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01-26-2011, 08:07 PM
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01-26-2011, 09:54 PM
| | | | Damn. That's ****ed up. |
01-26-2011, 11:08 PM
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01-26-2011, 11:44 PM
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01-26-2011, 11:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Australia | | | Note to self: When i get famous and stuff, dont go to mexico. lol
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01-26-2011, 11:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Missouri | | | Every booking in mexico is being cancelled as we speak. |
01-27-2011, 12:12 AM
| | | | A hand grenade? Seriously? Thats ridiculous! |
01-27-2011, 01:25 AM
| | | | If you choose to play in bars, sooner or later something like this happens. Maybe in Hawaii, it means someone dies of a cocaine overdose on stage, and maybe in Cleveland it means a jealous husband shoots the bass player. In Mexican bars, things move faster and at a more extreme rate of devaluation of human life. Life is cheap, cheap, cheap. A bar is a bar, and people regularly die there.
Enter at your own risk, you just never know what's walking through the door with evil in mind.
I just watched the Chet Baker documentary. (Let's Get Lost) Great film, a must see! It was interesting to hear him speak of having his face kicked in, with such a detached, even astonished manner. Though he wasn't at a bar when he was assaulted, at the time he was playing regularly at the bar "The Trident" in Sausalito it seems. By his own admission, he was scoring dope everyday in San Francisco, and working at night at the beautiful club on the S.F. Bay.
A hand grenade. That is a new twist on an old theme. Lee Morgan (RIP) was shot onstage. Weapons change. End result is the same.
I'm sorry for the families of the victims (RIP), and any other people involved. |
01-27-2011, 01:46 AM
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Originally Posted by MR PC 
I just watched the Chet Baker documentary. (Let's Get Lost) Great film, a must see! It was interesting to hear him speak of having his face kicked in, with such a detached, even astonished manner. Though he wasn't at a bar when he was assaulted, at the time he was playing regularly at the bar "The Trident" in Sausalito it seems. By his own admission, he was scoring dope everyday in San Francisco, and working at night at the beautiful club on the S.F. Bay.
| Documentary? I really disagree about it being a great film. Something about it is not right. I don't want to watch stuff that is an invasion of an Artist's privacy because it's interesting and romantic in the eyes of the film maker-Weber. |
01-27-2011, 01:57 AM
| | | Whatever.......I think Chet must been in agreement on some level, even if it was temporary, because he allowed himself to be interviewed and filmed. I didn't see a gun pointed at his head in any case! But, who knows? Maybe there were six scantily clad nordic vixen with Uzis pointed at Chet during the whole thing 
BTW, how do you feel about the victims in Mexico, Chuck? Got any love for the victims families? |
01-27-2011, 02:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Cupertino, CA | | | that is so ridiculous. |
01-27-2011, 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by MR PC If you choose to play in bars, sooner or later something like this happens. | In the late '80's I was playing guitar in a bar band that got a pretty rough gig. Half-way through second set I popped a string. The bass player announced we would take just a short break and be right back. A burly guy sauntered up, beer in hand, and pronounced, "No, you're gonna play!" The rest of the guys made up a blues on the spot, and I never changed a string so fast. We got out of there alive with our stuff and, of course, never went back.
A few years later, another band I played bass in had a gig at a spot that, well, the crowd was too light for a typical warm weather Friday. Now this was a place that lined up the Harleys in front of the door in the usual manner. If they liked you, they took care of you, and they liked my band. At the first set break, the bartender told us the night before a guy came in and shot up the ceiling with a double 12. The warehouse this place was a part of is now designer loft apartments.
I don't play those gigs anymore. I have a son to raise now.
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01-27-2011, 08:10 AM
|  | Velvet Strings Customer Service | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: SWITZERLAND | | | Its been 20 years i play bass and had played and still play in bars, apart from some fist fights in the audience (when i use to live in Denver, happened maybe 2 times), i never encountered any problems.. honestly when i go play in a bar here, i dont feel myself endangered in any way, but i live in Switzerland now.. what happened in Mexico is just too sad to be true..
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01-27-2011, 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted by ChuckCorbisiero Documentary? I really disagree about it being a great film. Something about it is not right. I don't want to watch stuff that is an invasion of an Artist's privacy because it's interesting and romantic in the eyes of the film maker-Weber. | A total exploitation film, IMO.  |
01-27-2011, 11:12 AM
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01-27-2011, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by iri5h_punk21 that is so ridiculous. | A brilliant summary!  |
01-28-2011, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by MR PC In Mexican bars, things move faster and at a more extreme rate of devaluation of human life. Life is cheap, cheap, cheap. A bar is a bar, and people regularly die there.
Enter at your own risk, you just never know what's walking through the door with evil in mind.
| People regularly die everywhere. Yes, there's a great deal of violence here in Mexico, but it mostly depends on what kind of bars you play. I play bars regularly and I've never got killed... yet.
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01-28-2011, 04:47 PM
| | | This was posted a little while ago in the Gig Stories forum...let me find a link
EDIT: And you thought YOU had tough audiences...
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01-29-2011, 02:50 AM
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Originally Posted by ToR-Tu-Ra People regularly die everywhere. Yes, there's a great deal of violence here in Mexico, but it mostly depends on what kind of bars you play. I play bars regularly and I've never got killed... yet. | Good point.
I guess Mexico has been getting a lot of international press for..... well, never mind. It could be anywhere. |
01-29-2011, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by MR PC Whatever.......I think Chet must been in agreement on some level, even if it was temporary, because he allowed himself to be interviewed and filmed. I didn't see a gun pointed at his head in any case! But, who knows? Maybe there were six scantily clad nordic vixen with Uzis pointed at Chet during the whole thing | Whatever/Agreement? He died while they were editing. He never saw the movie. Why you brought up Chet Baker is beyond me. The comment about uzis pointed at his head fails to amuse me. Not funny IMO, at all. Sounds like you like Bruce Weber's sensibilities. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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