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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Tonight! The Best Jesus Lizard Story of the Day

Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:34 PM

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In anticipating of tonight's Jesus Lizard performance at the Crystal, we've been hearing all sorts of tales from friends about previous shows from the legendary band. It seems that everyone has a Jesus Lizard story. While some of the tales are believable (the midget that was on David Yow's shoulders during a show), there are others that we are skeptical of (David Yow killed a bear with his bare hands while singing "Mouth Breather").

But of all the stories, this—from our sales guru, Rob Thompson—is easily our favorite:

I was at the show in Peoria that Rolling Stone wrote about. My friend Stan got naked and climbed on stage with the band. In their review, Rolling Stone called him a "pudgy adolescent."

Wow. See you at the show, I'll be the one reliving my (pudgy) adolescent years.

 

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Back when I was a wee teenager in 1996, I saw the Jesus Lizard at The Intersection in Grand Rapids (and twice more in the same month in Kalamazoo, and Detroit), Michigan. Prior to the show, a friend of mine from Norway and I were eating dinner at a Chinese restaurant next to the club. David Yow and David Wm. Sims were seated right behind us, having a somewhat heated conversation. They spilled their water all over the table, and my Norwegian friend politely helped them clean up the spill. Mr. Yow rewarded him with a pat on the head, called him a "kind young lad", and told him that mother must be proud of him.

Later in the evening, during the opening band, I got a chance to chat up Duane Denison about his guitar-playing style, and how he came into the possession of his Hiwatt amp (which I was very curious about, having just recently purchased one myself).

During the show, about midway through, an enormous man of well over 350 pounds, mulleted, and dressed in a jean-jacket sans sleeves decorated with permanent marker scrawlings somehow made his way on stage during "Killer McHann". He proceeded to dance and flail around, and finally crashed into David Yow from behind, sending him into the audience. Duane Denison rushed at him, and furiously kicked and punched him several times, until the oaf slowly, like a great tree falling, toppled off the stage and onto the floor, where no one waited to catch him. The fall knocked him unconscious, and it took six people to carry him out.

Ah, good times...
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