I was at the concert on Sat. and I was standing between where Scott and bush were at and the guy next to me was the one who got hit in the head. There was also another bottle that was thrown directly at Frank because i saw hime move and the bottle hit next to him. The guy next to me, his head wasn't bleeding but it still looked pretty bad and I don't blame Scott or Anthrax at all for being mad. I had to sit for 11 hours of crap bands to watch someone throw a bottle on stage and see one of the best metal bands leave because sme drunk idiot thought it was cool or something. Anthrax DID do a great job for the 9 songs they played and I enjoyed every second of it. i just wish the show could've gone on longer but like I said before, i don't blame Anthrax at all. I would have done the same thing if i was inthere shoes. They are a great band and don't diserve to have bottle thrown at them. They didn't have to take it and they didn't. More power to them, I just wish my first Anthrax experience could've lasted longer.
Notlanta
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Come watch a show in the North ! Much love. If you fall, we'll pick you right up. And we finish our beers.
I'm with Mr. Wu and Tad... the band has still sounded great on this tour. I forget who posted it, but that "other" guitar comment sounds more like a subtle swipe at Rob. Maybe I'm wrong, but if you criticize someone with out stating their name (like Ritchie Blackmore refering to Ian Gillan as "The Singer) it usually shows a bit of a personal gripe. Then again, maybe the dude who posted that didn't know Rob's name.
Here are my gripes:
1.) Yankees: I'm a die-hard Yankee fan... maybe even bigger than Scott (maybe the pitching staff from '89-'92 drove him to move to California). But understand this, no matter how fanatical the boys get about baseball... ITS ONLY A FUCKING GAME!!!! It doesn't mean they're gonna act like Axl Rose for two weeks!!! People read way to much into stupid shit. They Yankees lost. I was pissed. I got over it. I'm sure they did, too.
Here are my gripes:
1.) Yankees: I'm a die-hard Yankee fan... maybe even bigger than Scott (maybe the pitching staff from '89-'92 drove him to move to California). But understand this, no matter how fanatical the boys get about baseball... ITS ONLY A FUCKING GAME!!!! It doesn't mean they're gonna act like Axl Rose for two weeks!!! People read way to much into stupid shit. They Yankees lost. I was pissed. I got over it. I'm sure they did, too.
- Cutting the set short- Anthrax pride themselves on levelling an audience. Like Scott said... it's like the Marines... first in, last out. They leave it all on the stage. I've never left an Anthrax show feeling like I was owed anything. Believe me... no one would want to have been around them after having to end early. I wasn't there and I'm glad I wasn't. I can only imagine how upset they were that they had to cut it short. The only person who seems to have a problem with it is QuakeIs4Queers. Nice screenname. You couldn't think of anything better than a videogame. You sound really hardcore talking about the definition of metal
"I mean I thought the metal image was all about death, pain, beatings, raping your mother, but I guess bottle throwing is just a little TOO extreme"
Maybe those things come to mind for you, but then again, that's what happens when cousins fuck. I guess Keep it in the Family is your favorite song. You want extreme? I have a suggestion... walk into a mall or any public place, pull out a box cutter, and start jabbing your self in the throat and arms. That's extreme. Otherwise, shut up because you are textbook Neanderthal metalhead.
I have family from the south and you are the ignorant pimple on the ass of progress that gives the south a bad name. Calling people outside of the south jobless and the cities trashy? It's like that everywhere. From the level of your intelligent post, I'm sure you have a big time job at the combine. I hope I haven't offended the other southerners on the board ranting on you. Normally, I wouldn't waste the time. But man are you moron.
- Some of the band losing their cool- I wasn't there, so I can't comment on it, but I know from experience, when you're equipment isn't working you revert to physical rage. As a performer, anything less than giving the perfect show won't do. Maybe going apeshit didn't solve anything, but who am I to say. I'm sure on a daily basis, there are lots of things I do that would make Frank or John say, "What are you doing?!?!" So it isn't my place to say unless I've been a mile in someone else's shoes.
