You Better Hurry to Get a Piece of Me

I'm going to be pretty busy this week, building up to Lollapalooza Friday through Sunday, so I probably won't have time for too many posts.  I've always told myself, "GMYH, you cannot leave these people empty-handed.  They depend on you for nothing.  If you don't post, their lives will go on."  So I will give you some things to read, but only after a quick story.


Friday night, I had the pleasure of seeing Cinderella and Sebastian Bach at the Congress Theater here in Chicago.  It was a great show.  Cinderella headlined, and sounded great.  Tom Kiefer sounds just like he did 25 years ago.  Sebastian Bach, of course, has headlined Broadway musicals in recent years, so as you might imagine, he still has the pipes.  The non-musical highlight of the night came during Bach's set.  In the middle of "Piece of Me," during kind of soft part, Bach was talking to the crowd, and all of a sudden, he starts yelling at this dude down near the front of the stage.  There was cursing and everything.  Bach was going back and forth with this guy, and said something along the lines of "Get the fuck out of here.  Seriously, if you don't get the fuck out of here, I'm not finishing the set."  He also invited the man on stage to receive a boot to the buttocks.  I was too far away to tell what was going on, but apparently this guy had been just standing there giving Bach the middle finger, so you can understand why Bach might be pissed.  When the guy refused to leave, Bach said, "Security, get this guy the fuck out of here."  So they did.  As they escorted him out, they walked by me and he looked pretty hammered.  Bach didn't skip a beat and blasted right back into the song.  For a while, I thought I was going to see some sort of Axl Rose-esque battering of a fan, but alas, all I got was an awesome concert.  After the show, I drank some beer, sang some karaoke, and slumbered.  Since I woke up Saturday morning, I've spent every waking hour watching Olympic coverage.  If you think I'm kidding, it's only because you can't smell me or see the ass groove I have made in my couch.


So anyway, here are some articles for you to read:
-Here is a really good SI article about the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre.  Thanks to Gregerson for the link.
-Here's an article confirming what I already knew:  new pop music sounds the same.  Thanks to Ryan for the link.
-Keeping with the metal singers calling out audience members theme, here's an article with a video of Iron Maiden lead singer calling out a guy at a show in Indy for texting for three straight songs.
-Finally, here's an Onion AV Club article about looking for filming locations from the Big Lebowski.  I have driven by Sobchak Security, which is on Santa Monica Blvd.  Fuckin' A.  Thanks to Tradd for the link.