(maybe) embarrasing concert tales
 

so I was at this small club, mangos, near my house with a friend, Sozavac Instigator, and we were going to see the Riff Tiffs, a band from austin i think. the opening band finished right when I got there, and the second band came on and started playing.
I was standing maybe 15 feet from the stage (the room is quite small) nursing a coca cola, and watching the band with my friend. The band has 8 dudes in it, guitar/bass/guitar/drums/keys/and a guy playing trumpet/singer.
so they are playing and they are very much in the vein of the more slow and emotive at the drive in/mars volta stuff, not really my thing, but I am enjoying the show allright.
the singer is totally aping the mars volta/ATDI singer, v neck T, hair all fro'd out, singing with his eyes closed and gesturing more often than actually playing the guitar around his neck.
I turn to my friend and shout "I hate when every song starts with the word "she""
He laughed and we watched more of the song, which had these loud soft dynamics, very typical of all the post-slint crap the kids keep playing, and I lean to my friend again, and just as I am about to talk loudly in his ear the band drops in volume to real soft, and I holler "Man, that singer really cares, huh?" in what must have sounded like the most sardonic, This-sad-sack-singer-is-a-pussy-bitch voice.
The entire club heard me, and the kids in the front all turn around to look at me, cuz they LOVE that he cares! they care TOOO!!!! (90% of the crowd was under 20)
I turned to face them and smiled like "yeah, you heard me..."

no one said shit.

One kid, who did not seem to like the band, Laughed. a lone Guffaw.

"hheayyuahhh!"

I saw Meatloaf...

Twice...

Does that count?

once, about 20 years ago at Trees in Dallas, I punched the lead-singer to the industrial-hip-hop band "Consolidated" so hard in the face, I may have broken his nose.

BLOOD EVERYWHERE.

"that's it! show's over!"

I'm STILL laughing.

Did he tried to make a move on girl gun?

i saw some good shows at Treesss
never opunched a bandmember though!

Rob the same thing happened to my drummer (also named Rob, weird) when we were at midpoint music fest in cinci. We were watching this band called hot cha cha. all girls, and the singer was getting into it and grindin alittle and we were standing right in front of them, just a few inches. small intimate bar setting and the place was packed and he's like "oh she wants to fuck" and that was right about the time the song ended on the dime like the strokes did...and she heard him. She mouthed 'no way' and it was the most hilarious/embarrassing thing I've ever seen. We still give him shit for it haha.

Visqueen opening for Shonen Knife at the 9:30 Club. I was front row and
the singer/guitarist for Visqueen had like two bottles of water and an open
bottle of Bud on the stool next to her. I'm watching that bottle just edge
closer and closer till it falls off the stool and spills all over the cords on
stage. I must have had this concerned look on my face 'cause when I
looked back up to the band, the singer was smiling at me and mouthed,
"Don't worry about it." That gave me a beamer.

most embarassing will be in print very soon, but for one not involving Lee...

going to see Les Georges Leningrad play at the Talking Head, i was hanging out upstairs before the show watching Martin of LGL play the drummer i think of the Watchers in a game of pool, i got winner, who turned out to be the guy from The Watchers, i played so horriblely i i actually when trying to make an easy shot into the corner pocket, i miss the ball completely and the cue ball goes into the pocket

outside of the soon to be published account, that is my dumbest i think

hahahahah! endless grief!

that is plain old billiards embarrassing. you thought you had game bro...

there's a little summer music fest in my city. my best friend's mom gets like four free week-long passes, so we go chill in the park, drink the best lemonade ever, and take in some mediocre live tunage.
one year we saw peter frampton. the story could end here - that's embarassing enough. :P
i was wearing this union jack tee (this was in my ridiculous who phase) my friend, her mom, and i walk down in front, by the stage... they wanted some mongolian bbq.
in the middle of a wanky solo, frampton points at me. then at a little flag on his guitar strap. then me again.
awkward!

oh i never said i had game, i played so bad i made the other bad play bad too, shooting it so wildly he could set up shots

hahaha! You and Peter Frampton made a "soul connection!!!"
he wanted you to want him

you would not believ how many times I have had abilliard game in hand only to scratch the cue ball when going for the close-out on the 8-ball.

haaaaah. i wouldn't even take a free copy of comes alive offered to me once at a garage sale, no way would i take the real deal.

take this talkbox 'n' SHOVE IT.

