Interesting you should mention Gokey. My niece and her husband are close friends of Chris Kroeze. They've known him since long before he became famous. I've never met him but they say he's very likeable.
Uber? That's one way to meet people. Feel for your wife. She shouldn't have been embarrassed. I'm sure he wouldn't give a damn what she was wearing.
I drove Uber in Milwaukee in 2013 and 2014 Fri and Sat nights . Rogers was at a bar in downtown Milwaukee. When I picked him up, I took him to a hotel where he told the valet person he’s picking up a truck under the name of TJ Lang
My wife has been flying airlines and charter since 1998. I can't even remember all the people she met. Who's that comedian who tells the story about being in a small 19-passenger plane that hit a deer on the Runway? Ron White, Bill Engvall. One of those guys. Anyway, my wife was the pilot of that plane. She's flown the Eagles, The Rolling Stones on two of their tours, The Who, and several politicians on campaign trails. My kid wears an Eagles hat Don Henley gave to my wife. The past couple of years, she has been flying NHL teams around. St. Louis Blues, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, and 3 or 4 other teams. The last few days, she has been flying some Ferrari group around the US. Tomorrow she flies the Oakland A's to Minneapolis.
She was flying a 737 for the last company until it went out of business. Now she flies a 757. This was one of the Stones plane.
LOL!!!!
All of the years you've been posting here and you never got around to posting this? My Dad used to take us to Foxes games at the old stadium on Spencer Street - it was named "Good..." something or other, too lazy to look it up. Anyway, there was a period of time when the Foxes became the farm club for Seattle and I went to one last game at the old stadium before the advent of the Timber Rattlers and their new stadium out on Hwy 41. I got an autographed ball that night from the Mariner's hottest prospect - a guy named Alex Rodriquez. Didn't think much of it and just displayed on my desk at the Credit Union. Needless to say, it disappeared along with my autographed copy of Ron Wolf's book.
Goodland field. Owned by the Family of the Female Gym teacher, Mary Beth Neinhaus, at Appleton West.
After being around so-called "celebs" for a period of time you begin to realize that they're not nearly the person that the public sees. Some are much better than that image while others are a total disappointment. You also begin to realize that despite all the accolades they get, many of them are all alone because of the fame. It makes you wonder if all that they have is really worth it. They don't really have any friends, all they have is those around them who want a piece of what they have but will never truly be their friend.
You are so right. So many of them crave just normal interaction with people. Not the fanboy type of stuff. They are, after all, just humans like everyone else.
You mentioned Oshkosh and the air show. I had an old friend who died several years ago who was deeply involved in the air show. He held several positions within the organization. He was actually a musician. His name was Bill Dalton. He was a member of an old New Jersey band named The Royal Teens. They put out the song, "Short Shorts." He turned being a musician and a couple of tours with the group into a degree in engineering.
Nice Boss. I would say 1970 or so.You mentioned Oshkosh and the air show. I had an old friend who died several years ago who was deeply involved in the air show. He held several positions within the organization. He was actually a musician. His name was Bill Dalton. He was a member of an old New Jersey band named The Royal Teens. They put out the song, "Short Shorts." He turned being a musician and a couple of tours with the group into a degree in engineering.
I had a lot of evenings where I sat around with Bill while he picked out different songs, some that he'd written himself. He was a real talent but had befriended Buddy Holly & Richie Valens during a tour and it hit him hard when they died. It soured him against staying in music. Anyhow, his first love was engineering. He loved designing things. But he could also write some darned good music and had his own little studio in his home in Illinois.
He'd become popular in Oshkosh because he'd sit and play music at night. He was also a mainstay at Blackhawk Farms Raceway. He also had a fantastic Mustang that was his pride and joy. He was one of the good guys in the business who gave as good as he got.
To get an idea of the man, here's his obituary and a bit about his Mustang. He loved taking it to shows. He was a busy man with a busy life and an amazing number of friends. I'm proud to say I was one of those closest to him. I was one of the few people he felt comfortable telling about his own troubles.
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Here's his car. It was beautiful. He won a lot of trophies with it.
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I remember Short Shorts. They had that girl in shorts singing it with the band. Lot of fun.You mentioned Oshkosh and the air show. I had an old friend who died several years ago who was deeply involved in the air show. He held several positions within the organization. He was actually a musician. His name was Bill Dalton. He was a member of an old New Jersey band named The Royal Teens. They put out the song, "Short Shorts." He turned being a musician and a couple of tours with the group into a degree in engineering.
I had a lot of evenings where I sat around with Bill while he picked out different songs, some that he'd written himself. He was a real talent but had befriended Buddy Holly & Richie Valens during a tour and it hit him hard when they died. It soured him against staying in music. Anyhow, his first love was engineering. He loved designing things. But he could also write some darned good music and had his own little studio in his home in Illinois.
He'd become popular in Oshkosh because he'd sit and play music at night. He was also a mainstay at Blackhawk Farms Raceway. He also had a fantastic Mustang that was his pride and joy. He was one of the good guys in the business who gave as good as he got.
To get an idea of the man, here's his obituary and a bit about his Mustang. He loved taking it to shows. He was a busy man with a busy life and an amazing number of friends. I'm proud to say I was one of those closest to him. I was one of the few people he felt comfortable telling about his own troubles.
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Here's his car. It was beautiful. He won a lot of trophies with it.
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Bill wrote over a half dozen songs that charted. He didn't write Short Shorts, but he wrote over a half dozen that charted, and he ended up getting royalties until the day he died. Their group was actually performing for a couple of summers on the Jersey shore before they hit it with that song. He had a tough time convincing himself that he wanted to go on tour. He wasn't into the groupie stuff or a drinker. He was low key and preferred going home after they played gigs. In those days, they traveled from town to town in a bus and did most of their sleeping on the buses, not having much time to settle in from one place to another. The tours consisted of several acts in those days, and they all had to pitch in and get the work done from stop to stop.
This happened to my uncle, not me, but it's still a great "brush with greatness" story that involves the Oshkosh Air Show.
Yup. When you talk about aviation, that's all the matters. At Oskosh, I met Yeager, Boyington, the Japanese guy who claimed he shot Boyington down. And many other famous people in aviation. Just talking like normal humans. No pictures were taken, no autographs requested. Just a love of what we were talking about. One of the reasons I love going to the show. You never know who you will run into.
