Used to be a small-town newspaper reporter/photographer. A reporter and I were out doing the "Man in the Street" thing where you ask a person a question and post their response along with a picture.
We were in the local KMart while asking the question when we ask a guy with his little daughter. After I took his picture, I ask him his name. He said "Mark Farner". Like an idiot I ask him "THE Mark Farner, from Grand Funk?"
He just laughed and said "Yeah."
I talked with him for a while, told him I was a fan. Didn't ask for an autograph though. He was pretty cool.
Also had lunch with Ernie Harwell. See
this thread for that story.