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[gweimer]

All I can say is, that's an UWEsome story....   

[uwe]

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=related

he 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.

[Dave W]

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.

Forget Elvis It would be much more interesting to hear you lecture about the comparisons between being a litigator and a DJ at a peep show.

[uwe]

The irony of it all is that the peep show cellar I humbly served in ("ok, 15 minutes of our Lesbo Live Show with some Loverboy "Turn me loose" alongside ..." - American soldiers are easy to please!  ) to the amusement of US GIs on payday (yup, we still had a lot of US troops back then, all of them sexually undernourished from the bible belt) is only a two minute walk from my office today (our office building is in that part of the "banking mile" that borders on the red light district). If you actually extended the peep show street just a little (it hits a crossing street), you'd be smack at my office today, except that that is on the 26th floor as opposed to the basement.

Other than that nothing has changed much. When I applied with my law firm in 1987, I made no secret of my previous work with the Sexvisionscenter GmbH (all of it income taxed and with health insurance). Tellingly, our then two senior partners (retired for some years now), true to their respective image, only had two questions: One - the more worldly - asked: "And how were the women if I may ask?" And the other - the more business-driven - queried: "Was that a well-paid job?" They complemented each other well!

Oh, and I had a dozen mini screens before me showing what was showing in the porn vid booths plus a larger one with what was going on on stage with the girls. During the first three days, I had a continuous hard-on during my night shift (after all I pretended to study law during the day), for the rest of the 18 months I worked there things, errm, settled down to an extent where I truly became worried! Too much of a good thing I guess.

[Chris P.]

Well, Uwe, we've seen your basses now, so next Frankfurter Messe......

[Basvarken]

By coincidence I read that almost the entire line up of Rainbow (including Tony Carey) will do a tour in Russia somewhere in february 2009.
Calling themselves "Over the Rainbow" with Ritchie's son Jurgen playing guitar...