Axl Rose never made it to town to join his Guns N’ Roses bandmates for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last week. But Cleveland still met its rock-star asshat quota, thanks to a visit to House of Blues by the All-American Rejects.
The lack of fun started when Scene photographer Joe Kleon saw a foot in his viewfinder coming straight at him near the front of the stage. “Luckily, I have fast reflexes and I ducked out of the way,” he says.
The foot was attached to Rejects guitarist Mike Kennerty. Kleon figured it was merely a show of exuberance gone wrong, so he took his photos and took off. But shortly afterward, the guitarist went after Twinsburg photographer Jimmy Davis, pushing his camera into his face. Davis later complained of blurred vision and a headache, which could be related to his realization that even asshole punks from Oklahoma sometimes have money.
Singer Tyson Ritter then joined the action by asking a girl in the crowd for her iPad. When she handed it over, he kindly smashed it on the stage.
According to tulsaworld.com, which apparently doesn’t have much going on around Tulsa, the Rejects brought Davis backstage to apologize, and Ritter paid the girl for her iPad on the spot.
The following day Ritter tweeted: “Well, I apologize to Cleveland for being such a lunatic last night, sometimes I get a bit out of control. Good times though!”
This article appears in Apr 11-17, 2012.
Kiss our collective arses you plunker…
@ Anastasia-left out a few things
I was at that show. First of all who the hell brings an ipad to a concert???? And you left out the part where the douchebag had her ipad above her head for most of the concert recording it. I’m surprisded nobody behind her grabbed it and smashed it over her head.
Concerts nowadays are out of hand. Everyone has their phones in the air blocking views so they can post some cheezy/crappy video on youtube or face book.
It used to be no recording or photography was permitted except for media and then there were certain areas where they were allowed.
other than that it was an awesome show sans the ipad douchebag
and also……the ipad douchebag was right at the stage in front
Did anybody here their music?! How did they sound?!
Certainly, if it was the case that the girl was the iPad was distracting, she should have been asked quietly by a security guard to move, rather than smashing her iPad. I think too many bands are just heedless and don’t think about the consequences of what they do – as this band didn’t two years ago on the Warped tour when they were pitching cans of energy drink into the crowd and cut open a girl’s head. I heard the music was pretty bad, but i wasn’t there.
If they’re mad because she’s recording the whole show and blocking people’s view, then fine, that at least makes it a little bit justifiable. Probably the real explanation though is they just wanted to get crazy and cause some mayhem. Regardless, it’s disappointing to hear.
They better have put on an amazing show.
These guys seem stupid