Have You Ever Been To A Concert/Event That Drew Religious Protestors?

[The Great Escape]

Styx...Paradise Theater Tour in 1981 at the Roanoke (VA) Civic Center...had a small but zealous group, passing out leaflets...essentially decrying the evil of rock music and complaining about backwards masking on some Styx songs...I don't even really remember which ones. In retrospect...the thought of Dennis DeYoung as a minion of Satan is hilarious.


Ozzy Osbourne...1982...a very large crowd of protestors at the Huntington (WV) Civic Center. This was during the height of the Ozzy performs Satanic rituals on stage frenzy. I remember the protestors and the concert goers yelling at each other across Third Ave. Actually, an Ozzy concert in Charleston, WV a year later drew no protestors.

[Kire]

1. Iraq War Protest, Washington DC - Fall 2003

My favorite sign said: "God Hates You, Just the Way You Are"

There was another incident where I shouted directly in the face of one of the protesters and he turned his sign around. I think it had to do with blaming Clinton for 9/11. Yes, I remember. I just shouted "Bush Knew" in his face a couple of times. Scared him, and he turned it around to show some other freeperish message on the back.

[dolo amber]

2. The opening of the movie "Dogma"

in Cincinnati...there were about 30 of them. They were just kinda standing around with signs, shuffling back and forth. It was without a doubt the most listless bunch of *protestors* I've ever seen. Most of them looked like they'd rather be elsewhere. I still think they were paid by someone to be there...they were mostly 20-somethings who by the way they dressed looked like your average Kevin Smith fans... :shrug:

[Strawman]

3. No, but I was once accosted by campus evangelist Brother Rick

at Michigan State for wearing a Frank Zappa t-shirt.

[ret5hd]

4. monty pythons "life of brian"

[MamaBear]

5. A Screening of The Life of Brian

They insisted it was making fun of Jesus. This was back in the 70s when the movie was originally released. Of course, none of them had gone to the trouble to actually see the film. Oh well. They missed a good laugh or two.

In memory of Incontenentia Buttocks ... ;)

[ellie]

6. Yes,

Marilyn Manson at the Toledo Sports Arena in the mid 90s. I just pointed and laughed at them. I can't remember the tour, but it was the one where he was up at the podium ripping pages out of the bible.

[jonnyblitz]

9. "Dead to the world" tour in '96 and '97

his would rip up the bible during the song "anti-christ superstar".

[northernsoul]

7. Soul Asylum, Minneapolis, 1990

A couple of lonely kooks handing flyers about "the REAL Soul Asylum", which in case you failed to guess already, is the feiry hell all us unsaved rock-n-roll types are headed for.

[fudge stripe cookays]

11. Oh for God's sake.

Soul Asylum? They were protesting a bunch of surly drunkards? Get a life, losers!

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[BOSSHOG]

8. Mardi Gras - Every year

They wander about Canal and Bourbon trying to pass out literature and you'll find some on street corners with microphones telling us all how evil we are and how we'll burn in hell for eternity. I recall quite an amusing site a few years ago on Canal when a few female revelers dressed in nothing but body paint from the waist up were going toe nail to toe nail with this old "preacher." He was damning them to hell and they were f+*k youing him mighty loudly. Street theatre at its finest.

[jdots]

10. A band I was in years ago had some thumper backlash

Did'nt a few guys in Styx become Jesus freaks ? Its so wierd out there.

[izzie]

12. Yes and you will laugh it was a movie. and the Church was out

in force, as the artist had had a child when she was not married. Also Anti-war at sub bases but not church groups. It was about 1950 and the movie was Stromboli with Ingrid Bergman and I recall it as I had never seen something like that before. A Priest walking up and down a line telling people not to go to a movie.

[JohnKleeb]

13. I went to the march for women's lives last spring

What do you think? :)

[Bridget Burke]

14. Tibetan Monks on the campus of St Thomas University.....

Sponsored by the De Menil family. This was before the Menil museum was built in the area. The monks performed in a tent on the grounds--the same kind of tent used by revivals!

They chanted in the distinctive Central Asian manner (multiple notes produced simultaneously from each throat) & accompanied themselves on traditional instruments. And the tents were decorated with colorful Tibetan religious art.

At least one car drove by, honking, with people yelling about the ungodly carryings on. And, the second evening, a guy jumped up from the audience & started raving. Don't know whether he was protesting or just going nuts. The rites we were witnessing do, indeed, stir up some powerful spirits.

[johnnie]

15. Rolling Stones 1981

They were passing out pamphlets to us sitting in our cars waiting to get in. I didn't pay that whopping 15 bucks to be preached to..lol

[da_chimperor]

16. Nine Inch Nails/A Perfect Circle concert in SF at the Cow Palace

There was only about 3 or 4 of them, all white male in their mid 30's, all wearing signs that basically said we're all going to hell for listening to this kind of music. They had loudspeakers and everything. There were a few thousand people lined up to get in. A few guys tried talking to them to find out what the fuck they were doing there and exactly why we're all going to hell, but most people just made fun of them or ignored them. It was kinda neat. :evilgrin:

[JohnKleeb]

17. Did you find out what parent's basement they live in

:shrug: Ive never heard NIN myself really.

[da_chimperor]

19. It was probably the mom of this one homely guy with glasses

He had '35 year old virgin' written all over his face. I think they didn't like NIN because of this song:

heresy

he sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see
he tries to tell me what i put inside of me
he got the answers to ease my curiosity
he dreamed a god up and called it christianity

god is dead and no one cares
if there is a hell i'll see you there

he flexed his muscles to keep his flock of sheep in line
he made a virus that would kill off all the swine
his perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain
demands devotion atrocities done in his name

god is dead and no one cares
if there is a hell i'll see you there
your god is dead and no one cares
if there is a hell i'll see you there

"will you die for this?
will you die for this?
will you die for this?
will you die for this?"

god is dead and no one cares
if there is a hell i'll see you there
(your god is dead)
god is dead (and no one cares)
and no one cares (drowning in his own hypocrisy)
if there is a hell (see you)
i'll see you there (you there)

[JohnKleeb]

20. You know speaking as someone who is religion

A lot more could bother me than that. :shrug: some people just need to get out of their parents' basement and experience life.

[Bertha Venation]

18. Equality Rocks (2000) at RFK. The Phelpsians.