Lamb Of God Frontman Arrested In Prague

 

1. Exactly why are we knowing about this only now? An event like this would - at the very least - lead to rumours on underground metal blogs. From then to a major scandal on the specialist press it'd be a matter of time. Doesn't quite add up. There are people now who are coming out as witnesses, saying that Blythe did this and that, yet this is the first time we hear something like this. Were they afraid to speak?

 

2. Even if the guy wasn't dead in the venue, why wasn't Blythe arrested with assault when leaving the venue? I suppose that going violent on someone (as described) is indeed criminal behaviour in Czech Republic. It is in Portugal, it is in the US, why shouldn't it be there too? 

 

3. Why is "evidence" of the event (e.g. the picture of Blythe holding the fan, the show reviews that mention him kicking people out of the stage) only surfacing now? Why didn't we know that two days ago or when the event happened? It makes absolutely no sense if the information was there.

 

Don't get me wrong. Although I'm not shy on being a LoG fan, I am not taking any kind of judgement here. What happens is that there's so much here that doesn't make sense, so much that doesn't add up, that it makes no sense to charge him of anything. The information is so blurry and fishy and its appearing was so sudden that it leaves too many questions unanswered.

I do believe that he may end up in jail though. Remember Limp Bizkit and the 1999 Woodstock? Durst was indirectly responsible for a massive wave of violent behaviour (which resulted in at least four rapes). Was he charged? No. He was just accused of irresponsible behaviour. Of course one can agree that Blythe (supposedly) went physical at the dude, while Durst was verbal with the audience, which ended up by being the direct guilty party. However the ammount of damage Durst caused indirectly can be compared to what Blythe indirectly did. The problem is the same: the mainstream media opinion on metal isn't exactly warm, and many will consider Blythe to be an evil dangerous psychotic devil worshipper - including probably the judge (he was wearing an Obituary shirt at time of arrest). Basically, he's a popular pet devil for many members of the mainstream (and don't forget that plenty of lawyers and judges have political aspirations, they must please people). Which is why I'm being rather pessimist here. Just saying.

 

...I�ve seen scenes like these at countless shows, and very seldom are people hurt beyond bruises and at the rare occasion broken bones. He must have fallen to the concrete floor in a really unfortunate way.

 

...the witneses say that they saw Randy kick the fan off the stage. If anyone has a clip of that I�d like to see it?

 

I wouldn't call Blythe "a big American superstar" (95% of the world population hasn't heard of him), and from what I know money can't be the big factor here. Plus, the Czech economy is doing okay, that doesn't make sense.

 

Most likely, the venue owners knew that they would risk being in jail if it was discovered that they had been indirectly responsible for the guy's death, so they used Blythe as a scapegoat (which is ironic if you think of the origins of the term "lamb of God" ). That would also explain why the injury wasn't immediately reported: it'd be easier for the owners to cover up what happened.