“As the door girl at a famous music store on Sunset Boulevard, I had a lot of odd celebrity encounters—like the time RZA came in at 11 a.m. reeking of marijuana and bought our most expensive drum kit. Or when Eddie Van Halen gave me his cell phone number to pass onto a salesman but told me he’d rather have me call instead (so I did). But nothing can top having a former host of Entertainment Tonight stand up to a rude customer for me. John Tesh was a regular at the store (New Age keyboardist, anyone?) and today, he was next in a line of mostly patient customers waiting for me to verify serial numbers and stamp receipts. In front of him was an irate woman who, while I opened her new guitar case, accused me of racial profiling and how she “didn’t just spend $300 to be harassed.” Teshie, seeing how flustered I was getting, leaned over to her and, in the most soothing voice to ever come out of a seven foot-tall man, told her that I was just doing my job and to please understand that it would be all over in a minute. Realizing that there’s no way to talk back to John Tesh, she stopped whining and when she finally left, he put his arm around me and made sure I was okay. John Tesh: protector, real man. Swoon!”

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