Bands play to their audience
By Jake Berg
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Fans left the WOW Hall last
Saturday raving about the Had
Brains show as much as for the
music ns for the charm tors of the
lead singers.
After all. the lend singer for
Bad Brains and the lead singer
for opening-act Prong knew how
to appeal to the Eugene masses
"Come on and move you
fuckin' hippies.” yelled the Prong
singer, obviously knowing the
reputation of his audience and
obviously not minding being an
asshole, which he did vorv well
So did the Bad Brains lead
singer.
"Do you all like to smoke gan
jn?" the Bad Brains singer asked
loan answer of "Yeahs." 'So do
we, man. So do we Fight for your
right to smoke ganja."
It was certainly in the uir alter
that statement, and the fans also
had to fight for their right to be
there.
The crowd was as unruly as a
WOW Hall crowd has been in
recent memory, and even the
lead singer of Bad Brains got into
it — Figuratively and literally.
Israel Joseph-I often would
launch himself off of the stage
(and over the restraining wall
brought in especially for the
show) and into the eagerly out
stretched hands of the WOW
crowd, which happily carried
him around.
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Israel Joseph-1 works the WOW crowd Into a frenzy Saturday night,
as his band Bad Brains shows what they're made of
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Joseph ! would also stick the
microphone up to the anxious
mouths Fighting to get to the front
of the stage to sing a verse. Good
thing it was Joseph-! who was the
load singer because many of the
impromptu guests' von r< on the
microphone showed exactly whv
thev were in the midieni u and he
wits on the stage
Prong did not disappoint
either, as they brought up many
of the people who had Iteen hid
ing in the basement bar from the
first band Alcohol Punnycar.
who sound just like all the other
had bands that have made their
way through or make their home
in Kugene.
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