R&P: Do you have any connections to any famous musicians?

Question

My grandmother's cousin was roommates/best friends with Art Garfunkel. They're still close to this day. My grandfather also cut Garfunkel's hair.

BQ: What band posters do you have hung around your house/apartment/condo/abandoned factory?

Answer 1

My grandpa used to work for BMG, which was eventually sold to Sony but anyway..he met some country bands I guess. Nobody really significant to me.



The Beatles, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, The Hives, Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, The Strokes

Answer 2

My dad went to school with and was friends with the Barenaked Ladies.....if they count as famous. He was hanging out with them when they wrote their song 'You Can Be My Yoko Ono". They recorded it for a class project.



BQ: I actually don't have any at the moment....but in my house there are a couple Beatles posters, and the original edition of Twist and Shout, by the Beatles...not too much band artwork in my house...

Answer 3

Not really in music. My dad was big into the Minneapolis music scene in the late 70s early 80s and I know he hung out with bands like the Suburbs, Husker Du, and The Suicide Commandos if you've ever heard of any of those.



If you were talking about hockey, I could give you at least 10.

Answer 4

I know Marko Desantis from Sugarcult from a music camp thing. Also..my friend's good friend is Ashley Welch, Elliott Smith's half sister. Elliott Smith is my favorite musician ever, so I'm pretty jealous lol



BQ: strictly musicwise, I only have Elliott Smith, Daniel Johnston, and Conor Oberst. But I also have quite a few movie posters.

Answer 5

One of my brothers best friends (I've met him a few times as well, most recently when he was performing on a cruise ship) is Andy Kim who had a few top ten hits, but was also the co-writer of "Sugar Sugar" by the fictional band The Archies, which was the number 1 single of 1969.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar,_Sugar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H8wkQnrWPg



BA: I'm a hopeless avid collector. I have one room in my house that's pretty much a rock n' roll with many framed pics and posters.

Answer 6

My mom went to high school with Craig Chaquiço. They were friends, but not well enough to maintain connection to this day.



Another one: my aunt used to shop and hang out at the same fruit stand as Grace Slick (post-retirement). They'd talk and stuff, about how nice the flowers or the fruit that day were.



BA: None, actually.

Answer 7

my family has some sort of relationship to porter wagoner, though it's not very clear. my grandma was elvis presley's fan club president when he was a country singer in the 50s, and she and my grandpa worked with many singers, like faron young and kitty wells back then and my grandma was also very close to cowboy copas back then



lol ohhh i didnt know it had to be a R&P. these connections are country.



i have a poster of clint black, 3 of clay walker, and one of george strait



why all the thumbs downs for byrd94???

Answer 8

My mom's ex-boyfriends son had a chance to be in Pantera. And my great uncle was a musician and performed or met some other famous musicians, not to clear on the names at the moment though.

Answer 9

I met the lead singer of MGMT.. I'm gonna go ahead and say we're close friends now... although he doesn't know it yet

ANYWAYS



BQ: The Ramones, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, and I don't know if this counts or not but I painted the cover of David Bowie's Aladdin Sane album on my wall.

Answer 10

My stepdad's uncle once spent a day with The Beatles (he was a writer for the paper) in/near Boston during their first tour



Edit: Just thought of another one, my mom went to the same college as the members of Dinosaur Jr. (she didn't know them, and she's never heard of Dinosaur Jr., but she was there at around the same time as them)



BQ: Just one of these

http://i.imgur.com/BvGBX.jpg

Answer 11

Fred Schneider (the B-52's) was my waiter once in a restaurant in Athens, GA,. He probably still remembers me.



BQ: a framed picture of the Beatles. I paid 5 bucks for it.

Answer 12

My best friend's older brother's girlfriend's nephew used to be Cypress Hill's dealer.



None, although I had a Nirvana, Madonna, and Dead Kennedy's when I was younger.

Answer 13

My grandmother was friends with sasha lazards mom and my dad used to play with her when he was little. Also i have met steven tyler(aerosmith) twice because he lives a town over from me.

Answer 14

My mother was a KISS groupie. She'll never convince me that Gene Simmons isn't my biological father.

Answer 15

my cousin is good friends with travis barker from blink-182



i have posters of nirvana, sublime, and blink-182

Answer 16

Not really, I met Christofer Drew.

Answer 17

i don't know what your definition of famous is

but i partied with Bonded by Blood once cause my friend is an old pal of their singer

Answer 18

my mom is friends with selena gomez's dad

because they use to work together :)

Answer 19

Once, I met this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy's cousin who knew John Lennon.



*gasp*

Answer 20

no



BQ dont have any

Answer 21

Bobby Vee lives in central Mn,

we had lake lots a few miles apart, he used to come over to our house, with his kids a lot, back in the early 80's, and our kids wen to his house.



We still stay in touch with Bob and his family.



I've known Jonny Lang, since he was about 13.



I've know Shannon Curfman, one of Jonny's protoges, since she was 12.

She is Kid Rock's guitar player now.



I have seen her play live a lot of times, in Fargo/Moorhead, and Phoenix.



Poco's bass player/singer, Jack Sundrud, has been a friend since right after high school

We also stay in touch.



Michael Clute has been a friend since he was in Jr High,

He then ran sound for Poco, and worked in Nashville studios, when Poco was off the road.

He produced Faith Hills first CD,

and been Diamond Rio's producer for about 10 years,

has won several CMA's with them,



we also stay in touch.



Michelle Branch's parents live about a block from us,

and her baby loves our dog, Lucky.

A little while Maltese.



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it sad, when the trolls hate my answers so much, that they will put down good bands too????