[kj] OT: People I've accosted.

[sade1]

Yeah, like KJ opening Motley Crue. 


 
... ... ... ... ... ... 

[looking at the current state of things]
'Save me...
  save me from Tomorrow..
   I don't want to sail in this Ship Of Fools...'   
 
 

--- On Sun, 9/21/08, Brendan <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

From: Brendan <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: People I've accosted.
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 8:06 PM

Rage opening for U2...how incongruous!


>> at a U2 concert during their "Popmart" tour in '97

during the LA

>> Coliseum date

>  

>    I went to that show. Best surprise my friend gave me. I remember at

> the start of the show seeing the U.S. flag upside down on the drum kit and

> then seeing Rage Against The Machine open for them. 

>

>

> ... ... ... ... ... ...

>

> [looking at the current state of things]

> 'Save me...

>   save me from Tomorrow..

>    I don't want to sail in this Ship Of Fools...'  

>  

> "Se canto que canto, canto pas per ieu,

>   Canto per ma mio, qu'e¨s alen de ieu..."

>

>

>

>

> ----- Original Message ----

> From: TB <partyslammer at socal.rr.com>

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> <gathering at misera.net>

> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 9:38:45 PM

> Subject: Re: [kj] OT: People I've accosted.

>

> Ahh, here's another one I happened to find from a decade plus old

e-mail

> about encountering Woody Harrelson at a U2 concert during their

"Popmart"

> tour in '97 during the LA Coliseum date:

>

> +++++

>

> My wife, my brother his friend and I all had great seats in the 9th row

> right up front on the floor in front of a couple who'd brought an

> approximately 6 - 8 year old girl who appeared completely miserable even

> before the show started.  As the concert began, this guy strained to see

> past my brother and I who were much taller then he was, plus we were *all*

> standing on the rickety folding *arms* of the seats on the field to see

> everything.  About 5 songs into the show, my brother and his buddy left

> their seats to sneak all the way to the front and this short dude asks me

> if

> he could stand on the empty seat next to me so he could see. I didn't

> really

> care and just warned him that he'd have to go back to his seat if my

> brother

> came back (he didn't).  At this point, he was getting loaded off a

little

> pot and offering me hits off his little pipe which was pissing my wife off

> considering his "wife" and kid were behind him not having a good

time. 

> Me,

> I was totally absorbed in the show and virtually oblivious to my

wife's

> smoldering anger at this non-descript friendly stoner next to me.

>

> Two key things going on at this point... One, I didn't know he was

> Harrelson

> (he was dressed in a t shirt, jeans and tennis shoes) until my wife was

> finally able to scream in my ear (repeatedly) over the noise of the show.

> The other was by this time, his little girl was uncomfortably passed out

> laying on two folding chairs.  At this point, other people around us

> started

> realizing who he was as well and by the encore, he started getting nervous

> that people were staring at him instead of looking at stage. I was kinda

> dreading, yet also anticipating the fireworks if my wife managed to lay

> into

> Woody at some break in the show but that never happened as Woody decided

> it

> was probably a good idea to get out of there during the encore break.

>

> T.B.

>

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