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SECOND-RATE HORN PLAYER STRIKES MORE THAN A CHORD WITH HIS SAX
PHILADELPHIA (Philadelphia Inquirer) -- After years of combatting his
musical illness, the pent up rage in this quiet yet strange musician
apparently reared its ugly head in a largely witnessed incident at an
afterhours club in Center City Philadelphia. Band members had no idea
why the saxophonist suddenly jumped off the stage in the middle of their
third set late Friday night and began pummeling crowd members with the
bell of his instrument. The musician was seen grabbing drinks away from
audience members, pouring them into his saxophone, and
unsuccessfully attempting to drink out of it. He was also heard chanting
into his instrument, "Sax-a-ma-phone... sax-a-ma-phone...", to the tune of
Beethoven's 5th. Some audience members laughed, thinking it was all
part of the show, but it was no laughing matter when the musician finally
tossed his saxophone in the air, hooting wildly like a monkey, and
proceeded to run head-first into the brass rail of the bar.
The saxophonist is presently under observation at the University of
Pennsylvania hospital in University City. His name has not yet been
released by police.
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