More Than We Bargained For

June 12th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Just walked in the door from Schubas, probably my favorite teensy venue in Chicago, from the Spin/Diesel “after party” for Fall Out Boy’s three shows at the Charter One Pavilion this weekend. I’ve been to a few of these major-music-media-plus-hot-hot-clothing-company-type events in my day, so I expected to wait way too long to see a truncated acoustic set. The four-song offering was more or less par for the course (save for a sort of awesome cover of “Beat It”), but the band’s exit through the side door after wrapping up with “Sugar, We’re Going Down” was anything but standard. From what I could see, ~~a gent in the audience grabbed Pete as he got off the stage~~ Pete decided to have a “word” with a heckler on his way out, and the shit (and a well-aimed beer bottle) then promptly hit the ‘fan.’ It wasn’t immediately clear what Wentz down, but I caught a glimpse of Pete on the floor with the other dude on top of him. To the venue’s credit, they hustled us out of there and were ready and waiting when the cops arrived. Needless to say, the band made hasty exit (what do they need acoustic instruments for, anyway?) and the long night of trying to stay awake suddenly turned into 2:45am blogging.

Talk about leaving it all on the floor...

5 responses so far ↓

eric // Jun 12, 2007 at 8:24 am

Was at the show and it was actually Pete who attacked the fan (the one who had been heckling him about Ashlee). Dude’s gonna get in some trouble…
steve // Jun 12, 2007 at 12:49 pm

Ouch. I’d love to know what the heckler was saying…
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