Singers/bands in bad moods @ concerts ????
 

Hi everyone, i was just wondering if anyone would like to relate any stories of concerts they've been to (say in the last 5 years), where its been blatantly obvious there's been friction in the band - (maybe an argument or something just before they came on stage) and its totally noticeable or there's just not a good vibe. My own personal experience was at the Eagles concert in Belfast last year. Something had obviously happened backstage b'cos when they came out every other member seemed to put on a brave face but Joe Walsh was in a terrible mood. For the first half of the concert he didn't interact wit the audience like the way the others did, he messed up his lines in "guilty of the crime", and missed his guitar cue. However after the interval he was fine, he picked up and got into it a bit moreso. It didn't spoil the night for me and have to say the band exceeded my expectations but i was just wondering if anyone else ever had a similar experience. - (Makes me think of how the audience would have reacted in the Fleetwood Mac shows (i think in New Zealand), years ago before my time, when they all weren't gettin on and Lindsey mimicked Stevies twirling and then walked over and kicked her !!???) ....

I gotta come out and say it: I seriously wished that thing of Lindsey imitating Stevie on stage had been caught on camera.

That aside, I can't think of anything, but at my Unleashed show last June, I was having a big problem with a lady in front of me, who got drunk before the show, decided to take out her Sidekick, and "take pictures" by waving her phone around directly in my field of vision. I was ready to snap it over my knee, but other than that, I never saw any of that.

I wish Christine slapping him and dumping her glass of wine on his face was caught on camera. He deserved that.

In the Rumours in Japan Doc. we get to see Chris drunk and we see her throw the wine from her glass into Mick's face. Is that just as good?

There was a Kings of Leon show fairly recently, one of the major festivals in the UK I think it was, where Caleb got pretty p.o. at the crowd not being as into it as he felt they should have been. There was professional video of it, I think, and someone took the liberty of editing it into this video, which I personally find hysterical.



The thing about this is while I don't like the idea of band members dressing down huge crowds of people, especially when it's such a generalized statement, when it comes to people only showing up to Kings of Leon shows to hear "Sex on Fire", I kinda agree. Oops.

I wish I could have been a fly on the wall backstage in Madison on the SYW tour in '04, after Ray Lindsey delivered guitar after guitar to Lindsey on stage that didn't meet his satisfaction. The tension was pretty thick.

Lets hope Lindsey didn't slam the guitar over Ray's poor head, even though we know that Lindsey often resorts to violence when things don't go his way.

:laugh: almost. I just want to see him get his comeuppance for what he did. The Rumours footage is just funny, I'd love to get drunk with Chris!

Can you show me that Rumours footage?

Mick: What are ya?
Christine: I'm a talented, beautiful lady!

She's also rat-arsed.

That was hilarious! Best part is Chris throwing the water in Mick's face and Lindsey walking around shirtless :blob2:

Now, I saw another bit where Mick is taking pictures, comes across a drawing some random girl is making, and then runs away like he was majorly disturbed. What was it on that pad?

Hahaha I was thinking of this video all day at work,Yea Mick: goes What are ya,are fking pricks, then Christine responds,slash of wine in micks face,Ok what in the hill got Mick pisted off.does anybody know.also it was funny when Christine walked away and smiled at the camera.

We cant forget our Stevie ,when she telloff security at the Lake Compounce in 1989.Leave my Fking people alone,then say i'm sorry later.

Cyndi Lauper stands out for me. Some years ago (maybe six?) she played here in CT, Joan Jett was her opening act. The crowd was nearly hostile towards Joan (really, more towards her band) but Joan remained a pro, did her set, and said as she left the stage, almost sadly, 'I hope you all really enjoy Cyndi'-- Cyndi came out and was in incredible voice, but seemed irritated by sound issues (though the sound was great, maybe she couldn't hear herself as she was used to on stage) and she's a fun and funny performer- but she got real irritated with several rowdy fans (Joan would have liked it, I think!) and threw a big temper tantrum when she claimed someone threw (blew?) a spitball up on stage at her, and from Row 2, that's not what it looked like to me, at all. "That's it! I've had it! I'm in no mood for this' yelling really out of control-- this was about 20 minutes after she'd balled out someone in the audience for not letting her finish her long, spoken intro to 'True Colours'- about a friend of hers who'd died of AIDS. Seeing Cyndi go off on the audience was really unsettling, because she'd been singing so strongly and really had been well-received, but things got mixed up. She thought someone was telling HER to shut up during her 'True Colors' intro when it was a girl telling a rowdy guy to 'shut up'- "Yeah, ok, so my friend died, haha, really funny" and then sang the song with a big chip on her shoulder. It was near the show's end when she threw down the mic and went ballistic and refused to finish singing 'Time After Time' (her final song) I thought she was really unprofessional, about the alleged spitball. Chalk it up to a bad night, I still like her.
She returned, shaken, for a 2 minute encore of 'Hey Now' but never introduced her excellent band and a lot of the audience felt like she'd turned on them, when it was really only one guy being pesky and she balled out 5000 people! Bad nights happen.

Ha! so funny you say that... because, of course, at a concert (also) six years ago (also) in New England, this happened. Maybe she was on edge a smidge?

I saw Jethro Tull in Worcester, MA sometime in the early eighties. It was big arena show. I'm still have no idea what happened, but just about an hour into the show, it just abrubtly ended. Lights come up. No announcements were made, no goodbyes. The band just disappeared from the stage. Everyone in the audience were stunned and confused. 'What? It's over?? It can't be!" I always wonder what kind of drama percipitated it. It was a huge slap in the face to fans.