Eagles of Death Metal
EODM 11/15/06, originally uploaded by emilyrems.
Ray Ban had a party last night at Irving Plaza featuring the Eagles of Death Metal, so LCF and I were all over it. We sloshed our way through what felt like hours of free drinkies and fancy tiny food on fancy tiny trays passed around by fancy tiny ladies, and fended off the very physical advances of a suave, self-proclaimed “hedonist” dude who kept grinding against us while we danced and very subtlely screamed in my face “I want both of you!” while waiting for the rock to begin. When the Eagles (sans Josh) took the stage, we were all liquored up and front row center for all of hottie frontman Jesse Hughes’ macho mustachioed antics. Unforch, the sound at Irving sucks, and even though we were as close as any human could get to the stage we couldn’t hear the vocals. AT ALL. I kept reading Jesse’s fuzzy lips and checking the set list on the floor by his big black motorcycle boots to see what song they were playing because the show was completely Karaoke style. At one point, Jesse asked the crowd how we were all doing, as LCF yelled up to him that the vocals really needed to be louder, and Jesse kind of sneered down at him and said they’d try to fix that up or something. but nothing ever happened.
Which leads me to a rock ettiquette question. Is it OK to mention technical issues to a performer whilst s/he is on stage? We didn’t interrupt the set or anything. LCF totes waited for a banter moment to shout it out, but Jesse seemed a little peeved and totally ignored it. I know if something like that were going on with my band, I would want to know about it. But maybe any comments like that once the show has begun are hard to remedy. I wonder if there is a “Miss Manners” for rock shows I can consult…