CELEBRITY SKIN ISSUE #1
Mar. 9th, 2009 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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puffdoggydaddy :
[Error: unknown template qotd]Well, I’m nobedsitter23 , and I’ve certainly never met a member of the Von Erich family, but I have met a couple of reasonably famous people:
1. Nile Rodgers, who I interviewed for journalistic purposes a couple of years ago while he ate fish. I have pictures of that. He was pretty cool to me, considering he was jet-lagged, hungry and was used to talking to music/entertainment journalists, not tech-heads like me – and he told so many awesome stories about David Bowie, Diana Ross, Miles Davis and how producing one Madonna song made him a millionaire for life because of the way record contracts were written in the 80s, that I didn’t mind that technically he never really answered my questions.
2. Mike Watt, formerly of Minutemen and fIREHOSE, who I met prior to a fIREHOSE show in Nashville. Granted, Mike is pretty accessible and will talk to anyone who’ll listen to him, but we had a good 30-minute conversation about the genius of Blue Oyster Cult and pro wrestling, so it was meaningful. To me, anyway.
That’s more or less it, unless you count Rev Horton Heat (who I met before a Knoxville gig for about 20 seconds) and Dolly Parton, who allegedly had lunch at my house circa the late 60s when she was just starting out and my dad was A&R for her label, Monument Records. But I was something like three years old, so I don’t remember it, and I only have my mom’s word for it. Still, she’s not prone to making up such things. And she assures me that Dolly was the most polite woman she’s ever met.
BONUS TRACK: Have some fIREHOSE (here amusingly misidentified by MTV as Firehouse, who were a silly hair metal band from around the same time and sounded like Bad English, only worse).
fIREHOSE were one of the more underrated bands of the late-80s/early-90s when “alternative” became “Alternative®”. And no disrespect to D. Boon, but as much as I liked Minutemen, I ended up being a bigger fIREHOSE fan (as you can possibly tell when I write my moniker out as dEFROG).
The problems, describe them,
This is dF
puffdoggydaddy :[Error: unknown template qotd]Well, I’m no
bedsitter23 , and I’ve certainly never met a member of the Von Erich family, but I have met a couple of reasonably famous people:1. Nile Rodgers, who I interviewed for journalistic purposes a couple of years ago while he ate fish. I have pictures of that. He was pretty cool to me, considering he was jet-lagged, hungry and was used to talking to music/entertainment journalists, not tech-heads like me – and he told so many awesome stories about David Bowie, Diana Ross, Miles Davis and how producing one Madonna song made him a millionaire for life because of the way record contracts were written in the 80s, that I didn’t mind that technically he never really answered my questions.
2. Mike Watt, formerly of Minutemen and fIREHOSE, who I met prior to a fIREHOSE show in Nashville. Granted, Mike is pretty accessible and will talk to anyone who’ll listen to him, but we had a good 30-minute conversation about the genius of Blue Oyster Cult and pro wrestling, so it was meaningful. To me, anyway.
That’s more or less it, unless you count Rev Horton Heat (who I met before a Knoxville gig for about 20 seconds) and Dolly Parton, who allegedly had lunch at my house circa the late 60s when she was just starting out and my dad was A&R for her label, Monument Records. But I was something like three years old, so I don’t remember it, and I only have my mom’s word for it. Still, she’s not prone to making up such things. And she assures me that Dolly was the most polite woman she’s ever met.
BONUS TRACK: Have some fIREHOSE (here amusingly misidentified by MTV as Firehouse, who were a silly hair metal band from around the same time and sounded like Bad English, only worse).
fIREHOSE were one of the more underrated bands of the late-80s/early-90s when “alternative” became “Alternative®”. And no disrespect to D. Boon, but as much as I liked Minutemen, I ended up being a bigger fIREHOSE fan (as you can possibly tell when I write my moniker out as dEFROG).
The problems, describe them,
This is dF
