JUST A FEW MEMORIES OF BILL YATES.......OK...HERE IS ONE THAT YOU MIGHT ASK RANDY WALLER OR BILL EMERSON ABOUT.......BIG ED AND I WERE WORKING FOR BUCKS COUNTY MUSIC AT THE TIME, AND WE HAD OUR VAN AND EVERYTHING SET UP OVER ON THE LOWER LEFT SIDE AS YOU FACE THE STAGE AT SNAKE LAKE......OR LAKE WIPPORWILL WARENTON, VA......JUST ACROSS A LITTLE BRIDGE THAT LED FROM THE STAGE TO THE BACK CAMPING AREA.....WELL THERE WERE SOME HELL RAISING BIKER DUDES THAT CAME THAT DAY JUST TO FIGHT ANYONE, FOR NO REASON.....JUST CRAZY PSYCHO TYPES......WELL....ONE OF THE DUDES WAS STANDING NEAR THAT BRIDGE, AND WAS JUST COLD COCKING PEOPLE THAT WALKED BY.......WELL HERE COMES BILL YATES AND HIS WIFE.....AND THE DUDE GRABS BILLS WIFE.......WELL BILL SAYS......GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY WIFE...AND TRYS TO GRAB THE DUDE, BUT SLIPS IN THE MUDD......HE HAD THOSE BLACK FLAMINCO BOOTS ON , AND COULDNT GET A FOOTING.....WELL, WHEN BILL YATES WENT DOWN BIG ED PULLED OUT HIS 44 MAG. AUTOMAG AND SHOT OFF A WARNING SHOT.....WELL THE CRAZY DUDE NOW STARTS COMING TOWARD BIG ED YELLIN SHOOT ME.....COME ON SHOOT ME.....WELL ED SHOOTS OFF ANOTHER WARNING ROUND..... AND JUST THEN A BUNCH OF POLICE SHOW UP, AND TRY TO SETTLE THINGS DOWN.......BUT AS THE DAY WENT ON SOME OTHER CRAZY DUDES STARTED UP AGAIN AND ATTACKED THE GENTELMENS CAMP SITE......ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE AND THE FIGHT WAS ON.....RANDY GOT IN A GOOD LICK HITING ONE OF THEM OVER THE HEAD WITH A HOT FIRE PLACE GRATE.......AND SO THIS BECAME KNOWN BY ALL WHO WERE THERE AS THE BATTLE OF SNAKE LAKE.....ME....I WAS GUARDING ALL THE MUSIC SHOPS PROPERTY WITH MY SMITH & WESSEN MODEL 29 44MAG......PS. BILL NEVER DID GET HIT, JUST SLIPPED, AND HIS WIFE WAS UNHARMED
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:15:56 +0000
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