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RallyMonkey:
I just read this off of The Decemberist's MySpace on why they are not coming to Houston. It's pretty insane, what do you guys think?


"Hi,
If you live in Houston and want live music to still come to your town, get involved in this tragedy. So many of you have been writing to us and asking us to come to Houston. Seeing this really makes me never want to come back again...The information to file a complaint is listed at the bottom of the page. Please call in.

http://blog.myspace.com/dsharber

or

http://myspace.com/hpd_has_problems

Two Gallants are friends of ours, we toured with them in Europe. I have to say they are the nicest guys in the world. They are quiet vegans and weigh in at about 100 pounds each for god sakes. There is no way they would have done something to deserve or instigate this this kind of treatment. If you live in Houston (or beyond) you should be outraged."

The "hpd_has_problems" didn't work for me, but the first one has very good info on it, even though the writer seems to lack grammar knowledge.

What do you guys think of this?

BrittanyMarie:
There's some stuff on the Two Gallants' messageboard.

http://pub16.bravenet.com/forum/1366218622/show/646762

Watch the videos; it's crazy. I feel really bad especially for Langhorne Slim as his band's upright bass was broken by the cop pushing a dude on it.

RallyMonkey:
On the second video on that Myspace blog, the guy who fell on the bass was filming. And I felt pretty bad for him too, because the cop was chasing him with a tazer, and he falls on it, then gets up and starts going "I'm sorry, I'll pay for it. I'm sorry."

Yet, I can't figure out if the owner of the bass was yelling at the camera man or the cop, but he was going "Why the fuck would you do that?" and the camera guy kept apologizing, so I couldn't tell.

Yet, I can definitely understand why the former bass owner would be mad, because supposedly the bass was 90 years old.

In the first video, you can tell the lead singer was slammed down hard too.

UPDATE:

ABC News is clearly extremely objective.


--- Quote ---Police say an officer was checking out a noise complaint at Walter's bar, when he and the band got into an argument.

Authorities say the crowd joined in the argument, and the officer accidentally tasered some of them while trying to make an arrest.

Some who were in the crowd that night are questioning the officer's side of the story. The policeman suffered minor injuries, but will be OK.

One band member and several customers were taken into custody. The officer suffered several cuts on his arms.
--- End quote ---

BrittanyMarie:
The officer was clearly being a dick--you do not accidently taze someone. If someone is in your way to taze a suspect who is not cooperating, you don't shoot. It's that simple. Cops should know this--they all have to get tazed themselves before they can have one, or at least that's how it's done here. (The county police where I'm from recorded the session where they all had to go through it-it's AWFUL) He had the tazer out and ready from the very beginning.

Although... the crowd should have just left, and he should have just stopped playing the guitar when the officer asked him to. I don't really think that matters in retrospect though, especially after seeing the videos.

RallyMonkey:
According to the reports, he never asked him to stop playing. I'm not taking the eyewitness reports as absolute fact, I'm sure they're a bit biased, but come on.

Yeah, the crowd should have just gotten out of there, but you know that that's not how people work. If something interesting is going on, they're not willingly going to leave, and who expects a cop to go tazer crazy.

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