Junkyard – lazarus
oh yes good call them as well Gillespie was so pissed he could not stand up- he walked in and up to the mike grabbing it like it was a lampost and promptly fell over,
The lead guitarist, throbert, was so out of it he could not keep time – they started each song with the drummer hitting the bass and waving his drum stick down to show time but it was still beyond him to play in time….he could not play, not even close, so the sound crew actually turned him off , he then tried to fight the other , rhythm, guitarist for his guitar who refused. Entertaining but not musically.
Odd how artists cope, I saw Sparklehorse in Bristol, and Mark Linkous came on stage and took a bottle of JD out of his jacket pocket that he was already a quarter way into, and which he proceeded to swig from through the set.
At the end, as he got to the edge of the stage a roadie actually had to catch him as he basically toppled off the stage!
For all that, it was a compelling, electrifying performance, even though Mark completely forgot how to perform a song, despite one of the band showing him the chords, which was rather sweet, he just started another song.
A brilliant performance, under the circumstances.
Which isn’t what the spirit of the thread is about, I know.
Actually, I’m struggling to think of anyone I’ve seen who failed to live up to the album, but I’ve seen one or two who were better live, and more enjoyable than their albums, which might be another thread…