Ever meet anyone famous?

[TheCanadiandrome]

yeah me to

[pandaderek]

I've met many, but the most memorable, to me, is KRS-One.



And, one of my favorite producer, Pete Rock.

[Blossombrooks]

Wow! I'm pretty jealous, especially of anyone who has gotten to meet Kevin Eastman, I really hope I get that opportunity one day.

I've mostly met F1 drivers, Jenson Button, Mark Webber, Nico Rosberg and a few others. I was also lucky enough to meet Jay K from Jamiroquai at a race day. Oh and last year Horny Mike from Counting Cars came into where I work (which was surreal, I'm in deep, rural, England!) that was great, he was super nice and I love his art.

[Slade]

Ryan Hurst right after he his character gt killed off Sons

[Mew]

That is a great show!
I've only watched season 1 on Netflix.

[Metalwolf]

I met Armin Shimerman (Quark from Star Trek Deep Space Nine) and Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troy from ST: Next Generation)

My sister met John de Lancie (Q from Next Generation) and Jim Carrie. Oddly though, it's mostly been Star Trek folks we bump into.


Although looking through the Star Trek database, one person of TMNT fame had roles on some of the shows. James Avery placed the Klingon General K' Vagh. I thought that was kind of cool to mention

[Leo656]

I guess I'm weird, but I've never had much desire to meet Eastman or Laird. Like, I love comics, but there's really only a couple creators I'd want to meet. I don't feel like we'd have much to talk about. With those two I feel like it'd be, "Hi, thanks for the Turtles, sign this please." I mean, they must get asked the EXACT same questions ALL the time. For 30 years. Like sometimes, when I'm working intermission at a show, and I'm near one of the "stars" and they're right next to me doing theirs, someone will ask them, like, the most banal and obvious questions. And they'll be polite in answering, of course, but sometimes, after the fan walks away, the guy will kinda wink at me or smirk, and be like, "Yeah, THAT one NEVER gets old..." That's why when I met Kevin Nash, everyone else was trying to ask him about Shawn Michaels or Scott Hall, and I'm like, "So HOW much did you get paid for playing Super-Shredder?" Just to be different.

Not sure at all what I'd talk to Kevin and Pete about. I mean, I love TMNT, but I've heard the stories and I've heard them tell those stories. All I think I'd ask is, "Be honest. You were high as balls, weren't you?" And even that one... kinda already know the answer, or at least I'm pretty sure.

[shuriken]

^^OOOH What did he say? About Super Shredder?
I've just met a bunch of wrestlers and some actors at conventions. Simon Dean is freaking hilarious.

[Ninjinister]

That's weird, I just read an article asking for "famous person stories" and now this. Anyway, I've never, ever, ever met anybody of noteriety. Like not even local-famous, like a newscaster. I'm sitting here wondering how in the hell all of these people have these encounters, even in places where they can't just walk out the door and trip over someone.

Closest I've ever come was having Tristan Jones tell me he was disappointed that he wouldn't have the chance to meet me.

[Powder]

Since we're using this new thread & not the old one, I'll copy/paste my original post & add in all the folks I've made since I made it.

Musicians (those I've done songs with have an * by their name though I haven't met them all, some I only worked with through other parties or online communication):
U-God & Masta Killa of Wu-tang Clan
Young Dirty Bastard (ODB's son)
Necro & virtually all artists from Psycho+Logical records
Cage (Did a show with him)
Killer Mike (Did a show with him)
Marky Ramone
Canibus*
Reef The Lost Cauze*
King Magnetic*
King Syze*
Celph Titled*
Block Mccloud*
Chief Kamachi*
Hell Razah*
Ill Bill*
Blaq Poet*
Young Buck*
Craig G*
Keith Murray*
Afu Ra*
Bubba Sparxxx*
Stoupe*
Snowgoons*
& numerous other producers with dope credits

Actors/Voice Actors/etc:
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)
Greg Cipes (Mikey in the Nick series)
Joon Lee (Splinter in the Nick series)
Rob Paulsen (Raph in the OT -Don in the Nick series)
Ernie Hudson (Winston Zeddemore in Ghostbusters)
DMC (of RunDMC)
Jerry Only (of The Misfits)
John Oliver (of The Daily Show)

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
Chad Thomas
Kevin Eastman
Cory Smith
Dario Brizuela
Eric Talbot
Michael Dialynas
Simon Bisley
Gary Fields
Tristan Jones
Tyler Walpole
Brandon Auman & Ciro Nieli (Executive Producers/writer/concept artist of the Nick series)

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.[/QUOTE]

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by shuriken

^^OOOH What did he say? About Super Shredder?
I've just met a bunch of wrestlers and some actors at conventions. Simon Dean is freaking hilarious.

