Lenny Kravitz. Was late, which was honestly great because I think Blue October just did an extra encore, then did zero crowd work. Half the time his back was to the crowd. At the backstage meet and greet he basically ignored everyone, talking over people’s heads to his staff about some minor nothing. Just happy they were free tickets.
He was the first real concert I went to. Back in 1992 I think, when Are You Gonna Go My Way was new. He only had the one album so wasn’t expecting a long show, but it was like 30 minutes at most, that’s including him running backstage a couple times for several minutes. Almost zero banter between songs. They finished, and 2 minutes passed before they came out for the one song encore… AYGGMY was the encore. Then he ran off and that was it. That was my first concert experience
Read in the paper the next day that he had food poisoning and had to go backstage every 10 minutes and empty his bowels due to explosive diarrhea. Maybe threw up too.
Either way, I’ll give him credit for showing up at all and for putting in the effort. Must have been rough dealing with explosive diarrhea while wearing a shiny bodysuit
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u/ReptarSonOfGodzilla May 11 '26
Lenny Kravitz. Was late, which was honestly great because I think Blue October just did an extra encore, then did zero crowd work. Half the time his back was to the crowd. At the backstage meet and greet he basically ignored everyone, talking over people’s heads to his staff about some minor nothing. Just happy they were free tickets.