I won't mention the assholes I know about but I'll mention some who were total sweethearts: Johnny Cash, Rick Wakeman, Keiko Matsui and Cub Koda. I never met the first two. My sister met Johnny, she was behind the scenes booking acts making sure they were comfortable (most of the ones she told me about she hated) but Johnny was a complete gentlemen and had this wonderful sense of humor and everybody there loved him.

My brother's band opened for Rick Wakeman and said, Rick showed up at the place 3 hours early to have a look at the board and check out the acoustics. He helped move other bands' equipment and would chat with you about virtually anything. At one point, he's talking with my brother about some problem his band was having with certain venue owners and asking him questions and giving him advice. My brother said he had to keep reminding himself that he was talking to the guy that did all that kickass keyboard work for Yes when he was in junior high school.

I met Keiko Matsui and her husband, Kazu, and they were just SO nice. Very polite and friendly people. And their band was all really nice folks as well. My brother spoke with the bassist for a about 45 minutes.

And I met Cub Koda. It was at the Soup Kitchen in Detroit. My party was sitting at a table right up in front of the stage and Cub comes out with Hound Dog Taylor's Houserockers--Brewer Phillips and Ted Harvey. We had a an empty chair at our table and during a guitar solo, he walks over and sits down in the chair while continuing to play and says hello to us. I never knew the guy could play such good blues. As soon as his set ended he walked over to our table and shook hands with each of us and thanked us for coming. After the show, he and the band came back out and talked with people and I got to meet the Houserockers too. I also met Cub's dad. Just some really nice, nice people.