Filter Drummer Refused Entry To Crappy Restaurant (Once)
It’s fun to giggle lovingly at people with visible tattoos. The joke is that they get ink on their neck/hand/face to prominently display that they are unlike everybody else — but then find themselves pleading to be treated like everybody else. Of course, the truth is finer than that — really what they expect is to be treated as well as everybody else — but regardless, hilarity ensues when a badass with loud tattoos has a shitfit about “prejudice.”
So go ahead and smile cuz Filter frontman Richard Patrick has called for a boycott of cruddy restaurant chain Brothers after his drummer Jeff Fabb was refused service on Wednesday night in Denver. The problem? A neck tattoo! The drummer explains:
I had eaten in the restaurant twice, and after the show, we walked back there. The door guy was about to let in our merch guy, but he wouldn’t let me in. I went to speak with the manager and he was confrontational from the moment he saw me. He really didn’t care that we’d been there earlier. I was kind of hurt, since most of the [our] people were in there at the time and we wanted to join them. I was calm the whole time, though, and when we were walking out, he yelled at the door guy not to let us in.
That sucks, getting party-blocked like that. So, Filter posted Patrick’s video of the incident (below NSFW) and urged to fans to phone the manager of the shitty establishment. The awful dump replied on their facebook that it was the location of Fabb’s tattoo that violated their dress code. No sorrys or backing down. Sigh, and now this battle of pettiness rages. If anything, I’d boycott Brothers for refusing to do what any business would: offer a public apology and some free slaw already. And then I’d boycott Fabb for trying to eat three consecutive meals at that shithole.
