Well, here are some interesting stories to tell about Pops that I was involved in an accident once back in 2006 during our family trip to Auckland where a musician was late to his gig then this happened that an accident had been occurred & Pops told the guy who crashed into him that Pops good friend of his, Russell Karu is a Harvard University trained lawyer but then I famously made a comment about it ''Somebody get me to Middlemore hospital, I have been involved in a crash!'' (Well, that's funny just to clarify about my famous comment that I uttered but I was lucky that I was unhurt in that crash) then 14 years later in 2020 (That was the Corona virus affected year) that Pops got a pair of cowboy boots from that shop in Taupo to show it to Carole & it ended up only one (The young shop worker was just working only his 2nd day into his job) so he decided to go back to the shop to get the missing boot & he got it straight away meaning that he was a relieved man but nearly a year later this year in late May - early June, Pops brought both a jacket & a new whisky from that shop & paid it of course until he found out that he forgot to check the price which says $1,089 instead of $189 before later corrected it & the rest was history.
And finally I once heard about my favourite Kiwi/New Zealand rock band of Shihad changing their band name to Pacifier but it's been 20 years since 9/11 happened especially the American city of New York City, New York with the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center by hijacked planes as well as the Pentagon were under attack by its terrorist group al-Qaeda led by its Saudi Arabian born leader, the late Osama bin-Laden (Who was gunned down by US Navy SEALs in Pakistan in 2011) therefore declaring a war on terror according to the Bush administration under the leadership of the US president at the time of George W Bush because I remember the time Shihad were about to perform a concert in the US (They were about to make a new album due to release in 2002, 2 years after their success with The General Electric (A successful album released by the band in 1999) including the band's biggest hit to impress the members of a record company, Warner Music Group, until they got replaced in the last minute when September 11th happened & I remember a news report that the band name Shihad sounded too much like jihad (And most fans were pacified that the name of the band has had links to too many terrorist associations in America) & they were felt like frauds when they made the right decision to change the band name to Pacifier that they used to avoid confusion & controversy surrounding the tragedy of 9/11 until in 2004 in which they decided to revert the old band name of Shihad (They used the name of the band from its formation in Wellington (The band has since been based in Melbourne, Australia) from 1988 until 2002 due to the September 11th tragedy that they had in the United States when they toured, forcing them to drastically undergo a name change (From Shihad in which the band members of Jon Toogood (Lead singer & rhythm guitarist), Phil Knight (Lead guitarist), Karl Kippenberger (Bass player) & Tom Larkin (Drummer) thought it was involuntary due to its links involving terrorism in the United States of America (USA), & replaced it with Pacifier) which lasted for 2 years & since 2004).
So that is my 442nd blog of the year 2021 (MMXXI) & my 42nd of this year.
P.S. And it has been 4 years since the tragic deaths of both American rock music icons, the late Chris Cornell of both Audioslave & Soundgarden fame in May 2017 & of course, the late Chester Bennington from the ever popular nu metal band Linkin Park (Along with Korn & Limp Bizkit as the other nu metal rock bands) in July 2017 (2 months after Cornell passed away) so I want to pay tribute to both of them (And I listened to Linkin Park today in honor & memory of Bennington so I got both of the albums that I own such as Hybrid Theory 20th anniversary edition & Meteora (I listened to their hit songs like One Step Closer (One of my favourite Linkin Park songs of all time), In The End, Somewhere I Belong (My favourite song taken from the Meteora album) & Numb).
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