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We could do an homage to "Melvin and Howard", maybe the rock musician gives the guy that helped him some tapes of unreleased songs.

I can also imagine a road trip movie - the rock group travels in a bus, things get heated between them and right in the middle of nowhere - a small town - some members of the band decide to throw out the singer and he asks a young boy to give him a ride. They get to know each other, the rock star finds the kid is very good playing the guitar and has written a couple of good songs. The kid believes it's his ticket to fame and fortune. But the rock star wants to give their bandmates a lesson and steals the songs. The boy's heart is broken, the rock star realizes how wrong he was and decides to reveal on national TV that the songs were composed by "a very talented kid that was unfortunate enough to meet me"

How about a kid in high school that gives the rock star a ride - on his bike. The next day nobody believes him at school, he's bullied but then the rock star arrives to the school to give the kid an autographed guitar. And the next day the kid is the most popular kid on school.

I like that because it's an inciting incident, in a way. Kids really have that unlimited potential that just gets drained away (there was a great TEDTalk by Ken Robinson about this), but at the same time, the right motivation in the right place can propel a talented kid past any obstacles. And those are usually the moments too unreal and too cool for anyone to reasonably believe. The intersection could be like a burning bush moment. And of course, the end of the movie, or one of the big goals for the character, to eventually be famous or big enough that he could run into the rock star again and maybe the rock star doesn't remember, or the kid winds up paying the rock star back by giving HIM the motivation to conquer some difficulty he's having in his own life.

Accidentally leaves a notebook of half-thought-out songs behind, and the guy tries to finish them. Actually tied back to the ghost of Faulkner idea from a few days ago. It's also making me think of a scene from this old horror movie, Idle Hands... Devon Sawa's character has this crush on teenage Jessica Alba (because it's teenage Jessica Alba) and she drops her poem notebook and that's how they finally meet, when he tries to give it back to her, but not after reading it first. And THAT made me think of another earlier prompt, the Ovid book about how to pick up chicks, the book of poems/songs is like a cheat sheet, you know what the girl of your dreams is looking for and what she despises, you can adjust yourself accordingly. ESPECIALLY if it's all break-up songs like Taylor Swift, though to be fair, if that's all that there is, the guy might be better off trying to find someone with a little less baggage.

Okay, slight update: my sister and mother went to a Bruce Springsteen concert tonight (no one gave birth, though I told them it might be a possibility), and apparently Bruce was constantly letting kids on stage to sing parts of the songs, and one boy got pulled up to play guitar. Now THAT'S a live-changing experience that no one would believe happened to you... especially if the call phone pictures came out lousy.

Of course, the ghost of Faulkner. I liked that. Nice idea association.

Yes, a help you help me buddy movie, right?

Sounds like a wonderful experience for the kids and the parents. I guess tens or even hundreds of people recorded it on their cell phones and some of them posted it on YouTube. I think it would be really hard not to have evidence of that kind of experience. Back to the movie - maybe that moment when the kid sings or plays the guitar along our rock star is the last scene. They helped each other, most of the kids on his school that don't believe he's a friend of the rock star go to the concert, and suddenly the kid is on the stage, sings or plays the guitar, his friends realize he was telling the truth, the rock star gives a high five to the kid - freeze frame and fade out. The end.

Always with the idea associations. Of course, it can't be the ghost of a rock star because that would just taint the entire perception of the lifestyle.

More like book-ends, the rock star is in very small parts, two or three scenes total, and maybe we see clips of him on TV or something like that.

Since I don't have a smartphone (or go places), I keep forgetting about that. Even though I'm the first to get a camera out and tape stuff. I think though even the phone videos are from a distance, a bit blurry... there's always a sense of doubt. You don't know for sure, but of course, that makes the moment more important, you gotta live in the moment (it is possible to "keep the media out," as Speilberg says, even in the age of cell phone cameras).