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In reply to the discussion: Who is the most famous person you've ever met? [View all]GReedDiamond
(5,564 posts)...some are really famous, and most are famous in their own worlds, but they include:
Leonardo DiCaprio (first time I met Leo, he was around 4 y.o. His 1st publicity photos, a few years later, were shot by my girlfriend in our art studio.)
Val Kilmer (when I met him, he was "in character" as Jim Morrison for the Oliver Stone movie.)
Dr. Timothy Leary (I worked on a Leary underground comic book called NEUROCOMICS, published by Last Gasp, 1979.)
Jack Herer (used to hang out with Jack on occasion when he was writing the "Emperor..." book.)
Arturo Schwarz (Marcel Duchamp Biographer, rode in a taxi and ate dinner with him.)
Stephen Jay Gould (built a web site for a Harvard U Symposium he and his wife, Rhonda Roland Shearer, did on Duchamp.)
Star Jones (I was on an episode of Jones & Jury, around 1994 - I won.)
Music related:
Peter Ivers (my band, B.A. & The Traitors, appeared on his Los Angeles based seminal punk music teevee show, "New Wave Theater" in 1980 or 81, we also jammed with him, he was a great blues harp player - RIP Peter.)
Ron Jeremy (Ron introduced my band - Marshall O Boy & The Well Hungarians - at a live performance.)
Rodney Bingenheimer (he used to play my records on KROQ in L.A.)
Madonna (I did costume graphics for her live tours, 1984, 2001.)
Don Preston (Zappa's Mothers & The Grandmothers - Don played on a cut on one of my records.)
Dewey Martin (Drummer, Buffalo Springfield, used to be in a band with the late Dewey, circa 1979, I own his Camco drums from the Springfield days.)
Jim Fielder (founding member of Blood Sweat & Tears, also played with B Springfield and Zappa's Mothers - I recorded with Jim for a Band called Scott Thomas Lowe & Atascadero, the 1st band I was ever in, Dewey Martin was in Atascadero, too.)
Wild Man Fischer (look him up.)
Not to mention:
Exene Cervenka
Top Jimmy
Henry Rollins & the rest of Black Flag, circa early 80s
D. Boon, Mike Watt & George Hurley aka The Minutemen
Danny Elfman & Sam "Sluggo" Phipps of Oingo Boingo (Sam played on the same tune as Don Preston, above.)
Darby Crash & Don Bolles of GERMS
Visual Artists I've met:
Mark Ryden
Robert Williams
Frank Romero
Don Ed Hardy (I printed several editions of signed/numbered official Hardy giclee fine art prints.)
Andy Warhol (Andy drew a soup can and signed/dated the first page of my sketchbook, on my first day in Art School, Chicago, 1974.)
Stanisław Szukalski (You really should check out his wikipedia link)
George Barris (yes, I consider a car customizer to be an artist.)
And tomorrow, I will be meeting:
Cheech Marin