Update 12/15: After crowd-shot footage of Mike Patton’s onstage battle with a drone went viral, video taken from the drone itself has emerged on YouTube.
The clip beneath, uploaded by a consumer named Sebastian Yañez, begins with the drone offering an aerial view of the Mr. Bungle efficiency at Knotfest Chile. It doesn’t take lengthy for the machine to fly right down to Patton’s stage, at which level the rocker lures then assaults the drone.
Our unique story on this epic man vs. machine battle may be discovered after the clip.
Watch Mike Patton Fight a Drone From the Drone’s POV
Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton tried to knock a drone out of the sky throughout the band’s Dec. 11 efficiency at Knotfest Chile.
As you possibly can see in the video beneath, Patton and his bandmates have been in the midst of masking Slayer’s “Hell Awaits” when the drone flew immediately into his line of imaginative and prescient. After flipping his center finger at the craft, Patton gestured for it to fly nearer. When it obliged, he unsuccessfully tried to knock the drone out of the air together with his microphone. Patton then supplied up one other insulting hand gesture and led the band into their subsequent genre-bending cowl, Seals and Crofts’ “Summer Breeze.”
The longtime Faith No More star is not the solely singer to not too long ago specific frustration with drones flying too near the stage, a tactic more and more employed by followers in search of to movie concert events.
Last month Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose addressed drone-flying followers on social media after noticing a rise in air visitors at the band’s Australian reveals. “People were pissed,” he defined. “However much fun anyone’s having you’re still trying to stay focused and do your job and give fans the best shows you can. …We get it can be ‘fun’ to get your drone bootleg video but we’d appreciate it if anyone planning to be a drone pirate took the fans and the band into consideration and played with your toys somewhere else.”
Rose and Patton aren’t identified for being aligned on many points. Patton has admitted to urinating on Rose’s telepromoter and defecating in his cake as a result of he was displeased with the approach Guns N’ Roses handled Faith No More when the two bands toured collectively in the early ’90s.
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