Motorhead gig stopped

[dench]

Frank was incredibly selfish - he stopped a gig at the London Rainbow in
1971 because he had been pushed off stage and broken his back.  What a
lightweight!

On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Paul Mather wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Carl E. Anderson wrote:
>
> > > Just read in the paper that Motorhead stopped playing after Lemmy got a second glass of
> > > beer in his face, after 45 minutes. Eh, not the glass - the beer... The chance of
> > > electrocution probably was too high.
> > > The manager told he was crying in the dressing room. It was the first ever gig this
> > > happened - not the beer throwing, but stopping a gig for that...
> > > It was the only gig Motorhead were supposed to do in Holland on their current tour.
> >
> >         Quite appalling really.  You'd think people would be ashamed of
> > themselves to act in such a way ...
>
> What is it you consider appalling: stopping the gig, crying in the
> dressing room, or throwing beer? ;-)
>
> Could've been worse; he could've stopped the gig because people were
> throwing used syringes on the stage (a la Zappa in Italy in the 80s,
> thereby precipitating a riot)...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> obCD: Gong, _Gong est Mort_
>
> e-mail: paul at csgrad.cs.vt.edu                    A stranger in a strange land.
>