Right then to quote morrissey, "Now my heart is full". I went to the IB gig at the House of Blues in L.A. a 10min walk from my house. Didnt bother to turn up for the horrid opening act. Time I got there Ian came on in bout 20min. Fantastic gig, as it was my first time seeing him ever. Did all the classic Roses stuff and some good solo new and old stuff aswell. During the gig I decided to give him the two finger salute that cought his eye and smiled.
By the end of the gig I decided to try and meet the man himself. Well as I waited I met up with some other fans. We stayed together and smoked some weed. Well a nice couple passed us up and offered there ViP passes to us, course we snapped them up and head upstairs to the ViP lounge. We staked out the place and heard Ian was in one the dressing rooms. As we opend every door we finaly hit jack pot (pot literally) a cloud of Kronic let out from one of the rooms and we just knew that be the one. Sure enough, I spoted Monkey boy himself right by the door. We strolled on in (and no particular order) introduced ourselfs to Ian was in the mists of the convo. with James and the lads from Starsailor who are recording in Conway records in L.A. right now. When all the sudden Ian and my friend started to roll up some spliff. Ians an expert by the way.
He had a dead nice outfit, Dark Blue wrangler baggy jeans and t shirt and white sweat shrit with an Black leather adidas jacket on (one hes been picture in lately) oh and ofcrouse his Adidas Super Star 35th Anniv. kicks
His as tall as I am 5'10
We talked about his wife being from the same state in Mexico my family is from.
How I dig the fact that hes f**k admired by millions he goes out on the road and NEVER takes off his wedding band. And how I thought he is a cool dad to his kid and his wife. His responce was " Ya know I came from nothing in a nothing place I met me wife and fell in love then we had our son and he changed me life. I love them both. D'you know wha I mean? Its the best feeling in the world" and I quote all that.

Dont know but from being in that ViP room for about an hour chatting with him he just felt like a normal dude. Not Ian Brown "Mr. Stone Roses"
He signed my City of Manchester Map. Refused to sign my City Jersey.

We talked bout weed. TONS of weed. He rolled 2 very fat spliffs.

Took down my home address and promised to send me a pair of his Ian Brown Adidas Super Star edition kicks asked my size (7.5us) and said he thinks he has a size 8uk and hell get me sorted on them.

I said my goodbye and he walked me out and said "Jil Dont ever change stay the way you are I loved it" and then I replied "Thank you very much Ian youve changed my life with your music keep on monkeying around" And he replied back with a smile and ape noise..

ps He kept telling me I wore the wrong colors (city blue) that I should of worn red instead he did some ManUnited jig for me and my friends and one his crew whos a city supporter but, was cool with it cos he dug my precense.

Dead nice and offered us water sodas and his spliff. He wasnt like all passed out sipping hard booze just spliff. Nice one.

Said his choice of weed is American AK47 and some Mexican weed.,....cant member the full name but he said it was Diamond something? (Any one?)

pps We talked bout Johns artwork he said its the best f**k artwork ever.

I gave him stick for not playing "Getting High" and "So many Soldiers"
he jocked "they wouldnt let me play longer".

~Oasis stuff~
I told him it was tight that he had Noel on the album he said theyd done 2-4 songs but, kept only "Keep what you got"

I asked him about how the NME and the like tryed to start up some BS rivalry between The Roses and Oasis back in the day. He told me a story that happend with him, mani, Liam and Noel. He said he'd gotten word the day before that the NME was gonna print a huge front page story on how Oasis and the roses hated eachother well they all went out to a pub in London got really pissed and as they exited all the photogs were ready to snap pics of any celebs passing by well Noel got Ian up on a piggy back ride and same with Mani picking up Liam. Well the NME saw the pics and decided not to run the story thtat was to go to print the very next day.

He told me Noel played him the new album and that "its all fckin double magic you kids are gonna be thrilled". I told him Im not a kid, I'll be 31 next month" and he goes "thats cool luv your still a kid cos Im 42"


He asked me if I was gonna make it to any of the UK Oasis gigs. I said I wasnt sure but, that I wanted too. He said Awe there gonna be mega, Im playing in some of them.


said his trying to learn more spanish cos he said its limited to "cerveza, musica, marijuana" (I spoke some spanish to him and he could answer back)

Also I have pictures can some one post them up for me on the site? I'll email them to you.