I have a similar story, kind of. We had 30 Seconds to Mars at the Warfield a few years ago. It had been a pretty good day, everything had gone smoothly, no altercations, just smooth sailing all day.
At the end of the night, however, the gig got ugly. One of the support act's guests decided to play a prank on the dressing room security guy, Izzy, who happened to be napping at his post (that's something he's well-known for. Thing is, Izzy can be sound asleep, but the moment someone tries to walk past him he springs to life and demands to see a pass. It's uncanny how he does it). They took his bag from under his chair, and hid it in the closest dressing room. When Izzy realized what had happened he jumped out of his chair, and burst into the dressing room, accusing the band, who had no idea of the prank, of being thieves. The band guys came out of their dressing, with a raging Izzy close behind, and went to the headliner's dressing room. They told them that the security guy had burst into their dressing room, and had violated their privacy.
30 Seconds to Mars then go to the production office, where the tour manager and the local production manager were settling out for the night, and raise a big fuss about the unprofessionalism and discourtesy of the Warfield's staff. The local production manager gets their version, then asks Izzy for his version, and mediates between the two parties. After a few minutes he got everyone to understand that it had been a misunderstanding, and that no harm had been done. Both sides apologized, and that was that.
Or so we thought. After the apology, someone jokingly said something along the lines of, "Besides, it was just a bag." That set Izzy off again, this time directly accusing Jared Leto of being a thief. The band then started shouting at Izzy. When we, the crew, who had been sitting nearby drinking beer after the gig, realized that it was about to get ugly, we got up and went over to back our guys up, or break things up, as things might be. During the altercation, my favorite words came out of Jared Leto's mouth: "We don't have to steal from you, we're rock stars," promptly followed by "We're gonna spread the word, and we're gonna make it so nobody ever plays this place again!"
In the words of the truly talented and legendary Leonard Haze, who happened to be my ride home that night, "Ok, Rock Star, we'll see where your stardom gets you! You're gonna be me in 10 years!" (For those who don't know what he was talking about, look up the band Y&T)
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