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11-29-2007, 01:37 AM
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I smoked a joint on Hank Jr.'s bus one time, although not with him. He was inside the club still playing. Whiskey River, Dallas TX. Wonder if that place is still there...
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11-29-2007, 02:08 AM
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Lets see,,Burt Tilstrom,,Danny Glover,,Kim Novak,,B.B,King,,Smothers Brothers,,Sting,,The Terminator and Maria,,Bernadette Peters,,most met while i was in the food business,,,,and A kILLER CLOWN when i was in the car business
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11-29-2007, 11:38 PM
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 He was also in "The Shining"! Always liked Scatman.
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12-01-2007, 10:27 AM
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Met Buzz Aldrin at a show once (Infocomm, I think). Got an autographed picture. He was a bit impatient about getting out of there.
Sat beside Dick Vitale on a flight from Champaign, IL to Chicago. He was a jerk, really ticked about the flight being delayed. I met Hosung Pak who was the model for Liu Kang in the original Mortal Kombat game. They put a sensor suit on him for the moves in the game. He's an incredible martial artist. He went to Illinois when I did and he used to work out in the Armory all the time with his brother. Not much of a celebrity to most of the world but I love a true martial artist and he's it. Audio related (I think I've told this on AK before but...) I was covering sales back at Eminence and got a call from a guy looking to re-order some speakers. I asked who he was with and he said Boston. I asked if that was Boston Acoustics as we had a couple of "Boston" customers on file. He said "no, Boston the band." It was Tom Scholtz ordering drivers as he did all of their speakers. Very cool guy to talk to. I was sitting at a table at one of the big sound contractor shows, NSCA or Infocomm with my boss and Richard Schram of Parasound (famous enough in his own right and a heckuva guy) when this guy comes up in jeans and cowboy boots. Richard says "Hi" and starts chatting and then introduces me to Gayle Sanders, president of Martin Logan. Another great guy. For the big family claim to fame...in the John Wayne movie "The Green Berets" there is a scene where he's shooting skeet. Behind him (off screen) is my uncle, Leon Quick, who is the one actually shooting the pidgeons. When they were filming, JW said he liked my uncle's gun so they swapped and the one that's in the movie is actually my uncle's. Ray
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12-01-2007, 11:47 AM
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About a decade ago I met and chatted with Mario Andretti. We were at a trade show and he was sitting across from the booth I was working in. He looked bored to tears and nobody was asking for his autograph. I'm thinking how can everyone be ignoring one of the greatest auto racing champions of all time??? So I walk over to him and we start talking about the Champ - IRL split back then. He thinks it really stupid but didn't think it would last long. Got that one wrong. He was very friendly and gracious and gave me an autographed picture that I have now given to my son.
About the same time I flew to DC and had Janet Reno sit two rows in front of me in coach! When I arrived at the gate I noticed several secret service men standing around talking into their coat sleeves. Then I noticed Ms. Reno. I was surprised she sat in coach but happy to see a government official hanging with the people. There were a few SS men on the plane as well. That was the safest flight I have ever been on! I also flew to SLC one winter in the early 90's. The night before I went to the Kings Bulls basketball game at ARCO Arena. As I approached the gate I saw several Bulls players including Michael Jordan. I called my secretary and tell her that I'm on the same plane as Michael Jordan. She gets all excited and tells me she will do ANYTHING if I get her his autograph. Keep in mind we were both single at the time and she was hot looking!!! Michael sat at the gate with a newspaper in front of him like he could hide behind it. When he got on the plane in first class he had headphones on and was reading a magazine and looking out the window, clear message that he didn't want to be bothered. When we arrived in Salt Lake I had brought my skis with me and went down to the baggage pickup area. Scottie Pippen and Bill Cartwright were standing next to me. So I look up at them and ask: Where's Michael? Scottie says: "He's on the Bus". I said who's going to get his luggage? Scottie says in a very annoyed tone: "We have to get his damm luggage"! I just laughed.
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12-01-2007, 12:07 PM
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hey, on September 12, 1989 in the late morning, i met a quite deranged and bit tipsy Katharina Witt in the Berlin Subway Line 9. In the night from 11 to 12 the surprised eastgerman Grenz-Polizei had to let go people cross border after some contradictory broadcasting of a sentence Günter Schabowski, Mitglied des SED-Politbüros, read from a paper somebody gave to him on a Radio broadcasted press-conference on afternoon of 11th.
I accompanied her and 2 Friends til Zoological Garden (West)  I guess not alot people were recognizing her in the crowd....
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12-01-2007, 12:52 PM
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12-01-2007, 02:17 PM
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When he was traded (I believe to Phoenix) he gave a ton of his Bulls stuff to Sue and Chris (the 2 who were getting married). Somewhere I still have a pair of basketball shorts that fall about halfway between my knees and ankles. (note: they were new, not stinky) Ray
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