Hey, Caio, did this REALLY happen?
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Gun-Toting Musician Forces DJ to Play His Album
Sep 19, 9:41 am ET
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) - A gun-toting musician forced a southern
Brazilian radio station to play his debut album for more than an hour after
apparently having no luck opening the doors of show business, the man's
father said.
Marcus Vinicius dos Santos, 27, the vocalist for the rock group ACC -- a
Portuguese acronym for "Beyond the Gray Sky" -- stormed disc jockey Marcio
Paz's booth at Atlantida FM in the city of Porto Alegre and forced him to
play his album "Phases of Life."
"He is a quiet boy," his father, Getulio dos Santos, told Reuters. "I'm
surprised by what happened."
The five-member band portrays itself on its Web site http://www.accpop.com
as futuristic superheroes living in a post-apocalyptic world. Vinicius dos
Santos goes by the name "Cram" and wears Alice Cooper-style black eye
makeup.
The episode on Wednesday was reminiscent of the 1994 Hollywood movie
"Airheads," in which dimwitted members of a rock band, fed up with rejection
from music industry executives, take matters into their own hands and hijack
a radio station to air their songs.
The Brazilian incident ended after about 70 minutes when Vinicius dos Santos
surrendered to police, who had evacuated the building. Nobody was injured in
the incident and Paz later informed listeners where they could buy the
band's album.
Elizabeth Finkler
San Jose, California
mightymezzo@h...
http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo
We all live in a place called "23 skiddoo." --John Prine
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