I've met him a few times over the years, never at a meet and greet always after a show when he's been leaving .
The most memorable is after one of the Harrogate shows on the Bad Attitude tour. I asked Meat to sign a huge four foot high cardboard gravestone that was being used to promote Hits Out Of Hell.
I'd seen Bob Ellis (his manager at the time) ripping the display stand down in the foyer so I'd salvaged this gravestone which had the tracklisting on it.
Meat spent a while winding me up saying he wouldn't sign it, and then eventually he did. While he was signing it he asked me if I had bought Hits Out Of Hell, to which I replied yes.
With that he reached into his pocket and produced a five pound note which he gave to me, saying something like "you shouldn't have wasted your money on that".
Onbly years later when I understood the story behind the record company wranglings going on at that time (HooH beiung released by Epic who were involved in the ongoing legal battles) did I relaise why he said what he said and why Boob Ellis had ripped the display down.
Sadly I no longer have the gravestone, but I've got treasured pics of it somewhere. In my teenage naivety at the time the fiver got spent in the chip shop on the way home
