Its wierd and quite apt that several coincidences led to this event (I'll explain using that word later.) This last couple of months I have been looking for some headphones (not vintage initially) and that led me to posting on this forum. Then Monsterzero linked me to a review of the Sextett on youtube which I watched.
Then on the right I saw "Rush - Moving pictures first listen reaction" from the WeabooReacts channel which I thought was quite cool so I searched on his channel to see what else he had reacted to on his "first listen" and there were quite a few so I listened to loads of them. Its quite a good feeling watching someone react to hearing music that you love.
Then the sextetts arrived so I listened to loads of stuff and asked for suggestions from Monsterzero to listen to and he pointed me to this thread.
So the today I had to go into town (I live in city but Brits say "going into town") to get some plain swimming shorts for the boys school because nowhere else sells any without logos (not allowed logos) and they need them tomorrow. While I was walking around town I thought I would pop into all the charity shops seeing if there were any vintage headphone bargains in them. This led me to walk uphill and after going in about 10 charity shops without any success (not a single pair of heaphones other than cheapo modern buds) I thought I had better go home.
As I was uphill and it was a 10 minute walk back down the hill to the bus station I cursed to myself and decided to continue up the hill and walk home (about 2 miles/30 minutes) as I would get home a few minutes earlier than the bus would get me home (walking down the hill/waiting for bus/bus travelling through the city centre when the roads are gridlocked.)
Uphill Lincoln City Centre is the historic "cathedral quarter" where there is the Cathedral and the Castle and it is all very posh and nice with little gift shops, Whiskey connoisseur shops, posh ladies boutiques, proper tailors etc. You get the picture.
THE EVENT: So I walked past all that and just as I was walking past the Cathedral I saw a tall "blonde" man with long hair and a grey beard walking out of the Eastgate hotel with a few people. I recognised him and smiled as he was approaching me. He obviously saw I had recognised him and said in the politest soft voice "hell" and smiled at me. I replied a "squeaky hello" back to him. A couple of the others looked like they might be people I should recognise but I didn't. They obviously can;t be as high up the "Legend" order as this chap was.
So looking for headphones led me to this site, this site led me to vintage headphones and WeeaboReacts, WeeaboReacts led me to listen/watch him listen to several albums for the first time.........including one that this chap played on. Being led to vintage headphones on this forum was what made me think about looking in the charity shops and walking up the hill and thus walking home rather than getting the bus. So without all that I would never have met the chap I speak of.
I hope this isn't an anti-climax when I name him. I should say I call it an event because this is Lincoln and you do not get legendary stars walking around Lincoln.
One of the albums Weeabo reacted to was "Yes-Closer to the edge" and the guy I recognised instantly within a second of first glancing from at least 100 yards was.............
..............Rick Wakeman. I walked home in a very upbeat mood when I had been feeling a bit down until that point.
Now I will have to find out what he is doing in Lincoln (no-one comes here without a reason) and will no doubt find out that 2 or 3 of the others (He was in a group of about 7 people) that looked like they maybe ageing musicians were people I really should be recognising to thoughts in my head of "no way, how did I not recognise him."
