Dusty Rhodes and the River Band at Brixton
Dusty Rhodes and the River Band play Brixton Sunday night. It somehow makes sense that a low speed scooter accident begat Dusty Rhodes and the River Band. You can picture Dustin Apodaca, his wild mop of curls flopping in the wind, crossing an intersection on his way to work at Disneyland. He’s riding a Honda Elite scooter he’d bought with his high school graduation money, as wild and free as a boy can be in Anaheim, California, circa 2002. But then non-tragedy strikes: a car runs the light and plows into young Apodaca, whose helmeted head hits the car hard enough to leave an indentation. Here’s the twist, though: Apodaca wasn’t hurt, hardly at all. But he emerged from the accident minus his job after Disneyland fired him for his no-show (“I didn’t get hurt but I still wanted two days off work…So they fired me,” Apodaca recalled. “Well, I quit.”) and with superpowers. That is, he took the small insurance settlement and bought every instrument he could get his hands on, a wild assortment that included multiple keyboards (including his beloved synthesizer) an accordion, and even a mini-van. “I got me like two amps,” he said. “I had shit before that. I had no equipment.” Thus was born…
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