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Caleb Followill joins the ranks of rock's most inglorious mid-show exits
About a year ago, Kings of Leon made headlines when they cut a concert in St. Louis short to escape pigeons pooping on them from the rafters. This past weekend (Friday, July 29), they cut another show short in Dallas—but this time, no pigeons were to blame. Instead, Caleb Followill told fans as he left the stage, "I'm gonna go backstage and I'm gonna vomit, I'm gonna drink a beer and I'm gonna come back out and play three more songs." To the surprise of absolutely no one, he never made it back out for those three songs. (Caleb has since blamed the incident on heat exhaustion, but his brother Jared later tweeted, "There are problems in our band bigger than not drinking enough Gatorade.")
KOL is hardly the first act to make an early, inglorious exit from a performance. Between nerves, narcotics and just plain nuttiness, rock history is filled with bands and musicians who have self-destructed on the stage. Here’s a gallery of some of music’s most notorious live mishaps.—Patrick Sisson and Andy Hermann, Metromix
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