Have you met any well know prog musicians?

Novalis were never earning very well from their music alone and singer Fred Mühlböck would sell in a Hamburg record shop in the eighties, which I sometimes used; we had the odd chat there.

Progressive electronic composer Asmus Tietchens usually has 100 people or so at his gigs so it's not too difficult to talk a bit with him.

A friend of mine is one of the biggest Legendary Pink Dots fans there are and they're quite accessible personally so once I had a chance to say hello to them, too.

Non prog: I once spent a few hours of train journey talking with Scorpions drummer Hermann Rarebell; I didn't really recognise him (although when he told me his name I knew who he was) but he did a phone call from which it was clear that he was a musician, and I asked him about it. It was quite nice and he was speaking very fondly of Frank Bornemann and Eloy, whom he knows very well (unsurprisingly as they all are from Hannover).

The biggest musician I had a few words with though was the at the time biggest living composer, György Ligeti, who once in Hamburg gave a (very entertaining) open seminar series on the history of avantgarde music.

^ That's just Ginger's way of showing that he likes you. If he didn't like you he'd have thrown a brick. And brought his leopard.

Edited by Mascodagama - September 28 2017 at 16:40

Rednight wrote: 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.

Shoot...guess I should've hung around awhile!  I will say that all during the clinic Bill seemed to be having a great time laughing and telling us stories...very relaxed and different from any "official" interviews I've seen/read up to that point where he was very curt and downright pissy.  Guess it was just nice for him to hang out without Robert Fripp glaring at his every move judging whether we was "restrained" enough or not

I met Fish a few times. He has been nice whenever I have met him, but I've heard stories of him being rude to people.

kenethlevine wrote: Barbu wrote: I gave Lady Loreena a kiss on the cheek. I should have attempted the lips, though. Lucky you!  I did the same with Maddy Prior in 1984

Is Michael Jackson Prog? I met him back in 2002 in Miami.

chopper wrote: I had the pleasure to meet John Young of Lifesigns at the Borderline when he stood at the entrance and greeted everyone on their way in to the gig.

Oh yes, me too. I went with you!

They are really good live.

Quite a few over the years, but the two that always stick in my mind are, ironically, the late John Tout from Renaissance and John Hawken from the mach 1 version of Renaissance and the Strawbs, of course, with about 25 years between meeting one and then the other. Both are my all time personal keyboard heroes. 

Barbu wrote: I gave Lady Loreena a kiss on the cheek. I should have attempted the lips, though.