Embarrassing Shows You've Seen & Bands Insulting Each Other Onstage

[Scrod Prickknee]

Great thread, including the jazz fight.

Officer Brad's mention of Kenosha reminded me of a story, second hand, embarrassing and band-related...Kenosha has some nitwits, for sure. Kenocore. A band was playing there one night, basement show. Some skinhead was all amped up and bugging them and etc. After the show, he was hitting himself and the face and whatever. He walks up to my buddies and says, "hey, watch me run straight into the fuckin' wall." He then proceeded to run head-first into a concrete basement wall. And died.

[Jerry Scotty]

Great thread, including the jazz fight.

Officer Officer Brad's mention of Kenosha reminded me of a story, second hand, embarrassing and band-related...Kenosha has some nitwits, for sure. Kenocore. A band was playing there one night, basement show. Some skinhead was all amped up and bugging them and etc. After the show, he was hitting himself and the face and whatever. He walks up to my buddies and says, "hey, watch me run straight into the fuckin' wall." He then proceeded to run head-first into a concrete basement wall. And died.

This reminds me of this Italian guy who's like a pillar of the hc scene and is a great guy, who's also a bit crazy and a die hard Slayer fan. Apparently he knocked himself out at a Slayer show just punching himself in the head from excitement. They had to drag him out and he woke up at the hospital. I think he might have been sxe at the time. Love that story, but not sure if it's true.

Haven't got any good stories myself.

[Scrod Prickknee]

That one's great!

On topic - Local band called "Electric Company." Three brothers that looked like brothers and could play like motherfuckers. Like, ridiculous. Long blond hair. Clearly related. Fought (like brothers) every single time they played. "Let's play XYX." "I hate that song!" Other two play it regardless. Punches. Play another song perfectly. Name-calling, fight. Etc. Not a good story at all, but I was just reminded of them. Should for sure have put out a record. Or a live vid.

[nicolai]

That one's great!

On topic - Local band called "Electric Company." Three brothers that looked like brothers and could play like motherfuckers. Like, ridiculous. Long blond hair. Clearly related. Fought (like brothers) every single time they played. "Let's play XYX." "I hate that song!" Other two play it regardless. Punches. Play another song perfectly. Name-calling, fight. Etc. Not a good story at all, but I was just reminded of them. Should for sure have put out a record. Or a live vid.

That "this is your brains on drugs" song ruled.  I think it was on cdrgmbk right?

[Scrod Prickknee]

Yeah, strangely, that might be their only "official release?" I think they did a CD after they weren't even playing anymore. Prog-punk psych. Whatever. Way better than that sounds. Drank with one of 'em one night in Appleton, and got kicked out of 3 bars. Drummer now is a big-name session dude or something? Grammy nominated? I forget the story. LA. Kids had serious talent. I know there are live vids of a Pink Reason/EC show, or at least small chunks, including Main Stage debauchery and shit-talking.

Would like to do Pat the Jerk stories, but it's yet another dude no one knows and it would only be funny if you did. Several meltdowns, including tears.

Oh, and the Pink Reason show that ended early because Shaun said I was "looking at him" (it was just he and Kevin on stage, not sure where I was supposed to look). He later set my hair on fire.

[nickg]

Fuck, weird, had a dream about electric company last night! Maybe someone has recently mentioned them?!? Then again I regularly get "scrambled eggs" in my head. Three brothers, guitar, drums, keyboard. "Hanson on acid was thrown around a bit, and I think last name was, like...well, really close to Hanson.

[nickg]

Sidenote: wish I had digital files of CDR-GMBK, hahahaha.

[Mattpabst]

The most embarrassing thing I ever did was as a member of the crowd. Went to see a band at a house in DC. My buddies and I were dancing and spraying beer at each other. During this we turned to the band while spraying a whole bottle in the singers face. I thought he took it like a champ, didn't flinch at all, till later in the night when I found out the singer was blind.

[Jerry Scotty]

The most embarrassing thing I ever did was as a member of the crowd. Went to see a band at a house in DC. My buddies and I were dancing and spraying beer at each other. During this we turned to the band while spraying a whole bottle in the singers face. I thought he took it like a champ, didn't flinch at all, till later in the night when I found out the singer was blind.

What band? Was it a european band?

[Mattpabst]

The most embarrassing thing I ever did was as a member of the crowd. Went to see a band at a house in DC. My buddies and I were dancing and spraying beer at each other. During this we turned to the band while spraying a whole bottle in the singers face. I thought he took it like a champ, didn't flinch at all, till later in the night when I found out the singer was blind.

What band? Was it a european band?

Don't remember the bands name but yes, they were from Italy.

[Jerry Scotty]

The most embarrassing thing I ever did was as a member of the crowd. Went to see a band at a house in DC. My buddies and I were dancing and spraying beer at each other. During this we turned to the band while spraying a whole bottle in the singers face. I thought he took it like a champ, didn't flinch at all, till later in the night when I found out the singer was blind.

What band? Was it a european band?

Don't remember the bands name but yes, they were from Italy.

They were the Ultra Twist then. Great live band!

[Mattpabst]

They were awesome and dude was really nice about it. They crashed at my buddies place and I apologized. He was cool, but I felt bad about it.

[bradx]

Great thread, including the jazz fight.

Officer Officer Brad's mention of Kenosha reminded me of a story, second hand, embarrassing and band-related...Kenosha has some nitwits, for sure. Kenocore. A band was playing there one night, basement show. Some skinhead was all amped up and bugging them and etc. After the show, he was hitting himself and the face and whatever. He walks up to my buddies and says, "hey, watch me run straight into the fuckin' wall." He then proceeded to run head-first into a concrete basement wall. And died.

wow, really?  pretty nuts, man.  i assumed the guy died and that sounds like confirmation to me.  the line between homeless and skinhead is pretty thin down there, we spent most of the afternoon trying to track down some grub, we broke into groups and i remember dean dirt and beautiful bert in line at the soup kitchen, maybe dead guy was a former skinhead?  he certainly wasnt dressed like a skin and in my memory he had hair, but those stories are WAY too similar to be a coincidence, i would think...  nobody, including the people who lived there, seemed too concerned about jamie painting the hundreds of swastikas on the walls, who knows?  anyways, the only way they were getting him out of there on a stretcher was by breaking through the wall, and it was the damnedest thing i had seen in my life at the time.  when they pulled him out he was still alive though.  i suppose its likely he was a vegetable, i cant imagine he didnt have brain damage, like i said, it looked like part of his brains had spilled out onto the floor.  no way he had insurance, so i guess they probably wouldnt have kept him on life support any longer than they had to. 

[bradx]

also, not that it matters, but this was an old, old house.  like 1800s vintage.  the basement walls werent concrete, they were stones, and not uniform stones either, just ones that were roughly the same size and shape, mortared together.  kinda like this.

[nicolai]

Sidenote: wish I had digital files of CDR-GMBK, hahahaha.

Been wanting to convert them for awhile.  The intro with Tabman talking to that guy about "raphing" is the best.