A Boston Tradition!
The Boston Pop(you one in the mouth)s! Two men decided the balcony of the Boston Symphony Hall, where the Boston Pops was playing the first concert of the year, would be a great place to have a fist fight. So, right in the middle of the concert, they did so.
BOSTON — Concert-goers, and even Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, were caught off-guard on Wednesday night when a fight broke out on opening night at usually sedate Symphony Hall.
Television video of the fight showed two men struggling in the balcony — one having his shirt pulled off — as several people stood around them.
Lockhart briefly halted the performance, which featured Ben Folds, while the men were escorted out.
Witnesses said they heard a scream from the balcony, and the sound of chairs falling, then a second scream as the fight escalated.
Apparently someone was upset that the orchestra had no intention of playing In a Godda Da Vida. Or Free Bird. The men were ejected, no charges were filed.
Boston, home of the first full-contact pops concert. Call the folks at Guinness.
By Uncle Pinky, Thursday, 10 May , 2007 @ 7:22 am
The key is that Ben Folds was there. Nicest guy in the world, but everywhere he goes a fight breaks out. Probably some sort of Zen transference thing. Or quantum, that sounds about right.
By BlogDog, Thursday, 10 May , 2007 @ 7:38 am
Who’s going to play with the Pops next? Five For Fighting?
By Gaius, Thursday, 10 May , 2007 @ 7:39 am
Heh.
By Bleepless, Thursday, 10 May , 2007 @ 8:31 pm
Alas, Gaius, Guinness may have been the problem.