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Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 09:05:31 -0500
From: Chris Michalek
Subject: Appraoching Famous People was What do you wear?

carroll tipper wrote:

> Would there have been any problem with you approahing
> her and thanking her for coming out to see the band?
> These are types of things I'm trying to convey. It is
> all professionalism
>

Regarding Bonnie Raitt at my gig....

I think I would have been totally out of line to approach her. I didn't
invite her and didn't know she was in town. I highly doubt she was there
to
see Jon or myself. In fact we were making fun of her (privately) because
we
thought she was just a woman who had a Bonnie Raitt thing going on.

Although she was sitting at the table next to my wife it was obvious
that
she was being a private person. Even when she mentioned my hat she
didn't
have anything else to say other than she like the hat. No comments on
the
music or anything else. It would ahve been very wrong of me to approach
her
for any reason unless invited. Her party left at the beginning of the
third
set and her brother gave my wife a hundred dollar bill to cover our
meals at
the table. The real question is this: Our resturant tab was covered by
the
club. So is that money a tip for the band? Or should it have been left
on
the table as a tip for the waiter? We left it as a tip for the waiter
and
effectively creating a Seinfeldian episode similar to the "big salad
skit"

The bottom line: Bonnie was a pro and acknowledged good music by picking
up
our bar tab and we were pros by not appraoching her which would have
amounted to nothing more than "star chasing"

Chirs