The Guardian bringer en lang artikel om nogle af de værste koncerter, “man” har været til. Først fortæller en lang række musikere – og lavpunktet her er vel Tina Weymouths beretning om den sidste Talking Heads-koncert nogensinde. Derefter er det anmeldernes tur. Michael Hann mindes en koncert med Wilco i 1997:

Maybe if I’d known about Jeff Tweedy’s problems – the migraines, the addiction to painkillers to control them, the depressive illnesses – I’d have been more understanding. But there’s having problems, and there’s taking those problems out on 2,000 people who’ve paid to see you. Wilco mythology holds this as the gig where Tweedy (above) lost his temper with an unenthusiastic audience; my memory is different. I recall a musician who, from the start of the gig – the last of a world tour – gave every sign of wanting to be anywhere else. Going through the motions would be too generous a description: there was no motion about the set whatever. That’s why the audience lost interest. And that, in turn, is when Tweedy started cursing and castigating us. One reviewer said this was the point at which the gig caught fire. Again, my memory is different: this was the point at which the band stopped giving half a stuff about what anyone thought. And for the encore? Tweedy didn’t even bother coming out. Instead a roadie emerged to sing a ramshackle version of Black Sabbath’s Iron Man. There’s a coda. A while later I was buying CDs at the Virgin Megastore in central London. Jeff Tweedy was at the till next to me. I turned to him, smiling, and said I had tickets to see Wilco the following evening, and that I hoped he was feeling happier than he had been last time he’d been in London. “I’ll feel however the fuck I want to fucking feel,” he said, or something along those lines, and turned away. Fuck you, too, Jeff.

Jeg tænker så på Jens’ indlæg om uvenskabet i New Order og kommer uvilkårligt til at tænke på, om der ikke var gode grunde til at Uncle Tupelo gik i opløsning, da Jay Farrar gik i vrede. Min anelse er, at en god del af årsagen kan have været herren ovenfor.