an unusual fact about yourself?

VimFuego

I think the most bizarre aspect is pissing in the pub, couldn't you have at least got up and used the toilet?

snakemanStoo

I am ambisinister

bertie

Ron Wood once bought me a pint

Grunfeld

MattG said:

I met iron maidens original lead guitarist playing at a village fait, he left iron maiden because he didnt think they were going anywhere...
he doesnt like to talk about it

Has anyone written a book interviewing people like this?

I can remember a fella telling me he turned down work at the last minute because it was a nice sunny day and he wanted a beer in the garden, and who the hell was Kate Bush anyway?  And the guy who'd managed a band for years but eventually decided to quit because it wasn't going anywhere, they were all getting on, and what was the point.  Of course the next thing that happened was that "Sultans of Swing" did okay but it was a bit late by then. 

I'd kind of like to know more about the ones that got away...

Fretwired

VimFuego said:

I think the most bizarre aspect is pissing in the pub, couldn't you have at least got up and used the toilet?

Nah .. it was a rough pub. Had a trough by the bar .. at closing time Tom invited everyone back to his place. A good the job the Tardis is so big. We ended up in some bar at the end of the universe. 

VimFuego

as I was typing it I suddenly recalled a pub in hemel where people used to piss in the corners. Gone now, fuck that was a grim place. Can't recall even what I was doing in there now.

randomhandclaps

did you just pop in for a piss maybe?

mike_l

VimFuego said:

as I was typing it I suddenly recalled a pub in hemel where people used to piss in the corners. Gone now, fuck that was a grim place. Can't recall even what I was doing in there now.

public toilet?

VimFuego

that's what the beer was like. You didn't go for the beer and food, you went for the ambiance and extreme violence.

Bellycaster

Me and some mates went to see Crown of Thorns and Shotgun Symphony at The Marquee in 1994. We got invited back to the Hotel Bar in the place they were staying in on Tottenham Court Road.

I don't remember much else other than we managed to secrete ourselves within said Hotel until the cleaners turfed us out in the morning.

On the few occasions we went to London Gig, we never booked a Hotel.

I managed to get backstage at Motorhead in Manchester International in 1989, I was still 16. This was through someone related to Philthy Phil.

hywelg

When I was a kid, the eldest of two boys, aged 11, I  got ill in the run up to Christmas and ended up being rushed into hospital to have my appendix removed on Christmas Eve.

My son got ill in 1992 shortly before Christmas, was rushed into hospital and had his appendix removed on Christmas Eve. He was also the eldest of two sons and he was 11 at the time....

Coincidence? A bit creepy more like. I don't have any grandkids yet.....

Emp_Fab

Grunfeld said:

Of course the next thing that happened was that "Sultans of Swing" did okay but it was a bit late by then.  

Oh yeah ! - I forgot to mention, my cousin (mum's sister's daughter) is married to Terry Williams, the drummer from Dire Straits.

FX_Munkee

My boss at work is Paul Rodgers nephew.

bertie

as well as the pint from Ron,   shaken hands with Geoff Capes,  shared "banter" with Eddie Grant and XTC on a Saturday morning kids TV prog in the 80s.  Got a grump from Lloyd Cole.

Slept with a woman who's in a Blow Monkey's video............  

chillidoggy

....which begs the question.......

bertie

chillidoggy said:

....which begs the question.......

was she the blind one ?

Deadman

I've only really met Lesley Crowther, Jo Guest and Jeremy Beadle. Oh and John Coghlan and Bruce Dickinson. Not a great list but they were all cool.

chillidoggy

bertie said:

chillidoggy said:

....which begs the question.......

was she the blind one ?

Was she a blow monkey?

bertie

chillidoggy said:

Was she a blow monkey

blonde "game show hostess" in "It doesnt have to be this way".................. tho the video was a few years prior to our meeting

Paul_C

Steve Rothery sat on my sofa once.

I've also been in the congregation for Songs Of Praise (amazing how many extra people turned up that week).

I had a gun pointed at me during a petrol station robbery and the front page of the local paper quoted my sarcastic reply to a stupid question.