SpiritCrusherD2
The Lucid One
The only reason I mentioned that about the Yankees, is because Bush used that as an "excuse" for his fit. He said that two of the guys were diehard Yankees fans, and that it wasn't going to take much to set them off (he didn't say which members of the band he was referring to). The only reason I even mentioned it, is because John tried to pass it off as an excuse. He didn't sound like he was joking either, but John wasn't ever in a very joking mood saturday night...Johnny Ace said:
I've seen lots of bands have sound problems, and this is the first band I've seen trash equipment. Usually, if the sound isn't good on the first song, you take just a little extra time before the second song, and make adjustments. Instead, the boys saturday night, barrelled into the next tune, and John threw his fit afterwords. I still believe trashing the equipment is never the answer. It also makes the band look very amateurish, instead of like the legends that they are.Johnny Ace said:
Another thing, I imagine the band's stage fits posed a problem for their walking off stage. If the show had been status quo until the bottle incident, I'm sure the promoter would understand the band's walking off stage. But, with their already trashing the place, I imagine the promoter wasn't too happy. In fact, I'm sure the dressing room and tour bus were not fun places to be saturday night...
you're right, i didn't know the other guitar player's name. Because,.... IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT HIS NAME IS.
signed,.. the rock
signed,.. the rock
You have GOT to be kidding. Even *I* know Rob's name, and I'm pretty lame in the names of folks department. (Mainly because I think he's cute, and I'm wayyy to old to think he's cute. ) I'm 36, he looks 20ish.
As for the yellow and black check shirt guy who was trying to get up front, he was not the bottle thrower. Aparently after he left your side, he came in between me and some guy who was pressed close enough to me I could have guessed his name. I got into a good Kenpo Karate base stance so he wouldn't physically push me over, stuck my elbow out and decided if he wanted to keep pushing me, he'd feel it. The other guy apparently did the same thing and yellow and black check shirt went on his way. He was still wriggling in between me and the other guy when the bottle was thrown, so he (though he's a jerk) is innocent of that.
As for the yellow and black check shirt guy who was trying to get up front, he was not the bottle thrower. Aparently after he left your side, he came in between me and some guy who was pressed close enough to me I could have guessed his name. I got into a good Kenpo Karate base stance so he wouldn't physically push me over, stuck my elbow out and decided if he wanted to keep pushing me, he'd feel it. The other guy apparently did the same thing and yellow and black check shirt went on his way. He was still wriggling in between me and the other guy when the bottle was thrown, so he (though he's a jerk) is innocent of that.
DarbysDad
Timmy! Timmy!!! Timmy!!!
and thanks for the info.Bottom line is the venue should have done a better job at preventing bottle throwing. A venue not having common sense of doing away with glass bottles is like a venue allowing pyro. If Anthrax had stayed, things could have gotten really ugly.Mr. Wu said:
Johnny Ace said:
Haha...what a joke. Oh no, he used the Southener incest insult. Fucking real original. Look out Jeff Foxworthy...
Quake is a video game?...news to me. Inside joke for my friends that like to read posts from pasty jobless hippies. Do I have to be hardcore to post on here? Could be worse, I could be some jonny-come-lately metal poseur who thinks Metallica's first CD was the Black CD. Sorry I don't have fucking bad ass name like Johnny Ace.
Oh it's not like that everywhere, you just hope it is because you are probably too poor to ever go anywhere else besides your current parking lot. Sorry to say it, but I can't keep you yanks out of my home town. I don't care how much you bash and stereotype the South, just put your money where your ass is and quit coming down here...and tell your parents to quit retiring down here to.
You will be happy to know that I have been promoted from the combine to General Manager at the KFC. Actually I have a master's degree and make a nice salary in the computer field. Not a big deal, except in certain circles...*cough*...*cough*
Bottom line is everyone takes this so seriously...man I never thought metal heads could be such drama queens. So he got a faceful of bottle. Yeah it sucks...Yeah I would be pissed, but man these guys should be used to shit like that and be able to continue on. Get over yourselves. Like I said...I first saw Anthrax opening for Ozzy(Among the Living) in a big civc center to thousands of people, now they are reduced to playing to a couple hundred people in crap clubs. I think that is what they are really pissed about. I will be surprised if Anthrax is still together in 2 years.
