Dando Bottled ; Staying Alive With (3/5ths of the MC5)



Gawker is reporting that the ever alert Evan Dando was pelted with rocks and garbage by a Bowery Ballroom audience Monday night, unimpressed with the former Lemonhead's turn as substitute frontman for the deceased Rob Tyner with the reconstituted MC5 aka DKT/MC5.

Dando is said to have engaged in fisticuffs with audience members. Perhaps this was an isolated incident, but it strongly recalls a similar occurrence at London's Shepherds Bush Empire some two years ago when Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie --- like Dando, an MC5 acoloyte (and like Dando, someone with a passing familiarity with narcotics and Kate Moss) --- let his guest vocalizing for the Ashton Bros./Mascis/Watt supergroup be interrupted for a quickie time-out to smash a punter's skull with the business end of the microphone stand.

Audiences nationwide will no doubt be arming themselves with brass knuckles, protective headgear and the like, knowing that Marshall Crenshaw will be sitting in with the MC 3/5th's very soon.

(afternoon update : Dave Martin tells us that Dando wasn't fighting anyone in the crowd, but he was hit by a drink, supposedly flung by Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre. I stand corrected and pledge to only lift 2 or 3 stories a month from Gawker in the future. We'll be back to sports and penis surgery any minute now, I promise.)

Posted: Wed - June 16, 2004 at 05:59 AM      

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