Killing Beethoven

Things had been going well up until the fall of 2007. We broke into the top five bands with radio air play in Mynmar, signed a deal with Saudi Arabia's top beer distributor and started playing frequent shows in South America.As it turned out, the top beer distributor in Saudi Arabia happen to be Prince Navu Jabi Bin Laden and his micro brew kit he recieved from a non muslim relative for Christmas. Although the Saudis are quite Westernized, he had to keep his passion for lager a secret (turns out he is not a big fan of being publicly stoned to death) so the actual target audience was quite small. On the upside he has more money than he knows what to do with so he paid us $10,000 to play at a gathering where he unveiled his two liters of "Desert Pale Ale" which quite frankley tasted like Shafers lite. Unfortunately it cost us $15,000 to pay off a local tribesman not to mention the unspeakable acts Kay Lightfoot committed on one of his sheep.The gigs in latin america were unbelievable until we decided to combine our love for tacos and burritos with easy money. Let me tell you, spending six months of a five year sentence in a Guatamalan prison is not worth the lure of fast money and easy women. Look for us in an upcoming episode of Lock Up Abroad. We would like to thank the American Consulate for getting us out of that hell hole 4 1/2 years earlier then we should have. As part of agreement I need to tell all you out there that it is not worth it. Smuggling ferrets is the wrong thing to do, I dont care how glamorous it seems.