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Nice audience shot show. Diverse setlist. Pretty neat. Here's what David Byrne himself had to say about the evening, taken directly from his online journal: "The hottest gig so far. The Georgia Theater; a former movie theater in town is the prime venue here, the seats have been ripped out and there are 2 or 3 bars squeezed in and the place is packed to the gills standing room. It was a hot day here to begin with, but the air con in this place is woefully overwhelmed and I head for the stage with some trepidation- wondering if I'll faint or pass out. I don't, though the air supply is pretty limited. I sweat until pretty much every inch of my clothing is soaked, but my energy holds up. I can barely hold on to my slippery guitar, the string players have fingering problems but we get though it all and the audience too and we all feel pretty ecstatic. During load out a kid calmly walks away with Fred's bike. A security guy sees him and corals him about a block away and brings him back in a headlock. The cops arrive and Daniel decides not to prosecute - it would be too much hassle. According to those who saw it, the cops who arrived were really giving this sort of drunken kid a hard time - twisting his arms, handcuffed him, pushing him down on a car and duct taping his legs...and the kid began to resist...which may have been a natural survival instinct but in this case it made the cops more determined - so in the end he was brought in not for theft, but for resisting arrest. All of which could have been avoided had it been handled in a calmer fashion...and maybe if the kid had put up with the abuse they'd have let him go. However, as the night went on I could see lots of drunken college boys (and girls) lurching all over the streets. Many of these are not little guys either - even drunk they'd be a handful, and I could imagine facing a belligerent drunken hulk the cops here would usually take no chances." |