In Reply to: RIP "Norm!".... posted by bluebellknoll on May 21, 2025 at 01:28:31
In the early 90's friends and I went to see Sam Myers play at the Palomino. Myers was an obscure blues guy from Mississippi who I'd seen several times and of whom I was a huge fan.
I was sitting at the bar. A guy comes in and sit downs next to me. As I do, I look over to nod at the guy that sits down - turns out it's George Wendt. I've had enough celebrity encounters and I'm not generally star-struck ... all I did was nod. Wendt goes "ohhhhh no, don't even think about it" Or something like that. I was thinking "wtf, dude? I just nodded - and really, I had no intention of striking up a conversation w/ Norm. I figured we're all Sam Myers fans here, and that is a very narrow pool of society. So, I nodded" I turned my back on Norm, faced the stage, and over my back I could hear Wendt blather on and on about .... me nodding.
I've read elsewhere that he was a doooosh.