Celebrities that you've met?

[BlisterStockboy]

1. George A. Romero


2. Robert Englund


3. Danielle Harris


4. PJ Soles


5. Ken Foree


6. Dee Wallace


7. Kane Hodder


8. Jason Mewes


9. Tom Savini


Who have you met?

[Guitar_Raph]

Mario Lopez


Tony Lucca

This marks post 1,650.

[gobo]

On the way to a disco in Paris week after Christmas '96, my tour group randomly ran into Adrian Paul.

At SDCC '09, I met Margot Kidder, Ernie Reyes Jr., Dan Berger, Jim Lawson, Tristan Huw Jones and probably some others.

[Shreddhead]

Love the Tom Savini pic, thats great!

I havent really met any celebrities, especially since ive never gone to any cons. I did meet Katie Couric and (im not especially proud of this) Geraldo Rivera at a party once in Puerto Rico. I have met lots of athletes at training camps tho.

[Slade]

Ryan Hurst back in March. He came to Renegade Harley out here for a meet and greet.

[Jester]

Beverly Mitchell and Nicholas Brendon once came to my high school when I was stationed in Italy to kick off a summer program to keep kids active. Have their autographs, somewhere....

One year, Stephan asked Rob Paulsen to call me on my birthday...it was awesome.

[MikeandRaph87]

Originally Posted by Jester

One year, Stephan asked Rob Paulsen to call me on my birthday...it was awesome.

Can your people call my people? That is so AWEsome!!!


Lets see... actor-wise Mickey Rooney at the after show of a local Boscov's opening , Betty Lynn and Maggie Peters at a Mayberry tribute, Gary Sinise at a benefit concert for the troops.

I met Kevin Nash when my university hosted TNA wrestling and I worked the ticket booth that night as a workstudy.

I met Tim Ducan when I was a kid at a Wake Forest baseball game his junior year.

I am not a fan of NASCAR,but I did met Richard Petty.

I met Mike Love and Bruce Johnston at a touring group version of The Beach Boys concert. Mike is a people person and a great guy but an arrogant jerk behind the scenes.

I have met Jerry Robinson (creator of Dick Grayson and The Joker), Stan Lee(Mr. Marvel himself) Dick Giordano, Neal Adams( 2/3rds of my favorite creative team),Nick Cardy( Aquaman/Teen Titans), Peter Laird and Dan Berger. I hope to add Roy Thomas to the list next week!

Baseball players I have met that are notable people...Eddie Mathews,Warren Spahan, Phil Nikero, Dale Murphy, Eddie Murray, Brooks Robinson,Paul Molitor,Enuas SlaughterGaylord Perry, Bobby Valentine(manger), and announcers Skip Caray and Chip Caray.

Do you count phone conversations? I spoke on the phone with controversial MLB legend Pete Rose on the phine back in in June '09.

I met imfamous Survivor contestant Jon Dalton in line ahead of me at my local comic shop. I have a little story with that one.


I have the autograph of all mentioned except the last one.

[Leo656]

Mostly bands and pro wrestlers (most of the latter were work-related meetings).

Bands/Musicians: The Misfits (Jerry Only, Dez Cadena, and Marky Ramone lineup. Jerry Only is one of the nicest people on Earth, so all "They're not really The Misfits" people can suck it.)

Balzac (Misfits cover/tribute band from Japan. They went nuts when I proclaimed them to be "Ichiban!" I guess they don't get that a lot in 'Merica.)

The Offspring (Dexter Holland is also an amazing human being, as well as being hilarious; we met after their show at the Stone Pony in 1997, when they were literally just hanging out outside after the show.)

Dead Sara (Not really "celebrity" status yet, but they've been getting pretty big after they opened for Offspring last year, where we met them after the show at, again, The Stone Pony. Great people, lots of energy.)

Megadeth (Worst celebrity meeting I've ever had; $60 autograph session before they played at PNC Arts Center. They ignored every fan who walked past them, barely pretended to see or hear the fans who were talking to them, and kept looking like they were about to call security on everyone who tried to talk to them or showed any enthusiasm at all. You stood on line for an hour, walked past them, if you were lucky one of them would nod at you, and at the end of the line you got an autographed poster. Lousy. I only went along with it because my wife is a huge Megadeth fan. But after that, even she agrees Dave Mustaine is a huge douche.)

Wrestlers: Too many to list all of them, and which ones could be called "celebrities" would be highly subjective, so I'll stick to those who could be reasonably considered "semi-famous", or at least known a little bit by people who don't watch wrestling a lot...

Hulk Hogan (Autograph signing at a sports bar last summer, great guy. Ridiculously huge.)

Bruno Sammartino (Terrific human being; he called my Dad in the hospital on my cell phone because my Dad was a huge Bruno fan. I'll never forget that.)

Jeff Jarrett (He told me it would be ok for me to "borrow" his strut for my gimmick, so I absolutely did.)

Eric Bischoff (I don't know why so many people hate the guy, he was incredibly humble and charming when I met him. I told him he was one of my heroes, he laughed, said he'd never heard that before, and said it might be "a little frightening". He talked to us for a good bit and we even got into a conversation about each others' tattoos. He really is one of my heroes... A$$h*les get sh*t done! )

Sabu (Conventions in the past and been on a couple of shows together since then. I hear different things from different people, but he always treats me fine.)

Kurt Angle (Same thing, heard lots of horror stories but was very friendly the few times I met him.)

Rob Van Dam (Convention when he had a broken leg in 2000.)

Kevin Nash (For supposedly hating shorter wrestlers and being a huge jerk according to most people, he spent a lot of time talking to me and everyone else in the locker room when I was on a couple shows with him last year. I've seen guys half as famous hide in their own dressing area and ignore almost everyone, while Nash was a regular dude.)

