Posts Tagged ‘fights’

Most of of the bands I’ve been a part of were made up of some pretty cool dudes. To this day, I keep in touch with a lot of the guys from back west, and consider them good friends.

But as with any situation, there is always going to be an asshole.

If you are reading this and are a dude…don’t ever be THAT guy.

Nigerian Coat of Arms

I did a mini tour with a guy by the name of Victor Essiet. And he would prove to be one of the biggest punk-asses I ever knew.

Victor was really big in Nigeria. His band was called Victor Essiet and the Mandators, and they had a pretty good run as a reggae/world beat band for a while.

We were doing a little tour of Texas and we all basically were crammed in to one van.  It was myself, three other guys from San Diego, Victor and his girlfriend who he just had to bring along. (yeah, I know)

I think we were in Dallas, but for the first couple of days, Victor and his girlfriend would have these little argument skirmishes here and there.  It was annoying, but we dealt with it.  After all, we were there to get paid and go home.

We were in Dallas, parked at a gas station, and I was half asleep. Of course, Victor and his girlfriend started arguing again, which was getting commonplace now.

But something startled me, and was not typical of their other arguments.

I was half sleeping in the back seat when I hear the sound of a wet brick hitting a slab of meat… CRACKAP!

…oh snap,  someone just got punched in the head.  I know that sound all too well.

I woke up to see him punch her in the face and then he dragged her out of the car.

So we, the band, surrounded him and gave him little talking to, which was basically…

“If you hit her again, we are hitting you, taking your van, as well as your girlfriend and leaving YOU here…in Texas.”

It’s amazing what a little coaxing will do.