Replace 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 under, uploaded by a person 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 gadget to fly all the way down to Patton’s degree, at which level the rocker lures then assaults the drone.
Our unique story on this epic man vs. machine battle might be discovered after the clip.
Watch Mike Patton Combat a Drone From the Drone’s POV
Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton tried to knock a drone out of the sky in the course of the band’s Dec. 11 efficiency at Knotfest Chile.
As you’ll be able to see within the video under, Patton and his bandmates had been within the midst of overlaying Slayer’s “Hell Awaits” when the drone flew immediately into his line of imaginative and prescient. After flipping his center finger on 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 time Breeze.”
The longtime Religion No Extra star is not the one singer to just lately categorical frustration with drones flying too near the stage, a tactic more and more employed by followers in search of to movie live shows.
Final month Weapons N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose addressed drone-flying followers on social media after noticing a rise in air site visitors on the band’s Australian reveals. “Folks had been pissed,” he defined. “Nevertheless a lot enjoyable anybody’s having you are still making an attempt to remain targeted and do your job and provides followers the very best reveals you’ll be able to. …We get it may be ‘enjoyable’ to get your drone bootleg video however we would admire it if anybody planning to be a drone pirate took the followers and the band into consideration and performed together with your toys some other place.”
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 way in which Weapons N’ Roses handled Religion No Extra when the 2 bands toured collectively within the early ’90s.
Watch Mike Patton Battle a Drone
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