I don't know about showing devotion, but...
...I've had the good fortune to know one or two great musicians over the years. One of the nicest of these by far is Adrian Portas (played live guitar amongst other things for New Model Army during their big years) - his band War Machines of Love played a low key gig in The Dove and Rainbow in Sheffield a couple years ago. Got to meet the whole band and had a great ol' chat with Adrian about all sorts of things. An absolute gent. And the band rock. :-)

Other nice things have been mail conversations with Marky Ramone and Jake Burns, meeting Andrea Glass at a couple of local gigs, a lot of mail with Darryl Lee Rush, and also one of my songwriting heroes Sam Baker.

So...um...I've shown up at gigs and emailed folks :-) Thats devotion!
(TC, Fri 17 Apr 2009, 13:34, 1 reply)

Jake Burns = top bloke
Few years back I stopped off at a pub in Oxford on my way home for a cheeky pint and read of the paper.

Became aware of muso talk going on and a Northern Irish accent.

Well, SLF was the first band I ever saw live, so I ended up chatting with him - the band had played in the Midlands the previous night and were on the South Coast the next evening, so they were stopping over in Oxford.

Very pleasant half hour of conversation before I needed to get my bus.
(Capo, Fri 17 Apr 2009, 14:12, closed)