This chronicler always hated that Sabina song that pretended to be based on real events, Pacto entre caballeros, in which the singer explained in the first person that one night some very young thugs robbed him. “Subvenciónanos un pico”, they told him, so they were heroin addicts, and they stole –it was still counted in pesetas, the year the song premiered– “diez quinientas” and “a fancy Omega watch”. It was a "good" brand, but I don't know what Shakira would think of it. The fact is that the guys recognized him: “You look like that Sabina guy who sings”. Then, they took him to a brothel for a party, got high with him, and returned his belongings at the end of the night.
I thought of this because the ARA has published that the German heavy metal band Accept was returning from performing in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, at the Barcelona Rock Fest festival, when the truck with the instruments and sound equipment was robbed at a rest stop. In this case, there were four men with iron bars. And lo and behold, the band's leader, Wolf Hoffmann, who is also the guitarist and the only original member left, is left without the guitar he always uses in live performances. A Framus Custom Shop Masterbuilt WH-1 The Rise of Chaos.
Everything is going from bad to worse, always. Everything was always better before, so the men with the iron bars didn't tell him, “You look like that Wolf Hoffman guy, the heavy metal one.” They didn't take him to a party at any of the dive bars (that delightful euphemism) you can find along the highway. Nor, therefore, did he promise them he would write them a song. The man said he is offering a $2,000 reward to whoever returns the guitar. That is, to whoever finds it on Wallapop.
