Remember that brilliant Onion article that was about Yo La Tengo about 2 years back? “Thirty-seven record-store clerks are missing and feared dead in the aftermath of a partial roof collapse during a Yo La Tengo concert Monday”. Well, last month when Yo La Tengo played the Onion Holiday concert, they recreated the disaster onstage:
Then it was time for disaster. Light fixtures, real and fake, fell from the ceiling. Speaker cabinets, all fake, dropped too, sending James and Georgia to their bloody doom. David Cross and Jon Benjamin came on stage to calm the panicked crowd, while medics, armed with plastic stethoscopes and real stretchers, ran to the rescue.
More info, including some funny photos, can be found here on Yo La’s website.