I had this 22 y.o. kid I hired as my assistant editor at one of the trade magazines I was editor of in the 90s. He went to the wedding of one of our other magazine editors one weekend and came back Monday laughing about "some old, fat, bald, drunk Jewish guy heard I wrote for a music magazine and started telling me bullshit that he played with Bob Dylan, The Doors, Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, Miles Davis...."
Hearing that list and the physical description, I yelled over the wall of the cubicle and asked "His name wasn't Harvey by any chance was it?" Therre was a briefe silence and then an sheepish "Yeah, How'd you know?"
And I yelled back over the wall..."Harvey Brooks...played with all those guys and also bass on the "Super Session" album. He's for real."
A great keyboardist I played with was also the keyboard player for decades for the big Dorrs trinute band in the NYC/NJ area, called Crystal Ship....actually immortalized in the song "Bitchin' Camaro" by The Dead Milkmen. He used to fly back up to NYC to do reunion gigs with them until 2009 when the singer passed away (and no...not in a bathtub.)