Owning Up To It

I met Plant in Hong Kong, in a restaurant.  It was the week of the handover to China in 1997.   We saw him on the next table but respected his privacy.

Our group was taking photos of ourselves by putting the camera on delay and standing it on an upturned beer glass.  We weren't using flash so the camera needed to stay still.  Plant came over and offered to take the photo.  I said 'Thanks but no, we're working on available light'.  'What a great album title!' Plant replied.  I said 'Yes, but if you use it you'll have to pay me royalties!'

Plant then sat down at our table and we chatted for five minutes.

Any Journey or Reo Speedwagon concert.

DEVO playing at Beginnings In Schaumburg IL on nickel beer night. Played one song and we through our cups at them, booed  off the stage.

First off this is not even close to my favorite band, in fact very forgettable.  But an incredible deal none the less.

This is early 70's...a casual friend of mine got tickets to see Rick Wakeman at Madison Square Garden and offered me one for free.  Ok I'll go.  Wakeman was promoting "Journey To The Center of The Earth".  

They played the whole album note for note perfectly, I mean perfect.  And it was actually good.

After that Wakeman says to the audience (this is very nearly exact).  "That is all the music we know and have practiced."  The audience goes nuts!  Wakeman gets back on the mike and says "alright alright, we'll play the first side of the album again."

They started to play as the Garden emptied out.  I was confused and embarrassed at the same time.

Regards,

barts 

David Crosby has been one of my favorite musicians. It was sad and frustrating to hear of his absurd trashing of Daryl Hannah (Neil Young's future wife). Then the other stuff about Crosby started coming out and I'm sorry to say that this artist that I sort of worshipped is a total asshole.