throwing stuff at live performers - is there a time and place¿

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i really dyslike having to drink my beer from a plastic fucking cup. just one asshole is probably all it took to do it - one bottle gets lobbed and everyone suffers. i hope he/she had a good fucking reason & made it a good one.

personally i've never done this before but has anyone here ever¿ why¿
if not - under what circumstances would you feel justified in making me have to drink plasticy tasting beer¿

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

under what circumstances would you feel justified in making me have to drink plasticy tasting beer¿

Metallic K.O.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

yay the hospital!!!

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

There's quite a campaign to ban glasses and bottles entirely from the city centre in Glasgow at the moment. It's a bloody stupid idea. A few people get in fights in tacky pubs and clubs, yeah, but to send out the message that Glasgow is the kind of place where people can't be trusted to drink from anything but a plastic cup is just too horrid for words. Jesus. The stupid 'something must be done' brigade.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

R. Meltzer was a thrower: chicken bones at Dr. Hook, macaroni salad at the New York Dolls.

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

one of my housemates in college threw her panties at steve malkmus. he looked horrified.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

FECES -> MELVINS

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Throwing a chicken at Alice Cooper = legendary. (Has anyone ever admitted to being the person to carry a chicken into that concert?)

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i've always wondered about that.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a half-full beer thrown at me while doing the rapcore band thing. Dude was easy to single out: red in the face, screaming "THIS DOESN'T SOUND LIKE PANTERA".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

throw L'il Debbie star crunches at, well, Star Crunch.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend of mine was obsessed with the idea of throwing MOON PIES at Robert Smith...he seemed to think the idea of Robert Smith eating moon pies was funny.

I guess.

http://www.hometownfavorites.com/moon-pie.jpg

not sure if he ever did it.

― ddb, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I've seen Brother JT eat a Moon Pie, but he brought it on stage with him, sang a song to it, and then ate it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Barenaked Ladies fans throw Kraft macaroni dinners regularly (cause they have that song about 'em)

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Conversely, I was at a Negativland show wherein toast was thrown at the audience by the band, which was great, 'cause I was hungry

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't people used to throw Oh Henry bars at Rollins? Do they still? I know the last time I saw him, at Irving Plaza, some guy was throwing change and Rollins was getting really pissed off, and finally spotted the guy and began haranguing him, daring him to come up on stage and get whomped with the microphone. No dice, unfortunately.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I still think that four thousand people throwing empty plastic cups into the air at once during an outdoor festival is a cool sight to see.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I would just like to say that balloons made of condoms should never be thrown at Neubauten. That's just... wrong.

― kaliflwr (kaliflwr), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Memorable projectiles I've witnessed:

1) Lollapalooza, Primus headlining at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, somebody nails Les Claypool's bass right in the pickup with, um, a marital aid just as they're going into their encore. Les stops & sings acapella into the mic, "There's a dildo in the audience tonight." End of show.

2) The Motels, opening for the Cars circa '81: some oaf narrowly misses Martha Davis' head with a whiskey bottle. The guitar player harangues the crowd & offers to kick the ass of the perpetrator. Challenge not accepted, end of show.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Saw the Strokes Sunday night in Providence and a couple of ladies threw their panties at Julian. And this was shortly after he told the crowd about his engagement party. Is nothing sacred?

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Southern Culture on the Skids has audience members come up on stage and throw fried chicken (8 piece box) to the audience.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Every single show he does, Kool Keith & crew throw ziplock bags containing chicken wings & Capri Sun juicepouches at the audience.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

My friend Jesse has given a total of three summer sausages to Richie Hawtin. He didn't throw them though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

There was this live version of some (forgettable) Jane's Addiction song where Perry goes, "The guy threw a birkenstock!" I always thought that was pretty hilarious.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

it's pretty well accepted that you can throw octopi at the Detroit Red Wings

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Reading Festival, late '70's, as I'm sure Mark Grout & others will testify, it seemed to be traditional that cans were thrown; sometimes at the stage, sometimes at rival factions in the audience.

Sometimes (hah! Does anyone else here remember Brian James and The Hellions in 1980?) the sky was absolutely black with missiles.

