WTF???
Brilliant drummer & original Tower of Power member David Garibaldi, along with bass player Marc Van Wageningen are hit by a train in front of Yoshi's in Oakland, just before a TOP performance in their home town venue???
I have hung out EXACTLY where they were hit many, many times. How the hell do you get hit by a train THERE?!!!?
https://www.facebook.com/radioalice/videos/10154389317043042/
They must have been smoking out. But even then, the train rolls by sloooooowly there, in the middle of the street!
WTF???
This sucks. (It now sounds like both are going to be OK. Hurt, but OK. Still... WTF?)
And on a much less important note, or maybe not, and either way still a double-whammy of bad news, I also just now see that the classic old bar & eatery Lefty O'Doul's on Geary right off Union Square in San Francisco is closing next month.
WTF!!!??????!!!!
I love that place.
FUCK 2017!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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on Friday, January 13, 2017 – 08:24 am
Guess you should have gone
Guess you should have gone there more
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Johnny D skudebro
on Friday, January 13, 2017 – 10:12 am
I almost attended that Tower
I almost attended that Tower of Power show.
I've often wondered how often there are Train vs cars/people in that busy stretch of street&rails.
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on Friday, January 13, 2017 – 10:25 am
fucking trains, man
fucking trains, man
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on Friday, January 13, 2017 – 10:29 am
http://www.latimes.com/local
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oakland-train-hit-20170112-s...
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on Friday, January 13, 2017 – 10:32 am
Hard to imagine how it even
Hard to imagine how it even happened - the trains there are slow and noisy.
Healing vibes to both.
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on Friday, January 13, 2017 – 01:37 pm
Lefty O'Douls closing? Is
Lefty O'Douls closing? Is nothing sacred?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Johnny D skudebro
on Friday, January 13, 2017 – 01:47 pm
Pedestrians often
Pedestrians often underestimate the speed and size of trains coming at them.
I wonder if they thought that they were a safe distance from the tracks and got clipped by the width of the train.
Lucky that they are alive
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on Friday, January 13, 2017 – 01:51 pm
Glad they're going to be okay
Glad they're going to be okay. Seems like they would have been pretty shocked by getting hit.