re: #1675 cliffster

Did you? How’d that happen? Call my phone on 3-way next time that conversation comes up.. I’ve got some questions of my own.

well I’m a groupie…I get onto these tours and see several gigs in a row…and when you keep showing up, the sound guy, or manager, or security will let you get backstage….I’ve literally conned my way backstage with bullshit stories about catering problems or messages to deliver…the first time I met Hiatt was at the Ark in Ann Arbor years back….my buddy was show security so when everybody had to leave the place I just hung out and up walks Hiatt to the bar after signing a bunch of autographs…I bought him a beer and we just stood there and talked for about twenty minutes or more…a couple of others people were there but that was it…he was unwinding and relaxed…I met him at Norfolk a couple of years later under the same circumstances and he claimed to remember me!….from the Ark!….Hiatt is just a normal, country guy, concerned about his girls, his horses his family….he talked about music etc, but invariably most of the stars I’ve met are more interested in sports, home repairs and life away from recording and touring