and if you are too young to know what I'm talking about he is the one playing the drums ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFg5RkCQ8Xs ... Glastonbury 2013, often thought to be the best performance ever on that stage (well the greatest for a band with an average age of 70! 
) Wow amazing brush with fame. I guess there are all sorts of people and bumping into anyone interesting (whether or not famous) is always the fun of travel. But bumping into an interesting Strolling Bone, I mean, that's gold.firlandsfarm wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:57 pmI was taking the Eurostar to Marseille a few years ago. There was only one other guy in our part of the coach and we struck up conversation, it was Bill Wyman going to Roger Moore's funeral. I was lucky enough to share 5 hours chatting with him and while we didn't talk 'Stones all the way (he is a lover of Banksy's work and has 2 originals) he did share insights into their early career.
I wonder if his recollection was similar.firlandsfarm wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:57 pmThere was only one other guy in our part of the coach and we struck up conversation, it was Bill Wyman going to Roger Moore's funeral. I was lucky enough to share 5 hours chatting with him and while we didn't talk 'Stones all the way
Yeah, I didn't recognise him ... the jet black hair has shall we say gone 'lighter' and he readily confessed to having left before they started earning the mega money but that he was attending Roger Moore's funeral and having 2 Banksy originals acquired direct from the artist shows he has kept his foot in the door so to speak. I think we chatted so naturally for so long because he didn't stand on a Rolling Stones pedestal and we didn't swoon and keep on about the 'Stones, it was just a normal convo with a stranger on a train!gazuty wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 1:28 amWow amazing brush with fame. I guess there are all sorts of people and bumping into anyone interesting (whether or not famous) is always the fun of travel. But bumping into an interesting Strolling Bone, I mean, that's gold.firlandsfarm wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:57 pmI was taking the Eurostar to Marseille a few years ago. There was only one other guy in our part of the coach and we struck up conversation, it was Bill Wyman going to Roger Moore's funeral. I was lucky enough to share 5 hours chatting with him and while we didn't talk 'Stones all the way (he is a lover of Banksy's work and has 2 originals) he did share insights into their early career.
ShaunWhite wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:04 amI wonder if his recollection was similar.firlandsfarm wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:57 pmThere was only one other guy in our part of the coach and we struck up conversation, it was Bill Wyman going to Roger Moore's funeral. I was lucky enough to share 5 hours chatting with him and while we didn't talk 'Stones all the way
"I found a nice quite part of the coach to contemplate Roger and the purpose of life, and this geezer came over and chewed my ear off for FIVE hours! thank god he didn't just want to talk about work like the rest of them"
Just kidding obv firlands, apart from having different jobs these people are no different to you or I, I'm sure he enjoyed talking to someone just on a regular level otherwise you'd have got 5mins instead of 5hrs. They get surrounded by so many sycophants so if you just treat them like normal people they respond better than you'd think, as you found.
