them back to the hotel as fast as possible because they had to get to the airport.

Somewhere along the line I made a wrong turn. Siragusa and Kennedy, both of which were extremely drunk, picked up on it and started busting my balls non stop about how pissed they were going to be if I made them miss their flight.

I'm starting to get pissed because this was supposed to be a vacation and those jackasses were threating to kick my ass.

Derrick Thomas finally told them to shut the f up and if they didn't he was going to make me pull over and he would make them get out and they could find their own way back, to which Oakley started laughing uncontrollably. I don't know if DT was trying to keep 2 NFL linemen from beating me to a pulp or just tired of listening to them, I would lean towards the later. I was just damn glad he did it.

We pull into the hotel, those dumbasses get out and tell me not to go anywhere because they would be right back with their bags and I was going to take them to the airport. DT apologizes for their behaviour and thanks me for the ride back. They get out of sight, I call my brother-in-law and tell him what's going on and there's no fing way I'm driving those clowns to the airport.

To beat it all, those two dipsh!t's flights were still 4 hours away so there was plenty of time. :banghead2:
 
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B-17 Pilot said:
My Dad flew with actor Paul Newman during WWII in the Navy. Dad was a gunner and Paul Newman was a Radioman. . .Paul and his wife Joanne Woodward came to visit my Dad a couple of time in the mid 50's when I was young. They actually kept in touch for quite some time and Dad was very sad when Paul passed away. Interestingly, both Paul Newman and my Dad had actor Robert Stack as a gunnery (sceet) instructor!

Mike
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I met Paul Newman several times at a couple of race tracks when he drove in the SCCA and owned the Indy Car team with Karl Haas, who I got to know too. I drank a couple of beers with Paul one Sat. night in the infield campground. A great gentleman and philantrophist.
 
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NWGVol said:
My brother-in-law used to run a celebrity golf tournament in Virginia Beach for Bruce Smith.

This one particular year, a few of the celebs went on a deep sea fishing trip. Most of the celebs were staying in a hotel in Norfolk and the guy who took them to VA Beach for the fishing trip could not be found when it was time to pick them up. I offered to pick them up thinking it would be cool to chit chat with them on the way back.

So I get there and pick up Derrick Thomas, Cortez Kennedy, Tony Siragusa, and Charles Oakley. As soon as they get in the van, they tell me I need to get them back to the hotel as fast as possible because they had to get to the airport.

Somewhere along the line I made a wrong turn. Siragusa and Kennedy, both of which were extremely drunk, picked up on it and started busting my balls non stop about how pissed they were going to be if I made them miss their flight.

I'm starting to get pissed because this was supposed to be a vacation and those jackasses were threating to kick my ass.

Derrick Thomas finally told them to shut the f up and if they didn't he was going to make me pull over and he would make them get out and they could find their own way back, to which Oakley started laughing uncontrollably. I don't know if DT was trying to keep 2 NFL linemen from beating me to a pulp or just tired of listening to them, I would lean towards the later. I was just damn glad he did it.

We pull into the hotel, those dumbasses get out and tell me not to go anywhere because they would be right back with their bags and I was going to take them to the airport. DT apologizes for their behaviour and thanks me for the ride back. They get out of sight, I call my brother-in-law and tell him what's going on and there's no fing way I'm driving those clowns to the airport.

To beat it all, those two dipsh!t's flights were still 4 hours away so there was plenty of time. :banghead2:
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they still have ingle's in ringgold?
 
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All Vol! said:
Well, when I was a kid I met Lester Flatt.


Pretty short list.
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If it counts, Lester and Earl Scruggs lived next door to us when I was just a toddler. My mom says that Lester used to enjoy teasing me and her. They were performing every week on WCYB radio in Bristol along with Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Stonemans, and The Vanover Sisters, who I know well. We jam together regularly.
 
