The Pied Pipers
Seattle, Washington
1965 - 1970
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One night when were playing at Perl's in Bremerton. Anyway it was the same old thing that the last ferry left Bremerton before we could pack our equipment and get to the dock to get on the ferry, so we could either drive all the way around through Tacoma, across the Narrows bridge or we could take the Bainbridge Island ferry because it ran almost all night.So on our way to the boat we stopped for a bite to eat at some truck stop outside of Poulsbo. As we were eating our food in came a couple of truck drivers and they started giving us a bad time by telling us our hair was too long and one of them called us ladies or something like that. Well then my best friend in the band, we are like brothers, I mean this guy wouldn't hurt a fly, but he'd had enough of these thugs, so he tells them in no uncertain terms to "BLANK themselves if they couldn't take a joke!" Well it was now time for us to leave to catch the ferry and I mean it these jerks started following us and threw empty beer bottles at our Pied Piper VW micro bus that fully loaded probably did a top speed of 25 or 30 mph. When we got to the boat they were still back there about a block away just laughing and slapping each other in congratulation, BIG MEN!!!! My heart was still pounding when we got off the boat in Seattle!! oh yeah my best friend and brother who spoke up for us was Ron "CHIEF" Foos who now plays for the wildest man in rock 'n' roll, Paul Revere and the Raiders
John "Flash" Gordon, January 2007
If anyone who has any old or new stories about the "Pipers", please contact The "Web Slave" and submit their stories, pictures or comments. KEEP ON ROCK'N, PIED PIPERS FOREVER!!!
John "Flash" Gordon and Sammy Carlson (The Web Slave), April 2007
