A coupla weeks ago I wrote about the worst gigs I've ever seen, waiting hour for a 20 minute Ray Charles set, stuff like that. But man did I have it wasy compared to the bands themselves
I got this story off Buzzfeed, http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/the-worst-gig who were writing about the website The Worst Gig http://www.worstgig.com/index.php
Organized into sections such as Dangerous Malfunctions, Wrong Venue, Insane Fans and Nature's Wrath, there are remembrance after remembrabce from acts as Def Leppard, John Mayer, the Sex Postols, Tori Amos and Tool. And Fitz And The Tantrum.
Here is my stoy from Fitz:" We were backstage waiting to go on. Ghostface slayed it. Brother Ali came out and did a good job, but the whole crowd was chanting 'Rakim. Rakim. Rakim.’ They wanted him onstage now — and he wasn't coming. Didn't show up. Twenty minutes went by, half an hour went by, 45 minutes. Same deal. We were playing our songs and they wanted nothing to do with that. They were booing us off the stage. Finally, the promoter had to come on and say, 'Rakim won't be making it tonight because he's stuck in traffic’ — which is total bullshit. We all knew Rakim had taken the opportunity the night before to hang at his house in New York and left with not enough time to get to Baltimore.
"They started rioting. (The promoters) locked us backstage in the green room until the cops could show up and clear it out. We couldn't come out to see what was going on, but we heard everything. That was kind of surreal. … I think it was full-blown rioting outside. The security couldn't handle it. There were people throwing bottles. The cops finally had to come and break it up. But they are like, 'You are not to leave this room until the situation is under control.' It was a good couple hours before we could leave there."