riots! what are the best rock'n'roll riots?

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at concerts? j and m chain but who else?

― doomie x, Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

the MC5 beatdown

― antexit (antexit), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

edwin collins, 4-skins.

That's not the same gig/night, btw.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Suicide

― thomas, Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Italian rock 'n' roll riots:

Frank Zappa
Van der Graaf Generator

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

haha - easily the one during Caetano Veloso's Brasilian Festival performance in the late 60's. his Japan-only Singles CD contains the live track - you'll wonder how anyone escaped alive... apparently Dylan had it good

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

pil at Roxy
Black Sabbath
Stooges Louie Louie episode on Metallic KO
Altamont

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The Clash -- Bonds/Times Square riots...

― hector savage, Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and wasn;t there a Libertines one recently? Like, about ten minutes ago?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

hey am going to be writing about the libertines riot. ha ha. shhhh!!

― DOOMIE X, Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Music RIOT!

Live Recordings Where the Audience Are Giving the Bands/ Performers/Artist a Hard Time

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The Guns-'n'-Roses-guy-refuses-to-play-after-Metallica-guy-burns-his-hand-off-riot is pretty much the classic.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Elks Lodge in LA - the punk rock riot!

― stumpyjoe (stumpyjoe), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"edwin collins,"

Do you mean at Reading Festival when the twats in charge let all the earlier acts overrun so much that Eddo (the headliner) only had time to play about 3 songs and we all had a bit of a sulk?

Back in the good ol' days there regularly used to be gangs of punk-bashers waiting outside gigs. Sometimes they managed to get in too. I particularly remember gigs by The Clash, The Stranglers and the UK Subs that all turned into minor blood-baths.

I also remember several Angelic Upstarts / Cockney Rejects / Madness / Sham 69 / Specials gigs; and one particular Rock Against Racism / Anti Nazi League demo with The Ruts and Misty In Roots; that turned into pitched battles with the skinheads.

Oh and Cr@ss at Reading Town Hall in 1981(?) was a bit of a laugh too as I recall!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.missingfoundation.com/images/logo001.gif

http://www.matteblack.com/images/live/gg.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

the end of the 60s:

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/history/brinkley/3651/photos/sixties/Altamont.jpg
12/6/1969
Altamont Speedway

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i never realised that tugboat gigs got that crazed!

― DOOMIE X, Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Sonic Youth on Brighton beach, 1985. I think they were due to play with Throbbing Gristle, but Genesis P. Dickpiercing pulled out. Anyhow, as you know Brighton beach is all pebbles, and from what I've heard, it turned into a full-scale riot with punters lobbing rocks at the police. Anyone know anything more about it? It was way before I moved here...

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Lobbing rocks at the police on Brighton beach was a traditional August Bank Holiday activity which I believe was first started in 1964.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Very true! Ah, the good old days...

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and obviously I meant Psychic TV instead of TG.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

woodstock 99 to thread.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Doors in Miami where Jim (maybe) showed his johnson
Doors in New Haven where Jim got arrested
That one concert that my mom was at with Jefferson Airplane and Grace Slick got arrested for inciting a riot.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

thecandylandriots.com

― pooch punter, Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Every Sly & The Family Stone show where Sly didn't show up, apparently. Great accounts of riots in the "Off the Record" book.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The riots that followed showings of The Blackboard Jungle in the '50s. Hard to believe that "Rock Around The Clock" could lead to rioting, but "it was the olden days."

Didn't the Beatles cause a riot in the Philippines when they refused to meet Imelda Marcos or something?

― mike a, Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Only the ones where the riot is part of show like one big sweaty squirming piece of performance art at DK, Black Flag, and Iggy Pop shows. Otherwise they suck. Folks get messed up, yo.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Sonic Youth / Public Enemy in Chicago, circa 1991. Fearing helter skelter, cops with dogs issued unprovoked beatdowns on wimpy suburban college youth types after the gig. The assailed did not fight the power. John Cusack wrote a cluck clucking editorial in the Chicago paper the next morning. I was there!

My favorite rock riot is sports related: the late 1979 "Disco Demolition" riots following a White Sox game. Young fans had their faces cut apart by shards of the Casablanca back catalog hurtling through the air.

http://whitesoxinteractive.com/images/discodemolitionBIG.jpg

Eyewitness account: "Anyway they wheeled out this gigantic box and from that point on it was chaos. I was sitting in the lower right field bleachers and when they blew up that box it was the craziest thing ever, people were flowing over the walls running onto the field. Like the pic shows I was one of the brave souls, sliding into second base. But before you know it, it became a war zone, pieces of albums flying thru the air hitting people. I could feel no pain but there was no way I was going to stay out there and get sliced up with broken album pieces. Then the bonfire so crazy, pulling the batting cage over center field."

After "Superbowl Shuffle," do the Chicago Bears count as a band? Riots follow their every major win or loss.

All that said, I've never lived in Chicago, thank god. Here's a question: did anyone ever leave an Atari Teenage Riot show with so much as a scratch? (coke bloody noses don't count)

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh, that stealing bandwith gif is very Ian Christe.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Never been to a rave but I've been in a riot. I was right at the heart of that Public Enemy/Sonic Youth one (1990, I believe). The way I remember it: Someone with a megaphone wanted to start a round table discussion on the Gulf War right across the street from the Aragon Ballroom (I believe). He (I believe) was, um, detained by the cops and a circle of people formed around the scene chanting "Bullshit! Bullshit!" I was pulled away by some really tall man in a three-piece suit who said "Get out of here, you punks! You'll see what the police can do!" Down the street a bit, we could see Chuck D poke his head out a window way above us. I could have sworn he said "I didn't mean it." Or maybe I just read some sort of resgination in his face. Sadness.

― Kevin John Bozelka (Kevin John Bozelka), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

morris, I'm supremely flattered by that!

Mo' riots:

Metallica, Tushino Airfield, Russia, September 1991 * 3 killed
Metallica, Jakarta, Indonesia, April 1993 * "13 hospitalized, eight cars and a number of palm trees burned"
Sepultura, Brazil, 1991 * numerous stabbings

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck and shit! Upon reload, I'm not flattered by that at all! Did you think I started accepting ads in my posts from the No More Google Image Searches Foundation of Greater Chicago? Here's the real image:

http://www.soundofthebeast.com/images/discodemolitionBIG.jpg

If stealing gifs is a crime, at least I won't be the last to know I've been busted.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 23 April 2004 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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