Compared to pop singer Cheryl Lloyd, who dodged a bottle of urine during her performance at England's V Festival, Staind frontman Aaron Lewis had an easy weekend. Appearing with his band at Edgefest VIII in Little Rock, Arkansas, all he had to contend with was flying mud, though he wasn't exactly grateful for the relatively innocuous choice of projectile.
"You in the baseball hat right there, with the f--king long hair that's hiding his face, I see you lump up one more mudball and throw it at the f--king stage, I'm gonna have every motherf--ker around you kick the f--king shit out of you," Lewis said, calling out one fan for his childish behavior. "Yeah, you right there. F--kin' moron."
Did the mud chucker knock it off? Evidently, since the headline of this story isn't, "Staind Singer Incites Fan Beat-Down at Arkansas Festival."
My girlfriend said she felt bad for Cher Lloyd. I didn't.
If Cher had attempted to make music and make it big the right way, she'd be used to playing in front of people who didn't actually wanna see her. She would've earned her place. Instead she went on a talent show and got famous that way instead. Every musician experiences stuff like this.
it isn't really her fault, but the people booking her and her agent.
It was no comparison to Daphne and Celeste at Reading Festival that was crazy. "U-G-L-Y you ain't got no alibi..." on the same stage as like Slipknot and Rage Against the Machine was a terrible idea.
They should have had more foresight though and realised that a line up of britpop and indie acts, would not mix with a manufactured pop act. Still if people don't like the act then just don't watch, usually there are multiple stages, and if there is a tiny audience because people don't watch then they will never be booked again.
What about Lethal Bizzle at download though
Tons of people were throwing bottles of piss at him
but he kept going until he won the crowd over
even though im not a rap fan, you gotta admire his determination to win the crowd
On the grid? These guys are as relevant as Limp Bizkit in my opinion. And he's lumping them together because they all have that late 90's quasi-grunge sound and image to them. They all got popular and then disappeared around the same time.
I donīt think iīve heard anything from them since the "iīm on the outside" song, actually i didnīt know that they were still going. How about Lifehouse, are they still around?
this doesn't surprise me, i've been to plenty of shows where staind is playing, something like this happened at one i was at only a beer bottle that was getting thrown around ended up hitting him in the middle of a song, so he put the lights on the crowd, pointed the guy out and had everyone in the crowd kick his ass. The last show i went to was when they were opening for Godsmack, and he threatened to have the crowd kick this guys ass for groping every female crowd surfer that came by him.
The same thing happened when Slipknot came here for one of the Edgefests. All the other bands (Staind was there for that one too) told them to knock it off, but Cory kinda pushed them to do it more when they got started. At one point, he had the lighting crew aim spotlights into the middle of a huge mud fight mid-song and called us all a "crazy bunch of mother f*ckers"
Not long after, He was right in the middle of singing and a huge clump came flying at him. He caught it and took a f'n bite out of it, leaned his head back and spat it out.
I like how everyone's coming to the defense of somebody who was tossing mud at a concert...you guys must really like getting hit with mud. I don't even like Staind, but...c'mon, guys. I don't care if he paid money to see the band, if I was in the audience and someone tossed mud at me I'd probably get pretty pissed off, let alone onstage.
Gotta agree with you there. I don't like to see fans hurt, but he could just as easily hit Aaron Lewis with a rock that might be in the mud, then it would be no more concert for anybody. An idiot playing with mud probably looks very similar to little kids playing with finger paint.
I saw Staind at the first stop of Uproar this year. I love them, but their setlist was pretty disappointing. papa roach went on before them and put on a way better show
I saw Staind at the first stop of Uproar this year. I love them, but their setlist was pretty disappointing. papa roach went on before them and put on a way better show
I saw Staind at the first stop of Uproar this year. I love them, but their setlist was pretty disappointing. papa roach went on before them and put on a way better show
Thats his answer to everything. Have everyone around you beat the hell out of you. Hey Aaron, come down and do it yourself instead of having others do your dirty work for you. I'm a be the next one to throw something at his ass.
How to properly handle mud throwing fans that paid good money to go see you. Learn from it.