Nic Adler, the owner of the Roxy where the police intervention occurred after the Odd Future concert on Thursday night, talked to the LA Weekly on Friday to explain exactly what happened.
After reading the interview, I can tell he is very apologetic toward the rapper, declaring for example: ‘I feel bad for the fans and the employees and the band’, even claiming his admiration for Odd Future and the audience, ‘It was definitely one of the best shows I've seen up until the incident happened. I've never seen more passionate fans.’
The best show, may be, but the crowd got out of control, there were safety concerns for the girls in the front, especially when punk band Trash Talk joined Odd Future on stage for the last song, ‘Radicals’.
Adler is even defending Tyler’s decision to jump on the sound board and obviously doing some damage, saying ‘it looked worse than it was’.
Ok, so why did the police was called?
He continued by reiterating how great was the show: ‘They were playing the best show of their life and it's only natural that they'd get pissed when the plug is pulled. They didn't realize why I cut the sound, didn't realize the safety issues.’
Really? Tyler was front stage and did not see the girls getting pushed and crushed in the first row? Watching the video, it is true it was hard to see anything as the whole crowd was on the stage at the end of the song. The mosh pit and the stage diving were wild, and security guards got frustrated.
Nevertheless, Adler said he didn’t order the arrest, giving the police full responsibility for it, ‘we have zero control of what the sheriffs do’.
But didn’t the County Sheriff department declare the previous day that security guards contacted them and were ‘desirous of an arrest’?
Adler is not sure if the OF crew will come back for a show at the Roxy, but not for the reasons you would expect: ‘I would [invite them back to the club], but they're probably too big for the Roxy. There's definitely no hard feelings.’
Or may be it was a polite way to say they are not welcome anymore.
So is it good or bad publicity for Tyler? He sure totally endorses his bad-boy of rap image,… but may be he will have to draw a line between his songs and reality in the future.