Crashing Cookie Mountain
Last night we wasted a half hour on line for the Strokes/Kanye show at Capitale. We were on the list, we think, but we are not models, so ... denied! Like Brandon Davis at Hyde! Whatever, the Strokes and Kanye play together all the time, right? We should've taken a page from Stereogum reader Adam who was uptown sneaking into the TV On The Radio show. By pretending to be in the band! He writes...
I show up 15 minutes before doors armed with my beard and saxophone, ask the woman at the door if there's a side entrance for musicians, she directs me around. I knock on the door, and say that I'm with "the band," playing sax for the New York shows. The burly guard is about to send me around, saying I need to get my pass from the front, when his superior says "wait, what band's he with?" I reply "TV on the Radio" and he sends me with someone else to get my pass. The man taking me says "I kind of have to stay down here, it's just 3 floors up. I decide not to take my chances and try for the pass, because they may have a list which I certainly was not on. I walk up one flight, enter Irving Plaza during Grizzly Bear's sound check, and lay low with the merch folk until the doors open and I am safe. The show was incredible, and they closed with a 15 person drunken percussion rendition of "Ambulance."Adam, we so fucking salute you. Hope it was a real beard, though. Otherwise that's sort of pathetic.
Posted at 12:48 PM
Tags: Grizzly Bear | TV On The Radio
I hope it WAS a fake beard, like the Soggy Bottom Boys.
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I met a couple of British guys at a youth hostel in Hollywood back in the mid-nineties. They were living dirt cheap and claimed they paid for all their partying -- jumping lines, getting into comped parties, etc -- by posing as the Stone Roses. Their best story: running into the (real) Goo Goo Dolls, who turned out to be massive Stone Roses fans and started hitting them with all these industry/fanboy questions. The impostors' response: 'whatever man, we just party and let the lawyers deal with it'. Apparently this was enough to maintain the cover and party with the Dolls for a night...
Always wondered if this story was true. Any Dolls or Roses out there to confirm or deny??
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oh. the beard was real. and still is......
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oh. the beard was real. and still is......
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and I don't think it's pathetic whatsoever
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i was at that show, both bands were amazing. incredible night.
nice one adam, glad you made it in.
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i tried to get backstage at an andrew wk gig by pretending he was my dad.
it didn't work.
he is though.
my dad.
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Mentos - The Freshmaker
Excellent work Adam!
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Seriously confidence is key in situations like that. If you act as though the security are wasting your musician time and impatiently wait for them to let you by, then you have a better chance of sneaking backstage or into the venue. If you walk in without a huge bravado you're finished.
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