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Q: which musician has made you the most star struck upon meeting them in person?

A:
Star struck has always been an odd thing for me. It's subjective for everyone but I tend to find actual "Stardom" does not factor in for me at all. Back in 2000 I was selling t-shirts on Warped Tour and there were some huge acts on the line up (Green Day, NOFX, Weezer), all of whom I'd run into from time to time. Being in sort of an odd phase, I wasn't really that into any of the main bands at that time, so asking Billie Joe to move his chair so I can get by with a box of t-shirts wasn't a stunning thing to me. That statement isn't just to brag, but to note who I was absolutely star struck by. On that tour I met Chuck Ragan. It probably wasn't more than 3 words and at the time it didn't really register because I wasn't a HWM fan. After the tour I started to look into the band because they were so nice on the tour. Needless to say I was absolutely hooked on them. I kicked myself regularly for not taking full advantage of the opportunity to really talk to them on the tour.

Fast forward to 2006 and I have the chance to interview Chuck, post-HWM break up and pre-Solo record. I could not have been more nervous (if you check out the interview I actually completely forgot that HWM covered "Bleeder"...so smooth). This is a guy I saw every day for two and a half weeks in 2000 and didn't think twice about but 6 years of listening to his music and following his band had made me a total nerd, fanboy and speaking to him seemed like an insurmountable obstacle. Luckily it all went well but it was still stunning for me, not because Chuck was somehow more famous but he was such an important figure to me that I couldn't imagine he would talk to me.

I'd probably also get nervous talking to the dude from Third Eye Blind.

-Rich

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