Bassist holds up drugstore, still makes it to the concert | StarTribune.com
Kids today with their technology - why, in my day we had to write a note if we were holdin’ up a joint. You had to get some paper, and a pen, and form the leters individual. Now it’s all textin’ and tweetin’ and Facefarm or whatever they call it.
The bass player for a rock band has been arrested and charged with robbing a Massachusetts pharmacy of prescription painkillers just hours before a show. Attleboro police say Michael Todd, bassist for Coheed and Cambria, entered the Walgreen's pharmacy after 1 p.m. on Sunday and showed the pharmacist a note on his phone saying he had a bomb.
Police say the 30-year-old Todd, of Anaheim, Calif., then made off with six bottles of Oxycontin and fled in a cab headed to the Comcast Center in Mansfield, where his band was to open for Soundgarden that night. He was arrested at the concert hall before the show, and the band played without him.
He's scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Attleboro District Court.
The band's website says the tour will continue.
It’s not the first time; he left the band before over heroin. Then he came back. Now he’s out, but whether it’s for good, who knows. You can hear a short, quickly-loading sample of their music here. You would be forgiven for thinking the singer has studied the stylings of Geddy Lee.
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