Sting (Convention signing, in full gimmick, which is rare for Sting. Awesome guy.)

Ric Flair (Same convention, one year earlier. Really nice and humble guy, although he did shamelessly flirt with a lot of the ladies. including my wife. Flair will be Flair!)

Scott Hall (Convention a couple years ago in Monroe, NJ. He was great at noon, drunk afterwards, and the rest of the story can be found all over the internet. He did a show for us a few years ago; he was coherent, but in poor health after battling pneumonia for a while. I was basically one of his handlers, helping him out as he left after the show, and making sure fans didn't get too close to him as he worked ringside during the main event. Overall, a nice guy, but everyone knows his demons and it's a real shame, because I believe he's a good person inside.)

X-Pac/Syxx-Pac (Multiple shows together the last few years, always remembers me, which I guess is because of the haircut.)

Shane Douglas (Several shows, one of my heroes, who was also "a little scared by that" Apparently major heels are taken aback when someone actually likes them. First time we met we had a really long talk about psychology of wrestling and stuff like that. Treats me fine.)

Raven (I've heard there's "good Scotty" and "evil Scotty". I've only met "Awesome Scotty" so far. I told him he was my hero, and HE actually thought it was touching. You can't predict people.)

AJ Styles (At a TNA show right after he won the World Title a few years ago. I got to hold the belt in the picture. Not gonna lie, holding THE belt was a thrill.)

Chris Daniels (Hilarious cannot begin to describe.)

Ken Anderson/Kennedy (Same as Daniels. Briefly hung out at the bar after a convention once.)

Tommy Dreamer (Lots and lots of shows together. Always seems really tired but happy to see everyone.)

Vader (A convention a few years ago, and we were on a few shows together a couple weeks ago. He's a great guy, and he can still go.)

Lex Luger (Before and after his spinal stroke, and way after he found Jesus. Everyone who had already met him kept remarking how different he was from back in the day, more humble etc.)

Bret Hart (Always very humble and thankful of his fans.)

Goldust (Did a few shows together; despite the character, seems like a regular good ol' boy. Wicked sense of humor; first time we met, he loudly proclaimed "MARTY JANNETTY?! The hell YOU doin' here?!" )

Marty Jannetty (Lots and lots and lots of shows together.)

Tito Santana (See above)

Superstar Billy Graham (Conventions)

Ted DiBiase (Conventions)

Jake Roberts (Conventions)

Jimmy Snuka (conventions and shows)

There are a ton more wrestlers, but I'm tired. And mostly, wrestlers only count as "celebrities" if you're a fan, to most people.

I also met 1996 Olympic Gold medalist in Gymnastics Dominique Moceanu at a book signing last year. She recognized me from Facebook and actually called out my name before I could say anything to her. Wasn't expecting that at all. Total sweetheart.

The thousands of photos of these meetings are only on my storage device and not on the internet, though, except for a few on my Facebook page. I think the ones of Moceanu, Hogan, Nash, Hall, Jarrett, Angle, and Flair are on there right now.

[Powder]

I've not met any real Hollywood celebs but certainly some talented people who have made a name for themselves.

Musicians:
U-God & Masta Killa of Wu-tang Clan
Young Dirty Bastard (ODB's son)
Necro & virtually all artists from Psycho+Logical records
Cage
Killer Mike
Marky Ramone


Actors/Voice Actors:
Donnell Rawlings (of Chappelle's Show)
Kristen Alderson (Starr Manning on One Life To Live)
Veronica Taylor (Ash Ketchum from Pokemon & April O'neil from the 4kids series)
Rachael Lillis (Misty from Pokemon)
Scott Williams (Baxter Stockman from the 4kids series)
Tom Wayland (Various Pokemon roles/Jammerhead from TMNT Fast Forward)
Caroll Spinney (Big Bird, Oscar The Grouch, etc)
David Newell (Mr. Mcfeely from Mister Rogers Neighborhood)
Michael Sinterniklaas (Leonardo from the 4kids series)


TMNT Artists:
Michael Dooney
James Silvani
Dan Duncan
Erik Larsen
Andy Kuhn
Keith Conroy
Scott Cohn
Rick Remender
Dezi Sienti
Khary Randolph
Emilio J Lopez
Andrew Pepoy
David Peterson
Richard Buckler

I am quite certain there are others, not counting those I only saw at a distance or bumped shoulders with at conventions. Just can't remember at the moment.

[Luzmagica]

Awesome!

[That Matt Guy]

Mostly Sci-Fi actors...

William Shatner who ogled my sister
Ernie Hudson, coolest guy ever
Dave Prowse aka the guy in the Darth Vader suit
Brent Spiner, the other coolest guy ever
The Green Ranger himself Jason David Frank who apparently lives in Texas and would not sit still when I met him

Also met a few random musicians from metal bands, Johan Hegg from Amon Amarth who was wearing a full Canadian tuxedo and Karin Axelsson from the mediocre band Sonic Syndicate who is literally 4 feet tall.

Also this - my friend called me one night to come up to a bar way across town and I said no because it was pouring down rain. He called me 2 hours later and said Vinnie Paul from Pantera had come up there and they had talked for awhile. So yeah, missed meeting someone from a band I really like because of rain.

[Red Robin]

I met Roberto Blanco last weekend.
You guys won't know him, but in Germany he is a folksinger. Although he only had one hit in the seventies, nearly everybody in Germany knows him.

Here is a medley of his greatest "hits":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmZrmAM10I

Enjoy it!

[Icebot]

I met Miss America 1999 Nicole Johnson back in 1999.