Okay, I just realized the weirdest part of the trip to Paris...

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11/23/2015 4:00pm Edited Date/Time 11/25/2015 3:34pm
On the Monday after the race, Steve Matthes and I hit a Starbucks in the airport while waiting to check in. While waiting in line, we had sort of a character in front of us...and after watching an Eagles of Death Metal video I just realized that it was their lead singer/guitarist, Jesse Hughes.

Now I get why he was a whole lot of nervous energy...
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You guys must have been wigging out a bit over there.
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11/23/2015 4:39pm Edited Date/Time 11/23/2015 4:40pm
You guys must have been wigging out a bit over there.
The first night/morning was weird. After that not so bad.

We definitely didn't have it as bad as the boys in the band.

I have to give it up to the riders, who all rode. Also, to the French crowd, who all showed up.

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11/23/2015 4:47pm
Poignant, sobering . . . thought provoking . . . yeah. "Weird" sums it up well.
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11/23/2015 4:52pm
If you had known it was him at the time, would you have said anything to him?
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11/23/2015 4:55pm
Wow... that's really, really freaky... Dizzy
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11/23/2015 5:03pm Edited Date/Time 11/23/2015 5:07pm
ebers wrote:
If you had known it was him at the time, would you have said anything to him?
What would/could you say?

I think at that point, we were all ready to hop on the plane and get outta town.
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11/23/2015 5:14pm
I like their sound. It's definitely too edgy for Matthes. Grinning
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11/23/2015 5:16pm Edited Date/Time 11/23/2015 5:17pm
A short post-event interview with the band leaders.

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11/23/2015 5:53pm Edited Date/Time 11/23/2015 5:53pm
Highsider wrote:
A short post-event interview with the band leaders.

That's going to be some heavy stuff. I can't imagine how that would affect me if I'd been part of it.
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11/23/2015 6:03pm
Not sure what you would/could say. Pretty weird thinking about it.

That interview will be something else.
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11/23/2015 6:06pm
Has to weigh pretty heavy on those guys to have not only see it begin, but know what the aftermath was.

I think I heard one of their crew was killed. Tragic.
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11/23/2015 6:21pm
I'm looking forward to watching that interview.
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11/23/2015 6:27pm Edited Date/Time 11/23/2015 6:27pm
GuyB wrote:
On the Monday after the race, Steve Matthes and I hit a Starbucks in the airport while waiting to check in. While waiting in line, we...
On the Monday after the race, Steve Matthes and I hit a Starbucks in the airport while waiting to check in. While waiting in line, we had sort of a character in front of us...and after watching an Eagles of Death Metal video I just realized that it was their lead singer/guitarist, Jesse Hughes.

Now I get why he was a whole lot of nervous energy...
We were at Nitro Circus together on Sat and he said something about his plane ride with someone that was at one of the bombings. Crazy!! All I can think is thank god Bercy remodeled that stadium, because it is right there and would surely have been a target with SX there.
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11/23/2015 6:33pm
Sucha small world. I had a buddy and his girlfriend that took a trip over there to celebrate her birthday during all the madness.

Gives me the chills as I'd suggested getting tickets to see EODM last minute but 'fortunately', if that is the correct word, we couldn't get any on the door that evening.

We got caught up in the false alarm on Sunday evening which was bad enough - literally the scariest fucking thing I've experienced. Chilling eating dinner on Rue Montorgueil which is a long street full of restaurants where everyone sits outside, we hear this banging and see people come around the corner screaming. Now picture 100+ people all trying to get up from their tables trying to make a run for it, it was literal chaos; tables, chairs, drinks flying everywhere. We both hit the deck and I got trampled on, ended up smashing my nose on the pavement before we both got up and ran down a side street to hide in a laundrette with a few others. I think people thought I'd been shot as the blood from my nose was all over my shirt so that created even more panic as we got there.

We were hiding in there for what feels like forever but realistically it was probably all done in a few minutes. Sounds cliché but life literally flashed before my eyes, thoughts about friends, family, key moments etc - it was nuts. We were hugging and I was thinking 'fuck me this can't be it, it's not our time', expecting someone to burst in the door and start shooting or something.

Thankfully the people that did burst in were armed police to inform us that everything was ok.

That was all over a false alarm so I literally can't imagine how those trapped in the actual shootings were feeling, absolutely horrible.


That must make you change your outlook on a few things.

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