Wow good stuff MIKE T , Thanks 4 sharing.

I don't know about that, LD. Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzman did for 30 years, in a little band called Grateful Dead....played all around the lyrics, the guitars, the audience, and each other....Yes Sir

That's how I play with quite a few groups...(REV, Tumblin' Dice, etc etc etc). The vocals are where you want to be most sensitive. Step on 'em and you're no longer staring at that backside...you suddenly become eye to eye...oops.

While I can't top Mike T, I did play with a Midwest group called 'Headeast' and one of their former lead singers. Even split lead vox on their one hit "Never been Any Reason".

The former lead singer's name was Kurt Hansen. With Kurt we shared stages with a lot of classic rock bands. Mark Farnier (sp), Jimmie Van Zandt, ARS, Steppinwolf, etc...

Very cool Mike....

I guess I should add that my band right out of High school was produced by the bass player of a Chicago one hit wonder band called 'Enuff Z'nuff'. Chip was good to us and we were talking to Atlantic (and another) when Nirvana came out and killed the hair bands...

Later I had an EP produced by the singer from a band called The Storm which had Greg Rollie, Steve Smith, and Ross Valory from Journey in it.

Ok

I've always been in the restaurant biz until recently.

I was running the dining room for a big joint in Columbia SC and

Ozzy and his entourage walk in... they were playing the following night in town.

Ozzy is wasted, we seat them... party of ten in the most obscure table we have, and keep close eye.

Salads go well....

Entrees arrive, and about ten minutes in, Ozzy, who was fading fast, passes out face first in his prime rib... au jus flies one way, utensils another.

A big mess.

They were nice though... tipped the waiter enormously, paid for the desserts they didn't have a chance to eat, no big deal.

Which I guess it really wasn't, just another day in Ozzy World

I met Ozzie's current drummer when he first "made it" with Faith No More. Super nice guy that Mike Bordin is...

In the late 90's I recorded a song that was mixed by John Cale from the Velvet Underground. He also played piano on the track. The song was recorded in London and mixed in New York so I wasn't in the studio with the great man (although technically we did play together, just not at the same time, in the same place) but I did get to meet him at a NY cafe for a meeting about what he was planning to do with the track. I later spoke to him on the phone when I called him to tell him what a great job he'd done. I was so nervous that my voice was shaking and he thought I was a crank caller.

It's still one of my favourites of our recordings even though it was released only as a B-side in Europe and the States and an A-side here in NZ where it didn't trouble the charts. The video was shot on the mud of the Thames in London by Gina Birch from the Raincoats (one of Kurt Cobain's fave bands).

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I wish :) no it was gregg wright

Unless you're doing Who tunes....that was what made them work well for so long. Once Moonie was gone, it was never the same. Moonie was once quoted as saying, "I'd be lousy at what, say, Billy Cobham plays. But then again he'd be lousy at what I play!" I think that said it all.

Now back to the thread! Cool Dude

LOL well i see no contest here but i say you get the honors you played with these people heck i was just a opening act... but regardless of who has done what the 60's were a great time for music here is another little story.

The yardbirds came to town after their gig they came to a club we had to play at after their gig so we were double duty that night anyway Jimmy page Kieth relf and jeff beck are sitting in this little hoduck bar drinking and listening to us play,(had to be painful lol) anyway on break Kieth asks about rabbit hunting so being a hunter i take him rabbit hunting the next day... no music involved but we had a great time have missed him since he has been gone...