There was a rumor circulating around the Baltimore suburb of Catonsville that Glenn Danzig had attended the high school there, but the alumnus in question turned out to be a DIFFERENT Glen Danzig.

I'm not aware of any rock personalities coming out of my particular high school other than the guys in the Scott Farkus Affair, but as they've broken up that's barely relevant.

Charleton Heston went to my school.

So did Jay Ryan from Dianogah, and some guys from Pinebender, and one of the drummers of the Smashing Pumpkins.

So did Greg Norman.

James Iha (Smashing Buttheads)

Bob Rising (Poster Children, Seam, Hardvark, Bob Rising's Scenario, Bob Rising and The Blisters, and apparently he played bass in the Cells breifly?!?!)

and then in the not-nearly-as-reknown category would be:

all five members of Fakir --> all three members of Pony vs Tiger

all 5 members of what is certainly the most dominant band on the chicago scene right now, The YesMen.

Tim Lydon, one of the drummers who's playing with the 2 ex-Pistol Whipped kids in that karaoke band The Hootnanners

Chris from Smoke Off Vinyl

so yeah, only a couple bigshots, but definitely a handful of smaller-shots.

oh yeah - just remembered: i also went to school with someone who later turned out to be a page-three model! (for those not in the know (americans), certain british 'news'-papers take it upon themselves to have a topless lady on page three of their papers. odd.)

Mayfair wrote:My highschool had:

Angie Harmon (Law & Order)

AND Stephanie Marsh, former "Law and Order SVU" ADA, currently the wife of well-known chef and turdsponge, Bobby Flay. Coincidence? Conspiracy?

A friend of mine went to Arlington Heights HS in Ft Worth, who's alumni include both John Denver and Lee Harvey Oswald.

mb

Andrew Weatherhead wrote:Charleton Heston went to my school.

So did Jay Ryan from Dianogah, and some guys from Pinebender, and one of the drummers of the Smashing Pumpkins.

So did Greg Norman.

Andrew, if you went to New Trier you can add Liz Phar to your list as well, right?

And Kris Bataille, Urge Overkill's pre-Blackie drummer.

(And John Upchurch from the Coctails, too....)

matthewbarnhart wrote:

Mayfair wrote:My highschool had:

Angie Harmon (Law & Order)

AND Stephanie Marsh, former "Law and Order SVU" ADA, currently the wife of well-known chef and turdsponge, Bobby Flay. Coincidence? Conspiracy?

A friend of mine went to Arlington Heights HS in Ft Worth, who's alumni include both John Denver and Lee Harvey Oswald.

mb

Matt, did you go to Highland Park too? How old are you? Did we know each other or am I old enough to be your...older brother? ... ahem.

Mayfair wrote:My wife went to an arts magnet school i Dallas which had:
Roy Hargrove (grammy award winning jazz trumpeter)
Erykah Badu (booty shakin' singer)
Edy Brickell (singer and wife of Paul Simon)
Nora Jones (popular singer, daughter of Ravi Shankar)

Again, not a ton of the rock but pretty impressive...

I also went to the same high school as Mark's wife.

In addition to the above list, we also had:
Patrick Sugg (he transferred)
most of the New Bohemians
Aaron Comess (Spin Doctors)
God's Property (Gospel Group)
John Koen

Again, not a ton of the rock..

Bitty McLean went to my senior school.


I'm sure you all know him, he had one pop-reggae song in the charts about ten years ago called "If It's Raining, It's Raining" or something.

He opened for UB40!

So, who wants to touch me?

I went to the same high school as Leslie Neilson. There’s a floor-to-ceiling mural of him straddling an airplane in a tuxedo. The airplane is bursting through an enormous Canadian flag and there is a speech bubble which was graffitied so often that it was painted black. I wrote an essay about it that would slay yr face off.