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Quote:The infamous J/Lou onstage bust-up:
"At first I didn’t realise that it was a real situation, I just kind of thought it was a joke. Lou refused to play this one song, Severed Lips. He just started making bass feedback, which at first I thought was kind of funny, but it just became too much for too long.
"I didn’t understand why we didn’t stop the song, it was just bizarre. J started getting really annoyed because he was trying to play it right the way through. Right when it became apparent that we weren’t going to be able to finish the song, J swung his guitar over at Lou, Lou put his guitar up and they both kind of clashed like medieval knights.
"At that point I was really mad at both of them. I just thought it was really unprofessional and foolish and I felt like taking both of them and wringing their necks. I remember feeling like I wanted to scold them like naughty children. It was like, ‘we’re a band, you’re not supposed to do this!’
"It was really awkward. We went backstage and were just standing there staring at the ground. Lou was like ‘oh I don’t know what happened’ and J just didn’t say anything. Then we went out and finished the set.
"After that, things just remained really awkward and tense. I think that was the beginning of the end, J just felt like he couldn’t work with Lou. Lou at that point was feeling realy surpressed like he had no voice at all and was not allowed any voice. It got to the point where he was pushing harder to be heard and J was pushing harder to surpress him, so it became this unwinnable battle.
On being told of the existence of a bootleg of that night:
"Really? Is there like a video? I’d like to get a hold of that, it would be kind of fun to see."
Does anybody have this or know where I can find it? If there is a bootleg video I gotta see it.
edit: I found the audio of it, its the 12/12/87 Naugatuck show in the Night Shift Cafe. Anyone have the vid?
