Marketing Blurb loves rock and roll more than the next pundit. But we’ll be honest and admit that we don’t really listen to many tunes post 1975. This means we don’t
recognize many of the new bands until they annoy us with some mindless celebrity endorsement. But we did learn about this promising garage band from Florida called
This Bike is a Pipe Bomb. They played a gig at Ohio University in Athens a few weeks ago. Band roadies promoted the show with signs and stickers. So it only seems natural you would see a bicycle parked outside a college town restaurant bearing a
This Bike is a Pipe Bomb decal. Athens police discovering the bicycle immediately evacuated four nearby buildings, roped off the area and called in the bomb squad from Columbus. “Bomb experts attacked the bike with a high-pressure spray of water, then pried it open with a hydraulic tool and found no bomb inside.” (NBC News
Columbus has more.)
Marketing Blurb wonders whether the band will play Ohio again.
Photo Credit: NBC 4 Columbus
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