After visiting the Intrepid with writers group, I went over to Brooklyn for a book launch of one of our authors from work. It's a book about punk, and since Eric is not only a music writer but the frontman for a popular punk band, he also put on a concert. And one of the two other acts included Aaron who I work with.
Aaron playing bass for LFD
I have not been to a punk concert since high school, and when the first band went on, I started wondering why adults do punk music. It's just a bunch of noise and angsty teens need to make to get out all their issues. But it turns out only the first band was like this. I actually liked Aaron's band LFD the best as far as sound goes. However, Eric's band NBT is amazing to watch because Eric is quite the spectacle. We were a little baffled because as the author we work with, Eric is this friendly polite guy and we had no idea that he had this stage persona that pulls people's hair and rubs his mic under his armpits. And there were about three crowd surfing moments not including the random drunk fat guy who got up on stage and stage dived into a crowd that quickly separated to let him crash to the floor.
Eric singing
Eric crowd surfing
For more photos of this event, check out my facebook album.
Here's my video:
Someone else's footage of another night. Last night's gig was more or less exactly like this one:
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