It's a lot. He must have had the biggest shark lawyer Turner's money could buy in 1991, because nobody in all three of those movies has pocketed as much as he has. And he had like three minutes of screen time and was on-set for two days. BUT, he gets a huge chunk of the DVDs. It's an ungodly sum. He was in hysterics just telling me the story. I mostly wanted to talk about movies, since everyone talks about wrestling with him. I thought he'd made a few grand because it was a small part, but either he had a terrific agent OR he renegotiated at some point since, because he is set for life JUST off of his Super-Shredder money.

He's a fun guy to be around. Like all life is a joke and he's the only one in on it. I wish I got to work with him more than once or twice a year at best. Just because he's such a Regular Guy for someone who's won so F'n hard at life. I've met people half as famous who were huge dicks for no reason. This guy makes ten grand walking to the mailbox, and he's sitting around BSing with job guys about the Red Wings. If I ever do "make it", that's the guy I wanna be.

And yeah, I met Simon Dean a couple times and he's a cool cat. I got a picture somewhere with him and Stevie and Meanie. Which is weird, because now I see Meanie ALL the time. Turns out he was buddies with my cousin in high school. Small world.

[B-Man]

Powder, what were Canibus (one of my favourite rappers) & Ernie Hudson like?

[Powder]

Ernie was very cool, super friendly. I didn't get to have too much of a chat with him as it was a brief signing/photograph thing at NYCC, but yeah, he couldn't have been more warm. All smiles.

Bis is freakin' awesome. Just what you'd expect of him if you're intimately familiar with his music. What he talks about on tracks is what he talks about in real life. We had a long conversation about all kinds of crazy sh*t pertaining the state of the world, hip-hop, etc. He was maaaad cool. He's been really supportive of my groups music & is helping us out with some business too, as we're set to have new albums on the same label this year, as well as a collaborative effort I'm getting to do some art/beats for. His music was very influential to me coming up so it was really awesome to not only get to work with him but chill with him & learn that he's an all around great dude. I've only hung out with him once so far but he's a close friend of my close friend, so pairing that with our musical history I'm confident in saying he's the genuine article. There are plenty of horror stories where fans meet artists & they turn out to be dicks, so it's always great when that's not the case (Thankfully, I've actually never had that problem).

[Leo656]

You never know with people. You hear about how some guys are awful, and they turn out to be awesome, and guys you'd never expect turn out to be douchebags. I guess a lot of it depends on the day. Everybody's got their Ups and Downs.

Dave Mustaine has a reputation for being a jagoff, and that reputation is well-earned and well-deserved. He's way up at the top of my "Celebrities I'd Love To Knock The F*ck Out" list.

[snake]

Originally Posted by Leo656

You never know with people. You hear about how some guys are awful, and they turn out to be awesome, and guys you'd never expect turn out to be douchebags. I guess a lot of it depends on the day. Everybody's got their Ups and Downs.

Dave Mustaine has a reputation for being a jagoff, and that reputation is well-earned and well-deserved. He's way up at the top of my "Celebrities I'd Love To Knock The F*ck Out" list.

This is the shortest Leo656 post-er, blog entry I've read.

[B-Man]

Powder dude that is awesome. Had 2000 B.C. and Rip The Jacker on loop during art school. He seems like he could potentially be volatile or unapproachable so it's great to hear he's totally not.
Also, you should take the instrumental of Shell Shocked and put your own rhymes over it. Yes. We could have a good version of that track exclusive to the Drome

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by snake

This is the shortest Leo656 post-er, blog entry I've read.

Missed my first post on Page 1, skip.

[snake]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Missed my first post on Page 1, skip.

Looks like you're right! I have to say, I really enjoy your long posts! So don't take it as an insult.

[Leo656]

Sometimes I just got a lot to say.

Since I've become aware that more people use their phone for interwebs nowadays I've been trying to be more careful. Can't help it sometimes though.

[CyberCubed]

The only famous person I can think of is Akira Toriyama (creator of Dragonball) during a rare U.S. visit to New York back in...god...somewhere back in 2001 or 2002? I remember still being a teenager so it had to have been in the early 2000's when DBZ was still a huge fad in the U.S. And even then I didn't get to talk to him, just see him on stage in person.

Same for Chris Sabat (voice actor of Vegeta, Piccolo, etc. in dubbed Dragonball Z) who was there at the time.

Other than that can't think of anyone else. Never met any of the TMNT VA's or artists in person sadly, maybe one day I will.