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Monday, April 21, 2008

Video Punched In The Face

Posted by Ezra Caraeff on Mon, Apr 21 at 12:32 PM

The only thing worse than taking one on the chin, is getting punched in your face, while on film.

Because, in this day and age, you know the clip of your pounding will eventually end up on YouTube, and then someday you’ll have to explain it to your grandkids, who will most likely assume you were a pussy. Case in point: The gentleman who stumbled onstage during a Toronto Jay Reatard performance and got smacked (and then hit again and again, courtesy of a remix, YouTube style).

Ouch.

And in a loving tribute to leaving the stage to the artists, here is Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy attacking a fan, Axl enforcing his “no cameras” policy, and a clip best explained by its user-posted description, “danzig gets socked in the face like a btich.”

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Comments

Jay Reatard is the biggest fuckin' dick in music. Period.

It ain't even close.

I hope someone take him down a peg at some point.

Posted by wow... | April 21, 2008 12:45 PM

I take it you are the douche who climbed on stage and got beat down, commenter #1?

Posted by mars | April 21, 2008 2:33 PM

hey, if you climb onstage and start pouring beer all over the pedals and acting like a dickhead, you wholeheartedly deserve to be the recipient of a nasty right hook.

what a goddamn punch!

Posted by douglas martin | April 21, 2008 3:10 PM

never pay and always bum rush past the door money people at Jay Reatard shows. Once you're in, throw bricks and used needles at this dude.

this guy’s career will totally nosedive if clubs & promoters start associating him with "people will show up, not pay, rush past security, and throw heavy / pointy / contaminated things at the stage"

let’s make it happen people! we can do it!

THROW THINGS AT JAY REATARD!

let’s get some tshirts and buttons printed up.

Posted by williamtell | April 26, 2008 9:03 AM