Taking a Machete to Elton Johns Fake Hair

Okay, so...that title might be a misleading, but it sounded catchy, didn't it?

Machete has come out, and it was as disappointing as I feared it would be. Great cast (gotta love Danny Trejo getting a lead part). The problem was--this worked as a funny, fake movie trailer in the movie Grindhouse. It doesn't work for almost two hours.

Anyway, I read a great story about Machete, the movie that's already grossed almost $30 million.

Danny Trejo, who has appeared in almost 200 movies and TV shows, was at an autograph siging in London in 2007 with director Robert Rodriquez, to promote Grindhouse. One fan took off his shirt to show he had him tattooed on his back. He asked Trejo to autograph it, because he was going to have that signature tattooed. Trejo turned to Rodriquez and said "You better make this movie, and you better make it good."

Now, on to the Rocket Man.

He played a concert in Chula Vista, which is 30 minutes south of San Diego. It was a huge venue, and he played for 2 and a half hours. During the encore, he walked along the front of the stage and shook hands with fans and signed autographs.

The only other musician I've ever seen do that is Buddy Guy.

Congrats to all the fans that scored a signature from Sir Elton.

Tags: Danny, Elton, John, Machete, Robert, Rodriquez, Trejo, autographs

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Comment by mike aring on September 12, 2010 at 7:11am: i'm looking forward to "machete" for my birthday!! i love rodriguez movies. they are all high camp!

Comment by john reznikoff on September 11, 2010 at 6:58pm: Josh...you didn't like machete? I thought it was pretty good as cornball as it was. It ind a told the viewer that it was going to be campy from the get go. Far as revenge movies I thought it better than the original death wish but not as good as good as Outlaw Josie Wales or High plains drifter. Thoughts?

Comment by Bjarne Soderholm on September 11, 2010 at 2:23pm: I have a friend that got Ace Frehley on Stage when he was playing with Kiss, so it was a full house and not just a small privat venue.

A friend got 4 albums signed by Paul on stage as well. Though he only signed them with Paul and not his full signature.

Comment by mike aring on September 11, 2010 at 10:23am: paul mccartney and shania twain do that as well.. i got paul mccartney at a show in phoenix as a result (i've never been to a shania twain concert.) but it works kinda weird..during the show, if you are sitting in the first three rows (i got the tickets from a friend as a wedding present and knew that he would sign for the people sitting where i was sitting.. me and my wife took stuff.) someone came and told us to come to the front of the stage and put our stuff we wanted signed on the stage. Paul walked around and signed everything, i got THREE 11x14 photos signed and my wife got me my white album signed. it's an odd thing to see someone signing autographs DURING the show.. especially if you don't sit in the special seats.
I've seen Eddie Vedder of pearl jam sign an album on stage before and i've seen liam gallagher of oasis sign a guy's magazine before as well, but i find it really strange that you can get an autograph during the shows like paul and elton and shania... i've never heard of any others doing this.
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Comment by Stephen Duncan on September 10, 2010 at 6:57am: Elton did the same when I saw him in Las Vegas. The only other artists I have seen do that is Sammy Hagar, and Tom Petty during an encore. Very rare.....