As a kid, I was in a Chinese restaurant near Milwaukee, and saw Patrick Duffy (
Dallas, Step By Step). His head seemed enormous. Not, ego, just the physical size. My brother and I asked him if he was in town for Harley Fest (the big motorcycle gathering), and he said he was instead in town for a golf tournament...and somehow that was dissapointing to us as kids, even though neither of us were very interested in Harley Davidson motorcycles or culture.
I was at a Mr Bungle concert in Milwaukee in 1999. There were two openers. After the first band had been done for a while, I noticed someone who I thought looked like Mike Patton (lead singer of Mr Bungle, Faith No More, etc) at the bar, nobody paying attention to him. I tried to play it cool and asked him if he was happy with the turnout (it was packed), and he smiled and said he was. While I was telling him that I really loved the new album, I missed that he ordered a beer. We started talking about how long the wait was, that the middle band, Dillinger Escape Plan, hadn't come out yet. He got the beer he ordered, handed it to me*, and said "thanks for coming to the show" and then he left for back-stage. A few mintues later, we could hear some angry loud yelling coming from back stage. Rumor has it Mike Patton went back, and the guys were just hanging out, getting high(er) backstage, while the stage had been set for them for like a half hour. They did come out shortly after, played a short set, and then Mr. Bungle closed out the show after a very quick stage change. From what I understand, it was one of the last shows Dillinger Escape Plan played on that tour. Not sure if their behavior was correlation or causation.
I once sold a lamp to Michelle Pfeifer when I worked at Restoration Hardware. She had on sunglasses, and didn't give her a second thought until she handed me her credit card, and it said "Michelle Kelly", and then it clicked (she was married to TV writer/producer David E. Kelly).
[edit: one additional note: I never liked beer, and I wasn't even 21 yet, but I hung on to it until he walked away...then I gave it to a teenager next to me.
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