What really amazed me about the concert in Atlanta was I saw more than one person actually wearing Anthrax t-shirts. You kidding me? Don't you know the rule...DON'T BE THAT GUY.
This is for everyone at the Atlanta show -- did Frank and John start trashing the equipment before the bottle was thrown? and even though I agree that wasn't very proffesional of them, in my wierd, sick, twisted way I think that would be kinda cool to see.
maybe they are reduced to playing crappy clubs now because of fucks like you (quakeisforqueers) who get "masters degrees" and start listening to sum 41 or blink 182 or some shit, or maybe you just "outgrew" metal like so many other fakes. who are you to tell anthrax to get over themselves when you just wrote..." Actually I have a masters degree and make a nice salary" oooohhhhh we are all impressed. you are the most hardcore motherfucker around here man..... go back to your myst game or your star trek convention. your are not the only one who listened to metal in the 80's you moron.
GregadetH
ENCYCLOPEDIA SLAYTANICA
I guess b/c I didn't make it to the show as planned I should be thankful. Instead, I'm thankful I don't post as often as I used to, mainly b/c threads quickly turn into heresay and bullshit. Yes, I entered the fray w/ Mr. Queers too but this shits just old. Let's get over it. I mean damn, it's not that important.
SpiritCrusherD2
The Lucid One
Yes, the equipment issues happened long before the bottle throwing incident. John's first outburst was kinda cool. Emphasis on "kinda". By the time it got around to Frank's turn (about 2-3 songs later), it was getting kinda redundant. By the time the bottle was thrown, the sound had finally been fixed.crystlpalace said:
I wonder if anyone got it on video - if video cameras were allowed in the venue.SpiritCrusherD2 said:Yes, the equipment issues happened long before the bottle throwing incident. John's first outburst was kinda cool. Emphasis on "kinda". By the time it got around to Frank's turn (about 2-3 songs later), it was getting kinda redundant. By the time the bottle was thrown, the sound had finally been fixed.
SpiritCrusher... you made some interesting points. I wasn't aware that the Yankee thing had been acknowledged. I also see your point about promoter relations. I feel bad about the situation. I don't have even half the info, but I wish it didn't go down the way it did, at least from what I heard.
As for southern culture on the skids... Quaker Oats boy... you're the one who questioned if the band could live up to the metal rep, and now you beg off the hardcore stance. Masters degree? Good for you. I've got mine. So do other people who post here. TD (Ty) is studying for his now (do it to it man!). Good paying job in the computer field... good for you. I'm as big a capitalist as the next guy, that's why I'm in finance, but I don't use that as my trump card and brag that I'm daddy warbucks. I'm sorry that the size of paycheck has to compensate the waste of flesh and oxygen that you call life.
And since you are so smart, I don't need to remind you that us Damn Yankees heading down south creates jobs and helps keep your property taxes down, while also driving up the value of your real estate. Oh the brutality of it all. So much for southern hospitality.
As for southern culture on the skids... Quaker Oats boy... you're the one who questioned if the band could live up to the metal rep, and now you beg off the hardcore stance. Masters degree? Good for you. I've got mine. So do other people who post here. TD (Ty) is studying for his now (do it to it man!). Good paying job in the computer field... good for you. I'm as big a capitalist as the next guy, that's why I'm in finance, but I don't use that as my trump card and brag that I'm daddy warbucks. I'm sorry that the size of paycheck has to compensate the waste of flesh and oxygen that you call life.
And since you are so smart, I don't need to remind you that us Damn Yankees heading down south creates jobs and helps keep your property taxes down, while also driving up the value of your real estate. Oh the brutality of it all. So much for southern hospitality.
It was so cool to see JB and Frank go nutz at the DC show. Charlie got up and spit on the dudes face too right after Bush clocked him.crystlpalace said:
I barely finished high school and I make eighty grand a year, sleep in four days a week, own a house, get laid, and party all the time. And furthermore, I have the ability to, say, go up to NYC on short notice to see Anthrax unplugged. Ask Prime !!That's just me. To each their own, as long as you're happy fuck-o.
