He took an electronic music workshop I was teaching in Berkeley a number of years ago. I didn’t recognize him. When I was first helping him, though, his car keys were sitting next to his laptop. The Ferrari key tipped me off that he might be a bit unusual. I asked one of the other teachers and they let me know who he was.
He was very curious and nice. Those workshops were always very collaborative, and he seemed like just another (slightly older than average) music nerd wanting to know about Max programming—because, that’s what he was. The fact that he was also a massive superstar didn’t really come up. He was having fun doing what he enjoyed and didn’t let the fame go to his head.
Great guy!
