This happened in 2017 and I just realized I never posted about it here.
I was driving home at about 2:00 in the morning after a late night studio session and I got into a car crash that flipped my car, I ended up wedged in the front door of a restaurant that was fortunately not open at that time.
No one was hurt in the wreck other than myself I ended up with a fractured neck (that to this day hasn’t healed properly) but I got myself out of the wreck through the back windshield and walked up to the ambulance when they showed up. The doctor said that if the fractures were just one vertebrae lower than it coukd have been likely that I would have been paralyzed, I had my seatbelt on which was interesting because before that I had the nasty habit of not wearing one most of the time.
Miraculously not only did I walk away almost completely unharmed but my OT also survived.
I had my Octatrack MK1 on the passenger seat next to me I was bringing it home so I could continue some stuff I was working on at the studio. When I got out of the hospital I went to where my car got towed to claim any belongings before they destroyed it and they brought me my Octatrack without a scratch on it. The tow truck guy (who called it a DJ mixer) said it was laying face up about 25 feet from the car.
I’m assuming it flew out the window when the car flipped, did some kind of somersault and just happened to land feet first. The entire incident is incredible because of the way I crashed and where my car landed there were so many things that had to go wrong perfectly for everything to happen the way it did.
Obviously I’m very happy to be alive and icing on the cake is that my OT lived too and didn’t even suffer cosmetically.
Anyways figured I’d share if anyone needed further proof that the OT is built like a tank.
Yikes dude is that really necessary. Why tf would I make this up? I’m not out to sell anyone on an Octatrack I’m just sharing this because it’s a crazy and interesting thing that happened to me. No need to get obnoxious.
Sorry man i clearly came across WAY wrong. If you meant the “sounds like shit” part. My bad. This is a now obligatory joke that we all have to make regarding numerous threads about OT sounding crappy. I really really think this is a cool post. Sorry to be weird brutha!
I’d call it an epic tale, the kind that adds to the myth of the Octatrack. Myths usually trace their roots to a thing that really happened but got embellished over time. In a few generations, it will have been the Space Tesla that you crashed, with a load of Syntakt prototypes.
Lol damn my fault I read your entire post as sarcasm after reading the word mythical…I didn’t read it as mythic as I’m unbelievable but mythical as on literally untrue. Then the still sound like shit part assured me it was sarcasm.
It’s hard to gauge when we’re reading.
I know there’s a big debate on OTs sound quality and plenty of jokes on the debate itself but I was positive the whole response was pure snark.
It is an unbelievable thing that happened both me surviving relatively unharmed and the OT but I can assure you it very much happened and was very far from a pleasant experience lol
Oh and for the record I’m on the OT sounds good team.
Oh my god @Matthewsavant yes @obscurerobot s description is EXACTLY what i mean. Im reading a bunch of greek myths right now! Haha. Really man, sometimes I kinda feel like im kanye west posting here.
The mental image of the tow truck guy coming across the OT sitting untouched in the road like a monolith… great story! You have to keep that machine forever now.
First my best whishes to your neck! But the octatrack can also be vicious with its sturdyness. I injured my ankle pretty bad a few month ago, I had my OT near the couch. When I slowly could walk again, I wanted to move it back to the desk. As I was very weak the OT slipped and nearly dropped on my injured still sore foot. It only made a big dent in our crappy floor.
Or maybe the OT tried to derail the towtruck! Night of the living OT. After the bloodthirst is quenched it wanders of into the night chopping amen breaks
And the fact that he was nice enough to grab it for me and return it to me. Seriously so many places for something to go wrong in every part of what happened.
And yes absolutely I’m never ever selling it! Even more I feel like I’m fated to write something good with it…though I don’t believe in fate or anything superstitious or supernatural, still it’s a nice thought and it makes me always think to incorporate it in whatever I’m working on.
Also thanks everyone for the kind words. I don’t know why I didn’t think to share it earlier maybe now that there’s a few years padding between the accident and now it feels like more like an interesting anecdote than a near death experience to talk about.
My neck will likely be forever fucked mostly because of my not taking it very seriously at the time, I didn’t do any aftercare. Never wore the neck brace or went to any of the physical therapy appointments. It was a different lifetime ago back when I was invincible.
