Originally Posted by Trollheart

Pictures or it didn't ... oh, wait.

Seriously though, cool story and I reckon you were very fortunate. Gonna put that in your memoirs?

You know who's gonna hate you/be so jealous? Plankton.

Originally Posted by grindy

I hate him as well.
Feels dumb to start a new thread just for some story.
I got to hang out with Riverside, fainted and got laughed at by them, but you don't see me bragging.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by grindy

Feels dumb to start a new thread just for some story.
I got to hang out with Riverside, fainted and got laughed at by them, but you don't see me bragging.

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

I'm not bragging, just relating a story about musicians on the Music Bantor forum. Suck's that Piotr Grudziński died last year. Really dug his style and playing. I own everything by those guys.

Originally Posted by elphenor

Guys once I hung out with Jennifer Aniston(at whatever age you find her most attractive) but the one rule was NO PICTURES!!

Which was a shame because she blew me three times!

Originally Posted by elphenor

just relating a story

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

About 3 years ago my company was doing some small business with this dude who happened to know Van Halen's long time guitar tech Matt Bruck. He calls us one day and says that Eddie and Alex would like to drive down from LA to check us out and talk about maybe developing a bluetooth stereo speaker system that they would brand and sell online:

Van Halen Store - Huge Selection of Official Merchandise & Memorabilia

A meeting is set up and the only demand made is NO PICTURES whatsoever. Our entire staff is briefed on this. The day comes and BAM, Eddie, Alex, Matt, and the dude are in the lobby. Me, another engineer, my boss, and the owner give them a tour of the company, including our anechoic chamber and lab, then did a demo of some of our products in our listening room, and then we head upstairs to the conference room for the meeting.

Discussed a bunch of stuff for about 2 hours. Got to talk directly with Eddie a number of times about stuff like transformers and their affect on tone, the quality of China components compared to made in USA, and some general music chat. I had the chance to tell him about the impact that VH1 had on me as a 17 year old guitarist - which made him smile that famous smile.

Impressions?

1. I always though Alex was a big guy cause he always looked so much bigger than Eddie in pictures. Nope. Eddie is just a pretty small dude.

2. Alex is 100% the dominant of the two. I got the sense that he's extremely protective of Eddie and is very cautious that no-one tries to **** with him.

3. Eddie is pretty burned out. I mean he definitely had a very large presence but he had trouble articulating at times and would go off on weird tangents.

4. After a couple of hours the star factor wears off and you realize that they are just a couple of very cool guys to hang out with.

All in all a very awesome afternoon.

Originally Posted by mord

Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.

Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Wow you got to talk to EVH about TRANSFORMERS!!!!

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Sheesh! Next you'll be saying Eddie is a (puts on robotic voice) "Guitar player in disguise!"

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.