Six Degrees of Separation.....or Less?

I suppose that many of us this forum have exchanged words with Dr Brian Cox who used to be a musician and then by association Tony Blair who also had a short spell as a musician and so to Cherrie who's dad was an actor (in Alf Garnnet) who, being in the entertainment world must have known loads of musicians......

............or perhaps Dr Brian and Tony B both know loads of musicians....

So probably down to 2 or 3 degrees of separation between ALL of US and ALL the world's musicians ??

Cheers

Don

i know Keller Williams well.  I havent seen him in years but we played some music together and he was always around our college my freshman year as he was besties with a few of my good friends.  he crashed at my house during a Dead tour in Salem, OR.  He has come a LONG way, sharing the stage with Dylan etc (a lifelong dream of his).

We did some windows in the house of the singer of Dandy Warhols and my best freind is good friends with all of them.

-Patrick

Frivolous yet fascinating folks!.  My connection is: Sold PMC TB2 'speakers to Greg Droman by invtitation letter - We keep in touch as facebook 'friends'.  Greg is a recording engineer married to Marylin Martin who has duetted with Phil Collins (separate lives) and worked with Stevie Nicks and Joe Walsh.  Greg also mixed 'Tango in the Night' - My old TB2's sit proudly on his mixing desk to this day.

Also, was in 'The French House' one night at the bar and Robert Plant and Jimmy Page came in and stood right next to my mate and I to have a quiet pint.....but that doesn't count. G

My brother used to go trout fishIng with Eric Clapton. Ha!

My uncle used to end Roger Daltrey's trout lake. Ha!

I know Stu (Munch) from this forum and he knows everyone. So I win.

Paa!

Lemmy bit me on the arm at a Saxon concert in 1980.

This is completely 100% true.

He is still alive, Jason. Almost 40 now if memory serves. I think he is semi-retired from environmental action as his "fame" was a bit of a distraction.

Lou Reed once smoked all my Marlboros.

In my days as a soundie/tech/roadie I met all sorts of well known muso's....including The Residents sans their wacky eyeballs (not many get to see that).

And also Nelson Mandela.

But my time with Joe Walsh was memorable.

1989 and I was 20 or 21 and Joe was guesting with a well known local NZ band call The Herbs.

I had the job of FOH soundie for the show in Christchurch. At sound check Joe was really quite stoned but very complementary on how good the band sounded through the PA; "that sounds awesome dude", he said. 

That night his borrowed foot peddle broke (he threw it into the crowd) and his borrowed guitar was a cheap Asian Strat copy. Despite all this he still got that unique Joe Walsh sound. A true demonstration of it's not what you play but how you play it.

I still have the show on compact cassette recorded off the desk into a Sony Pro Walkman.

I used to play with Linda Lusardi's sister!

I will not mention her sister's name, for obvious reasons.

I used to know [the late] Allan Hacker - a great musician [clarinetist firstly in the LPO] - so I am one degree away from most of the great conductors who worked in London for the thirty years after 1960.

I know Bert Haywerd, who is now nearly 90 and retired as first double bass player at Covent Garden at the age of 69, which probably covers all the rest of the great conductors who worked in London from 1945 onwards! Before the ROCG orchestra, Bert played in the Boyd Neil orchestra, the Jacques orchestra, the Philharmonia, and the LPO till 1956.

I also know Keith Marjoram, who was also in the Philharmonia as a bass player, and David Daly, who taught me the bass, and who is to this day the first bass in the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra ... I also have sat by Madame Parvo Berglund at a concert conducted by Meastro Berglund [I was a guest of the Bournemouth Orchestra, and did not realise who she was]. She was beaming at how well it went for the orchestra and her husband, and of course not knowing who she was, said that I though that he was one of the great conductors alive or in recorded memory! She was delighted!

ATB from George

My Dad used to work with Ronnie Verrell (aka Animal in The Muppets)

I saw Joe in Newcastle Australia on that tour. Yes, stoned. The gig wasn't much good from what I recall. But hey, maybe that's just me.

In the 90's I worked out in the same gym as Chuck Norris - he had a bodyguard with him at all times!

Interesting to hear about Joe Walsh. I grew up in Cleveland, OH, so always heard a lot of him on the radio. Saw him in concert there, too, about 1980.

While in the record store last Saturday, I had fortune to purchase a still sealed "James Gang 16 Greatest Hits" from 1973. It's a two record set made by ABC Records (???) so I was a worried about the SQ, but figured little to lose for $5. Turns out it is a gem of a pressing and I've listened to it several times already.

My son likes the James Gang's sound and can't believe how much the song "The Bomber" (anyone familiar with it?) sounds like Led Zeppelin.