On one particular occasion (I'm pretty sure it was '78 when Status Quo were headlining) I saw a gang of bikers at the front with a Watneys Party Seven (a large can that contained 7 pints which was supposedly for people to take to parties, for those too young to remember) which they first passed between themselves 'til it was empty, then passed back between themselves 'til it was full again.

One of them then took this, swung it 'round as if it was a throwing hammer, and sent it flying over our heads, leaving a glistening trail of biker piss in it's wake, which sparkled quite beautifully in the August sunshine as as the projectile soared gracefully into the sky....

Unfortunately of course, gravity being what it is, shortly afterwards some poor fucker must have realised that a metal cannister weighing (at a rough estimate) at least half a stone (that's approximately 4 Kg for those of you who don't still think in imperial) was hurtling out of the sky at them.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

REM's crew once bombarded the minutemen with corndogs during a performance of "History Lesson Part II".

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Keanu Reeves' band (was it Dogstar?) took an absolutely hysterically funny battering of anything anyone could lay their hands on at Glastonbury.

I remember mud being thrown at all the bands at Reading in about 1996. Ice-T was not as impressed as Weezer, who were trying to volley mudballs with their guitars.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The time and the place

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I caught one of the Kool Keith chicken bags. But it wasn't wings, it was (I'm quite sure) Church's Chicken. Mine was all wet because they let it condense for so long but I still ate it because it was free.

― LC, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Sortof an inverse happening but I went to see Pavement/Shudder To Think in Glasgow years ago and Gary Young made cinnamon toast, onstage, for the audience, I remember lotsa crusts being gently lobbed around.

― mzui, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

some friends of mine went to a Wedding Present show and flung some of Mr. Kiplings finest at the band during that "too much apple pie" song.

― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

During Prime Minister's Questions seems to be quite popular ...

― coco, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I seem to remember people hurling boxes on Kraft Cheesey Pasta at The Barenaked Ladies at T In The Park many moons ago, although I was trying to get as far away from the stage as possible at the time, so I might be mistaken.

― coco, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.undercurrents.org/gates2.jpg

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

L7's Donita Sparks at Reading (or Glastonbury or wherever in England) in '92 to thread. Best response EVER.

(Yeah, that's how I spell it. I can also spell "fool")

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

L7's Donita Sparks at Reading in '92 to thread

It wasn't just a thread...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I never threw anything at a performer onstage, but I did give Sammy Hagar the finger at a traffic stop once, because he was in the car next to me and was rocking out and singing along to his own song, which I thought was pretty cheese-ball lame on top of him already being Sammy Hagar, and he looked over at me looking at him, and kept bobbing his head to the song and smiled and gave me the thumbs up, so I flipped him the bird, quite proudly mind you....

― js, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

yes: when i am onstage, attempting to play an instrument.

for anyone else, its not OK.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 20 May 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i wasn't there myself but i have a friend who witnessed Corey Feldman (yes, *that* one) get pelted in the head with a CD when he decided to play "Stand By Me" alone with an acoustic. apparently he put down his guitar, walked offstage, walked back onstage, told the crowd "I'm gonna fucking kill whoever just did that" and then continued to play the rest of the song. i'm so fucking sad that i missed it.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 20 May 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah. this was at at Corey Feldman concert, by the way. didn't quite give you the set-up there, did i?

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 20 May 2004 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

L7's Donita Sparks at Reading in '92 to thread

It wasn't just a thread...

Bravo, Mark! LOL

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 20 May 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

July 1996, Canandaigua, NY - big amphitheatre show.

Soul Asylum headlines.

During the first or second song, someone throws a stuffed bunny at Dave Pirner, hits him in the head. It just kind of bounces off, doesn't blind him or anything. Still, he STALKS offstage, goes 3/4 of the way around the band, taking the LONG way off, while the band vamps out the end of the song for the next couple of minutes.

Then guitarist Dan Murphy takes the mic:
"We're gonna take a little break."

BEST rock-star snit EVER.

Dan Aloi

― 67dano, Thursday, 20 May 2004 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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