April 1998: An old house mate, Bill, had quite a nice collection of music equipment. I can't remember off the top of my head what it was. I think there was an Akai sampler, a really old sampling keyboard and some kind of rack mounted synth. On one particular occassion he went away for the day, but not before letting me know I could go in his room and use his gear.
What a nice guy. Any way, I spent a few hours doing music and then went to my room to play some Tekken. I was well chuffed at the time.
At a slightly later date, all this good will paled in to insignificance when Bill came home after splitting up from his girlfriend, shaved half his head down one side with a Bic razor then proceeded to lock himself in his room, get stoned out of his box and then make a little bonfire on his rug, potentially ending the lives of all 5 tenants in the house.
Thankfully, I heard the spitting and crackling of burning books and birkenstock sandles from behind his door while I was on my way to the bathroom. I alerted the other housemates and we saved Bill's life... Nob. We were all evicted and Bill was admitted to the spin bin.
Here's the track, listen to - House on fire NOW!!!
3 comments:
Wicked Track - Was this the actual track written on the day of the fire?
...and whatever happened to Bill?
He spent a couple of months in a psychiatric ward, then came out to face charges of arson for which he claim diminished responsibility.
He was ordered to attend corrective behaviour sessions while on probation for a while.
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