Never meet your heroes
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Goreripper
Metal as fuck
First time I met Devin was on his first tour here. I was in a lift going up to the band rooms with one of the bands I was mates with, and Devin was in the back of the lift, just standing there quietly listening to us. I didn't even know who he was then. Later, he was onstage being the most metal guy I'd ever seen! Hahaha. Next time I spoke with him, he rang me to do an interview but I'd been delayed getting home, so he left a message. Then rang back five minutes later and talked my ear off! After that was when he was here on the "Sleep" tour when he did like 5 shows in 3 days and he was exhausted! But always so nice to everyone.
TinMan666
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have never met patton and really have nothing to base this on other than gut instinct / intuition but i always get the impression he's kind of a wanker, trying to see how much of a jerk he can get away with being and have people sort of overlook it / choose not to recognise it because they like his music.
salty
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I saw Bungle when they toured Disco Volante, and I use the word saw very loosely. I had a ticket but bought a ticket for the 18+ show instead of the AA show earlier in the day, turned up, denied entry. Anyway, the venue happened to have big windows on the front that looked right in and onto the stage, so I sold my ticket outside and watched the whole gig through the venue window haha.
Anyway after the show the band were all lugging out their own gear into the truck, jack crew, just doing it themselves, Mike included and there was a wall of fans surrounding the loading bay just yelling at Mike to come and sign something. He was clearly busy and got really fucked off. At one stage he walked over and grabbed someone's tshit and pen and just drew a line like this on it \/\/\/\ and threw it back at him haha.
In that case, I don't blame him for being a jerk. When they were done the rest of the band come out and talked to us, signed shit, they were all rad dudes. Mike walked out after and just headed straight to the bus and got on board. I gave him a "awesome show man!" and a slap on the shoulder as he went by and he threw back a "thanks" and that was it.
I think he's definitely a business first kinda guy. I have a feeling that if people had not been such screamy cunts while he was trying to get shit done he would have come out after the show in a way better mood.
Nobody was standing in the loading bay going "HEIFETZ! DUDE! SIGN MY SHIT!" haha.
Anyway after the show the band were all lugging out their own gear into the truck, jack crew, just doing it themselves, Mike included and there was a wall of fans surrounding the loading bay just yelling at Mike to come and sign something. He was clearly busy and got really fucked off. At one stage he walked over and grabbed someone's tshit and pen and just drew a line like this on it \/\/\/\ and threw it back at him haha.
In that case, I don't blame him for being a jerk. When they were done the rest of the band come out and talked to us, signed shit, they were all rad dudes. Mike walked out after and just headed straight to the bus and got on board. I gave him a "awesome show man!" and a slap on the shoulder as he went by and he threw back a "thanks" and that was it.
I think he's definitely a business first kinda guy. I have a feeling that if people had not been such screamy cunts while he was trying to get shit done he would have come out after the show in a way better mood.
Nobody was standing in the loading bay going "HEIFETZ! DUDE! SIGN MY SHIT!" haha.
TinMan666
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actually good point as demonstrated in Salty's post. Now that I think of it, the general public are fucking annoying, inconsiderate and overbearing. I remember ALMOST meeting a couple of the guys in Nightwish out back of the Corner Hotel but I just had to leave instead because I was ready to rage out on bogans with no manners just shoving people out the way to get there first and insist that they were the biggest fans ever. No fucking manners. I reckon I'd become intolerant too if I was a star.
btw the nightwish guys seemed cool but had this sort of "that's the most aggressively delivered compliment I ever recieved" look of confusion on their faces for all the time I was there.
phlogiston
Bejabbers!
I don't think I've ever been in that sort of position. I saw Maiden at a signing in '92, but that's about it. I've seen semi-famous people in the street, and my dad once worked with Craig McDermott (Australian fast bowler), but I generally make a point of not harassing them as they're just people trying to get shit done. And my brother built Shane Warne's kitchen, if that counts.
FerretallicA
HMAS Slagdestroyer
Random encounter. Ran into (literally) Monica Potter off Boston Legal yesterday. She was pretty friendly and humoured me long enough for a photo. Not exactly a 'hero' of mine but it's still my only brush with "TV" fame since getting Dr Harry Cooper to sign my Yr 7 geography book at Featherdale Wildlife Park back in the mid 90's.
salty
Member
I met Bob Katter a couple of weeks ago. He was quite pleasant. I was hilariously in-shot on TV when he was doing an awesome rant about flying foxes spreading disease.
Bucko
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Southy
Proud Brisbane Metaller
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