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A message to and from friends of The Prids:
updated Tuesday 7/22
Our dear friends The Prids – David, Mistina, Joey and Maile – and two of their significant others – Kristin and Chris – were in a serious accident early Sunday evening while en route to Los Angeles on tour. A tire blew and they lost control of the van and it rolled several times. David was airlifted from the scene of the crash, he suffered a broken collar bone, broken ribs and has 6 staples in his head. Chris broke his arm in two places. Maile has a broken vertebra and toe and a severe cut with stitches on her knee. Joey broke ribs, Mistina suffered a concussion, and Kristin has a snapped joint in her collar bone.
As of late that night, everyone had been released from the hospital but David had to go back in the middle of the night and was released Monday afternoon. Maile is currently back in the emergency room. The rest are currently staying at a hotel in Fresno waiting to go home with their friends, Marshal and Kiisu, that drove down from Portland with a cooler full of vegan food donated by Food Fight (Portland).
A special paypal account has been set up to help out and donate directly to The Prids. They need help getting home and paying their hospital bills. If you can’t help out monetarily, please repost this info on your blogs, etc. They could also use lots of vegan food and comfy cushions/pillows/bedding for their long ride home to Portland. Thanks!
If you would like to help an awesome band with some much-needed financial help — getting home to Portland, replacing destroyed musical equipment, and paying undoubtedly outrageous and rapidly mounting medical bills — you can do so via paypal to donate@theprids.com.
Thank you!
So, because I am an OG Fresno hooker, I was contacted yesterday by both and for assistance in finding local lodging for those members not still hospitalized. I immediately shot out an email to some old friends of mine, Brian Kenney Fresno and Felix Muzquiz (we have all known each other since childhood), who are not only the coolest, most amazing people around, but who themselves spend a substantial portion of their year on tour, as well. In fact, they stay with us when they are down Los Angeles way for a show.
Well, being traveling musicians themselves, they were immediately down for opening their home to The Prids. And even though it turned out that the band had fortunately procured the funds for an extended stay at the hotel where they had already set up camp — thus meaning they did not have to pack up and move in their horribly injured states — I want to make sure and give a major shout out of thanks to both Brian and Felix for, quite literally without a moment’s hesitation, offering up both their hearts and their home to a group of fellow musicians in a bad situation. This is what it’s all about, kids.
As for me, I am so proud and enamored of my friends and their accomplishments, I can hardly contain myself. Brian is an amazingly gifted musician and showman, and Felix runs what is frequently lauded as the greatest public agricultural bonanza in the country, The Vineyard Farmer’s Market in Fresno. So, when Brian and Felix come to your town — and the way they so relentlessly tour, I assure you, they will come to your town! — do make sure and come out to see them. You will not only have the opportunity to take in a magnificent and hilarious show unlike anything you’ve ever seen, you will most likely make some new and extraordinary friends in the process. I love them both mightily and thank them for their kindness and generosity from the very bottom of my wicked, wicked heart.
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