I love Pink
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I have meet Roger Waters 2 times and David Gilmour 1
Nick Mason 1 Rick Wright 1
I'm pretty lucky
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azza200
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i have met David Gilmour twice
Polly Samson
Dick Parry
Jon Carin (twice)
Guy Pratt (twice)
2nd encounter with David Gilmour,Jon Carin and Guy Pratt
Guy Pratt show Windsor Arts Center 19th May 2006
My review on last nights show at Windsor Arts Center (amazing guests at the show)
I arrive at the venue in Windsor at around 8 o clock its a lousy night raining with half hour till the show starts i chill in the bar area for 10 mins at 8.15 we get let into the auditrium i find my seat front row A9. I see some other auidence members bring pints of beer in so i get myself one ready for the show. I get my pint and sit down waiting for it to start with The Clash playing on the speakers.
Im taking in the stage the bass guitar and stracaster and who happens to walk by which catches me by suprise and shock Phil el magnifico Manzenera im like oh my god what is he doing here but thinking cool wasnt expecting that. It gets better less then 2 minutes later shock amazement and disbelif who walks past none other then David Gilmour,Polly Samson,Jon Carin and Steve Di now this is a major big deal for me again as i was not expecting them to be here as i dont think they go to all off Guys solo shows.
The shows starts and Guy talks about how he started playing bass guitar he picks up betty the same bass guitar he uses on One of These Days on DSOT video (god im sad to know the name of his bass guitar) Guy jokes with us oh and Guy smokes which suprised me alot.
As the show goes on he talks about time with David Bowie Whitesnake and the ne gets to the main part which everyone is looking forward to Pink Floyd yay. He describes how we would be like when the second set starts he plays an excerpt of One of these days and does a bit of how he was on the AMLOR tour lol.
The show ends at about 9.45ish and i see David Gilmour chatting to some people i want to but i dont im still by my seat at this time David leaves with Polly and Steve and Phil Manzenera and i see Jon Carin and i say "Hi Jon" he says "Hi how are you" i say im good and i say to him i met you before at the Mermaid Theatre in March he remembers me and asks my name i say Aaron and he says nice to meet you again Aaron he goes off through a seperate door i go out through a different door.
Then about 5 mins later im hanging around in the bar area and i see through a little window Phil Manzenera back and im like hmmmm can i get up there i walk back to where i was about 2 hours before no mean bouncers what so ever i might add. And standing a few feet away from is David Guy and Polly Guy is talking to some women beside me is Steve Di and he says Hi to me i say Hi back.
Then i notice David signing some posters im like **** wish i had something to get signed i say to Guy nice show really enjoyed it and he says thank you so much David Gilmour is in my line of sight and i ask Guy if i could get my picture taken with David and Guy, Guys like yeah sure no problem and asks David and David has no problem with it and well i get my picture taken with them both. I say thank you to both of them and shake their hands for the 2nd time.
I manage to blag a poster to get signed i get chatting to Guy and he says he is writing a book now. I ask Guy how Scott Page is and he says he was at one of the LA Shows and still has the "Uber Mullet" and still looks the same Shake his hand again and David and the band go into the bar area.
For me im in Floyd heaven for the 2nd time in 3 months OMG!! and have met David again which im shocked about just knowing he is in my local area is a awsome big deal and amazing.
I go outside for some air its still raining i ring my mum up to pick me up. So i go back inside the bar area and i notice sitting in the bar in the far corner is David Polly Guy Jon and Steve and i swear David looks at me a few time lol 10 mins pass and i leave after one of the most surreal nights i have been too.
The mermaid thearte was good but this tops it by miles as there was not any bouncers it was a very casual laid back venue David is in very good shape i must say. Guy Pratt is a very funny man and really nice to chat too was so strange being in the same room as them again. Ialso saw Polly taking some photos so they might be on Davids site or something.
I also noticed that the one of the people with David had a camera i got speaking to the person with camera and asked if Guys shows were going to be released on dvd he said he didnt know so i asked if they might be an extra with Davids DVD and he said maybe but they dont know yet some nice info Col eh?
1st encounter at the Mermaid Theatre gig March 7th 2006
The Bar area of the venue after the concert.
I have to say out of the few Concerts i have been too last nights one is the best ever without a doubt the David joked with audience here and there it felt surreal being in the same room with all the people i look up too and respect and to be in a room with them a feet away from is a feeling hard to explain. When David started singing Shine On and High Hopes i was singing pretty much the same time as him.
But the thing what made it even more amazing for me was me and justdawning hanged around out by the bar and we eventually got David to sign some of are stuff.
As i was upclose to David i said to him You have inspired me to play guitar and he said great well done keep it up and i asked him to shake my hand and he did OMG i spoke to David Gilmour my idol/hereo and shoke his hand i still cant belive it.
Guy Pratt came down after David had gone back to his family and friends and signed autographs just as he was going back to the bar i asked to shake his hand and he did another OMG moment it was weird seing Guy in person as i am so used to seing him on DSOT and Pulse.
Then a few minutes later Dick Parry came down and signed some autographs i got my ticket signed shoke his hand and i said im honuerd to meet you and he said nice to meet you too again disbelief amazement moment.
Backstage Door.
After that me and justdawning went outside to tell are parents on our phones what had just happend then we went backstage and hanged around for a while then Jon Carin came out and signed some off are stuff. That was surreal for me speaking to someone who i have only ever seen on TV and pictures and here i am face to face with saying nice to meet you etc.
Then about 15-25 mins later Rick Wright came out and there was a crowd which had been building up while we was there Justdawning tried to get Ricks autograph but the security guys said no more and Rick got in the car with Jon and Dick Parry funnily enough Dick Parry was a little bit confused into which car he getting into i think he was staying in the same hotel with Jon and Rick.
Time then was around 10.25 and i had to go as i had train to catch back to paddington and back home to Slough walking to the tube i was in shock a little as to what i had seen the last few hours and what i had got signed on the train hime i read the MOJO Magazine i had got with now Davids autograph in it and read the interview david done for the mag as i was reading it i had Live8 on my mp3 player and then i was home after one of the most amazing brillant best night ever.
Thats my story of after the show in the bar area and backstage of the venue hope you enjoyed reading it guys.
:D im a luck sod
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| 06-12-2006 02:07 AM |
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I love Pink
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| 06-12-2006 02:35 AM |
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ha_ha_charade_you_are
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| 06-12-2006 03:12 AM |
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William Gerrard
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| 06-12-2006 04:13 AM |
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I love Pink
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| 06-12-2006 04:15 AM |
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Quincy
Dark Side of the Moon
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lol, the closest I got was staning about 10 feet away from Jon Carin at Radio City Music Hall this past April. I almost wanted to say something, but had no idea what to say. LOL
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| 06-12-2006 08:03 AM |
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Grguitarfreek100
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ive met Esteban. Thats about it.
Youre one of a kind. Just like everybody else.
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| 06-12-2006 09:59 AM |
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I love Pink
Ummagumma
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Well you at least meet somebody
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| 06-12-2006 01:50 PM |
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FarAwayLaughter
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Man I would give anything to hang with Floyd.
"You're nearly a laugh,
But you're really a cry."
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