Mark Knopfler
Many, many, many years ago - when Dire Straits were still going, yet Knopfler had started touring with the Notting Hill-billies, me and a few mates went along to a local small concert venue to watch them.

One of my mates was THE, not just any, but THE biggest Dire Staits fan. He virtually ran their fan club, and had EVERYTHING they had every recorded - including bootlegged recordings of virtually all of their concerts - I mean obscure recordings from gigs in countries that most of us hadn't even heard of let alone able to spell.

So....of course, this meant that we had to hang around at the end of the Hillbillies concert just in case we might catch a glimps of the man Knopfler himself.

Sure enough, word gets to him that his biggest fan is hanging around outside and wants to say hello.

Mark walks out to meet us. He walks up to Alan (the biggest fan ever) shakes his hand and says hello. Alan, says, "I'm the chap who's virtually running the fan club."

To which, Mark replies, "So, you're the lanky streak of piss that's selling the bootlegs in the back pages of the magazine!??"

Luckily he was just fucking with him - it WAS him doing the selling, but Knopfler just seemed amused by it rather than anything else!
(dchurch bah, Fri 9 Oct 2009, 12:33, Reply)