Wavves Explain How to Get Kicked Out of the VMAs (and Lil Wayne’s After-Party)
With Tyler the Creator on his best, most grateful behavior at Sunday’s VMAs, the lane was wide open for someone to step in and wreak havoc. Nathan Williams and Steve Pope, of sunny San Diego punk act Wavves, were game. The two kept a running Twitter log of their drug-fueled mischief (example: “I guess I’m takin this acid #staytuned #vmasmeltdown”), which ended with Pope getting the boot from the Nokia Theatre. So how, exactly, do you get kicked out of the VMAs?
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You could line up 40 people and have them… 40 musicians and have them jump on the drum kit like that and you would never get that same determined look, that calm look on his face. He’s not grimancing, he’s just doin’ it. I think that as an artist, that was the work he had to do. He had to get it out of himself, because I think that, like a lot of people, all the stress and, you know, whatever personal problems he may have had in his life they all came out throught his music, his art. - Charles Peterson, photographer.
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Interviewer:
Flea, talk me through your health routine.
Flea:
Well, I get up in the morning…. I smoke crack. Then after that, I have a steak… Then, I… I pummel myself about the head with a cactus. Then I get in the bathtub with a bowling ball, 3 sticks of dynamite, and about 3 lbs. of cream cheese. And uh, I really can’t… don’t feel comfortable talking about what happens in the bathtub at that time… But that’s my every morning routine.
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Which picture did you enjoy taking the most?
The one that’s the most famous, him crying backstage. In Britain, that was ranked the 6th best rock and roll photograph of all time. The way it came about, I had hung out with the band, I met them for the second time, he gave me free range to hang out and take pictures.
They did a brilliant gig, I got great pics of him smashing the guitar and then he went backstage and burst into tears. I thought it would make a good photo, but should I take it because it is a vulnerable moment? I am not a paparazzi, I am a documentary photographer. He knew I wasn’t pushy and I took a shot — he didn’t say no. I took three in all and the third shot he was crying, in the second shot he was sort of ok and the third one he was smiling. A minute between the three was about all this different kind of energy inside him and when he came backstage the energy had to go somewhere. Normally rock stars want to control how they look to the public.
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but he didn’t care how he looked in public. he said what he felt
most of the time
