The crowd of kids went nuts over NIN, but were indifferent to JA, some even angry and saying the billing should have been reversed, which is blasphemy to me having seen them back in 1991 at the first Lollapalooza. She thought opening act Korn were much better, who I despise to this day (and I simply watched in horror as most of the crowd ate it up).įast forward to the Austin for the NINJA tour (Nine Inch Nails with Jane's Addiction headlining and Eric Avery back on bass). The crowd was indeed very indifferent to Bowie while leaving in droves, and I even got into an argument with a girlfriend of a friend of mine who said that Bowie was "a waste of time". I remember the show was in Austin and I was angry there was no Houston show. Tav Falco later said, “Playing after Doktors for Bob was like roller skating on grimy pasta.” The tires on my car were slashed sometime during the performance.Ĭlick to expand.Are you sure you mean the outdoor show in Austin? I was in college, and had just moved back to Houston that summer after a couple of years in Austin, and going to an insane number of live shows back then. Meanwhile, Panther Burns were standing at the bar watching, knowing they had to go on next. By our third song, people were pelting us with shrimp, tomatoes, beer bottles, and whatever else they could get their hands on. It was New Year’s Eve and there was this huge buffet in the bar. Our keyboard player was knocked unconscious and someone emptied a pitcher of beer on his synth, shorting it out. Not only were we booed, we were physically attacked. Ha! My band, Doktors for Bob, once opened for Panther Burns in Little Rock and we were booed off the stage. The next New Year’s Eve we played in Dallas and sold out a 1,600 seat theater and got five encores. The story made both newspapers the next day. That’s when I saw my tires had been slashed. Then the cops came and escorted us outside. We just kept turning our amps up louder and louder until finally the place’s owner pulled the plug on us … literally. That’s when the physical attacks started. Our next song was called “Johnny’s Got a Bucket of Pills” for which we had a huge bucket filled with expired vitamin pills, which our singer proceeded to toss onto the dance floor, making it impossible for people to even walk there. The dance floor filled up and then, within seconds, emptied back out. Then she said, “At least play something we can dance to.” The singer and I looked at each other and he grinned and counted off our first song, which was in 9:8 time signature, which is pretty much impossible for people to dance to. I recall this one woman, dressed in a floor-length fox fur coat, walked up to the stage as we were setting up and requested, “Something by Sting.” I told her we didn’t do requests or covers.
Somehow we got booked into this room filled with a bunch of older, formally dressed, drunken fools.
Tav Falco later said, “Playing after Doktors for Bob was like roller skating on grimy pasta.” The tires on my car were slashed sometime during the performance.Īs you might surmise, the people HATED us! It was simply a case of the wrong band for the wrong audience.
Click to expand.Ha! My band, Doktors for Bob, once opened for Panther Burns in Little Rock and we were booed off the stage.
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