Yesterday we brought you the cautionary story of a couple who brought a smartphone to a gig by a musician that prohibited them, resulting in some phone-destroying consequences.
Today comes reports of a punk band that takes it to a whole new level: hardcore Californian crew Trash Talk, who at a recent show in Detroit, destroyed a flying drone filming the gig with a well-aimed beer bottle.
The band were in the middle of a typically circle pit-inciting set, when bassist Spencer Pollard spotted the quadcopter and proceeded to lob projectiles at it. After a successful third strike, the drone came crashing down six metres into the crowd, causing $700 worth of damage in the process – and the whole thing was caught on tape.
Who the heck brings a drone to a rock show? Well, as it turns out, the airborne shoot was sanctioned – though obviously not to the band’s knowledge.
The owner was one Henry Arnold, the 52-year-old Detroit businessman who runs Detroit Drone, who tells mLive (via Billboard) that he was hired by concert promoters to film the gig, part of the Zumiez Best Foot Foward skateboarding event at Michigan Theatre.
Arnold says he confronted Pollard about causing an estimated $700 worth damage to his equipment – including a smashed up Go Pro camera and special mount.
Giving a PC account of the “mature language used” in the argument. Arnold explains: “I expressed my bewilderment at why he would do that – I didn’t use that line, but that’s the gist of what happened – and he was like, ‘Screw you,’ and I was like, ‘Screw you,’ and that was that.” (We secretly kinda wish that part got filmed, too.)
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However, Arnold says he holds “no hard feelings” towards Trash Talk given that the promoter has promised to front the estimated losses.
What of the other two stray beer projectiles tossed by the bassist? According to Arnold, the only damage was to his drone. “I’m just glad no one got hurt. It’s very dangerous to down a drone over a crowd, and it landed in about the only safe area it could have.”
In true punk fashion, Trash Talk – who released their new album No Peace this year (their second for Odd Future Records) – didn’t offer any statement or public apology.
