Beer Saves The Day! (ok really it was sand)
What would you do if your van just suddenly caught on fire? (I’ll give you a minute)
Ok times up - Did you answer “pour cooler of beer and ice on it”?
In a recent press release, the singer of National Product (more on them in a min) told the following story:
Long story short, we were driving from an amazing show in Regina to Calgary . We started to smell brakes burning and assumed it was the semi truck in front of us. As we were coming down the hill going about 70+ mph our driver mentioned that he felt we were losing power and not more than 30 seconds after that our van slammed to the pavement and we started to fish-tale with a full trailer. Everybody was scared to death just from the slamming down. We thought our tire blew. That’s when we looked out the window, still skidding 150 yards towards a revine/stream and light pole, and we saw OUR tire on FIRE rolling past us. We finally came to a stop and our breakwell completely burst into flames and the majority of the dudes took off. Our tour manager and I grabbed the cooler which contained melted ice, 5 Pabst Blue Ribbons and a bottle of water.
We threw the cooler contents, cans and all onto the fire and it blew up even larger fusing the beers onto our snapped axle from the heat. The other dudes began throwing sand on it which finally ended the fire…
He goes on to talk about how their van is DONE (duh) and that everyone was ok. Ambulances and fire trucks showed up along with some cops who tried to be dicks about the whole situation.? Seriously though, I think the sand did the trick though… beer in a can is UNDER PRESSURE.. it can explode! HAHA. This story could have easily been finished by
…and then the beer cans exploded and lodged in my face! It was horrible and Im writing this from the hospital right now
But, they were lucky. Theyll be able to tell this story to their grandkids!
and now to answer the question “who is National Product?”
Here is their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/nationalproduct . They JUST released their new CD which is a little more on the alternative rock side of things. Lots more info there at their page!
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July 31st, 2007 at 6:20pm
lol omfg, yeah the cans were the last thing they should have used, oooh well, smart people will learn from those guys’ mistakes.
August 20th, 2007 at 5:30pm
[…] It was only a couple of weeks ago that I was talking about the band National Product. Remember? While on tour, they managed to have a van fire. They did the um…..obvious …. and threw their cooler of beer cans and ice onto the fire causing a minor ‘explosion’ - something about pressurized containers. To go back and read the whole story (you really should if you missed it) click here: Beer Saves the Day! (ok it was really sand). […]