Name-Dropping for Fun...

[Don Ro]

These stories are killers.

[KFC911]

I once ran into Dipso over in PARF....does that count?

[Don Ro]

Remember Bobbi Vee & the Shadows (Bob Velline)?
He was a local singer who swooned all the No. Dakota girls.
I helped set-up the stage when he came to our little town.
I know, big deal, eh? 'Just tryin' to feed the thread, boys.

[Amail]

Ooh, I got one! In the late '70's my dad rented out his Alexandria brownstone to Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, the husband and wife duo in Starland Vocal Band.

My name-dropping skillz are weak.

[techweenie]

I worked with this young kid in '77. He cofounded a company. I helped design the marketing communications/logo. The company went on to achieve some success.

We stayed friends for about 20 years. Died too young.




RIP Steve.

In subsequent years, I worked with some biggies in the tech world, including Bill Gates.

Despite many years in "Hollywood" I've pretty much avoided celebrities, though I did get some face time with Mohammed Ali.

[stealthn]

So Tech I gotta ask; are you saying you helped designed the rainbow apple?

[techweenie]

So Tech I gotta ask; are you saying you helped designed the rainbow apple?

Yes, though our design was one color. Steve wanted the colors. We gave him stripes, assuming its awfulness would cause Steve to abandon his demand. He didn't. It took weeks to finalize colors, with me finally taking a swatch book to him and choosing the orange & yellow PMS spec.

Just about fell on a sword to keep it monochrome, but I lost that argument.

[stealthn]

WOW!

Fantastic story. Whose design was the bite

[techweenie]

WOW!



Fantastic story. Whose design was the bite

The art director on my team was Rob Janoff. The bite was to give it scale, since it kinda looked like a grape, otherwise, especially since it was gray-green as originally conceived.

[stealthn]

I still remember the first icon.

Worlds Best Logo Designer | Logo Designing | Logo Design | Logo Designer

[5String43]

Wow, you guys are all high-rollers. All I've got is Pete Seeger's autograph on my vintage "How to Play the 5-String Banjo" record cover. I keep meaning to frame the thing.

But well, but let's see - I've also interviewed Bernie Ecclestone, Bobby Unser, Peter Revson, Mario, Shelby, Mayor Sam Yorty, Peter Gregg, Howdy Holmes, Jim Hall, David Pearson, Cale, Richard, both Allisons brothers, Al Holbert, Ferdinand Piech, Dave Guard and many others. I treasure the Guard interview above all others because I don't think many people could find him in the later years before he left us.

But God, I feel old. Maybe it's because I am old.

[ChemMan]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

We've run into Amitabh Bachchan in New Delhi. Not a name anyone in the US would know, but he's a god in Bollywood.

I had a buddy in college who would tell people he was his nephew. He wasn't.

Met Burt Reynolds. I was still at Michigan State then. He told me and my then girlfriend, now wife, about playing football at MSU stadium when he was in college. He was a riot.

Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Ended up discussing a book I had just read. Intelligent man. I really enjoyed speaking to him.

Michael Moore. At the mall in Flint, MI. We were both waiting for our wives while they shopped. We just looked at each other and shrugged our shoulders.

A couple athletes here and there. Lindsey Hunter when he played for the Pistons. Seemed like a real nice guy. A couple of boxers. Chris Byrd before he left for Vegas.

Morris Peterson worked out at the gym I used to before he left for rookie training camp. Super nice guy. Very polite. His dad works out in my current gym.

Everyone "famous" I can think of.

[Hugh R]

I bought my first house from Danny Elfman when he was with the band Oingo-Boingo. Big time music score composer for movies now. Got the entire bands autographs on one of their LPs.

[weseeeee]

I was Burt Reynolds Police security during a book signing in his home town. It was a 3 hour detail but at the end of 3 hours there were about 500 people still in line. He looked at them and said I will stay until everyone that bought my book gets a signature. Five hours later I told him I had a ticket to the Miami vs Florida State football game that started in a couple hours. He said he did to, and he'd give me a ride in his helicopter to the game if we finished in time. Sadly people kept coming and we stayed there for 12 hours missing the game. He greeted the last person with the same warm hearted smile and handshake as the first. I learned a lot about him that day. He didn't even take a meal break, he just ate m & m's and drank diet cokes, and not a single fan was disappointed.

[foxpaws]

Ah - since we are going back in time - I did the advertising for a local rock station and spent some time back stage at numerous rock concerts, and at Caribou Ranch in Nederland. From Richards to Henley to BonJovi, lots and lots of stories...

[techweenie]

Originally Posted by foxpaws

Ah - since we are going back in time - I did the advertising for a local rock station and spent some time back stage at numerous rock concerts, and at Caribou Ranch in Nederland. From Richards to Henley to BonJovi, lots and lots of stories...

In the mid-80s I bought a house in the Santa Monica mountains across from Brando & Nicholson. Henley was down the street and used to throw fundraiser events. The list of people at those events was crazy -- most of Henley's fellow musicians, the local stars, etc. Henley was a dick, but Nicholson was pretty cool.

[foxpaws]

Henley isn't very nice - however Joe Walsh - really nice.

[Cajundaddy]

The boys in Van Halen before their first album (1975). I was a wannabe rock guitarist in a band playing Gazzarri's on the strip. Van Halen was the headliner and we all hung out briefly. They were the hottest bar band I had ever heard and the "party" was strong in them. DLR was shirtless and wearing body paint in Feb.

Alex is a Porsche guy and I still see him periodically.

[white85carrera]

Great thread! this pales in comparison but I remember it like it was yesterday. 1990ish at the IMSA race at Watkins Glen. I am driving through the overflow paddack and come to an intersection near the hot pit entrance. Blue Taurus creeping through and stops in the middle of the intersection-trying to determine which way to turn...I am patient...still waiting...then quick tap on my horn and a double palm up and mouth "which way?". Car turns my way, driver side window down and Paul Newman says " sorry buddy, i have no idea where I'm going".

[Brian in VA]

To keep it going - Tom Green stayed in our hotel in Austin this weekend.