I went to high school with....

[malterb]

Was just looking at another post (Joan Jett) and someone said they went to high school with her. Thought that might make a cool thread.

Me, well went to high school with Ron Komie, a guitar player, he did briefly play with Asia.

[SteveSly]

Mmm……… no musicians that I know. The only famous person I went to high school with was Pete Metzelars who had a 15 year career in the NFL as a tight end for Seattle, Buffalo, Carolina and Detroit. He was our high school quarter back and led us to the state championship his senior year (we lost). I was in a couple of classes with him and he was a really nice guy. I was a band geek and he was a jock, but we always got along well,

This probably does not count, but Jason Newsted from Metallica went to our church growing up. He was enough younger than me, that I did not really know him well, but my sister and he used to hang around a bit.

[JKL2000]

Matthew Broderick

[NogbadTheBad]

A bunch of tossers.

[Jubal]

Actually I went to Elementary and Junior High School with comedian Pam Stone. She lived a few streets over. I went to her house one time to do homework. I don't recall how that came about other than my mother may have met her "mum" (who was very British) and asked if I could get some help (probably with math).
We studied in her room, and I embarrassed myself by asking why her bedspread was so short. "It's not a bedspread, it's a comforter." I had no clue what a comforter was, coming from blue collar roots.
She was supposedly on the sitcom "Coach", but I never saw it. I've only heard her a few times on radio stations. I see her occasionally post on FB on some old friends threads.

[Duncan Glenday]

The new princess of Monaco went to the same high school as I did.

Charlize Theron used to live catty - corner behind my parents.

Elon Musk went to the same high school as my Dad.

I'm sure the are more ... can't remember.

[mogrooves]

Katie Couric.

A guy with whom I played handball, and who just managed to graduate, went to Northern California and got rich in the pot bidness; retired at 30.

Matthew Broderick

I'm guessing he flunked Driver's Ed.

[progeezer]

While I never had a future celeb in my hs while I was there, my mother played Canasta with Sophie Caan for years. Her oldest child has done pretty well using his own name, although back then he was Jimmy instead of James.

I remember my mother telling me that Sophie told her & the other card players that Jimmy had just gotten his first big movie part, in a movie with Olivia DeHavilland ("Lady In A Cage").

When "The Godfather" film was released, there were 3 or 4 of us who knew Jimmy back when who all thought that Sonny Corleone was patterned after the way he was as a teenager. I'm 70, so Caan would be 74 now. When he was 15-16, he was a bully, who used to terrorize the younger kids (incl me) by taking their basketball and shooting until he was ready to give us back the ball.

We all said that playing Sonny wasn't acting for him.

Judy Holliday's ("Born Yesterday") mom (Mrs. Tuvim) lived on the next block from my family when I was a tyke, and Judy lived there when I was too young to care.

[Gerhard]

Willy Porter. He was a year ahead of me, but I saw him in the high school cafeteria all the time, playing his acoustic, which it seemed like he brought to school every day. He had a big red afro back then. He went on to release several albums on various labels in the 90's and 00's, but I guess he's indie now. I'd describe him as a bluesy folk singer/songwriter, but Ian Anderson and Martin Barre have both played on his albums. Here's his latest on Bandcamp (Barre plays lead guitar on track 10):

https://willyporter.bandcamp.com/

He's a pretty nifty guitarist, here's one of his many youtube videos:

[nosebone]

I graduated in 1980 with Steve Young ,NFL quarterback, Michael Matijevik, 80s hair metal band Steel Heart vocalist and my good friend Rob Mathes who composes, arranges and produces artists as diverse as Sting, Panic at the Disco, Rod Stewart and was bandleader for Obamas 2008 inauguration concert.

[rcarlberg]

So far as I know, the most famous person I went to school with was a 2nd or 3rd cameraman on a couple of slasher movies in Hollywood back in the 1980s. He was an uber-geek in high school, we all threw wet paper towels at him.

Oh and another guy came to our 20th reunion wearing gold chains and a shirt unbuttoned to the waist. Told everyone he was a big porno producer. He might have been, for all I care.

[Nijinsky Hind]

Audi Desbrow... Long time drummer for GREAT WHITE. We graduated in 1975... Helluva nice guy.

[Reid]

...4000 people I haven't seen in 35 years! One of them did become an NFL player. Pete Holohan, who played for San Diego.

[JKL2000]

My son went to school with kids of Art Garfunkle and Mel Brooks (grand kid actually), and he was friends with Don Imus' son - those were some interesting play dates. Some others I can't remember.

