Curiosity of Babes In Toyland
Sacado de Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
Me encanta la siguiente historia de la bajista Maureen Herman de Babes In Toyland (en medio de la foto), pero no hubo un lugar para ella en el libro. Para el registro, Maureen dijo que su hermano se recuperó lo suficiente como para volver a tocar:
MAUREEN HERMAN (bajista de Babes en Toyland ) mi hermano tocaba el bajo en bandas de garage cuando estaba en la secundaria y tuvo un barato Fender P Bass (Una copia) . Fue trabajando en un restaurante haciendo pasta por la mañana antes de que el restaurante abriese. Estaba en el sótano, y algo pasó con la máquina de pasta. Se le quedó la mano metida dentro de la máquina, se le quedó la mano rebentada. Tenía una parada de emergencia, pero no tenía retroceso y uno de los chicos de arriba estaba pasando la aspiradora por lo que no podía escuchar a mi hermano gritando. (Risas). Esta historia es terrible, pero divertida. Finalmente alguien acabó escuchando a mi hermano, y le ayudó a sacar la mano de ahí y a apagar esa maldita máquina
En ese momento, sabía que yo estaba tonteando con la música, y a muy regañadientes me dio su bajo, como, “Aquí lo tienes”. Él estaba jodido, no podía tocar más y verme tocar con las Babes no creo que le sentase muy bien, no creo que nunca fuese a vernos realmente. Él no estaba loco, pero creo que fue difícil para él verme “despegar” tan rápidamente en el bajo.
IN ENGLISH
In the lead-up to next week’s release of the trade paperback edition of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (out March 13; order info here), I’ll be sharing some of the book’s better outtakes for my faithful blog readers. I love the following story from Babes in Toyland bassist Maureen Herman (she’s the middle one in the photo), but there wasn’t a place for it in the book. For the record, Maureen said her brother recovered enough to play again:
MAUREEN HERMAN (Babes in Toyland bassist) My brother played bass in garage bands when he was in high school and he had this cheap Fender P Bass copy. He was working at a restaurant and making pasta in the morning before the restaurant opened. He was in the basement, and something happened with the pasta machine. He got his hand stuck in it, and it just keeps moving your hand forward and flattening it like fettuccine. It has an emergency stop, but it doesn’t have a rewind, and one of the guys upstairs was vacuuming so he couldn’t hear my brother screaming. (Laughs.) It’s kind of this horrible, funny story. So by the time the guy heard my brother, his hand was all mangled and someone had to come and dismantle the fucking machine.
MAUREEN HERMAN (Babes in Toyland bassist) My brother played bass in garage bands when he was in high school and he had this cheap Fender P Bass copy. He was working at a restaurant and making pasta in the morning before the restaurant opened. He was in the basement, and something happened with the pasta machine. He got his hand stuck in it, and it just keeps moving your hand forward and flattening it like fettuccine. It has an emergency stop, but it doesn’t have a rewind, and one of the guys upstairs was vacuuming so he couldn’t hear my brother screaming. (Laughs.) It’s kind of this horrible, funny story. So by the time the guy heard my brother, his hand was all mangled and someone had to come and dismantle the fucking machine.
At that time, he knew I was screwing around with music and he very begrudgingly gave me his bass, like, “Here.” He was all bummed he couldn’t play anymore, and for him to see me go from fucking around on the guitar to joining Babes—I don’t think he ever came and saw us, actually. He wasn’t mad, but I think it was hard for him to watch me take off on the bass so quickly.
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