whiteofferings replied to your photo “On this day in AFI history: Davey started a riot in Toronto and almost...”
Wait? Riot??
!!!! DO I GET TO RE-TELL MY FAVOURITE AFI STORY OF ALL TIME TO SOMEONE WHO DOESN’T KNOW IT BECAUSE THIS IS THE SHIT I LIVE FOR.
So here’s what happened.
On this day in 1996 (which I actually pinpointed based on details of the story as Davey’s told it and the fact that my friend posted her ticket stub from the show on FB before going to the Blood Tour in February and it took me like six months to put those pieces together because I am S L O W sometimes), AFI were suuuuuuper late to a show in Toronto because they got held up at the border, because border patrol can be dicks to bands here. Whatever. So they missed their original slot on the show but were allowed to go on later, which was cool.
So anyway. During the show bouncers are being rough as hell with kids and Davey keeps trying to get them to chill. Finally he sees a bouncer punch one kid right in the face and loses his goddamn mind. Literally tells the entire crowd to “get him” (the bouncer).
This does not go over well.
Crowd goes apeshit, bouncers bounce from the room, promoter tries to shut the show down.
Adam, being the precious sunshine angel baby that he is, calms Davey down and is like “you’re going to get people killed.” Davey is like, “shit, you’re right.” Gets the crowd to calm down with “a great hardcore speech for the ages” and they’re able to finish the show.
BUT THEN. After the show, Davey ends up cornered in the green room by said bouncer and the promoter, and the bouncer legitimately threatens to smash a bottle in his face, but the promoter is like, “ok you can’t ACTUALLY kill him but dude that was not cool.”
So Davey narrowly escapes that, BUT. Somebody overheard the bouncers phoning their friends to COME DOWN TO THE VENUE AND KILL HIM???
So he flees the building with the kid who got punched and sparked the whole thing, literally goes to that kids HOUSE and HIDES IN HIS BASEMENT until the rest of his band can come save him. And he drinks all the kid’s juiceboxes.
