SexyGreyFox incoming
HERE WE GO
I used to gig at a place called Jollees in the 70s/80s so met loads of stars backstage.
I worked for a PA company in the early 80s so sound engineered many bands in their very early pre album days like Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Adam and The Ants, Depeche Mode etc.
Around the same time I did the sound for the TISWAS Roadshow for eight nights.
A special moment was talking to Robert Plant & Glenn Hughes in a pub called The Moderation in Rugeley.
I once kept Chris Barrie entertained all night at an NHS Students dinner.
There was a funny one, I spent two weeks with a bloke in Fuerteventura watching football most days in a bar.
On the last night I took my wife and kids with me and while I sat there with him they were open mouthed.
When it was time to go home I said "I know you're Keith Duffy"
In Cyprus several years ago I was at a Go Kart Racing Track and this bloke started a conversation about my Slayer t-shirt, we then got talking about other rock bands and then other blokes with us carried on talking about motorbikes with him.
It was Paul Hollywood and when we left he said that made a change from talking about bloody cakes.
There's loads more.
However top of my list is being in Chuck Berry's backing band for one night and standing in for Showaddywaddy's guitarist for two nights in the early 80s.
Oh around 1976 the band Rush sent me tickets and a backstage pass for their first UK Tour at Manchester Apollo and all met me.
That was a good story.
In 1978 I was in a record shop in Hanley called Mike Stone's when a bloke walked in with 5 copies of his first album. The shop owner played it and by the 3rd track I was in. I asked if they were for sale and he sold me two for £2 each. I looked at the album and asked who he was - "I'm Gary Numan". I didn't get them signed because he was obviously another artist doomed to fail
