God Fobid's Doc Coyle Releases Statement About Beer-Throwing Incident At Lamb of God Show
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GOD FORBID guitarist DOC COYLE, who was filling in for LAMB OF GOD guitarist Mark Morton on their opening trek with METALLICA, has issues an official statement through MetalSucks.net regarding the much-publicized incident in which a fan threw a cup of liquid at his face during a performance.
“I’m sure many of you have seen the video of me getting pegged on stage while I was on Metallica tour filling in for Mark from Lamb of God. Although 95% of the comments were really supportive, I just wanted to clarify a few things about the incident. First off, it was a beer, not a water. A big ol’ tall boy plastic cup of beer, and whoever threw it must have been a quarterback because it was full and hit me square in the eye at full steam. It felt like I got sucker punched. I had a mark by my cheek bone and it was swollen all night. I surprised I didn’t have a black eye. The way it hit me is probably the reason why I reacted the way I did. I’m no tough guy, but I wasn’t really thinking. I just reacted. I really don’t know what I would’ve done if anyone would’ve have owned up to to throwing it, but I have no clue if I would’ve hit the person. I can say that I’m not violent at all, and don’t think violence is a productive way to solve problems. I’m glad nothing came of it, but obviously the person was pretty cowardly to throw it and not own up to it. Anyway, shit happens. I just think it’s kind of funny how it spread on the internet. Beer in the face and all, it was still more than an honor to play with Lamb of God and open for Metallica.”
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6 Comments on "Doc Coyle Releases Statement About Beer Incident"
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2. writes:
Question - That stage - is it conducive to good crowd work?
Because you have to move about far more, only get to work a third of the crowd at a time properly, etc etc.
Anyone been to one of those gigs and could say how it compares to a normal straight on stage?
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3. writes:
Metallica's tour after the black album had a set up like that. It's very friendly to the arena setup where you have concertgoers all around the stage. I really dislike the arena shows with the stage at one end. The people at the far end get totally screwed then. I really enjoyed that Metallica tour - it was one of the best tour experiences ever for me.
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5. writes:
getting hit in the face and getting beer in your eyes sucks, i've had it happen before. he shoulda just kept playing instead of going towards the crowd like that but it's understandable and anyone notice how randy was down there ready to back him up? metal brotherhood.
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1. Supastan writes:
i remember back in 2004 i saw dimmu borgir at this little a$$ club called the bottleneck here in kansas they were on the last song or the one b4 it and galder thought it would be a good idea to spit beer into the crowd a few times and he payed for it 10 minutes of people throwin sh** at him they didnt get to finish and b****ed at everyone for doing it but hey i say "do onto others..." was this incident provoked or was it just dumbass fan?