Heck I'll play along. Most of my near brushes with fame are local or semi-national acts, but you might remember the names. Back in the 80's, my band opened for the Del Fuego's and Digney Fignus (Girl With The Curious Hands). Digney wasn't impressed, but the drummer from the Del Fuego's and I had a nice friendly chat about my mismatched drum set - They were decent, down to earth guys.

Coolest jazz cat I've met was Hank Crawford. Didn't play with him, but I helped him up some stairs once at the old House of Blues in Cambridge, MA. Nice guy and very thankful :)

1965 to 1968 were three years that I will never forget growing up in the midwest and playing R&R was a experience for sure but as fate would have it I ended up opening for and playing with some great people at a great time in music I had the privilage of opening for the Yardbirds the first time with just Jeff beck, the second time with Page and Beck and the third time i saw them (did not open for ) it was just page and it was almost led zep time . also opened for the Who 3 shows,funny experience there I was playing a rogers kit 2 14x20,3 8x12's a 16x16 and 16x18, and since we had to move everything so they could setup Moonie ask me if he could just play my drums for their set.. Hmmmmm i had just watched them destroy about all their stuff and thought no freekin way, so i politly said no knowing full well he would have smashed the heck out of my set and thought it was funny as heck. next day i go to wake him up to have breakfast lol here is my girlfriend at the time in moons room ... pay back i guess... lol That night was his 21st birthday and he was given a cake , the stage was about 12 to 15 feet high above the crowd and he threw bits and pieces of cake all over the crowd he was a wild man...

Also opened for Mitch Ryder and the detroit wheels and alot of other one hit wonders of the day, it was a great time and music has always been my first love...

Now thats just plain Cool1Cool1Cool1

That's very cool Mike that you got to celebrate Keith's Birthday with him, not so cool about the girlfriend!

I played drums on a Magnum episode but the shots didn't show me in the end - I know you're bummed. It was actually "air drums" because the tracks were recorded in Hollywood. They did keep a scene where I'm loading gear into a plane and the plane crashed (never showed it - cheap) in the first minute of the show... got paid good though. It's the episode with Dennis Weaver and his two sons.

I'm one of those rare beasts that's with the same girl since whenever (10th grade actually), but I took my now wife to a movie in between 7th and 8th grade when I was 11. The movie was Barberella and it starred Jane Fonda. What was weird was that Jane Fonda's co-star in that was David Hemmings, and he ended up being the director in the Magnum episode I was in.

Okay... MikeT wins - LOL!!!!

The best part was Keith Moon asking if he can borrow his drums and Mike saying "no". Love it.

Mike, maybe if you'd said "yes" you would have got a new set of Premier drums - the set the factory sent out to replace the set that ended up wrecked.

You know, even as a kid, I never liked the Who destroying their gear.

i did a gig a few years ago with the guy who used to play guitar for jacko - he's either right handed and plays a left handed guitar or the other way round - he was a marshall endorsee at the time.

was that Mike Stern?

My rogers were my love Moonie could have the girl lol but no way he was gonna have a chance at smashing my drums, we took their road manager to a local music store in Oklahoma city and he bought 3 new stratocasters for the next weeks shows... i would love to have a 67 strat... and i was not the cool one as i said i was just in the right place at a great time....ExcitedExcitedExcited

Kieth was playing the pictures of Lilly set or premiers at the time they were a cool set but i will never believe they were as cool as my rogers.. :)

I don't know.....I sure wouldn't mind owning one of the three surviving Pictures of Lily kits......or the red sparkle kit that preceded it! Moonie is STILL one of the most underrated rock drummers......people thought he was just a wild man flailing away to his own beat.....but as Roger Daltrey pointed out in the making of Who's Next DVD, he's playing around the lyrics......ingenous! No one did it before, and no one has done it since!