Cage the Elephant
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- Mr. Tomlinson's feud started after members of the now-defunct Reddit site r/opieandanthony got his Twitter account suspended, causing him to threaten some bored trolls who never heard of him with a libel lawsuit. The trolls responded predictably.
- Mr. Tomlinson has been instructed many times by friends, family, police, and attorneys to stop engaging with his trolls, and that continuing to provoke them will cause him to be trolled even more. Mr. Tomlinson wilfully ignores this advice
- He would eventually file a defamation suit against 60 anonymous people which was dismissed with Mr. Tomlinson being ordered to pay $34,762.25 for opposing parties' attorney fees.
- He ended up paying $83,736.99 due to his unsuccessful attempts to dodge the court-ordered judgement, for which he faced jail time and contempt charges.
- He also filed 2 frivolous restraining orders against people who had engaged in First Amendment-protected behavior (one for texting him and another for attending his contempt of court hearing), both of which were dismissed.
- Early on in the lawsuit, Mr. Tomlinson vandalized his own motorcycle and submitted a false police report blaming the people he was suing.
- He accidentally sent surveillance video of the alleged vandal (himself) to a troll.
- Mr. Tomlinson has never shown this video footage during any of his media tours, and desperately tries to scrub it from the internet.
- Mr. Tomlinson claims that the surveillance video was initiated by his "motion-activated" camera, which only collects "30 seconds at a time", despite the video being 32 seconds long and beginning several seconds before the "vandal" enters into the frame.
- On 13 April 2023, the individual responsible for calling the fake emergences (SWATs) to Mr. Tomlinson's house, a SWAT-for-hire dealer named "Torswats", revealed that Mr. Tomlinson ordered the SWATs to his own house because he wanted to get in the news and sue the MPD for money.
- Torswats would repeat these allegations in private chats which were not intended for public view.
- Mr. Tomlinson has gone on multiple news tours since the SWATtings started in order to promote his victimhood brand, utilizing the services of Lenora Claire.
- He also recently sued the MPD for money.
Worst Concert you've been to?
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I saw Megadeth on their first tour. Early in the day, they were doing an in-store appearance at a local record store we all frequented. It was maybe 11AM and Dave Mustaine was just hammered. He was dozing off with his head on the counter, suddenly waking up and babbling nonsense about a Penthouse Pet he claimed he was fucking. Someone pointed out he had a show to do later that evening and he got all mad and said he'd be fine. So that night, they did a gig supporting Slayer, and Dave was a mess. He kept fucking up the lyrics, stopping, and angrily starting the songs over. It was total cringe.
I saw Iron Maiden in 2000 or maybe 2001. They opened with the "Aces High" stuff, then Dickinson says "we're gonna do a lot of new stuff tonight!". You could feel the energy just vanish, as they launched into a bunch of nine minute songs no one knew. I left halfway through.
I saw Iron Maiden in 2000 or maybe 2001. They opened with the "Aces High" stuff, then Dickinson says "we're gonna do a lot of new stuff tonight!". You could feel the energy just vanish, as they launched into a bunch of nine minute songs no one knew. I left halfway through.
Fawk I've got tickets to see Coheed on their tour this summer. Should I just sell them?
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I saw Trapt like five years ago because they came to the tiny bumfuck town I was in and the cover was like five bucks at the bar. The singer was such a preachy cornball. Worst frontman ever.
They destroyed whatever reputation they had left because the lead singer couldn't shut his mouth on Twitter. They play dive bars in hick towns now
Really? I always liked their music.
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Guns n Roses. Doesn't help that I didn't even want to go in the first place and got my pocket picked while I was there, but the whole show fucking sucked. Axl Rose in particular is embarrassing himself.
Slayer just stand there stationary and play the songs. It's like you're watching them practice. I also hate Kerry King and think he's a fake tough guy midget who can't fucking play the guitar. Hanneman also seemed fucked up.
Motorhead no-showed for a show I had tickets to. I guess that counts.
Every other big concert I've seen was PFG.
Slayer just stand there stationary and play the songs. It's like you're watching them practice. I also hate Kerry King and think he's a fake tough guy midget who can't fucking play the guitar. Hanneman also seemed fucked up.
Motorhead no-showed for a show I had tickets to. I guess that counts.
Every other big concert I've seen was PFG.
Not the worst but one of the weirdest ones was The Toots and Maytals were playing at Riverrock, some multi-band all day event in the city. Its actually usually pretty cool. This dude filming was 30 ft to the right of us and me and this dude and a few others i didnt know but we were drinking a half gallon Grey Goose bottle and he just chugged it and threw it and fucking NAILED the 70-whatever year old man in the face. Everyone started forming a circle around the group of us (strangers). I just slinked out and hauled ass. I didnt wanna stick around. I knew it was rly bad when they had him on the stretcher. Kid ended up getting held down and arrested if I remember right. Go to the last 30 seconds or so of this video. It was a PERFECT shot. We were like 50ft away:
Christ he got him right on the top of the head.
Fawk fuckers that throw shit at performers are faggots but I howled watching that guy get clonked.
Candlebox. Total studio band. They sucked live.
Yeah. I saw Cage The Elephant at House of Blues a few years ago and it was a decent show. Maybe caught em on a bad night?
Opeth, I think it was the Heritage tour. They weren't playing poorly, but it was extremely low-energy and boring. I forget who opened, they were way more entertaining.