The most embarrassing thing (I think) is that I've had beer spit on me by the lead singer of Monotonix after he took a swig from the bottle he just pulled from his ass.

that is pretty embarrasing

when i was fifteen or so i went to see this guy in concert:




my mother liked his music too so she came along.

then she spotted him next to the stage, talking to some people.

the rest of the story involves her shoving me towards him to say 'hi' and an extremely shy and awkward fifteen-year old me stammering something like 'my mother told me to say hi to you'.

he thought it was funny anyway.

i never took my mother to a concert again.

I had the same, but with Lee Ranaldo.
It was also my most embarassing moment.

that might be even worse :P

ive had beer spat on me by him, i think. but it didnt come out of his ass....

I laughed so hard at this. Sorry, man.

my mom won't let me talk to Lee Ranaldo.

:(

new pic of floatingslowly

My mommy said I'm not allowed to fraternize with any Sonic Youth.

It's not like I've never had beer spat, thrown, poured, etc on me at a show before. Just never from a bottle that came out of a man's ass.

IT WAS
Let this be a lesson to everyone. NEVER LET YOUR PARENTS GO BACKSTAGE WITH YOU. Geez, the consequences of having a dad with connections... FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

i took a full beer can off the side of the head at the reverend horton heat, then this girl who I was there with almost got in a cat fight in the moshpit with the girl who threw it... everyone got mad at me for fucking up the moshpit.

At a six organs of admittance show with a friend. We were talking in-between band changes and as Ben Chasney and his female guitarist are right next to us my friend (oblivious to how he is sounding) says: ''Well man, I feel obligated to her because she let me fuck her in the ass, a lot!''

Chasney and guitarist just sorta ducked their heads and got on stage to set up, they had to have heard him, he is LOUD.

^^ She's not just his guitarist, but girlfriend too. :)

I think your friend was onto something there.

I got hit in the head with a shoe once at a concert...I don't think it's embarrissing.....

I saw Mindless Self Indulgence live.

....end of story.

Last night of drinking I ended up at some outside party filled to the brim with douchbags but the band was all right so I stood in front of their speaker and hit on the back up singers.

Now my ears are ringing along with my general hangover.

my mom got drunk and hit on the whole band. my "best friend" buddied up with her minus the booze. i was told to just come by myself next time to the venue.

hahahah! too funny guys. stories you will laugh about for decadesssssss

with the monotonix one must expect weird shit to go down, no pun intended.

I was at a RevCo show and close to the front behind two punkettes, one a short angry looking chick an the other a hefty bruiser. They did NOT appfreciate people crowdsurfing. I was just trying to keep people's boots from hitting me in the face and shit. These two chicks would either twist the ankles of the crowdsurfers all ugly and shit mad as fuck, or theu would take off their shoes and throw them on stage. I am holding up some dude whose flailing about and the bruiser sees me holding up homeslice and she gets enraged and slams my face with an elbow, HARD, and I drop the lower half of that dude on my head, and in the middle of the white light pain I threw an open palm kinda hard at the back of her head as I turned around to get something for the blood.
she broke my nose. I never hit anyone much less girls but reflex took over.
I hadnot done shit to deserve a fucking elbow to the face
but it was embarrassi\n

I have lots:

1. I got a water bottle thrown at my chest by the lead singer of Sunburned Hand of the Man. Everyone looked at me wondering what I would do, and I just deadpanned it.

2. i got drunk at a concert that I took a girl I liked. I went outside and threw up and pretended like nothing happened. Then (the band playing was fucking crazy) this guy picked me up in the pit and carried me to the other end of the venue. It was terrible. On the way out, the girl stepped in my vomit and didn't notice.

3. At a GWAR show, a girl asked me to pick her up. I misunderstood and thought she wanted me to push her forward, which I did. Then she explained what she meant. It took me forever to figure out how to get her above the crowd. The second I did, she fell right on her head.

4. Costas ran into the crowd while he was covered with his own shit and vomit. I was too fucked up to move and he slathered me with it

5. I threw up at a Malkmus show right in front of Stevie right when he finished. I met him moments after telling him how much I enjoyed the show with total barf breath.

There are many more. Most of them involve vomit. Glad I can handle my liquor better these days.

last sonic youth show i went to, i was waiting outside the venue. lee was going in and out with equipment. at one point he saw my shirt, started going on and on about how cool it was, and asked if he could take a picture of it with his phone. so i'm standing there, posing, while everyone else in line is staring at me.