OMG..Did anybody hear about this?

[GrtGzu]

Soul Singer Attacked on Stage for Dedicating Song to Trayvon Martin


Legendary musician and future R&B Hall of Fame inductee Lester Chambers suffered injuries Saturday after he was attacked on stage for dedicating a song to Trayvon Martin.

According to police, the Civil-Rights-era leader of soul rock group The Chambers Brothers was performing at the Hayward-Russell City Blues Festival in downtown Hayward, California, when he was suddenly rushed by a woman identified as 43-year-old Dinalynn Andrews Potter after he dedicated Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready" to Trayvon Martin shortly following George Zimmerman's acquittal.

Chambers' wife Lola said the 73-year-old musician told audience members that Mayfield would have changed the lyric "there's a train a comin" to "there's a change a comin" were he alive today.

Friend and fellow musician Kurt Crowbar Kangas filed this report following the incident:


Quote:

[T]he woman who attacked him was white and yelled something like “it’s all your fault” before she hit him, he went down hard but was halfway caught by Barren, thank God, she was subdued by Police and taken away while the para-medics came and took him to a local Hospital where he went thru a series of cat scans, no broken bones, the only injury for now is a 8″ scratch in the kidney area of his back and it’s starting to swell.

A photo posted on Facebook by Chambers' son Dylan showed Lester recovering at home with a large bruise on his back.



He reportedly suffered a bruised rib muscle and nerve damage as a result of the assault.

Andrews Potter was arrested and booked on suspicion of battery before being released. Chambers' family is looking to have police charge her with a hate crime.

Chambers was last in the news in March of 2012 after he came forward to reveal that unscrupulous record execs withheld royalties from him for years, forcing him to live on $1,200 a month.

UPDATE: A donation page for Lester Chambers set up by the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund in 2009 can be found here. Its stated purpose is the "assist Lester with medical bills and urgent living expenses," which seem particularly relevant today given this incident.
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[marv2]

Never heard about this story until now. Quite disturbing.....


Thanks GrtGzu

[gary]

I saw this on Facebook. I hope they throw the book at this psycho b***h.

[soulster]

Thanks for posting this.

[Jerry Oz]

Damn. And the media keeps suggesting that the other side is the one that might get violent. I'd swear that they are waiting for it, yet not a word on the news about this. I wonder why?

[GrtGzu]

You're all most welcome....I was actually at another site where I know that "receipts"are often requested when posting such news, so I wasn't about to do this unless I had such "receipts" as it were....

Plus, I was SO sure that it was already posted over here, I did a quick search on all boards, and didn't see nothin' so thought it safe to do....

But Jeez, I kinda almost fell outta my chair at work when I read about this.....
Really?
REALLY??

And I thought to myself, "what irony hath been wrougth" or some such as that....I can't really put my tongue on it as you can clearly see, but I'm sure you get the gist....

Man, the Chambers Brothers take me all the way back to what '67-68'?? I remember hearing them on WJMO back in the day....Good tunes....

And I believe what he said about Curtis, if he were still alive today.....

[edafan]

This attack on Chambers brings me to a bigger issue.

At what point does the media inflame people?

And I am not talking about these current events.

We can go back in Boston to Sacco and Venzetti,
also in Cleveland to the doctor; I believe his name was Shepard.

edafan