My other encounters with celebrities have been brief and far between. I once queued up with Alice Cooper in London for Phantom of the Opera tickets in the early eighties. I remember being surprised about how tiny he was and how tall the blonde he had with him.
He was genuinely looking forward to see the show.
Other than that, I once met Tony Carey (ex-Rainbow keyboard player) in Germany at a peep show I was working (not performing) at in the Frankfurt red light district also in the early eighties. I was the DJ and girl announcer at the place (plus occasional mainetance man for the porn vid booths) and I recognized him and started playing his synth solos from Rainbow Rising plus solo material he had out at the time in Germany in the singer/songwriter mode. He's actually a bass player by pedigree. When he heard the synth solo of the intro of Rainbow's Tarot Woman
(Band sets in at 1.15, that synth intro is majestic to this day)
faded into his then solo hit in Germany "Fine, fine day"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9jb8xWhbxU&feature=relatedhe approached me at my DJ counter, blinked unbelievingly and asked incredulously: "Excuse me, where do you know me from?" And I beamed: "You must be Tony Carey, I saw you with Rainbow in 1976!" His then manager he had in tow was mightily impressed about Tony's fame from Rainbow days, he hadn't even known about it ("You were with Blackmore's Rainbow?!"). Still have the Rainbow Rising record sleeve he signed. In exchange, I had to give them instructions to get to the next whorehouse. I obliged. The girls there always said good things about him as a (repeat) customer calling him "the Indian" (he does have Native American blood in him, high cheekbones and all).
That's him at the far right with the 1976 Rainbow line up generally regarded as the ultimate one largely because of Tony's very fluid and gung-ho synth playing (he played keyboards like other people play guitar and it did get him axed eventually by Herr Blackmore):
Uwe
PS: More about me meeting Elvis - Dave, why is it that you can
never ever keep a secret?! - in my next threads in the Graceland forum.