Hi all,
Thought I'd share with you a story about a chance meeting I had with Sheryl Crow. I spent 10 years in the U.S. Army. Happened to be in Bosnia in the winter of 1996 with the initial U.S forces. The USO organized for Sheryl to come visit the troops. This was the year after she had released TNMC so she was pretty popular at the time. Not sure if she happened to be touring Europe at that time or not. Anyway, it was arranged for Sheryl to visit our base camp (lucky us, Sinbad went to the others), so there were a lot of enthusiastic GIs awaiting her arrival.
Sheryl arrived by helicopter with acoustic guitar in tow. She did a meet and greet with the troops, making small talk and autographing publicity photos. She was taken to my unit's operations center to meet the guys there (since we couldn't leave our posts). Again small talk and publicity photos. Sheryl had on old jeans and a beat-up sweater, and a flak jacket I think. She also had helmet hair from wearing the Kevlar helmet. Just your normal rock-n-roll star.
When she was autographing my pub photo I told her I was a big fan of DB and enjoyed the work he did on her album. I also told her that Bedtime Stories was my all-time favorite album and asked her if she knew what DB was up to and if he had another album coming out. She said that she hadn't spoken to DB in a while, didn't know what projects he was in to at present, but had heard he had lost his record contract. Our conversation ended there. That just depressed the hell out of me. No more DB records ever, I thought.
After Sheryl left the ops center, the other guys were saying "Who's David Baerwald??" and ribbing me for making some intelligent (comparatively) conversation with Sheryl.
Sheryl then proceeded back outside where she played 4 or 5 songs for the troops. Just her and the acoustic guitar. It was pretty special given our circumstances. Kudos to the USO and Sheryl.
I've always wondered if Sheryl was somewhat surprised that someone knew who DB was, especially in a forsaken base camp in the middle of a war zone in eastern Europe. Just goes to show you -- DB is worldwide.
Cheers,
Kervo
Sheryl Crow in Bosnia
Kervo
location: Sterling, VA
listening to: Spotify
registered: 2001.02.19
posts: 133
[view all posts]
[view all posts]
K
Kervo
(view)
Hi all,
Thought I'd share with you a story about a chance meeting I had with Sheryl Crow. I spent 10 years in the U.S. Army. Happened to be in Bosnia in the winter of 1996 with the initial U.S forces. The USO organized for Sheryl to come visit the troops. This was the year after she had released TNMC so she was pretty popular at the time. Not sure if she happened to be touring Europe at that time or not. Anyway, it was arranged for Sheryl to visit our base camp (lucky us, Sinbad went to the others), so there were a lot of enthusiastic GIs awaiting her arrival.
Sheryl arrived by helicopter with acoustic guitar in tow. She did a meet and greet with the troops, making small talk and autographing publicity photos. She was taken to my unit's operations center to meet the guys there (since we couldn't leave our posts). Again small talk and publicity photos. Sheryl had on old jeans and a beat-up sweater, and a flak jacket I think. She also had helmet hair from wearing the Kevlar helmet. Just your normal rock-n-roll star.
When she was autographing my pub photo I told her I was a big fan of DB and enjoyed the work he did on her album. I also told her that Bedtime Stories was my all-time favorite album and asked her if she knew what DB was up to and if he had another album coming out. She said that she hadn't spoken to DB in a while, didn't know what projects he was in to at present, but had heard he had lost his record contract. Our conversation ended there. That just depressed the hell out of me. No more DB records ever, I thought.
After Sheryl left the ops center, the other guys were saying "Who's David Baerwald??" and ribbing me for making some intelligent (comparatively) conversation with Sheryl.
Sheryl then proceeded back outside where she played 4 or 5 songs for the troops. Just her and the acoustic guitar. It was pretty special given our circumstances. Kudos to the USO and Sheryl.
I've always wondered if Sheryl was somewhat surprised that someone knew who DB was, especially in a forsaken base camp in the middle of a war zone in eastern Europe. Just goes to show you -- DB is worldwide.
Cheers,
Kervo
Thought I'd share with you a story about a chance meeting I had with Sheryl Crow. I spent 10 years in the U.S. Army. Happened to be in Bosnia in the winter of 1996 with the initial U.S forces. The USO organized for Sheryl to come visit the troops. This was the year after she had released TNMC so she was pretty popular at the time. Not sure if she happened to be touring Europe at that time or not. Anyway, it was arranged for Sheryl to visit our base camp (lucky us, Sinbad went to the others), so there were a lot of enthusiastic GIs awaiting her arrival.
Sheryl arrived by helicopter with acoustic guitar in tow. She did a meet and greet with the troops, making small talk and autographing publicity photos. She was taken to my unit's operations center to meet the guys there (since we couldn't leave our posts). Again small talk and publicity photos. Sheryl had on old jeans and a beat-up sweater, and a flak jacket I think. She also had helmet hair from wearing the Kevlar helmet. Just your normal rock-n-roll star.
When she was autographing my pub photo I told her I was a big fan of DB and enjoyed the work he did on her album. I also told her that Bedtime Stories was my all-time favorite album and asked her if she knew what DB was up to and if he had another album coming out. She said that she hadn't spoken to DB in a while, didn't know what projects he was in to at present, but had heard he had lost his record contract. Our conversation ended there. That just depressed the hell out of me. No more DB records ever, I thought.
After Sheryl left the ops center, the other guys were saying "Who's David Baerwald??" and ribbing me for making some intelligent (comparatively) conversation with Sheryl.
Sheryl then proceeded back outside where she played 4 or 5 songs for the troops. Just her and the acoustic guitar. It was pretty special given our circumstances. Kudos to the USO and Sheryl.
I've always wondered if Sheryl was somewhat surprised that someone knew who DB was, especially in a forsaken base camp in the middle of a war zone in eastern Europe. Just goes to show you -- DB is worldwide.
Cheers,
Kervo