I went to school with kids of Roy Scheider, Gene Wilder, Arthur Penn (director), and more.

[GuitarGeek]

Nobody famous went to my high school while was there, but we've had quite a few sort of famous or at least semi-famous people who went also went to Cleveland Heights High, including various politicians, one four star general, a couple NFL players, the founder of Cablevision and HBO, and also actress Sean Young. So basically we got the chick from Stripes and Blade Runner, and a bunch of also rans, as far as I'm concerned.

[Mister Triscuits]

High school and college with Nathan East.

[Rarebird]

I went to school with Ad van der Kouwe, who did the cover for the first Pythagoras album after the original cover was discontinued, because of legal troubles. The original cover was used for the CD edition.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Varg Vikernes ("Count Grishnack"/Burzum). He lived in my neighbourhood, and chances are good that he even killed my cat - and I'm NOT kidding. Like all sociopaths that S.F.I. enjoyed torturing animals way into his teens. So much for the "musical genius" - took him a month's practice to learn an E flat chord on a guitar.

[Deano]

Rob Halford's younger brother

[JKL2000]

Varg Vikernes ("Count Grishnack"/Burzum). He lived in my neighbourhood, and chances are good that he even killed my cat - and I'm NOT kidding. Like all sociopaths that S.F.I. enjoyed torturing animals way into his teens. So much for the "musical genius" - took him a month's practice to learn an E flat chord on a guitar.

What a scumbag that guy is. I started reading that book about Norwegian metal bands and had to stop because it actually made me feel sick.

[Progbear]

Larry Lalonde (Primus) was in my P.E. class in high school. My sister used to go to parties with members of local heavy metal bands (Possessed, Clown Alley and guys who later became Metallica) and her main memory of Larry was him trying to make a drunken pass at her.

Apparently the guys from Green Day were freshmen during my senior year.

[Jubal]

Actually I went to Elementary and Junior High School with comedian Pam Stone. She lived a few streets over. I went to her house one time to do homework. I don't recall how that came about other than my mother may have met her "mum" (who was very British) and asked if I could get some help (probably with math).
We studied in her room, and I embarrassed myself by asking why her bedspread was so short. "It's not a bedspread, it's a comforter." I had no clue what a comforter was, coming from blue collar roots.
She was supposedly on the sitcom "Coach", but I never saw it. I've only heard her a few times on radio stations. I see her occasionally post on FB on some old friends threads.

I found this on YouTube. She starts at about 1:05.

[Lopez]

I went to Classical High in Providence from '67 to '71. Preston (Prep) Hubbard, the bass player for the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Roomful of Blues before that, sat next to me in the 10th grade. As a 10th-grader he played bass in the local band Napalm Sundae.

[Dana5140]

A few people. I went to high school with:

Doug Fieger- who played with Sky and Triumvirat before founding the Knack and writing "My Sharona." He lived 6 houses from me. Also, his brother Geoffrey is famous for being Jack Kevorkian's lawyer and running for governor of Michigan. I seem to recall he used to bully me.

Don Fagenson- better known as Don Was. Led Was (Not Was), won grammies for producing Bonnie Raitt and others, now is president of Blue Note Records.

David Weiss- the other half of Was (Not Was).

Curt Sobel- song writer and production fellow- has won Oscars, wrote songs and did production for the recent James Brown biopic and just won another award ar for sound production last week. From his FB page: "So proud of my great friend and partner Curt Sobel for his win last night at the MPSE (Motion Pictures Sound Editors) Awards for his outstanding work on "Get On Up". Thanks James Brown! Well deserved, Curt!!!"

Jeff Sachs- prize-winning economist and head now of the Earth Institute. Only 5'2" but basically one of the smartest people to ever graduate Oak Park High School. Hangs out with Bono.

And I should mention the late Steve Gore, who posted frequently here. Brother of Greg Gore, who was in my class. Greg played organ, with a fellow names Marc Silver, who is author of a number of great books on guitar playing, and who now plays with all sorts of great musicians- in a Charlie Byrd kind of way, which he was playing even back in the late 60s.

Duncan- Elon Musk is nephew to a good friend of mine, a doctor by the name of Scott Haldeman.

[Joe F.]

The actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Taking Woodstock, Watchmen, etc) was a year behind me.

Guitarist Adam Bomb (Brenner) was 2 years ahead of me. When I was a Freshman his cover band played our school. Their vocalist was Geoff Tate.