Flying V abuse? Jay Reatard hurls girl

Pub date January 28, 2009
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Sunday Bloody Sunday? Jay Reatard’s Blood Visions (In the Red, 2006).

By Andre Torrez

Jay Reatard used a tiny hipster girl as a lawn dart, hurling her into the crowd, not even paying attention to whether anyone was there to catch her.

It was a brutal act of pure unadulterated rock ‘n’ roll antics. Jaws dropped Sunday night, Jan. 25, when it all went down at the Independent. The wind of sound coming out of his Flying V guitar was disorienting and all, especially from my front and center stage vantage point, but I know what I saw, and believe you me, it wasn’t pretty.