Share Your Encounters with Well Known Musicians & Music Industry People

[Peter DeLegge]

Back in my working musiciain days I met and conversed with a number of successful singer / songwriter / musicians including Carole King, Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Jimmy Chamberlin, Louise Post (Veruka Salt), Neil Finn, Tim Finn, Dan Wilson (Semisonic), Jack DeJohnette, Peter Himmellman, and others. Some of the stories are amsuing. I’m sure that others have their own stories to share too, so I made this topic to encourage others to share their stories too.

Here’s my story of meeting guitarist  Rick Fenn,who at the time was playing in a band called Mason + Fenn in the mid-1980s, with Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason. The circumstances are unusual and amsuing.

Mason + Fenn had just finished their first set at a mid-sized Chicago night club in my neighborhood that I would often go to and check out bands when one of the bands I played in wasn’t playing. I went to this show with one of my friends, a guitarist. Neither of us were big fans of their music, but it was Nick Mason, who played in Pink Floyd, a band we both loved, so we figured we’d pay the 10 or 15 bucks to go check them out.

I went to use the bathroom, the urinal, to be specific (okay, normally, these aren’t details I’d share in a story — but it’s key to the story).
The band had just finished their first set. I recognize the guy on the left of me. Another guy, to the right of me, strikes up a conversation, “I just got here. My girlfriend bought the tickets and I don’t really know this band’s music. I’m a guitarist, is the guitarist any good?” I responded, “I’m a drummer and keyboardist. The guitarist is excellent. Really tasteful. He’s done a lot of studio work and plays with 10CC. ” The guy responds, “Cool! I can’t wait to hear him.” I add, “Also, he’s the guy in the urinal to my left.” At that moment, Rick Fenn cracks up and says, ‘I was quietly interested in what you had to say, hoping you wouldn’t say, ‘he’s shite!” We all cracked up.

I have additional stories that I’ll share in upcoming posts, including one of another famous musician I met in a bathroom and another musician and great songwriter who I saved from being hit by an oncoming car.

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