Anthrax & Chuck D | NYC @ Red Bull Snowscrapers | Feb 5 2009 | Madhouse & Bring The Noise

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Anthrax and Chuck D of Public Enemy closing out the Red Bull Snowscraper Snowboard event feat. Shaun White at East River Park in New York City on February 5 2009. Consider yourself lucky that this made it online as I almost frooze to death. It was brutally cold and the event was running at least an hour late. To top it all off the PA system was experiencing problems during Bring The Noise which is the reason why the sound is a tad bit weird on the video. After this song the show was stopped by whoever was in charge. Neither the band nor the audience seemed overly happy with this call. Mind you, some folks suffered close to 6 hours in hostile weather conditions to see Anthrax, only to be send home after 3 songs. This my dear friends is not cool.

Official Band Statement in regards to the cut short set:

"We want to apologize to our fans that came out to the Red Bull event last night in the hellish cold to see us play. It was an awesome event that we were honored to play but things just didn't go off quite like planned.
Originally, we were to go on just before 9 PM and play for 45-minutes. One of the snowboarding events ran very late which caused us to delay the start of our set. That and a curfew we were not informed about until 9:30 PM snowballed into an unfortunate situation that was beyond our control. As we were walking to the stage, we were instructed to cut our set to three songs, and no one was more surprised than us when they cut the PA before we could finish the third song. We are particularly mortified that this happened when our good friend, Chuck D, had just taken the stage for 'Bring The Noise'. We extend our apologies to him.
Nothing like this has ever happened to Anthrax before, and we regret that it happened last night. Thank you to those who came out to support and once again our sincere apologies."

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[deadman190]

where they supposed to play longer??

[unARTigNYC]

from the brief glimpse I got at the setlist I would certainly say so. must have had at least like 8 to 10 songs on it. a solid 40-45min set I'd say. but you know, I might have been halucinating giving the circumstances and level of frostbite on my toes

[deadman190]

it was fuckin freezing that night but totally worth it

the fight between the two guys were crazy

[unARTigNYC]

was that a fight in the crowd or onstage/backstage? I didn't catch any of it.

[deadman190]

in the crowd

we were moshing and a drunk guy spitted on another guy. we trying to stop the guy from killing the other guy lol and the next thing u know, he pounds him down and steps on the drunk guy to where he knocked him out.

[unARTigNYC]

and this is what stopped the show?! seemed more like curfew issues to me. whatever it was I was prety surprised as the set list was mch longer than what they ended up playing.

[MegadethroneD]

dan nelson is awesome!!

great show!

[romanblood]

So this is the new guy? I'm impressed, Anthrax are a band of legends!

[rockyscatman1]

Nice jersey Dan

[TrashMojo]

redbull was extremely unprofessional the way they cut anthrax off.

we had a similar situation at a festival out here and it caused some serious problems and needless to say this club will not be getting our business any time soon

[southplnk]

@TheBigdev23  1940

[southplnk]

rangers suck

[alexmartin51]

they need to do an original collaboration!

[mkultra138]

Ya know, you gotta love Anthrax' fighting spirit. Even though Nelson really didn't fit into the band he still gave it his all. You can tell he's really influenced by Anselmo singing wise. I just wish John Bush would've been able to stick it out with the band. I think the four albums they made with Bush were among their best!

[TheBigdev23]

rangers suck

[SickIncKamikaze]

How to ruin an Anthrax show: Schedule a show and don't tell anybody, when Slipknot's headling MSG the same night. Schedule it alongside some stupid snowbaording festival. Have promoters make your fans sit through said festival in frostbite temperatures for 5 hours. Have promoters tell nobody about the curfew. Administer some really unorganized PA to the show, and cut the sound mid song and call it a night.

No offense to Anthrax or their fans, but the promoters should have been bottled.

[francmeister420]

even tho anthrax is the suck, i give em props for playing that night it was honestly single digit temps before the windchill!

[canson81]

i love anthrax...but this is just awful