Reply To: JoCopedia
It’s a fair question. At the first Great American Music Hall concert in S.F., when he stepped on stage to sing with P&S during “Chicken Man” (I think), he looked around the audience, saw me in the first row (dinner tickets are the best), stared for a half a beat, and then inclined his head in greeting. Since he could only see my front and my name is on my back, that showed he can at least pick me out of a crowd. Later, as I was returning to my seat at the beginning of his part of the show, he said something like “sit down Spiff!”, so it wasn’t just a case of him figuring he should know my face from somewhere (probably ;). And as I say, when I walk up to him now, he does call my name so I think he’s gotten used to me.
He and I correspond more frequently by email, usually about (a) new videos, or (b) someone contacting me wanting to do something with my videos that I figure JC should buy into before I agree (you wouldn’t believe how many times someone has contacted me saying that they wanted to pay me somehow to host or somehow show my videos, which I then turn around and get JC’s permission, only to have it fall through for one reason or another 🙁
But still, he lavishes his attention on those who seek it out, so if you’re at a concert and you want to shmooze with an Internet rock star, go up and talk to him. He’ll spend as much time with you as he can.