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Old 07-12-2008, 03:53 AM   #125 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ottopilot
TH665: While playing his Sousaphone, he stumbles and drowns in his own spit ... a mysteriously frozen spit-valve was said to have caused the abnormal back-pressure releasing years of viscus rental-instrument backwash directly into his windpipe.

If it's a band, could be Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. They had only a few top 40 hits in the 70's, but were very big in technical progressive rock circles. Each member is generally considered a virtuoso for their time among other musicians. Most well-known commercial song is probably "Lucky Man"... not very typical of most their stuff.

my bad...i should have known that...

top caught his arm in a beer-labeling machine and it wouldn't let go...

a piece of him can be found secreted into the ink of at least 25% of home-brewed bottle labels on the delmarva peninsula...
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