Haha... My dad was at a boat show a long time ago with a friend. They had just come down a ladder leading to a big yacht and were standing near the ladder. Clint comes up and starts to climb the ladder. My dad's friend said, "That's Clint Eastwood!" My dad says rather loudly, "Who's Clint Eastwood?" Clint is half way up the ladder and turns around and looks at dad... LOL. This is when he was in Rawhide so a long time ago.
Paul Anka heard me performing in Sun Valley and that led to signing a contract with him as my producer and manager, which in turn led to a contract with United Artists Records. All that fell apart eventually so I did something else, but it put me around lots of famous folk. Most were great, some were weird and a few were ass holes. I still do a LOT of music, almost every day, but I've a great day job. I never wanted to have music be my main gig and am glad for what I did. Yet I am one of the few that actually signed a major label contract, no one knows who I am (thank you very much, LOL) but I sure had a lot of fun and met a lot of folks in that whirlwind into professional music.
I was sitting in Merle Haggard's studio some time ago and is drummer and I were sitting on the couch. He turns to me and says, "So, how was Paul Anka, a nice guy?" and I said, "He was until he wasn't." We both laughed. Paul has a rep, you know. A keyboard player that I record with (still) worked with Paul. He says Paul made everyone around him and in the band call him Mr. Anka. I never did.. I always said, "Hey, Paul! Sup?" haha. Maybe that is why it all fell apart, LOL again......
Oh, it is a long and entertaining story.... But I'd rather it snow so I could drive the Cat....