Teddy Rockstar @ McCarren Pool, Bklyn

[christine]

At the Hold Steady show in Prospect Park on Thursday, kids kept magically appearing on stage and immediately being dragged off by security.  At least four or five of them.  One girl tried to climb up from the front row and was stopped mid-climb by a security guard, but for whatever reason she couldn't get back down, and the guard had to lift her on to the stage just to escort her off.  Then two of her friends followed her: up onto the stage and straight to the wings...I guess 'cause it was easier than wading through the crowd to find her? 

Why do people think this is an okay thing to do?

Relatedly:  From Jon's tour diary.  Scroll to Oct. 30th.  God I would kill to have seen that.

[nick]

Relatedly:  From Jon's tour diary.  Scroll to Oct. 30th.  God I would kill to have seen that.

That's hilarious. Instead of just keeping it, they should have made the kid eat his shirt.

[buffcoat]

See!  Jon Wurster and I have similar attitudes about KISS:


I left the store the proud owner of used copies of Kiss' Destroyer and The The's Soul Mining.

Surely some of you are aware of my sick fascination with Kiss. I loved them as a 10-year old and rediscovered them in my late-20's to be the "World's Worst Band." One of my friends once told me that I am probably the world's only Kiss fan who doesn't like their music. Angie once threatened to kick me out of the house when she discovered me sitting in the basement transcribing the lyrics to Dressed To Kill's "Room Service"*.

*Quite possibly the world's worst song. The lyrics, written by Paul, describe the trials of life on the road. The first verse finds Mr. Stanley alone in his hotel room. He's about to turn the light out and call it a night when the phone rings and a sultry voice asks if he's "too tired or just too dead for some room service." In the second verse, our hero sits alone in an airport bar. He hears that his flight has been cancelled. He is about to grab his coat and leave when " a stewardess in a tight blue dress says, 'I got the time'" and pretty soon she's "down on her knees, beggin' please/and right before I leave I get some room service." Verse three portrays the Lover as felon. I will transcribe the verse in its entirety:

Hangin' round in my hometown and the girls are treating me real good/Sweet 16, looking hot and mean, says, "I wish you would"/And just as I'm about to tell her "yes, I think I will"/I see her dad/He's getting mad/He knows I'm in need of room service.

[bobby.]

I pray that Tom went just to hear his take on the crowd. 

I hope - for his own sake - that he didn't wear his famed sunglasses to it.

[John Junk]

I'm totally pro-Tweedy on that one.  Anyone that jumps onstage while a band is playing and starts those kinds of shenanigans deserves to get kicked hard.  I'm for equal rights of the sexes, so that includes girls.  I actually was expecting a bandmember to just kick her offstage.  You can kick someon (or, more accurately, push them with your foot) and still play guitar.  It's a good thing to do.  I did that once at a Tokeleys Halloween gig in the Deitch Projects warehouse.  Some art-wad idiot jumped onstage and started screaming into our microphone.  All I did was just kick him offstage and he got all mad at us. After the show he said "You shouldn't kick people." and we yelled at him.  And then he said "You guys fucking ruin all the fucking fun!".  Glory Days...

[chrisfoll577]

Best one I ever saw live was this one guy who has his arm out stretched to shake Bob Dylan's hand only to get tackled by a roadie like he was playing linebacker.

The other seeing the Allman Brothers with one guy just walking across the stage giving the thumbs up to the band bobbing his head to the music.

Oh Great Woods its always entertaining to see a show there.

wow... i thought i was the only person in the boston area who still calls it great woods! every concert ive been to there has been a zoo. radiohead in 2003 ended with a massive masshole fueled bonfire in the parking lot.

i would have loved to see said roadie tackle mr. soy bomb at the 98 grammies.

[bruce]

My favorite bonfire at Great Woods was the second lollapalooza. Where the whole back fence was ripped down with two fires going. With folks jumping through it. Oh the good old days. Which made the concert take place at t hat dust pit of Quensott point the next few years. Also it will always be Great Woods to me.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Actually it wasn't until this thread until I realized that Ted Leo and Teddy Rockstar were one in the same.  I went and it was one of the best concerts I've ever attended - I'm a relative oldster these days so I mostly hung back - I didn't even know that girl, until the next day when I was looking for photos on Flickr.  I actually got into Teddy and TBSOWFMU at about the same time, which is to say the past six months or so.  Both of them made an enjoyable stay in Austin, TX, even more enjoyable.

Anyway, I spotted Sr. Corazon, but not the Gorch fellow.  Thought about saying hi, but lost my nerve.

And Dan B, I teach at Rutgers.  If you ever wind up in my class (which is a tiny bit likely, as I teach Expos 2, which everyone has to take), you should identify yourself as a FOT.  Or you can just take my screenwriting class, which is easier and more fun anyway, and we can openly discuss our adoration of all things Tom.  Hopefully it won't be a wistful remembrance.