Axl Rose v. Fugazi
Bambouche
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Vote for your favorite "Show Stopper" Exhibit 1:
(I really thought Axl's "King Dick" reference was a sure sign that they would launch into a 3-guitarists (?) version of "Pete, King of the Detectives.")
(I really thought Axl's "King Dick" reference was a sure sign that they would launch into a 3-guitarists (?) version of "Pete, King of the Detectives.")
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pontificating babysitters who wouldnt do a fucking thing if really provoked are so un-rock and boring...
i'm really surprised axl stopped like that. pretty raw. i just remember him jumping into the crowd that one time, boots first, ending up jacking some girl in the face.
i remember going to hip-hop shows with ppl geting real dumb by crowd surfing. if this happened in our area of the crowd, me and homie cashless would always do some shit like punch the dude in the nuts or grab their shoes and throw them across venue or twist their leg a direction it shouldn't be going. fuckin idiots.
i like this one for a showstopper.
seemed silly to me, but whatever.
i would go with axl.
and nobody told me?
At least when I'm sitting in a bar and the shit starts
to go down I can hear the tables turning over.
Also : "Guns N Roses" played a show in S.F. last week?
Okay here is a fu'n SHOWSTOPPER : Jesus Lizard live in Dallas.
Yow gets nailed behind the ear with a glass bottle, and
goes down. Y'all know some shit went down at Jesus Lizard shows
I don't know how to embed YouTube videos, so here's the link:
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Yowza!
To be fair, Jesus Lizard belong in a category all their own.
That footage is damn near identical to the Jesus Lizard shows I've seen. Including one such show many years ago (coincidentally, just a few hours after I saw Fugazi--the reply to the "those guys have no sense of humor" notion is coming) and Yow kept alternately spitting on the audience--taunting--and then diving into it. The people he spit on would struggle to get near him to punch, scratch, rip hair out. He'd make his way back to the stage, red spots all over him, minus an article of clothing, take a swill of Bud, then spit into the audience just before diving in on them again. Oh, and, he was singing the entire time.
This behavior continued through the duration of the show. By the end Yow was bloody, bruised, shirtless, shoeless, swollen, and looking completely unfazed. Like he had done the same each night of the three weeks of tour prior to the that show. Like he intended to do the upcoming two weeks of the tour.
All the lunkhead type dudes who showed up to mosh ("it's about getting my fucking aggression out, mom... THAT'S why!") got more than they expected.
I am the type of dude who is bigger than most, which gives me the perception of being able to handle mines--thankfully I don't ever have to ante up. Personally, I enjoy not being punched. Or punching anyone. I can only assume that David Yow--a whole foot shorter and probably 40 lbs. lighter--is of a completely different make-up than I.
Strangely, earlier that day, at the Fugazi show, I got pinned between 5,000 hungry teenagers and this really sharp piece of stage. Completely unable to keep my legs from going under the stage while my torso stayed above (my face had that please don't let me be the 'old dude who got crushed at a punk show' look, no doubt), it took a member of the band stopping the show and asking every one of the "ice cream eating motherfuckers" to take two steps the fuck back so me and my fellow frontliners could walk home. I was thankful they did.
Stranger still, it was those same D.C. NeoCom(munist)s who, later that night at the Jesus Lizard show, were standing next to me, dancing, cheering, and generally having a wonderful time watching Yow incite all the ice cream eating motherfuckers. Not once did they try to stop it. I even caught them singing along to "Sick, Drunk, Blow, Job."
I thought that was funny.
a nirvana gig from 88. the bouncer wont let kurt back onstage, so he cracks him w/ his strat.
later in the show kurt smashed the soundboard which happened to belong to the bouncer. they had to duck out and sneak off, before they were killed.
DAMN! that takes me back. shit, i need to pop on some lizard RIGHT NOW! holy shit, that takes me back. he got naked both shows i saw him almost 10 years ago. dudes fucking crazy. those shows were insane.
thanks for posting that up terry!
I was at that show, its Dallas 1991 at Trees...not 88. The dude he hit was Turner, (in)famous Bouncer/Security dude.(Actually a really nice guy) When they came back for the In utero tour, Turner and his Buddies were waiting for Kurt at the venue.
