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These are some of the people i have been lucky enough to meet over the past 20 years, all of them great people who were kind enough to give a little of their time to their fans.
This is me and Billy Redden, who was the banjo player in the classic Burt Reynolds film "Deliverance"
We found him working in a small diner in North Georgia after completing a cameo role in another movie "Big fish".
This is me with Hank Williams III after his gig in Sheffield, he was happy to sign my tattoo of his grandad, which i had tattooed over the next day!
Me and Tanya Tucker getting friendly at The Royal Garden Hotel,London 1987
HANK III AFTER HIS SIGNING !
PICTURED HERE WITH HANK III AND THE LEGENDARY PHIL KAUFMAN WHO WAS HANK III'S ROAD MANAGER, HE WAS BEST PALS WITH GRAM PARSONS AND WAS THE GUY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FAILED D.I.Y CREMATION OF GRAM AT JOSHUA TREE AFTER HIS UNTIMELEY DEATH, NOTHING SINSITER, IT WAS GRAMS WISH, BUT IT DIDNT QUITE TURN OUT RIGHT !
MY THIRD MEETING WITH JERRY LEE LEWIS HE WAS SIGNING MY CONCERT PROGRAM BACK AT HIS HOTEL AFTER HIS GIG AT CAMBRIDGE CORN EXCHANGE IN 1987 WHEN THIS WAS TAKEN BY MY MATE PETER CHECKSFIELD, AFTER THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN HE PLAYED FOR US ALL FOR ABOUT 3 HOURS ON THE HOTEL PIANO !HAPPY DAYS !
HERE WITH JERRY LEE AGAIN IN 1995 IN LONDON BACK AT HIS HOTEL.HAVING A LAUGH ABOUT SOMETHING !
TAKEN AT THE SAME TIME AS THE ABOVE PICTURE, AFTER HAVING A MORE OR LESS ONE ON ONE CONVERSATION ABOUT, HANK WILLIAMS, SAM PHILLIPS AND ELVIS PRESLEY, ITS ABOUT 2.AM AND A NIGHT THAT WILL STAND OUT AS ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE IN MY LIFE, SUCH A GENTLEMAN IS JERRY LEE !! HIS ROAD MANAGER HOWEVER WAS A RIGHT MISERY ! TRYING TO GET JERRY TO GO TO BED AS HE WAS TIRED,JERRY SAID "IF YOU CANT STAND THE PACE BOY..YOU GO TO BED I CAN LOOK AFTER MYSELF!" HE RESIGNED OR WAS FIRED SOON AFTER !
PICTURE WITH LEGENDARY GUITARIST JAMES BURTON WHO WAS PLAYING LEAD FOR JERRY LEE, THIS WAS TAKEN AFTER A CONCERT AT HAMMERSMITH ODEON IN 1989 WHICH WAS VIDEOED AND RELEASED AS "THE KILLER LIVE", GUESTS WHO SHARED THE STAGE WITH JERRY THAT NIGHT WERE, BRIAN MAY OF QUEEN, DAVE DAVIES OF THE KINKS, DAVE EDMUNDS AND VAN MORRISON AMONGST OTHERS, IT WAS A WHO'S WHO BACK AT THE HOTEL THAT NIGHT !! LOOK AT THAT QUIFF OF MINE !! TOOK AGES TO GET IT RIGHT...BUT BY THIS TIME OF NIGHT, IT WAS DROOPING A BIT !!
With Heather Myles, one of my favorite female singers after her gig at the Embassy in Sheffield 2003.
Met Leapy Lee singer of hit song "little arrows" in a bar in Majorca summer 2006, this was taken after he had finished his 90 minute show which was most enjoyable!
With one of my favorite 80's rockabilly bands "The Jets" taken on my birthday in march 2006.
