Post #315108 by T_lifehater on Tue, Jun 26, 2007 4:07 PM

When I was a kid we were at a bakery in San Diego and Dustin Hoffman was sitting at the next table. I didn't know who he was. On Maui a buddy of mine was the head chef of a fancy schmancy restaurant and we decided to all fly in from our various locations and crash at his house and have a big fancy old punks reunion dinner. Mike Myers asks his waiter who we were and why do we get our own dining room. I never would have recognised him. We end up saying hi to him and his pal, who are bored stiff in the outer islands. They didn't seem very funny. I'd have to say we were hilarious by comparison, but we were pretty drunk on fancy wine.

Ran into Tom Waits at a local health food store, Neil Young at a hotel north of us (as we walked by a young guitar playing buddy of mine says "How's it going, Neil?" and Neil Young just walks by saying, "Doing fine, doing fine." Very cool.

Otherwise just the regular variety of old punk rockers that you ran into around 1980 at punk shows- HR from the Bad Brains, Henry rollins, Ian Mackay, Colin and Wilf from GBH, Monkey and Kid from the adicts- drank a bunch of beer one night with the Angelic upstarts, buncha L.A. bands.

Ran into Denroy Morgan (Rasta guy) in Jackson Hole and he picked up my 4 year old daughter and my daughter says "look daddy- Bob Marley." Classic moment- Denroy Morgan seemed pretty pleased also. Run into all kinds of famous surfers around here, both young and old. My favorites have been Buffalo Keaulana, Greg Noll, and Rabbit Kekai. Legendary larger than life people.

Funny- every time I encounter these famous people I'm always a little surprised that they aren't ten feet tall and glowing or something- just regular people, mostly. It's funny, that. I have a buddy who does omlettes at the four seasons here and he says Stephen Tyler is the absolute best, always stopping to talk and slipping him a hun dred bucks at the end of his stay- and he says Heather Locklear is super nice and they talk a lot about raising kids. I personally have never been treated badly by a celebrity, but I've heard some horror stories about working with Neil Young and a couple things about Sly Stallone- wierd kinky hotel room wierdness. No thanks!