Just hours after he’d fallen off a cliff, broken 17 bones and sliced a third of his back open, Dave Beegle’s bone doctor gave him some encouraging news. He’d probably make a full recovery.
This empowered Beegle to ask what he now says was a stupid question: Could he play a gig in two months?
Beegle was grateful to be alive that day, on May 18 of last year. He’d fallen 60 feet and tumbled twice that far down the hill. He counted five catapults after the first long fall, and every time he bounced off the hillside, his body made a loud crack, like a branch falling from a tree. A pair of tall rocks caught him and likely saved his life…