Celebrity sightings (was) And *I* didn't meet...

[mstattersall]

> Iggy here:
> You know, I never realized, before this thread, exactly how many 
famous people I've met...

How could I have forgotten my not one, but two, dressing room 
encounters with the ultimate music schlockmeisters, KISS? The first 
was in 1976 when I, as a representative of the local top-40 music 
radio station, escorted the 10-year-old winner of a "meet KISS in 
their dressing room" contest the station had sponsored. I herded the 
kid and his cadre of friends into the common room of the dressing 
area, where the band emerged in full makeup from the private area to 
pose for photos, then disappeared until concert time.

Two years later while on the local event staff of the municipal 
coliseum in another city, I was assigned to wardrobe during the KISS 
concert. I actually handled some of their costumes and boots, and 
also took a jumbo load of black socks to the nearby laundromat. This 
was before any of them actually allowed themselves to be seen without 
makeup, so I probably stood right beside them without knowing it.

In both incidents, the latter in particular, I have to say that my 
chief impression is that rock stars can get really, really, really, 
really, *stale.*  (Phew.)

For some reason this had totally slipped my mind; must be one of 
those "senior moments"--an expression you wouldn't expect to be used 
in the same paragraph with KISS. Time marches on.

Ms. Tattersall, 
who also "roadied" for Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 
John Denver, and others who did not smell quite as bad