wiggins wrote:something particularly stands out from the instrument dvd:
"you do not beat up people period"
I was in a band that opened for Minor Threat a couple of times. Before we played with them at the Jockey Club in Newport, Kentucky, we found out that our drummer's girlfriend had been fucking a dude from a rival Lexington band while she was away at college. This caused a huge feud between two scenes that already loathed each other. During our set, I went off between songs, trashing Lexington punks and challenging anybody who didn't like it to come see me after the show. This may or may not have been the gig where I hurled a folding chair into the pit, hitting a number of people, then leapt from the stage, set the chair up, and stood upon it for the rest of the song, daring anyone to come within swinging distance.
By the time Minor Threat took the stage, there was a LOT of bad blood in the audience. This was the last show of the band's 'Out of Step' tour, and they were exhausted and in no mood for bullshit. I'm not sure what happened--I think he might have been spat upon--but at one point, Ian said, "You motherfucker!" and absolutely clocked this guy in front of the stage. He then ranted for a while about assholes before launching back into the song. Need I add that they were an amazing band.
After the show, we were totally fucking with Ian, saying "You're a fucking bad ass, Ian. You fucked that dude up. You're the enforcer." He was totally embarrassed and apologetic, but, it was obvious, far from emasculated by his monastic regimen. And nobody--not even Ian MacKaye--minds being called a bad ass by a bunch of greasy rednecks.