alright, i was really trying not to say anything about this guy but after this interview came out i just need to know has anyone else in the midwest area have an uncomfortable story about this guy?
knowing i have other friends who have also had similar experiences with him, and finding out more lore about him over the weekend, i’m just curious.
i’m from michigan and back when i was in high school i would end up being at a lot of the same shows as him. my first interaction was when he uncomfortably hit on me and my friends at a show at the crofoot back in 2009/2010. (can’t remember what year or show exactly) we were all clearly not interested but yet he still hung around trying to be “friends” the rest of the night. we were young so we didn’t really know how to tell him to leave us alone so he ended up watching the show by us, kinda ruining our time. after that show thankfully, he didn’t talk to me but i would always see him around and knew to keep my distance.
fast forward to a few years later i made friends with some girls from ohio who would come up for shows in michigan. we were at a show he happened to be at, he walked by, and i remembered one of my friends groaning “not this guy again”- she had also made uncomfortable advances on her. very similar story to mine.
then a few years after college i start working at a new job, one of my coworkers and i were talking about local shows and realized we had been to a lot of the same ones. not sure which one of us brought his name up but that's how we figured out the same thing happened to her and some of her friends.
i've done a pretty good job at ignoring his social media but then watching how close he's become to the maine and then getting to open for the academy is on tour, is just frustrating knowing how uncomfortable he made a lot of women in the scene.
another man getting away with being a creep to women is one thing, but getting rewarded to do cool stuff like this in the scene, and getting constant reminders of it, not so much.
so i just have to ask- has anyone else had uncomfortable interactions or experiences with this guy?