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I dated this French pop singer girl before I moved to L.A.
About six months after I left I got an email from her asking if I was interested in coming back for a week and do a TV show with her.
Her plan was to become more of a rock singer and would be playing Heartbreaker the show to debut her new image.
She had a heavy French accent so I tried to help her pronunciation but it was still pretty brutal.
It was a live show but they recorded a safety show in the afternoon just in case there was a technical issue during the live.
This camera guy was trying to get a fancy shot that made it look like the camera was attached to the guitar.
He kept hitting my hand with his camera and then he stepped on my pedals.
I tried to back him up with a gentle hip check and ended up making him drop and break his camera.
30 seconds later security was escorting innocent Bart out of the building and I was replaced with the house band nerd.
She sent me an email the next morning say she was heartbroken.
I guess we are Heartbreaker brothers, @Rikki Gins
Click here for a picture of Pat:
https://www.last.fm/music/Pat+Benatar/+images/657f4165a3fb463b818faa8c25853360
That's the way she looked when she and her band performed at a local county fair, many years ago, I should add. We've had a lot of big names at the fair and it used to be you could wander about the grounds and watch the performers, or you could be part of a big crowd that gathered in front of the stage. Your choice. But then a rich, car dealership owner built an amphitheater and walled it in, and made you pay extra (after having already paid to gain entrance to the fair) to be able to see the performances. I remember Cheap Trick was the first band to play in the closed off setting.
Anyway, Pat Benatar and her band played at the fair when you didn't have to pay extra to watch. I wasn't all that big of a fan or anything, but I did like some of her songs and it was fun to see her belting them out as I walked about the fairgrounds. She started to sing Heartbreaker, just as I was walking next to the concert area, so I stopped to listen to the song. I still wasn't a part of the concert crowd, just a little bit off to the side, on a sidewalk. There was nobody around me.
She started to sing...
"You're a heartbreaker
Dream maker, love taker
Don't you mess around with me."
When she sang the words heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, she would point to various dudes in the audience. Then she started to repeat the verse and swung her arm away from the crowd and pointed right at me and sang, "You're a heartbreaker." Yes, Pat Benatar pointed at your Rikki Gins and called him a heartbreaker!
I've had a lot of fun memories of that fair, and that one with Pat was definitely one of them.
Robert P. Charles
Surgeon
@Rikki Gins I wanted to set occupation as Surgeon/Doctor but I am unsure if that is acceptable. ?