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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jan 26, 2009 12:34:57 GMT 2
I honestly don't understand people at times. I GET throwing stuff at gigs when you don't like the support act, or you're at a festival and there's a band you hate on before the main act. I don't neccesarily AGREE with it (you're not the only paying customer, there's probably about 1000 or more people who do actually WANT to see the band play) but I do understand the idea and motives behind it. What I DON'T get are examples like these; My wife and I went with two of her friends to see (at the time) non-more bigger pop star than Robbie Williams. Dunno if you've heard of him in the US, but in the UK he was the biggest thing ever. Anyway, the tickets were about £40 a shot, so you'd think only die-hard fans would buy them, yet I stood next to two Scottish guys who kept shouting things like "Robbie ya English prick!" Seriously, what is that about? Then at a Manson gig (pretty early one), someone threw something at Manson and it hit him in the face and he went off in a sulk - 20 minutes after he came on the stage. What is the point in throwing stuff at the guy you've paid money and waited an hour in the rain to see? Anyway, here's some examples of moments in gigs that have went rather badly.. A guy throws a phone in John Lydon's face. Mistake. uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cUAvf2f0WoM&feature=relatedIn an almost Simpsons-esque moment, Nickleback, after being hit by ROCKS, ask the crowd if there are any Nickleback fans in the arena. Guess the response. uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KsoP-5lGR4I50 Cent gets an ego-check when he goes to Glastonbury.. uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SWvvF95ju9k&feature=relatedAnother glasto moment, this time with Daphne and Celeste, who were popular for about ten minutes, failing to connect with the audience. Saying that, Celeste, the black girl, is pretty smoking. But that's not enough here.. uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnxies4WtkKiss get mad at some dick with a lazer pen.. uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bwXi02hdTJk&feature=relatedLike him or not, Manson OWNS some guy who throws a bottle at him. uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mayefAI40F8&feature=relatedMan, Youtube has hundreds of these. OK, last one.. quite possibly the worst pay-off ever, Angus Young gets beer thrown at him and then.. well.. uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CjBOg50EDqw&feature=related |
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Post by trashcanman on Jan 27, 2009 11:29:33 GMT 2
Why hello, best topic ever. What fun we shall have. I've witnessed more than a few of these. As I've stated before, Fresno has a reputation to uphold. AC/DC will not even set foot there. I saw Jason Newstead of Metallica get clobbered with a water bottle during his big moment singing "Whiplash" while Hetfield was taking a break. He left the stage and Lars and Kirk had to finish the song by themselves sans bass and vocals. And I believe I have recounted the tale from the Warped Tour of Alien Ant Farm being pelted with frozen wieners from an overturned hot dog vendor. Then there was the dude throwing firecrackers at Powerman 5000 earlier at the same show. The singer's rant on that one was hilarious.
Here's a true legendary moment of rock stupidity. It's one thing when drunk fans throw shit. But how about Sharon fucking Osbourne and her toadies ruining a set AT THEIR goddamn CONCERT! This is the incident that got the Osbournes banned from my household. I was one day away from attending this show. I was at the show the night before a little South of there. A frined of mine did attend that show so I got a firsthand account. Not only did Maiden get egged, but the bitch shut down their power periodically during the set, usually in mid-song. Way to treat the paying fans.
Two of many rants from the night.
So then after the set Sharon comes out onstage with this:
She was greeted with a barrage of beer and solid objects. The crowd then proceeded to file out, leaving the mighty Black Sabbath to play to a half-empty house. And now no true metal fan will come near Ozzfest. At least I won't.
And yes, that Manson clip indeed owned.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jan 27, 2009 13:24:11 GMT 2
Sharon Osbourne really is like walking cancer. I fucking DESPISE that woman.
So.. what exactly happened there, Trashy? Why were all the lights out? And why did she call Bruce a prick?
And no, I don't believe you've told us about Alien Ant Farm being pelted by weiners. That's just amazing.
But your Metallica story goes back to my original point; I just don't get WHY people throw stuff at the headline act. Is it for shits and giggles to see what happens? Or is something else?
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Post by trashcanman on Jan 28, 2009 22:22:17 GMT 2
The answer to such questions is always the same: people are fucking stupid dickheads who do retarded shit for no reason whatsoever.
Bruce Dickinson's stage rants are legendary and he's extremely anti-corporate. He usually always goes off at some point during the night about bullshit corporate sponsorship and how the rich people buy out all the front row seats and the just sit there like bumps while the REAL fans stuck out in the far reaches of the place are rocking out like crazy and how Maiden wouldn't be caught dead on some reality show and MTV is crap and the band have never gotten radio play but have thrived because of the real music fans and so on. He's always done that, but Sharon apparently thought the whole thing was about her ("you're so vaaain") and took it personally. The lights were out because Sharon turned them off to try to get Maiden off of the stage. I can't seem to find the video of her being interviewed about the whole thing, but she basically said that she thought it was disrespectful towards the American troops in Iraq for Dickinson to wave The Union Jack as he always does during the song "The Trooper" (which is about the charge of the light brigade; that's called showmanship). If that ain't a bunch of bullshit. Last time I checked, Britain was in Iraq as well and they aren't there because they want to be either. They followed our dumb asses in. Did it sound like the fans were disrespected when Dickinson said, "this is an English fucking flag and these colors do not fucking run"? Thunderous applause speaks for itself. Fuck that bitch.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Jan 30, 2009 1:06:20 GMT 2
So he's British and he waves a British flag and that's somehow offensive? Fuck off, Sharon.
