I have a great Fairlight story. Working at Middle Ear (Bee Gees). Alone. Brothers are off to UK. Phone rings. "Hi, this is George Clinton. Thomas Dolby and me are at Criteria and our Fairlight is buggy. Can we use yours?
Since it's owners had abandoned it for the more svelte Synclavier, I was it's curator and quickly said "sure!". 30 mins later, a rather plain rentacar pulls in and sure as heck, an actual George Clinton is in front of me. Not the film guy, either. He grabbed the apparatus and my samples and barreled back off after some short and pleasant conversation. I was invited to drop in and visited them the next day. They seemed to be having a good time. I had not heard 2 utterly funky people use it before and came away with 'ideas', lol. Oh, also, I was watching "Howard the Duck" and heard my sample! Fame by 8" disk.