CONFESS!!! Who was the first famous person you ever met

[GReedDiamond]

19. 1974...Andy Warhol...on my 1st day of Art School...

...at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts...he was signing books at a nearby book store, he signed my sketchbook instead, drew a Campbell's Soup Can, signed and dated it. I took it back to art school and everybody freaked out, cuz I had a signed and dated original Warhol drawing on the first page of my sketchbook.

In 1976, I moved to Los Angeles, and things got weird.

Tim Leary (I worked on an official Dr Tim underground comic, circa 1978-79, Last Gasp).

Leonardo DiCaprio - his first publicity photos were shot at my studio, early 80s, by my girlfriend - but I first met Leo before that, when he was about 4 y.o. (His dad and I worked on the Leary comic book, above.)

Val Kilmer (at a rehearsal at SIR Studios in Hollywood, for The Doors move by Oliver Stone), worked on some costume graphics for the movie.

Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo - met him, that's about it, but Sluggo of Boingo recorded a sax solo on one of my records, 1982. Also on that record, on grand piano, Don Preston, a member of Zappa's Mothers of Invention.

The Bangles - I met them all when I did four stage backdrops for their first tour, early 80s. The backdrops looked just like their 1st record cover art.

Teeny Duchamp, Marcel Duchamp's widow - I met her, in 1987, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Arturo Schwarz (Marcel Duchamp's biographer) - I rode in a cab, and had an interesting discussion with him - and, also in the cab, Timothy Phillips (Salvador Dali's assistant) Cambridge MA, November 1999.

Stephen Jay Gould, I met him at the Duchamp symposium at Harvard which he organized with his wife, Rhonda Roland Shearer, where I met Arturo Schwarz, above. I made the official web site for the symposium.

Madonna, worked on costume graphics for her live tours, 1984 and 2001.

The YIPPIE! Pieman, Aron Kay, an old friend from the DC Smoke-In, 1978.

Jack Herer, I used to hang out with Jack in the early to mid 80, at the neighbor's pad, other side of the wall from my art studio in Pasadena, CA.

And more recently, I was The Pieman's "official representative" at Jack's memorial service a couple years ago or so.

Punk rock years:

Darby Crash and Don Bolles of the punk band Germs.

Plus, Top Jimmy, who hung out with my band BA & The Traitors, when we had our first ever rehearsal. The next day he went on Rodney on the ROQ with John Doe and Exene of X (met them too), and spontaneously promoted us. After that, Rodney played our records on his show.

Black Flag and The Minutemen, met them all, and my band played with em, early 1980s.

Ron Jeremy, I was in a band called "Marshall O Boy & The Well Hungarians," Ron introduced us on stage at a live performance, 1999ish-or so.

Others:

John Lazar, the "Z-Man" from "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" - I met him this one and only time, when I rode in a car with him, driven by a mutual friend, to a 25th Anniversary screening of that movie, at a theater in Hollywood, CA, where he was scheduled to be a panel member with others involved in the making of the movie - but, because I was not on the guest list, when they would not admit me, John argued with the theater manager, who ejected all of us, John included. That was pretty fuckin weird.

Speakin' of weird, the guy who drove OJ Simpson around in the Bronco on the infamous "low speed chase" - I met that fucker, too, I forget his name now.

I'm sure there are more...