What kind of stupid bitch would turns the lights off Iron fucking Maiden at a rock concert? Is there anyone in the entire audience that would appreciate that?
And you know, Maiden's not my type of music but god damn, Bruce Dickinson is my kind of rock star.
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Post by Ben on Feb 1, 2009 7:48:37 GMT 2
I've seen most of the videos already posted, but they don't get old. Sharon's a total bitch, and Nickelback should have stuck around so they could have been stoned to death.
I bet Trashy will get a kick out of this one...
Dave Mustaine had 2 shirts thrown at him during the middle of a song, but he finished it out and then got on the mic...
That video is from a show I was at. The guy who did it nearly got destroyed by other fans, but security got him out of there before we tore him to pieces.
This seems to happen a ton with Megadeth (there's a billion more of these incidents in the related videos column), so I can only assume people do it just to see Dave yell and cuss.
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 1, 2009 10:13:31 GMT 2
To embed a video on this site you use the URL, Ben.
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Post by Ben on Feb 1, 2009 20:39:28 GMT 2
Goddamnit! I knew I was going to fuck that up. Seems every time I post past 9 at night I do or say something stupid. I'll edit it.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 2, 2009 13:04:39 GMT 2
You know, that sort of thing would CRUSH me, if I were the fan that someone like Dave Mustaine called a "fucking idiot." It's not like the guy paid to see some no-name support act in a flea-pit. He's obviously been a Megadeth fan for years - to have someone I've followed and supported for so long call me out like that.. it would be like Prince calling me a dick. It'd break me in half. Anyway, a GOOD example of a gig going wrong was a few years back when I went to see a band called The Raveonettes. It's a guy and a girl playing Phil Spector-style rock music, with fuzzed out guitars and stoner vocals. In a word - awesome. They're not big in the UK, so they're playing this really small venue when, half way into the gig, their speakers, or guitars, or something (I forget) blow up. So they can't carry on with the gig, so they come out and hang with the audience for about an hour, signing autographs and stuff. Oh, and did I mention that the girl is absurdly hot? Check her out here, in the video for amazing single "That Great Love Sound."uk.youtube.com/watch?v=l2dDcCakpX8Deep sigh. |
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 2, 2009 14:00:48 GMT 2
Mustaine is one temperamental bitch. At least he was directing it in the right direction there. Man, I could go on for hours about this stuff. Scott Weiland threw a towel into the audience at an STP gig I was at and some dope tried to wrestle it away from the dude who caught it. You did NOT want to be that dickhead that night. Weiland berated his ass for several minutes and at one point shouted "you want towels, HERE'S some fucking towels!" and took a whole pile and started throwing them at him. It was hilarious.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 2, 2009 21:36:44 GMT 2
Ha ha, that's pretty funny. Imagine the shit he got from his friends after that. The same thing almost happened to my wife. We were at a gig.. and I can't even remember who it was for, but a towel got thrown out and she grabbed it and this girl tried to grab it from her. Bad move. So Mrs C fucking PUNTS this girl, and grabs the towel back, and all the time I'm thinking, "it's a fucking TOWEL! Who cares?!"
About Scott - is he still in Velvet Revolver or did they boot him out for good?
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Post by Ben on Feb 3, 2009 6:09:33 GMT 2
I've been thinking the exact opposite of that, Curmudgeon. This was probably some drunk idiot who thought the coolest thing in the world would be getting bitched out and flipped off by Dave Mustaine. People just want to see him flip out. Someone who was really a die hard fan wouldn't throw t-shirts at him for one, and even if someone were to do so it would make sense to wait until you had seen the headlining act play more than 5 songs.
I'm pretty sure Weiland is gone for good. He's too much of an asshole (and a drunk) to put up with. I sure wish he would have stayed a bit longer with STP, though.
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 3, 2009 12:20:11 GMT 2
I thought STP was back together. That is why Weiland left VR, after all. VR wasn't as bad as people say, but STP is way better. On the other hand, Weiland's first solo album was awful. He's one of my favorite 90's singers, but man that was a piece of shit. If he's not in STP, I'm not interested in his junky ass anymore
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Post by Ben on Feb 5, 2009 0:38:30 GMT 2
I heard on a local radio station a while back that Weiland got sick of STP and ditched again as soon as they finished their reunion tour. I could be wrong, though.
Velvet Revolver, to me, was a supergroup made up of superboozers, and I can't say I ever really liked them much. They wasted their potential, in my opinion.
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Post by InvisibleWolfMan on Feb 5, 2009 23:05:56 GMT 2
How about this classic clip where Blaze Bailey gets pissed at an "Iron Maiden fan" who spends his time spitting at him and Steve Harris throughout them playing "The Trooper" in Chile during 1996?
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