Singled Out: The Midnight Ghost Train's BC Trucker
. Today Steve Moss from The Midnight Ghost Train tells us about the song "BC Trucker", which comes from their brand new album "Cold Was The Ground". Here is the story: Our latest single from our new album "Cold Was The Ground" that we just released a music video for is called "BC Trucker". The BC in the title doesn't actually stand for what you think it would, it stands for Beef Cake. So Beef Cake Trucker it is. We came up with this ridiculous title while on tour. It was 3am and we were somewhere around Billings, Montana at a truck stop, winding down drinking cherry slurpies after a show. When in walked the biggest meanest looking truck driver you have ever seen. He let out an animal like groan and then stared us down, with a judging and demented look in his eyes, but moved on past us and proceeded into the back of the store to grab a case of beer. We continued to sip on our cherry slurpies, but kept a close eye on him the entire time, just knowing from the looks of him something was about to go down. Little did we know, we should have just left right then and there. The trucker moved on up to the counter to pay for his beer, but the man behind the counter shook his head and told him "I'm sorry sir we cant sell beer after 2am." The trucker became infuriated and began screaming at the clerk. After a big and loud argument between the two that felt like it went on forever, the truck driver picked up his case of beer and hit the clerk across the face with it, knocking the clerk to the floor. He then jumped over the counter and began to cave the clerks face in hitting him over and over and over, with the case of beer. My band mates and I ran back behind the counter and pulled the truck driver off the clerk, hit him in the face, and tossed him back over the counter. The trucker just looked at us from the other side of the counter and then just calmly left the store and we began to help the clerk. His entire face was bleeding, several of his teeth were knocked out and it just looked like a steamroller ran over his head. We called 911 and then ran down the aisles of the store to look for towels to help stop the bleeding. Then all of a sudden a semi truck came barreling into the store, smashing through the front doors, and nearly running us over. The truck almost toppled over and the truck drivers head went smashing into the windshield splintering it open. We were so shocked by all this and not knowing what to do we picked up the clerk and moved him to the back of the store. About five minutes later the police and ambulances showed up. The paramedics took away both the trucker and the clerk to the hospital, and we were stuck there for the next five hours being questioned. After we were finally told we could leave we drove away and headed on to our next city. Not knowing if the trucker or the clerk would even survive, we sat in complete silence for most of the drive, none of us saying a word, just trying to wrap our heads around what happened. Then Brandon (our drummer) spoke up and broke the silence with these words, "that was some beef cake trucker". We all laughed hysterically, and the song title was born� Or at least I'm pretty sure that's how it happened. Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself as you watch the video here and learn more about the album right here!
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