{"id":990,"date":"2005-06-24T08:45:20","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T13:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2005\/06\/24\/tragedy-at-tacoland\/"},"modified":"2005-06-24T08:45:20","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T13:45:20","slug":"tragedy-at-tacoland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/tragedy-at-tacoland\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy at Tacoland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/photos\/ram_by_markgreenberg.jpg?resize=75%2C108\" width=\"75\" height=\"108\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Ram - Photo by Mark Greenberg (from nightrocker.com)\" \/><br \/>\nI just had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/crime\/stories\/MYSA062405.online.cb_shooting_tacoland.en.3d2e39c7.html\">this report<\/a> forwarded to me by a bandmate. We played <a href=\"http:\/\/sanantonio.citysearch.com\/profile\/11353232\">Tacoland<\/a> a couple of months ago with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonsofhercules.com\">Sons of Hercules<\/a> and had a great time. <\/a> It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadmilkmen.com\/tourstories\/archives\/000088.html\">immortalized by the Dead Milkmen almost 20 years ago<\/a> and countless local bands have played there over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Ram was a great old guy and didn&#8217;t deserve to be gunned down in his own place. Nobody deserves that. I hope they catch the bastards who did this and my sincere condolences go out to Ram&#8217;s family and friends. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;ll happen to the bar in the aftermath, but I hope they can find a way to keep it open. It won&#8217;t be the same without him.<\/p>\n<p><em>(I snagged the photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightrocker.com\/mainpage\">here<\/a> with credit to Mark Greenberg)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/crime\/stories\/MYSA070805.1A.tacoland_arrest.485c13b2.html\">Two people are in custody<\/a> in connection with the shooting. Score one for the good guys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/metro\/stories\/MYSA071405.1B.morgan_tacoland.676f2874.html\">Another person has died as a result of this shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had this report forwarded to me by a bandmate. We played Tacoland a couple of months ago with Sons of Hercules and had a great time. It was immortalized by the Dead Milkmen almost 20 years ago and countless local bands have played there over the years. Ram was a great old guy <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/tragedy-at-tacoland\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-fY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}