The CandyMan
Dec 2002
 It's love baby!
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Met and lifted weights with Metallica back in April of 1989. Guys came walking in unannounced to the Y-Center, in Battle Creek, Mi, free weights room. Only 4 of us in there at the time so we got to spot for a few of the guys. Hatfield was a beast. All the guys were pretty laid back and cool as hell. Got a pair of workout gloves signed by all four guys at the time. Newsted was actually born in Battle Creek and considered it his hometown. Spent some time as a kid at the Y as well which was the reason they stopped by for a workout. That and the Kellogg Arena hotel, McCamly Plaza Hotel, didn't have a decent workout facility at the time from what they told us lol. Got backstage passes (already had tickets for them, Queensryche, another favorite band of mine, was opening for them) and got to hang with them backstage after the show. Best fucking concert I've ever been to in 30 years. These guys actually got the key to the city because this concert was the first one to completely sellout Kellogg Arena.
Met my 5th cousin, Kathleen Quinlan back in 1975. Related on my dad's side, we made a trip out west and stopped by her parents house though I don't remember exactly where (was only 8 at the time). Probably best known for playing Marilyn Lovell in Apollo 13 though I remember my dad always talking about her part in American Graffiti.
Meet and shook hands with Ronald Reagan 3 months before the 1980 Presidential Election. Dad had to go to a federal building for some work in D.C. (where we lived at the time) on a Saturday and told me Reagan would be stopping through and would I like to meet him? Not knowing too much about the election being only 13 I still knew that everyone was saying this guy would be the next president so of course I said yes.
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