Elizabeth's Close Encounters of the Rock Star Kind

OK, so I go 28 years of my life without meeting anybody famous and now I have to make up for lost time...

meeting Van Halen (Balance tour)

October 7, 1995

Yup, here are Ray and I hanging with our close, personal friends,Van Halen. ;-) Actually, this is us backstage at a Van Halen "Meet and Greet" in San Bernadino, California. I had won passes to get backstage in an online sweepstakes! Unfortunately, Ray and I didn't get any real chance to interact with the guys. A Van Halen Meet and Greet is a total "cattle call" and I think our time with the band lasted all of two minutes. That was just enough time to pose for a picture and for me to touch Sammy Hagar's hair as I was taking my hand off of his shoulder. LOL! Love that hair, Sammy!

with Joe Elliott

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with Rick Savage
(click above!)

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with Phil Collen

October 23, 1995

Thanks to a cyberpal, I had the good fortune to attend the Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada leg of Def Leppard's "Three Continents in One Day" promotional tour. It was an acoustic show in a small club--what a thrill it was to be up close at such a unique Lep event! And what a thrill it was to meet the band backstage after the show.

August 5, 1997

with Brad Gillis

with Jeff Watson

Here it is two years later and my newest musical obsession comes in the form of my rediscovery of Night Ranger. I had been a big Night Ranger fan in the mid 80s, but was struck with "'Sister Christian' burn-out" and hadn't given them much thought since. Until June of 1997, that is, when Ray and I saw them live at Chicago's House of Blues. That show just blew me away and I was back to being a huge Night Ranger fan. I just had to see them live again, so Ray and I road tripped to see them play in Indianapolis, Indiana. That's where the above pictures were taken.

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Photo courtesy of Amy Williams. Thanks, Amy!

July 29, 1998

Here's me with Night Ranger's Jeff Watson again. This was after Night Ranger's Ft. Wayne, Indiana show. What a fun time that was! Jack Blades even acknowledged me from the stage! For the full story, click here. For pictures from the show, click here.

Interested in finding out more about Jeff Watson, one of rock's best guitarists? Check out my friend Amy Williams' Jeff Watson Page .

But Waite, there's more! Click here for Page 2!

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