Vancouver, BC - 19 August

[Virtual Stupidity]

http://youtu.be/EpgK9Y-IZAw

The show was going wonderfully! Until I believe it was a glass bottle was thrown at buzz. Nobody fessed up, show over. Once outside police cars arrived and the crowd nabbed the culprit and buzz was there to read him his rights. Whic apparently the cops didn't like too much. But rumor in the crowd says that his name is jeremy and he works at audiopile a local record store, I'm calling tomorrow to complain big time.

[Grayfro]

Say Goodbye to the Melvins Canada, you will never fuckin' see them again.

[InbredJed]

That all sounds deliciously twisted.

I was in the pit, gooving out as Dale took the mic after Roman Bird Dog.  He was doing the "Gangnam Style" dance, and then pulled out a banana that he had hidden somewhere on his person. 

The drummer from '83 came out ad started throwing down with Coady and then all of a sudden, the music stopped, I looked up and Buzz ran up to the front of the stage and said, "F### you guys!", and took his guitar off.  Everyone left the stage and the crowd was just looking around at each other going, "What happened?!"

I really hope one douche-hole's actions don't mean that Vancouver has worn out its welcome for the Melvins.  Seemed like such a positive show until then.

Ps: apologies if I'm not following proper posting protocol, I'm doing this from my phone :p

[restlesssoul]

http://www.straight.com/music/411791/shearing-pinx-attacks-melvins-not

[snivlem]

I wuz there and it wuz a sick-ass show (of course) ...

...till the premature ending.

The asshole that threw the pint glass wuz Jeremy van Wyck who is in the band the Shearing Pinx and works at Audiophile records in Vancouver.

Any Vancouverites up for going to this fuckhead's next show to throw pint glasses at him?!

Here is an article on the incident with him trying to explain his fucking bullshit:

http://www.straight.com/music/411791/shearing-pinx-attacks-melvins-not?comment_mode=1#add-new-comment

Shearing Pinx attacks the Melvins! (Not)
by Allan MacInnis on Aug 20, 2013 at 2:17 pm

Those who missed the mob at the Commodore last night (August 19) —when the Melvins show ended abruptly, short of a full set—got to participate in a vicarious lynching later that night on Facebook.

Neptoon Records' Ben Frith reported the incident that stopped the show: someone chucked a cup at guitarist King Buzzo, who took offense (see video below). The plot thickened when it was alleged that the cup-chucker in question was Shearing Pinx drummer, Fake Jazz co-founder, and Audiopile employee Jeremy van Wyck—a generally well-behaved and affable sort, not noted for drink-chucking behaviour.

By the time the Straight contacted van Wyck for comment, Frith had pulled his Facebook post, largely out of respect for Audiopile (whom he said he regarded as "friends rather than competition" in a private message to the author), but also because an unruly tenor was growing in the comments, which included contributions from local notables Chris Walter, Dave Bowes, and Bert Man.

Reached by phone at Audiopile, van Wyck was sheepish and apologetic, and eager to explain himself, telling the Straight he meant no disrespect for the Melvins whatsoever.

"I was playing Melvins cover songs in my junior high bands when half the crowd that was there last night was probably in diapers," he said. "I've seen them over a dozen times, and that show was seriously one of the best shows I've seen, ever, in my life! And it could have been 15 minutes longer!"

Van Wyck, however, "was having an ecstatic, peak experience, tripping balls on mushrooms and drunk on whiskey. I had finished a highball with a buddy, and the right note came. Understand that the lines of reality were a little blurry at that moment, and maybe this is the 'shrooms talking, but it was like a magnetic field: the cup had to go. It was, like, a moment of exultation. It wasn't a calculated thing at all. It was a hiccup that resulted in a bummer."

Van Wyck would like to emphasize that it was a "lightweight plastic mug" that he chucked. "It's not something I normally do, I don't really throw things often. I mean, I get things thrown at me because I play live shows all the time. I've been hit with actual bottles, I've had beer poured onto my head. You know, 'Do unto others as you would have done unto you'—it was a small, tiny plastic cup! I would not mind if that came at me. I think to react like that, he [Buzzo] must have thought it was a glass... but it hit him in the leg, and the show stopped!"

"To be honest," van Wyck continued, "I thought at that point, it was like, 'Yeah, I threw a cup! C'mon—let's rock 'n' roll, here!' But, uh, no, that wasn't the case. The show did not go on. Security totally threw down and dragged me out, I was handcuffed and put in a paddy wagon, which was so disgusting; it was covered in blood and grossness. And I wound up with a 15 dollar ticket for being drunk in public. And a ride home, I guess." (Van Wyck, like the author, "didn't even know they had fines that low.")

Van Wyck may take some comfort in the reaction of punk scribe Chris Walter to the incident: "They quit because someone threw booze on them? In a plastic cup? What the fuck? That's lame, I'm sorry! I was at a DOA show and some idiot threw a beer bottle that almost hit Joe. We all beat the shit of the guy and Joe broke a wine bottle over his head. Then DOA finished the set."

That's the punk rock way to do it, Buzzo!

[InbredJed]

That makes sense with what i saw, thanks a lot Snivlem!

[John Schuller]

Do not throw garbage at King Buzzo. What a dipshit that guy is. Fuck him.

[bUTTHOLEmAN]

Emo Jeremy.

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[anaconda]

Jeremy Van Wych needs his face rearranged with a brick!

[black stallion]

from that video i can't see when Buzzo got hit by the glass. the guy was very stupid btw. i don't really get why some people go to see shows

[(the) flutter nuts]

Punk rock is not about throwing shit at the band, DOA can fuck off and Buzz is an adult not a drugged up drunk teenager. even as a teen, getting shit thrown at me and my music gear is fucking retarded. people who say "It's not punk rock or it's rock n roll man" get a fucking clue dip shits,

[glen]

two things:

first thing:

Dale  then pulled out a banana that he had hidden somewhere on his person. 

second thing:

obviously jeremy whatshisface made an extremely poor decision and should learn to control himself.  jacked up on goofballs or not.
but I'm not sure if street justice is the proper approach.

[black stallion]

but I'm not sure if street justice is the proper approach.

did that happen? 

btw, i think the rock n roll punk attitude is a huge bullshit

[Illusionator]

I went to see PiL at the Top Rank Cardiff (Wales, yeah well in case you didn't know) in 1983.

Lots of gobbing, beer throwing (sans glasses thank fuck - this was be fore plastic pots were de rigeur). After second song, Lydon said very calmly "Any more spitting or beer throwing we're walking out", cue deluge of liquid effluvia.

End of show. I was vv fed up (at 17 I could only just afford this show)

No real point to this story other than I cannot see why people do this at shows (at the recent London residency show [Houdini/eggnog/lysol) people were chucking beer bottles back into the crowd. Why the fuck???? How is this "punk rock"? Cunts.

[Satchel Paige]

TRipping bballss my ass, try and make a throw like that while "slippiing through reality" or whatever he said. God's mercy on that swine.