Roddy definitely knew how to tell a good story! And he had plenty of great ones to tell! I love the ones about him wrestling Victor the bear, and when he caused a riot in L.A. back in the mid '70s when he was feuding with the Guerrero family by promising to play the Mexican national anthem on his bagpipes out of respect, but instead started playing La Cucaracha! There will never be anyone else quite like Hot Rod! He went away too soon, but man, he did it all! We miss you, Hot Rod! R.I.P. Roddy Piper!
The real sad thing is in this day and age of technology and surveillance stories like this become more and more rare. Note at the end of the story no one died. And everyone has a great story to tell.
Agreed.I could listen to Piper,Cornette,Pringle all day and night long about what went behind the scenes with them traveling from city to city with 3 or 4 of them in a car and their stops at restaurants,motels,and on the road between shows back then.I also agree that if it went on today it would be in the papers and t.v. wherever they went.
Rest IN Peace, roddy piper god bless HIM, I would love to have a conversation with him in my wildest fantanties, sit there with coffee, cigarette, quitting, and booze and just listening, laughing, DAMN
If smart phones were around, this story would never have happened. A taxi service or Triple AAA wouldve been called. Also, if smart phones were around, Piper wouldn't be telling this great story, he would have just uploaded it to RU-vid...and where's the fun in that? Nope...back in the day, we had to use this thing called an imagination.
Also ALL new talent have a clause in their contract that states IF they are photographed, recorded etc doing/saying anything that isn't P.G (being racist, drugs, being drunk OR telling adult jokes) they can be fired... -_-
