[kj] Barfly fight

[peter.west410]

That must have been a different person then, because the guy I'm on about
was looking towards the audience and about to dive(jump) off the stage.When
did the head-lock take place?The first interaction between the two (that I
saw) was the whack in the back.By all means throw him off-stage, but that
amount of force was unnecessary.
  PW


----- Original Message -----
From: <DenLowrie at aol.com>
To: <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] Barfly fight


> You're full of it, mate. Set aside the KJ manifesto for a minute and deal
> with the facts. I was right in front of the bass man when it happened. It
all
> started when the geezer responsible for the unfortunate flashpoint pulled
me and
> several other bods out the way in true moggadon fashion to clamber over
the
> barrier (nothing was going to deter him!). Anyway, he practically fell
over the
> thing and that's when it got a bit tasty. Raven asked the geezer to get
lost a
> couple of times and he also requested a little bit of assistance. There
was
> no security in sight (cool), so Raven had to deal with the situation
himself
> (not so cool). Put yourself in the bass player's plimsoles for a few
moments. A
> surly-looking geezer, clearly off his nut, suddenly looms up in front of
you
> while you're twanging your bass and stands there, a foot away from you,
staring
> at you. Perhaps the geezer's harmless enough and (yeah yeah) perhaps his
> drink was spiked, but the man behind the bass wasn't to know, was he? I
thought
> Raven handled it reasonably well under the circumstances. He got the
geezer in a
> headlock and threw him to the floor, job done. Many others confronted with
a
> similar sitch might've battered the geezer. You have to look after
yourself up
> there. Furthermore, the geezer was a monumental pain in the arse long
before
> the incident in question, shoving his face into other people's faces
> (including mine) and speaking in tongues (all of them unpleasant or undech
iperable),
> clinging to or climbing over people in the crowd like a munted mollusc
(and we
> ain't talking mosh-pit antics here, the wrecking crew was great!). And he
had
> no intention of stage diving (what stage??) or shaking Raven's hand or
giving
> him a big wet sloppy kiss. So, please spare us your Baghdad blues, it was
much
> ado about nothing...and I can't believe I've wasted so much time
discussing
> it!?!? Heh-heh-heh. The gig was aces. And I got to do something after the
gig
> that I've been meaning to do for nearly twenty-five years...I gave Jaz a
hug.
> Den
> p.s. Keep on truckin', Jester!
>




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