Re: Your favorite pipe smoking celeb (L or D)

[Johan.Stockholm]

I would have to say Stephen Fry. Fascinating man.

/JS

[Dedalus]

Stephen Fry is still up there, but now that I see Jacques Derrida was a pipe smoker, I'll have to put him in the top three:

[Emjaysmash]

I Kinda see a theme between Bass masters and Pipes....Hmmmmm

[morefifemusicanyone]

Originally Posted by dmkerr

In the spirit of good music (see my icon), my pipe smoking idol is saxophonist/composer Anthony Braxton. I'd go broke faster collecting all his music than I would only buying Dunhill pipes! The guy has got to be one of the most prolific recording artists ever.

I am not much of a Saxophone fan, but I will have to check it out.

I am assuming since he is also a composer that it is likely he is primarily Jazz (watchout for my biased stereotyped view of all saxaphonists as 80s rock ban wannabes).

I'm always up for some good Jazz.

Lately, I have been digging Andrew Hill. Good music to smoke by. Gotta go check if he smoked pipe.

-Tyler

[dmkerr]

Originally Posted by morefifemusicanyone

I am not much of a Saxophone fan, but I will have to check it out.

I am assuming since he is also a composer that it is likely he is primarily Jazz (watchout for my biased stereotyped view of all saxaphonists as 80s rock ban wannabes).

I'm always up for some good Jazz.

Lately, I have been digging Andrew Hill. Good music to smoke by. Gotta go check if he smoked pipe.

-Tyler

Braxton actually did a couple of discs of Andrew Hill's music within the last few years. Yeah, he's a jazz composer but it's hard to recommend any of his CD's to someone who's taste I'm not intimately familiar with. Braxton is kinda "out there". Shoot me a PM and I'll make you a sampler CD. It might help your further explorations or it might save you some money instead!

[SmokinJohnny]

Robert Plant. But I don't think he smoked the stuff we smoke.

[Hot Stuff x]

Sherlock Holmes, Sigmund Freud, Leprechauns

[ghe-cl]

Rocky, Jim Rockford's father in the "Rockford Files" series, was a pipe smoker. You can catch a glimpse of him with a pipe in the stills that run with the closing credits.

[IrishCamel81]

Military: MacArthur, Eisenhower
Literatre: Tolkien
Political: Reagan
Science: Einstein

[Requiem]

Don´t forget the guy in my avatar, Captain Haddock, from the Tintin comic books.

[doublebassmusician]

Are fictional people welcome?
Gandalf all the way.

[strider72]

Tolkien is the one that pointed me towards my love of pipes.

[Arizona]

Ronald Reagan smoked a pipe? Really? wow I never knew that! Anyone got pics of these folks with their pipes?

[IrishCamel81]

Originally Posted by Arizona

Ronald Reagan smoked a pipe? Really? wow I never knew that! Anyone got pics of these folks with their pipes?

He gave it up after he became gov of Ca. He replaced the pipe with Jelly Beans and then Jelly Belly's.
Fun fact: The blueberry flavor was invented for Reagans inauguration. So he could have red, white and blue.3

Fade in... Floyds, 'Wish you were here'

[maboman]

About 20 years ago when I was in high school in California, I used to work at a bowling ally that had a 50's themed diner attached to it. I remember a poster of President Reagan advertising Chesterfield cigarettes I thought it was pretty cool.

Ronald Reagan Chesterfield Cigarette Advertisements: Awesome Health Posters for Patriotic Kids! - WHITEHOUSE.ORG

Gerald Ford is as far as I know the only US President to appear with his pipe in his presidential portrait.

Maboman