Wow! If that's true, and like Harvey I doubt it is, you're a twat.
yeah, i kinda just pulled that number outta my ass.
ps. im very jealous of you, having seen nirvana. esp right before they blew up.
d, so you like dudes jumping on your neck when you're trying to enjoy a hip-hop show? i think fools trying to turn a sea of heads into a moon bounce deserve the name calling. maybe you're that type of dude, but not i. not in that environment. sorry.
might i add, much of this crowd surfing shit i witnessed at project blowed shows...
yeah, he looks like one - the way he keeps pushing dude back out
into the crowd, and then punches him in the face before he gets
to his feet.
In my experience, a good 90% of bouncers can eat a fucking dick.
That sounds EXACTLY like the Jesus Lizard I saw in Austin in 1991 (Cannibal Club, RIP).
I've told this story here before, but it's rare that a Yow-centric pops up, so here goes:
In college, I worked at Sam's Club and was always ringing up flatbeds filled with goods to be resold. There was this one really kind middle-aged gentleman who would always buy cases of candy bars for his vending machine business, Vendable Vittles. His name was Frank Yow, and every time he'd come through my line, I'd grin at his name because I only knew of one other Yow.
So one day, Frank came through my line and I said, "You know, there's a singer named David Yow." His face lit up: "That's my son!" I was shocked that he not only birthed this freak, but seemed very proud of his freak. Just like a doting dad, he said, "His band the Jesus Lizard is doing very well," stressing "Lizard" when he said it, making him sound like a disconnected dad. "He and his wife just visited us for Thanksgiving."
I wanted to say, "Yeah, he almost spit on my date a few months ago. Great guy!"
He then chatted a little bit about Rey Washam, former drummer for Scratch Acid. He then paid me for a couple hundred candy bars and left me there, stunned.
Naw, Robert. No bullshit and no beef. This happened at the Goodie Mob show during the Still Standing tour at Stubbs. Trustafundian dude was trying to crowd surf near the front of the stage and was pushing and kicking the girls up front trying to check out the show. Dude got punched, and he fucking deserved it. If you were there, and if you would have seen how rough he was being in an area with lots of girls who were DEFINITELY NOT trying to be on some hardcore moshpit type shit, you would've been fucking pissed too. I know you and Cashless got beef, and we got a shitty history, and you don't cut for most of the people cool with us, but save that. Please. This shit straight up happened.
And Danno, if you think moshing on some girls like that is cool, then you're the fucking twat.
I'm not against that moshing, crowd surfing shit, but there's a time and place, and that wasn't it.
read the account that was posted, Kurt was a big prick that night...he was just sticking up for one of his friends...
My band shared practice space with one of his bands, would see and talk to him regularly...he was cool to me.
he still seems like an ass to me ... from proudly describing biting Cobain's
nose to the earlier descriptions of his stage routine where he cuts himself
with swords and daggers ... but I'm not looking to scrap about it, I'm sure
he was cool to you, and I've known plenty of dudes who were genuinely psycho
yet totally nice to me and even considered friends, so I can't hate too much.
I've just seen too many bouncers ruin shows by attacking the band/crowd/both
to be sympathetic when watching that video. Too many fresh memories of being
put in a choke hold for jumping straight in the air once at a Slayer show, and
watching my friend's nose get split in two when he tried to appeal to the guy
to let me go...
but I did see Kurt go over to the monitor board(to his left) and just smash his guitar into it, hard enough for him to break a dudes hand...if someone did that to my friend's gear, I prolly would have done the same thing...as genius as a songwriter Kurt was, I dont think it is beyond the realm of possibilty that he was a prima donna of a little prick at times...
So of course like a true super-hero...Brent, who maybe weighs a buck twenty five, punched this Goodie Mob mosher in the nuts, took his shoes off to throw them across the room, and then twisted dude's leg into a pretzel.
Sure that happened.
Doo Doo All Over This Cornball Thread.
Just Stop Already Please.
what the hell is cornball about this thread? I think this thread is pretty entertaining...were having a good time. You go away now.
ok, you got me, rashied. i'm making up stories to have something newsworthy to contribute and get noticed by a bunch of dudes. yay!
why you so concerned about my stories that don't involve you?
at the end of this clip from the awards show, Dave is heard taunting Axl.
clip from the show I saw. Doods were hard.