What heroes of Punk/New Wave/Garage have you met?

[Andy Butler]

I have met alot of cool 'celebs' of the punk new wave scene.....to name a few
Bruce Foxton of The Jam
Micheal Stipe REM....early indie REM !
Marky Ramone
Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers
etc..
All great experiences too!

[Johnny Quid]

well, there's actually been a few people either from playing with them or after said person's gig:
Joe Strummer and Mick Jones; Captain Sensible and Dave Vanian; Glen Mattlock; Sylvain Sylvain and Arthur "killer" Kane ( literally just one month before he passed away, backstage at their first reunion gig); Jayne County; Lenny Kaye; Alan Vega; Shane McGowan;
and a few more that at the moment don't sping to mind.

[Michael]

I have "met" a few at shows in the sense that someone introduced me (or I introduced myself) when we happen to be in proximity to each other. Even had a beer with some. But the only one I have met that would recognize me walking down the street is Earl the Pearl Hudson of Bad Brains. Come to find out, he lives only 2 miles from me. Small world.

[JackieRoman]

I love photographing people who played on great records of yesteryear, and new stuff too. My catalogue of photos has a lot of faces in it. NYC can get pretty "name-droppy" which is annoying, but my favorite recent encounter was a couple glasses of wine with sammy yaffa (formerly of finnish glam outfit hanoi rocks, and currently the bass player for the new york dolls). Also in 2007 I had The Hives hanging out at my pad during Cavestomp, that was fun! Check out this fun photo of Magic Christian too! I definitely heart Cyril Jordan!

[Maarten]

I met Fred Cole (Weeds, Lollipo Shoppe) 2 times when he played here neirby.

[whatwave dave]

Amazing band and such down to earth guys too!!! And all of them were willing to sign autographs all nite when i saw them a few weeks back....

JackieRoman said:

I love photographing people who played on great records of yesteryear, and new stuff too. My catalogue of photos has a lot of faces in it. NYC can get pretty "name-droppy" which is annoying, but my favorite recent encounter was a couple glasses of wine with sammy yaffa (formerly of finnish glam outfit hanoi rocks, and currently the bass player for the new york dolls). Also in 2007 I had The Hives hanging out at my pad during Cavestomp, that was fun! Check out this fun photo of Magic Christian too! I definitely heart Cyril Jordan!

[The Branded]

met reg presley once in salisbury, no one else interests me

[CAPTAIN DYNAMITE]

The Branded said:

met reg presley once in salisbury, no one else interests me

sainsbury?at the reduced to clear section?...

[Atomic Suplex]

Humm, I met Hugh Cornwall as a teenager, I think he lived in the local area. Not a hero of mine though. I met Kurt Cobain in Bristol before the Nirvana explosion, again I was not really a fan and was more interested in seeing Tad (who they were supporting).

The only band I have met that I actually liked I think was Guitar Wolf. I guess this is the only one that counts.

[Fuzzmeister]

Met Lobby Loyde - in fact he produced my band Arctic Circles first proper recording session in 1985. We walked into Richmond Recorders after work at about 5 in the afternoon and walked out at about 5 the next morning - 4 tracks recorded and mixed all in that timespan. Lobby was a fun guy who had a lot of funny stories. He liked to listen to everything up full blast.

The Arctic Circles first demo session was done by Greg Heenan, the bass player in The Elois. He had a little demo studio called Fitzroy Sound. Nice easygoing guy. He played us the Elois single while we were at the studio. He was kind of bemused when we told him about the whole 60s garage revival scene.

Met the Damned when they played Canberra in '97. My wife and I had a long chat with Patricia Morrison, nice lady.

Met Chris Bailey of The Saints, circa the "Monkey Puzzle" days. He noticed I had a Lurkers badge on, we had a talk about the Lurkers who he seemed to know well from The Saints' early days in London.

[Pete]

I met Nigel Lewis of Meteors/Tallboys fame the other saturday. what a gent!

[Joenzy]

Met Dee Dee Ramone in a bathroom, 2 weeks before he died.
He was using again with members of his band who all looked like Sid Vicious.
This was in Las Vegas.
Talked to the guys from the weirdos.
I've talked to various members of Brian Jonestown.
Also, I've met scores of newer generation members of bands...
but not nearly as exciting...
I saw Eric Burden picking out eggplants at a grocery store near Joshua Tree, Ca.
My mother knew him.
went to a party with Dead Moon in Portland...
they drove me to the party... it was on Halloween.

[Pete]

Joenzy said:

but not nearly as exciting...
I saw Eric Burden picking out eggplants at a grocery store near Joshua Tree, Ca.
My mother knew him.

even less exciting though, my grandad met Alan Price on a flight somewhere! said he had a lovely conversation with him about Jarrow, where they both grew up.