http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual &videoid=2022184194 My experiences of meeting influences or people I put on a pedestal when I was younger always seemed to be a let down. Lots of my heroes turned out to be assholes as Shooter Jennings wrote. One of the exceptions to this rule was WASP guitarist Chris Holmes. Back in the day he only wanted to be one of the guys and I was fortunate to have ran into him several times in different cities from about '85-'88. Mick Brown from Dokken was also real cool. Ran into him around the same time period in both Phoenix and L.A. Once we were both in line to buy beer at a Sam Kinison show. Sam who? I know, I'm old huh? But I wouldn't trade it for the world. Stephen Pearcy from RATT was an asshole! My friend Joe Hagin has met Willie Nelson a few times and has always been gracious towards his fans. Those are the people you wanna meet. Back to the original question....history shows that Frank Lloyd Wright was a very disgruntled human being, most genius' are. Still, I would have like to meet him to this day. I would have liked to have met my Grandpa Day who was a traveling musician back in the '40's and '50's. What a wealth of knowledge I could have inherited from him. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.
THE BURDEN BROTHERS "Shine" Have you ever checked out Jeffrey Michael Peterson's list of 'Music' on his Myspace? One of the most thorough lists I have ever seen that is relevant to me, my era and beyond anyway! What a list. I will get mine up there eventually but I just started this thing so bear with me: KISS, The Stones, Alice Cooper, Rush, Creedence, Beatles, Ted Nugent, Angel, Aerosmith, Van Halen, The Doors, Hendrix, Janis, Journey, Santana, Cheap Trick, Axis, Private Life(the early years), Danny Johnson and the Bandits, Bay City Rollers, Elton, Rod Stewart, The Faces, Guns 'n Roses, LA Guns, WASP, Icon, Judas Priest, Queen, Rough Cutt, Armored Saint, Sweeden, The Gap Band, Earth Wind & Fire, Heatwave, Rick James, Parliament/Funkadelic, George Clinton, Prince, Bootsy Collins, Dumas, Hanoi Rocks, Lenny Kravitz, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Shooter Jennings, Hank I,II, and III, Better than Ezra, Seven Mary Three, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, Gin Blossoms, Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Circus of Power, TSOL, Sex Pistols, Thin Lizzy, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Mott the Hoople...
Letterman(Still the King), Jimmy Kimmell, CSI:Miami, 60 Minutes, Behind the Music(still waitin' on the "LnR" episode), Austin City Limits, Just about any Ken Burns documentary, Studio 60, Cheaters.
Lyle Lyle Crocodile, Where the Red Fern Grows, Motley Crue: The Dirt(Thank you Zack Nicholson); Gene Simmons: Sex, Kiss, and Money; Whores: an oral biography of Janes Addiction; Nightmare in Wichita(The hunt for BTK).