Here are some pictures I have taken from some video I'm currently editing. One involves an incident I had completely forgotten about. I'll put a caption under each photo explaining them.



Bloody Guitar -- yep, that's blood. I'm not sure how much Matt wants you to know this but he continually leaks blood on his guitar because of his intense guitar playing. Or, this just came right after he got cut and it doesn't happen everytime. In any case, you folks on the front row should be thankful you don't get sprayed.



The Odd Pose -- For some reason Rollum and Roger were fascinated with an electric meter out back of this club. Rory and Parrish both have a laugh at their expense.

"THE INCIDENT IN ATLANTA"



While loading up the van to go home after the Atlanta show, we all noticed this police helicopter patrolling nearby looking for a perp.



Somebody (maybe me, but I'm not swearing to it) challenged Roger (notice he's holding a cup of "something") to run down the street to see if he could get the attention of the helicopter.



So there goes Roger (sorry for the poor quality of these pics -- it was dark and I had to blow them up to be seen) down the street.



Something interesting started to happen. In the background you can see two individuals past Roger. In the middle of the screen might just be the "perp" or just somebody taking a late night stroll (perhaps he was challenged by somebody to try and get the attenion of the copter as well). In the very back is a figure wearing black. It looks like a cop.



Holy crap! It is a cop! That's Roger's head in the bottom left corner.



Someobody, quite possibly me, yelled out to Roger there was a cop. So here's Roger now running from the police.



Here's another view. Notice the cop's luckily keeping the gun in his right hand down to his side. Perhaps he doesn't even see Roger.



Roger makes it back and looks back down the street while Rory tells him to come behind the bus. The strangest thing about all of this is Roger claims to have NEVER SEEN the cop! I had to show him the footage to prove this. We never saw the cop again and eventually the helicopter moved on, but whatever was happening was taking place just a few blocks away and, well, whew... Roger almost ran right into something. There's a lesson here folks. Perhaps that's the point of all of this, yeah, we're teaching you a lesson. Whatever that lesson is is for you to decide.

(Edited by BrianW at 1:05 pm on Jan. 19, 2003)

How, this is genuine excitement... this sort of thing going to be on the dvd?

Will

Heh, I don't know. The footage is a lot darker and it features a lot of me running back and forth between the street and the security of being behind the bus with the others. It's pretty amatuerish stuff.

This falls into the category of what we very distinguished fellows call "mother fucking hilarious."

now that i've finally managed to make it back up to the chair from the floor (that i fell to during a violent fit of laughter), i have to say, BrianW, that was freaking hilarious. thank you so much for providing us with that bit of insight into what i can only imagine is a a typical night with the features. you know, now that i think about it, i thought i saw roger in the background while watching COPS last night...

Here is an action shot of Matt getting blood on his guitar from the Exit/In show last spring:

indeed it is.....i cannot wait for more features hijinks to be posted on the site....and about the blood on the guitar, i have always noticed that matt bleeds quite a bit at every show that i have been to. for instance, at the boro show that took place in august, sexysadie managed to get her hands on matt's setlist, which was covered in matt's blood...

(Edited by ray davies at 2:46 pm on Jan. 19, 2003)

Oh snap, that was great. I first thought the helicopter was a UFO and images of the band fighting off aliens popped in my head. And might I add that the cop looks eerily like the cop from Terminator 2? All slow-walking and menacing....so many lessons I've learned from this thread.

Those pictures of Roger ar so freaking funny!

but the pictures of Matt's guitar and his fingers just scare me man... ouch

My sentiments exactly, Digsy. Although I first thought of "Robocop" instead of T2. Either way, pretty eery yet funny shit.

The video should be sent to Art Bell. Maybe the cop was a ghost and that's why Roger didn't see "him", (or shall I say "it").

A lesson learned, friends...