Famous Living Pipe Smokers

[FurCoat]

James May from Top Gear! They all did a segment on the show about Porsche pipes and I spotted him smoking one of them on his YT Channel

I own Porsches but no Porsche pipe. I must change this.

 

[edger]

While he is certainly not a celebrity in the traditional sense, there is a prominent composer in my field (classical music) who is a pipe smoker. Dan Locklair. In fact, like myself, he also plays the pipe organ so he enjoys both smoking and playing pipes! I’ve played a few of his works, and some have become “standard rep” for American organists.

His website(Locklair.com)is full of publicity pics, and in every one he is with a pipe. His music room is obviously his smoking room as well, as at least two of the shots show he has pipes piled high on his piano. Sounds like a good life, surrounded by keyboard instruments and pipes!

Sorry old thread, but I believe James Galway smokes a pipe. After all, Murray’s and gallagher were made in Belfast. BTW Denver Oldham was church organist at my church when I was a kid.

 

[jmill208]

"Famous" and "living" are really being loosely defined for this thread.

5 pages and the answer to the OP’s query:

NONE

 

[fightnhampster]

JimInks

+1

 

[BuckChickman]

While he is certainly not a celebrity in the traditional sense, there is a prominent composer in my field (classical music) who is a pipe smoker. Dan Locklair. In fact, like myself, he also plays the pipe organ so he enjoys both smoking and playing pipes! I’ve played a few of his works, and some have become “standard rep” for American organists.

His website(Locklair.com)is full of publicity pics, and in every one he is with a pipe. His music room is obviously his smoking room as well, as at least two of the shots show he has pipes piled high on his piano. Sounds like a good life, surrounded by keyboard instruments and pipes!

I'm a professional organist and pipe smoker and am a fan of Locklair. I agree with you about the pics I've seen -- there are a few out there showing him composing at the piano with a giant basket of nice pipes.

 

[musicman]

I'm a professional organist and pipe smoker and am a fan of Locklair. I agree with you about the pics I've seen -- there are a few out there showing him composing at the piano with a giant basket of nice pipes.

No way! While I am also a conductor and singer, I have spent far more time in my career as a professional musician at the bench of a pipe organ than anything else. I also have never "met" a fellow organist on a message board unrelated to music. Glad to see that there are two of us here!

 

[highwaycobbery]

Pipe smokers are more secretive than the free masons. We must make up a handshake. Or start killing non pipe smokers. Yes. Yes. Good.

 

[EvertonFC]

Let me summarize the series: It's 20 or so pretty dislikable core characters are at odds with 20 or so really really dislikable characters. They keep killing each other. By the end of season four, you just hope everyone dies. Oh yeah, some dragons and lots of boobs.

Fixed.

 

[J.GANDY]

Well, not to boast here.?

There are handfuls, maybe dozens of handfuls, definitely a number larger than the average age of my audience can count to, that find me to be a celebrity.

I mean write one book about why and how a banana is famous, draw a couple of silly illustrations in crowded school cafeteria, the next thing you know 5-7 year olds surround you wherever you go. ?

It's not all gravy and pie at the top guys...

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

depends on the pie....

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Well, not to boast here.?

There are handfuls, maybe dozens of handfuls, definitely a number larger than the average age of my audience can count to, that find me to be a celebrity.

I mean write one book about why and how a banana is famous, draw a couple of silly illustrations in crowded school cafeteria, the next thing you know 5-7 year olds surround you wherever you go. ?

It's not all gravy and pie at the top guys...

An unpeeling post, ha ha

We used to have a poster who has written a ton of books on stuff like flyfishing. Great guy.

 

[J.GANDY]

An unpeeling post, ha ha

We used to have a poster who has written a ton of books on stuff like flyfishing. Great guy.

Writers are interesting people. I think most people assume a writer will have a certain mystique about them.

They don't, regular weirdos just like everyone else.?

 

[Seamaster]

An unpeeling post, ha ha

We used to have a poster who has written a ton of books on stuff like flyfishing. Great guy.

Not JR Hartley ?!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Writers are interesting people. I think most people assume a writer will have a certain mystique about them.

They don't, regular weirdos just like everyone else.?

Yes, I can tell by your book that you would be one to have deep conversations regarding bananas with, ha ha.

Not JR Hartley?!

He went by Npod on here. He is still around. His real name escapes me at the moment... Neil or Erik, and seems like it was spelled differently. Damn cigrmaster rubbing off on me.

 

[J.GANDY]

Not JR Hartley ?!

Yes, exactly!

"I'm sorry what's your name again?"

Happens to me all the time!?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Writers are interesting people. I think most people assume a writer will have a certain mystique about them.

They don't, regular weirdos just like everyone else.?

Actually, I found quite a few more books. Disregard the slight I may have given. Nice work!!

 

[J.GANDY]

Actually, I found quite a few more books. Disregard the slight I may have given. Nice work!!

Thank you, I have been fortunate to say I've been a working artist for 20 years. Not many can say that, and I am thankful.

I have written and illustrated four books. But have done lots of other work in the industry. Books of all genres not only children's books, novel covers and the like.

Of course I am only joking around in the previous post. I'm thankful that I can say this is my job. But it is a job, a fun one.

 

[hauntedmyst]

Well, not to boast here.?

There are handfuls, maybe dozens of handfuls, definitely a number larger than the average age of my audience can count to, that find me to be a celebrity.

Yeah, me too. You attempt to kill one president trying to impress just Jody Foster and you are famous for life. And then it turns out, she doesn't even like men. Man do I feel like a schmuck.

 

[musicman]

Well, not to boast here.?

There are handfuls, maybe dozens of handfuls, definitely a number larger than the average age of my audience can count to, that find me to be a celebrity.

I mean write one book about why and how a banana is famous, draw a couple of silly illustrations in crowded school cafeteria, the next thing you know 5-7 year olds surround you wherever you go. ?

It's not all gravy and pie at the top guys...

I found your website, Jamie. You do great work!

 

[highwaycobbery]

Well, not to boast here.?

There are handfuls, maybe dozens of handfuls, definitely a number larger than the average age of my audience can count to, that find me to be a celebrity.

I mean write one book about why and how a banana is famous, draw a couple of silly illustrations in crowded school cafeteria, the next thing you know 5-7 year olds surround you wherever you go. ?

It's not all gravy and pie at the top guys...

Bananas and children swarming seems like a bad example?