Pete Wentz Offers His Side Of The Fall Out
Pete Wentz wants you to know the internet is full of shit. At least when it comes to the account of how he ended up in a fight with a hometown heckler at an afterparty at Schubas. His side of the tale comes via MTV:
"The story on the Internet is absolutely false," he wrote in an e-mail. "Yes, we were playing an acoustic afterparty for Spin. It was a good time for the most part. Yes, the guy was heckling me and the band, so were other people, most in good fun. But we get heckled onstage all the time, and while I'm a jerk, I'm not the kind of person who would ever lash out at someone simply over this...
"The truth is on the way out the door I had to pass directly next to the guy and I knew it, so I kept my head down and walked out. As I did, the guy reached out and grabbed me and said something I couldn't really hear — it was a glorious use of the English language, though," he continued. "As he grabbed me, I punched him. Yell all you want at me, say whatever, but in a situation like that I will defend myself. After that, of course, it got chaotic, [but] we have several independent witnesses that gave statements saying he grabbed me first ... I am not worried over the outcome, as I was clearly in the right. Anything anyone else is saying or writing is simply not true."And Pete's keeping a sense of humor about the incident, telling the crowd at Fall Out Boy's Indy show the next night, "We can't talk about where we were last night for obvious reasons, but we thought we'd play this song and send it out to my future cell mate," before launching into a cover of Akon's "Don't Matter." (For those who aren't keeping up with Akon's recent binge of idiocy, Pete's referring to this. Or maybe this -- and, bonus.)
And in defense of his heckling, the bloodied Schubas patron submitted this video from the night. (via)
Do you blame him?
Posted at 3:18 PM in Video
Tags: Akon | Fall Out Boy
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yo check out the kooks if you haven't yet...theyre pretty fuckin sweeeeet.
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Piss off, michelle! Fuckin' street-teamer.
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Pretty good. As much as I'd like to projectile vomit into his face for inventing "guyliner" at least he has a sense of humor. and Angels and Kings is a terrible bar, so I guess he's one up and one down - breaking even - for me. kind of like his band.
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they suck
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The Kooks are awful. Avoid at all costs.
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they're The Beatles compared to Fall Out Boy. Well maybe not, at least Oasis.
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Hey! It's the Threadless guy's site. Cool.
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i LOVE FOB but when i went to there concert on june 5th (also pete birthday :) ) they sounded PERFECT! so now i guessing that the lipsynced
and thats not cool
i love you pete <3333
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I don't really see the big deal about him getting into a fight. Isn't that just normal testosterone guy-in-a-band behaviour? (I'm generalising a bit but...) And as for the video, its just live with bad sound quality, not 'fall down, kill me now' horible.
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