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I met VolFreak

NASCAR drivers I've met: Richard Petty, Fireball Roberts, Ned Jarret, Rex White, Junior Johnson, Brad Teague, Bobby
Allison, Harry Gant, Terry Labonte, Kyle Petty, Paul Radford, Bobby Isacc, John Utsman, Sherman Utsman, Gene Glover, and I knew Tim Richmond a couple years before he came to NASCAR.

Indy cars drivers: Mario Andretti, Bobby & Al Unser, Sr, Rick Mears, Danny Sullivan, Bobby Rahal, Johnny Rutherford, Roger Ward, Danny Ongias, Roger Mears, Mark Dismore (I raced against Mark in Enduro Karts) and Joe Saldana. I helped extricate Joe from his wrecked car at Mid-Ohio.

Other drivers: Peter Gregg, Al Holbert, Brian Redman, David Hobbs, Paul Newman, Jackie Oliver.
 
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met plenty of athletes while at UT. Met Wayne Newton and Jerry Rice at a festival in my wife's hometown. Dated a country music singer's daughter while in college and met lots of people that way. That was a fun time
 
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My first wife knew Lucinda Williams, who is a grammy winning singer/song writer. I got to know her right around the time her album "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" was big ('98). I can remember being a young, somewhat disgruntled engineer and listening to her whine that she was going to have to fly from a tour in Oregon to NY to do Saturday Night Live. I was at a party one night when she showed up and started singing the chorus of a song she had written earlier that day called "Get Right With God". A few months later, that song was getting quite a bit of radio play in Nashville and eventually won a Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. That was pretty cool.

Around that same time period, a friend of my (first) wife who was a producer type got married and I was standing at the food line when I looked over and saw Michael O"Keefe, this guy: Michael O'Keefe (I) I recognized him from Caddyshack and tried to make polite conversation, but he did not seem to be very thrilled to be there. (or be talking to me anyway)

Not sure how strict you want to be with the term "famous", but I also got to know Knoxville musician Scott Miller pretty well when I lived there. Aside from hanging out backstage at a couple of shows, my favorite time of hanging with him is watching the '01 UT - UF game and later the Citrus Bowl with him that year at a mutual friend's house. Scott is a very intense Vols fan.

Finally, this may not count but Buford Pusser was my father's first cousin. Not sure if that makes him my second cousin or my first cousin once removed. I am not a genealogy nerd. I was really young when he died. I'm still pissed at my uncle for not inviting me to the premier party when they released the new one with the Rock. I talked to him a couple of weeks after that and he said "Oh yeah, you might have liked this..."
 
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Britney Murphy. Lindsay Lohan, the main chick from csi Vegas, Billy Campbell, and have been in close contact with several others.

People i have been in close contact with, Julia Roberts, Eva menses, al gore, the far dude from curb your enthusiasm and Jared Leto to name some.

All a few years back.
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Not counting former Vols, I have met Danny and Marlo Thomas, the members of Alabama, several NHRA drivers.
Isn't there a thread like this somewhere already?
 
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Living in Nashville provides ample opportunities to meet famous people. Just off the top of my head, and I know I'm forgetting some:

Kelly Pickler
Trace Adkins
Kid Rock
Big John (Rock of Love)
Bret Michaels
Marty Stuart/Connie Smith
Kicked it with Killer Beaz -- the comedian -- until 4AM one night
Steve McNair
Chris Brown
Bruce Matthews
Yancey Thigpen
multiple other Titans
 
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Van Helsing- good guy but didnt care for his wooden stake feddish

Frankenstein- man he was dumb as a sack of hammers, but strong as hell. He had some screws missing too.

Wolfman- he was good with the ladies, but wasnt house broken. Piss all over the place and shed hair like a mofo

Mina Harker- boy was she the bomb. I could tell you a few things about her. She was freaky
 
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CountVolcula said:
Van Helsing- good guy but didnt care for his wooden stake feddish

Frankenstein- man he was dumb as a sack of hammers, but strong as hell. He had some screws missing too.

Wolfman- he was good with the ladies, but wasnt house broken. Piss all over the place and shed hair like a mofo

Mina Harker- boy was she the bomb. I could tell you a few things about her. She was freaky
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