This was 16 years ago - so I'm sure that didn't come up.

His manager lived across the street from my aunt's (uncle's wife) sister in Chicago. They got to be friends and Billy would give their kids guitar lessons. He then became friends with my aunt and uncle when he came to KC for a 3-day lomi lomi massage treatment from my aunt before going on tour with Zwan.

Which led to the following bizarre exchange:

My mom: Do you know who Billy Corgan is?

Me: Um, yeah

My mom: Well apparently your uncle just took him to Buca di Bepo

Me: ...


So I guess he wanted to see what a normal midwestern Thanksgiving was like, as his family was fairly dysfunctional growing up. I think he just wanted to be a fly on the wall. But of course 6'4" bald Billy Corgan at your family's Thanksgiving is never going to just be a fly on the wall. I think it was pretty weird for everyone involved. Afterwards they took him to a party on the Plaza to watch the lights turn on and said he was pretty uncomfortable.

Head East. Opened for them at the Mayfair music festival in St. Joe (Thanks Nzoner for the gig). Stole their BBQ. Good times.

Len Dawson
Eric Warfield
Tony Veland (former Donk, but also former Husker and coached the Omaha Beef for a few years)
Tommy Frazier
Tom Osbourne
G.W. Bailey (Captain Harris, Police Academy)

And probably a few others.

Brett Michels - Poison (ok, maybe not met him but knew he was at the mall when we were teens and so we went in to see him. He was too busy talking to a young lady working there)

John Petrucci of the band, Dream Theater (met at a demo he did the day of a show in Minneapolis)

Thomas Nicholas - actor in American Pie (met him at a friend's wedding reception)

The latter 2 I do have pics.

My band opened for Vince Neil's band in 2001 at a show in my city. Never met him, though I did see him out back while we were waiting to go on.

They played at our hard Rock the night before an annual ALS benefit here and signed a guitar for auction. A friend of mine bought it

lynn Dickey
George Brett
Eddie Kennison
Dan Marino
Several other Chiefs players

I just want to meet Dane.

As a kid we stayed in the same hotel the bears were staying in. I got to play in the pool with William "The Refrigerator" Perry. I was too young to follow football much so didn't really know who he was. I got to meet Neil Smith and Dale Carter outside of Bannister mall.

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Very cool story, thanks for sharing

Siamese Dream will never not be on my top 10 all time list, still listen to it all the time... read an interview a while back where he was a child music prodigy plucked from public school to attend some prestigious music academy at a very young age

I think it’s pretty cool that he’s all into Cubs baseball and is always showing up at games, even happened across him singing Take Me Out To The Ballgame during the .7th inning stretch a few years ago

All I could think was “yeah, your milieu is DEFINITELY rock” lol

Yeah this was the Thanksgiving right after the Cubs blew the 3-1 lead and he had to sing Take Me Out to the Ballgame in game 7 - literally seconds after the Marlins cleared the bases and the guy got thrown out at 3rd - basically ending the Cubs' hopes. So brutal.

Larry Johnson Chiefs RB in Westport. He was kind of a douche.

Travis Kelce friends with 1 of his friends he came out to PNL during the Royals ALCS game clincher. Cool dude.

Sam Brownback- Was in his commercial during his first senate run.

Kris Kobach- Huge douchebag

Ron Paul- Talked to him for a few mins nice guy.

Bill Weld- Very intelligent fellow. Nice guy.

Tech9ne- Talked to him for a bit he's a cool dude he was drunk off his ass in Westport.

Styles P of the Lox- Very nice talked about football outside the dollar store. Gave me his blunt.

Rakim- Outside of a hotel after a show his crew ordered too much pizza so he gave me a whole pizza.

Will Shields- Very nice guy owns a gym around here

Eric berry- Worked out at my gym nice guy.

Chris Conley- friends with a friend. very nice guy gorgeous wife whos also very cool.

Worked out with both Tony Temple and DT's son Dorian. Nice dudes know their shit when it comes to fitness.

George Blowfish- Very nice guy

Bill Moos- Nebraska AD. Toured the stadium this past summer he was just walking around outside. Talked about the upcoming season. Very nice guy.

Russell Robinson, Darrell Arthur, Sherron Collins, Brandon Rush- Friends lived at the Jayhawk towers was at multiply parties with them. All very nice guys.

Jan Michael Vincent.....party in Hanford, girls all around
Steve Perry....a bar also in Hanford, a buddy of his knew a buddy of mine, so....
Carlos Santana....a bar at Hunters Point, shared a joint (others)
Lorenzo Neal.....track meet in Lemoore
Bob Mathias.....came to my school, I showed him around
Tommy Johnston....we both had the hots for June Hall (Mt Whitney HS)
Rafer Johnson.....his mom lived next door to an in law in Kingsburg
Played flag football with NFLers....Lupe Sanchez, Freddy Ford, Michael Young, Ryan Benjamin
Kevin Costner.....he went to my HS, met him at a Dennys.
Clint Eastwood.....he owns property in these mountains, met him at a restaurant in Three Rivers
Merle Haggard....met him at a diner in Oildale.
Dwight Yokum....met him at a party in Bakersfield
Pepper Gomez....parking lot in Modesto

I just saw Shannon Sharpe coming out of a bank near my work. I wasn't 100% sure it was him so I waved. When he said "What's up man?" I knew it was him.

I thought about telling him I enjoyed when he ethered Orlando Scandrick on his show - but I figured just let him walk to his car.

I saw NBA Hall of Famer Calvin Murphy at the airport this week.

I have no idea who Calvin Murphy is, but he had an NBA Hall of Fame baseball cap on, and his name was embroidered on the back of it. So I looked him up.

I guess it could have just been a guy with his hat, but I'm pretty sure it was him.

I met Senator Lindsay Graham about a year and a half ago. He's much shorter than I thought with soft little hands. Spent maybe five minutes in his company and at least on that occasion he came off like a pompous dick.

Chris Tabor--ST coordinator for the Chicago Bears and college classmate of mine at Benedictine College.

All of the Houston Sports Teams mascots (as of 2008)--there were at the opening of a Houston Public Library branch and I was the Branch Manager

Sally Ride
Guy Bluford -- first African American in Space

Stevie Ray of WCW Fame (Booker T's brother and half of the Harlem Heat tag team)

Bob Dole -- former Kansas Senator, not the CP member with that name

John Cardinal O'Connor -- then Archbishop of New York, now deceased

Max Sharping -- Houston Texans offensive lineman--gave him a ride in my Uber right after OTAs ended.