My sister met Roger Dean last week

[MissMillie]

I think this is a pretty cool story...

My sis went to England to see Rick Wakeman perform The Six Wives of Henry VIII at Hampton Court (Henry VIII's castle). She had VIP tix and was hob-nobbing with Rick (she's met him several times) and the other performers.

She got to meet Roger Dean, who is the artists famous for his rock album covers, especially for Yes.







She asked for his autograph and he seemed pretty surprised that someone would want his autograph. She told him, well, I have your art on my leg, why shouldn't I want your autograph? And then she showed him her tattoo:



"Is that PERMANENT?" he asked.

[southpaw]

1. Most excellent!

I love Roger Dean's work. Several years ago, I used one of his Yes logos as my DU avatar. I'm gonn see if I can find it.

Here it is

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

2. Cool story

Roger Dean is a brilliant and visionary artist.

[no name no slogan]

3. NICE!

I've been a big fan of Roger's album covers since I was a lad in the 70s. In fact, I own several of them on vinyl.

Rick is a decent guy, too. Too bad he's a Tory, though ;)

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

4. Not surprised that Wakeman is a down to earth chap

He was stone broke at one point and sleeping on park benches. Had to sell all the rights to everything he'd written just to start to get back on his feet again. How in the blue hell can anyone who was that poor after being that rich be an effin' Tory? Though admittedly the Tories have come rather a ways since Maggie the Menace. Is is just me or when Thatcher was speaking did she always look like someone was holding a small turd under her nose?

[no name no slogan]

5. I didn't know that about Wakeman

And to be fair, the Tories in the UK are not the same party they were in the 80s. I have a friend over there who used to be a policy director for Greenpeace UK until last year, and he's a Tory. In fact, my friend stood for parliament in a constituency in Greater London in 2005 (and lost). Back in the early 90s, he was a Liberal Democrat, just because the Tories were so right wing back then.

And I think you're spot on about Thatcher. :thumbsup:

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

6. I didn't either, but I read it in his autobiography

"Say Yes." He hit rock bottom in the early 1980s and was extremely frank about it. He was apparently a boozer of truly epic proportions back in the day.