Friday The 13th: KROQ Bands With Bad Luck
Do you find youself having paraskevidekatriaphobia, fear of Friday the 13th? How about triskaidekaphobia, a fear of anything having to do with the number thirteen?
Well, if you can pronounce those words it probably means you’re one of those types of people who likes to lay low today. But guess what, FT13 is no different from any other day. Fact of the matter is, you can have bad luck anytime not just on FT13– just like these unlucky KROQ bands.
When Omar Rodriguez-Lopez gave Mars Volta his band mate, Cedric Bixler-Zavala a Ouija board in 2007, he didn’t think much of it; but soon after an array of strange things started to happen. Their studio engineer had a nervous breakdown locked himself in and wouldn’t let anyone into the studio. The band had to hire people to come and break down his door just to get their tapes back. Their studio flooded not once, but twice, and if that wasn’t bad enough Cedric had to undergo foot surgery that required him to relearn how to walk. The band made a wise choice and ditched the board, but not before they used it as inspiration for their album ‘Bedlam in Goliath.’
Back in 2000, Death Cab For Cutie was selling out clubs and bars all over the place after they released their second album, ‘We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes.’ They rewarded themselves by going back to Seattle for a few months of relaxation; but their ‘vacation’ wasn’t exactly relaxing. The bands bassist, Nicholas, was almost blinded when he was hit in the eye by water-skiing towline that had snapped, and guitarist Chris broke his foot in a staircase accident, furthermore, singer Ben Gibbard was hit by a car while riding his bike. YIKES! I wonder how many ladders they had to walk under to get so much bad luck.
Even though 311 released their debut album ‘Music’ in 1993, they still had to pay for their tour out of their own pockets! Drummer Chad Sexton’s dad let them borrow an old RV , and they used a VW bus to haul their equipment in. But, while on the road in Nebraska, the bands RV caught fire — and then the VW. The band members were still in the vehicles and had to jump through a flame-filled doorway. They survived the disaster, but all their instruments, and possessions, were destroyed. The fiery incident inspired the song ‘Omaha Stylee,’ which opens, “In a minute everything you have can all be straight gone.”
Daisy
August 13, 2010 5:53 pm
The Ouija board has always freaked me out…my cousin used to have one and strange things always happened in the apartment they lived in. As they were packing up their things from that apartment to move into a house, her mother found it and threw it away. Later, after living several years in that house, they found it while cleaning out my cousins closet. She swears up and down she never brought it in. In fact, she said she threw it away about a year BEFORE her mother threw it out. So they cracked the Ouija board into a few pieces, lit it on fire, and then threw the ashes. I’ll never mess with that thing in my life…
Sergio | Phone-Op
August 13, 2010 8:29 pm
When I was younger my older brothers friends brought over their Ouija board and played in the house we used to live in, I swear I saw shadows at night, and people knocking on our windows saying our names days after they played.