The rock n roll circus as reported accurately by rock nyc had this to say to rolling stone about what happened on Monday when overzealous thugs with badges harassed and beat freewheeling fans WHO WERE INVITED BY THE BAND to come down to ring and dance:
“A mosh pit started. It’s a Japanther show. They’re kids, they get crazy,” she said. “The security didn’t deal with it, and they got really aggressive. They called it a riot, but it really wasn’t a riot, it was a mosh pit. It was punk rock and people don’t know how to handle it.”
How does that explain the earlier instance?
Cmon guys, is this the level of reporting we’re gonna get? Didja read Pitchforks bullshit no knowing”REPORTING”. Ha! Oh and brooklynvegan who presumably know how to read coulda responded to rock nyc’s vastly more accurate account then their New York Post cut and past plus comment responses.
Blah! What is the surprise here.
As for the curaters (if that’s what you can call substituting OK Go with Ariel Pink), I’ve got nothing on rock n roll circus, I didn’t like it. The sound sucked. The concept didn’t gel when the Stones did it and didn’t gel this time, but that IS NOT what happened.
Of course, if the producers owned up to the situation guess what would happen next? Any chance of a return encounter would be deader than Brian Jones.