Fine Line Music Cafe set afire by band's pyrotechnics

Star Tribune ^ | 2-18-2003 | David Chanen

[Cagey]

The Fine Line Music Cafe in downtown Minneapolis would have been smokin' Monday with the guitar wailing of Link Wray, but the warm-up band got things hot a little early.

The Jet City Fix was playing its encore when it set off a pyrotechnic display that started the club's ceiling on fire about 7:15 p.m., fire officials said.

[Wolfie]

Heh...should have stuck with the 30 inch high Stonehenge.

[Cagey]

Ooooops.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Loss of Consortium.

[craig61a]

I guess they were 'fired up' heh heh

http://www.thefix-a-fires.com/

[SirFishalot]

Odd, no mention of the many laws that were probably violated by using the Pyro.

One for instance, making explosives in any form requires an BATF license.

[Rebelbase]

"And none of our equipment was insured,"

Ooops!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We saw the Bone Daddies at the Fine Line. There was an old coverted bus garage downtown near Fine Line. We saw the Neville Brothers and it was a hoot.

[Johnny Gage]

A big "HOLD MUH BEER" ping.

"OOPS I accidently burned up our gig, man.."

[PJ-Comix]

"What happened in Chicago was an anomaly," he said. "We make sure we're not over capacity and check to see if all exits are unlocked."

Um....After seeing what happened last night at the Rhode Island nightclub perhaps this idiot might want to take back his statement that this was an "anomaly."

[Cultural Jihad]

From thejetcityfix.com:

Monday, February 17^th

Fine Line Music Cafe
318 First Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55401
with Link Wray. For more info check out www.finelinemusic.com
Cover: $16 adv / $18 dos
Doors open at 6:00 PM
Time: 7:00 PM

[Cultural Jihad]

The pissed-off club owner Dario Anselmo (on the right?) during an earlier, happier moment, receiving an award from the Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association in 2001:

[Cagey]

... perhaps this idiot might want to take back his statement that this was an "anomaly."

I thought the exact same thing when I heard the news this morning.

[Cultural Jihad]

Will the Jet City Fix, or the owner who paid them to perform in public, get a bill for these services?

[Cagey]

I don't know. But, I do remember some poor soul who got a bill from the NPS for starting a forest fire because the trailer he was towing had a flat tire which caught on fire and ignited several brush fires. I think he was billed close to a million dollars but I didn't hear what happened to that case.

[Lurker]

Try at least to get the State right will you.

L

[Lurker]

Let's hope so, as well as getting his ass sued off.

L

[gridlock]

If one of the band members had been trapped in a people-pod, this could have turned tragic...

[Cultural Jihad]

Their website didn't have a poster advertising their appearance in the Minnesota later in the week. If it did, rest assured I would have posted it instead.

[csvset]

Link Wray! He's still rocking, not bad for a guy who's 74 years old.