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https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7655109/tower-of-power-hospital-hit-train

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Two members of Tower of Power, a group that has been an R&B institution for nearly 50 years, were hit by a train Thursday night as they walked across tracks before a performance in their hometown of Oakland, but both survived, their manager said.

Calling it an "unfortunate accident," manager Jeremy Westby said in a statement that drummer David Garibaldi and bass player Marc van Wageningen are "responsive and being treated at a local hospital."

Garibaldi has been with the group since 1970. Van Wageningen is substituting as bass player.
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Re: Two Members of Tower of Power hospitalized after being hit by train
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2017, 10:13:15 AM »
Holy Shit!

Rocco must be ill again as well.
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Re: Two Members of Tower of Power hospitalized after being hit by train
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2017, 10:16:31 AM »
I've met Garibaldi on a couple occasions...he's an amazing drummer but a bit of a prick, at least to the people at the clinics I attended. Be that as it may, I'd never want to see him hurt. Sucks.
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Re: Two Members of Tower of Power hospitalized after being hit by train
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2017, 10:18:35 AM »
I've always heard that about him. 
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Re: Two Members of Tower of Power hospitalized after being hit by train
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2017, 11:32:23 AM »
What the hell?
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Re: Two Members of Tower of Power hospitalized after being hit by train
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2017, 11:58:31 AM »
good lord
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Re: Two Members of Tower of Power hospitalized after being hit by train
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2017, 12:02:18 PM »
I've always heard that about him. 

I saw him at one clinic and he welcomed us all to come up and get autographs and talk and as we all lined up he started talking with his drum tech and basically ignored every single person who came up to him other than to sign a glossy photo. When it was my turn (I was perhaps 14), I said it was really great to see him play and thanked him for the clinic. He never stopped talking to his tech, never broke eye contact, took my photo, signed it, and handed it back to me without any other acknowledgment that I was there.

Still, he's an amazing drummer and this accident is just freakishly weird. At least they are recovering.
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Re: Two Members of Tower of Power hospitalized after being hit by train
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2017, 12:37:21 PM »
They mis heard their manager saying they need to Lay down tracks.

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Re: Two Members of Tower of Power hospitalized after being hit by train
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2017, 12:44:00 PM »
"My melancholy wants to rest in the hiding places and abysses of perfection. This is why I need music." –Friedrich Nietzsche

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Re: Two Members of Tower of Power hospitalized after being hit by train
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2017, 02:32:28 PM »
:angry: HEY ! That was my MELON !!!

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Re: Two Members of Tower of Power hospitalized after being hit by train
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2017, 02:41:52 PM »
Hit by a train and survived?
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Re: Two Members of Tower of Power hospitalized after being hit by train
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2017, 02:47:17 PM »
It was a slow train through Georgia.

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Re: Two Members of Tower of Power hospitalized after being hit by train
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2017, 02:49:21 PM »
Ah.  In Australia trains where I'm from only have one speed, fucking fast.
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Re: Two Members of Tower of Power hospitalized after being hit by train
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2017, 02:56:37 PM »
Ah.  In Australia trains where I'm from only have one speed, fucking fast.

I was waiting for, In Russia, train......
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.” - Bob Newhart
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