Have you met any well know prog musicians?

Although he is only in the "prog-related" section in PA (with Fairport Convention). I met Richard Thompson backstage after a Melbourne concert in 2004 at a meet and greet for an RT email list with about 4 other fans.

How normal and relaxed can a genius be?! Shook his hand chatted for at least 15 minutes about football (soccer), places in Australia he should visit...he was really interested in what Byron Bay was like as he was going to play the Blues festival there...I told him it was magnificent. We didn't speak about music or his performance that night at all!

After that I thanked him, had a few happy snaps (which I will not reveal here!) and that was the fastest 15 minutes in my life!



 

Matthew Parmenter from Discipline performed a solo show for me once.  He was opening for Tiles at a local bar and I was the only patron in the bar while he was performing.  I snapped some pictures and spoke with him a bit afterwards about VDGG and Magma. 

I've met the guys from Tiles a couple of times.  They performed a show at a local record store and stuck around afterwards and met with fans.

I met Rick Wakeman after a solo performance in Toronto and had my picture taken with him.  I was actually waiting in the lobby to enter the show prior to the doors opening when he arrived and walked in the same doors.  We exchanged pleasantries prior to the venue letting him in the doors.

I met Todd Rundgren prior to a performance.  We were walking to the venue from the parking structure when he got off of his bus.  We were able to shake hands and say hi to him prior to his entering the building.


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Just Wetton, Jobson, and Fripp, all around '79. I'm probably forgotting someone.

This guy....and the rest of the band, post-35th Anniversary show in Chicago.  RIP Chris Squire.  

Would you believe me if I told you that I ran into Carl Palmer at CBGBs in the seventies? I didn't think so.

not prog, but a very famous musician in Colognn: Wolfgang Niedecken, head and singer of the band "Bap" (which is Cologne dialect for "father"). his portrait can be found on several pillars of the Cologne subway that how people that are associated with the city of Cologne. he used to breakfast in the same café Friede and I used to breakfast (before we opened our restaurant), and we often talked with him

here some examples of those portraits; the second from left is soccer player Pierre Littbarski, the one on the right is of course the late Holger Czukay; I am not certain who the other 2 are






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The.Crimson.King wrote: cstack3 wrote: Keep your eyes open for guitar store clinics, some of these guys are endorsers and they tour/play stores like Guitar Center.  I met Mike Keneally that way.  Nice guy!  That's how I saw Bill Bruford...not GC but Guitar Showcase in San Jose.  In the late 80's he was touring music stores demoing the latest Simmons electric drum kit.  He didn't do any 1-on-1's after so I didn't get to talk to him, but sitting a few feet away while he did his thing was awesome

Bill Bruford gave a drum clinic at San Diego State University in, I think, '81. Fascinating as would be expected. When the clinic was over, me a few friends filed on out dutifully with the rest of the crowd. I found out later that 15 minutes after the auditorium let out, Bruford returned to a small group of 30 people or so who'd stuck around and signed autographs, chatted, and generally provided one and all his utmost attention. Damn.

I met David Sancious in the basement of a church about 4 years ago.  Nice guy but very quiet, very focused.

dwill123 wrote: I met David Sancious in the basement of a church about 4 years ago.  Nice guy but very quiet, very focused.   love Sancious---was he a religious freak or just in a church?