{"id":379,"date":"2006-12-11T23:49:10","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T22:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2006-12-11T23:49:10","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T22:49:10","slug":"help-the-coup-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"help the coup out"},"content":{"rendered":"

i have the party music<\/EM> album by the coup<\/STRONG>. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
its damn fine and i keep meaning to dig more into their thing. so when this dropped onto the wire i was somewhat taken aback .. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
over to the bands boots riley <\/EM>for the lowdown on recent events : <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“<\/FONT><\/DIV>
so,
we got on the bus after doing a show at the house of blues san diego as part of the coup\/mr. lif tour. as the bus took off, i thought that i would go lay in my bunk, listen to my ipod, and write. but then zhara, mr. lif\u00c2\u2019s friend and the tour\u00c2\u2019s merchandise seller, announced that she had \u00c2\u201canchorman\u00c2\u201d on dvd. oh shit. will ferrell or writing? hot 16s would have to wait tonight\u00c2\u2026good night san diego! so i stayed up in the front lounge of the bus and, even though i\u00c2\u2019ve seen this movie twice, commenced to laugh my ass off. almost literally, because of what happened next. shortly after the acapella singing of \u00c2\u201cafternoon delight\u00c2\u201d by ferrell et al., a big bump, then another, then plummeting down as we tipped over to the left. i was sitting in the diner-like booth that many of these buses have in the front. i held on to the table with one hand and tried to guard my head with the other, all the while thinking that i was probably about to die. i don\u00c2\u2019t remember seeing everyone flying and flipping around me as it was happening, but carter\u00c2\u2019s (the road manager) and wiz\u00c2\u2019s face were covered in blood, and everybody seemed to be laying around hurt. the bus was on it\u00c2\u2019s side, with the entrance door up. i called for people to say there names so we could get a head count of who was conscious or not. silk e, q (drums), riccol (bass), and metro (lif\u00c2\u2019s hype man) were trapped in the back lounge because the doors connecting the front and back lounges to the bunks were electrically powered and didn\u00c2\u2019t move with no power on. they ended up ripping and squeezing their way out of a tiny little window and jumped down off the bus as the rest of us got out the front. if anyone had been sleeping in the bunks, they would not have been able to get out. i was the third person to jump off the front of the bus, as i hung down to make the jump shorter, i saw that the front of the bus was on fire. i yelled to everyone, saying to get off the bus immediately because the bus was on fire and it could blow up. we all did. no one was killed. the bus was totally engulfed in flames. for a while no one stopped to help, supposedly because the thought we were \u00c2\u201cillegal aliens\u00c2\u201d crossing the border. eventually some great folks stopped and helped. silk e has two broken ribs and a punctured lung. wiz has a broken nose, two deep lacerations to the head, and a shattered knee. zhara has injuries to her hand and had to undergo surgery. carter had to get stitches to his head and lip. the driver, glenn, has a broken jaw. all the first three will be in need of follow-up treatments. we all have aching backs, legs, heads etc. many of us are on pain killers.
we lost everything in that crash and fire. we were packed to live and do shows on that bus for a month. most of us had every stitch of clothing we owned on there. we lost clothes, computers, recording equipment, cameras, ids, phones, keys to cars and homes. we lost cash.we lost all our damn instruments and equipment to perform with. we were and are happy to walk away with our lives. but now we\u00c2\u2019re home. most of the band touring with the coup has kids, rent that won\u00c2\u2019t quit, bills, and holiday expenses coming. we need money, because like i said the band doesn\u00c2\u2019t have the tools that they make a living with. not only did we lose cash and material things on the bus, but we also were depending on this tour for money to make it through. it may take a year for us to see any money from the insurance company.
i have set up a paypal account so people can make donations for the coup. the money will be split between me (boots riley), silk e, q, steve wyreman (guitar), and riccol. mr. lif is setting one up on his site and when i have that info, we\u00c2\u2019ll let you know.
to make a donation, hit button in the \u00c2\u201cabout\u00c2\u201d section on the front page of this profile, right below the paragraph and above the \u00c2\u201cwe are the ones\u00c2\u201d video. this allows you to donate even without a paypal account.
if you have an account, ours is thecoupbuscrash@gmail.com<\/A>. thank you in advance to anyone who does this, this is a really crazy situation. i never thought i would would be doing something like this. i also never thought that we would almost die like like that.
we\u00c2\u2019re grateful for anything you can do.
thank you,
boots riley<\/FONT><\/DIV>
“<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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dig in<\/EM> : here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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stay tuned,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
mark e<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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