I’m not sure how I feel about this.
I guess shit like that can’t happen anymore, given how scripted everything is, and how nothing’s really live, but I would have loved it if they’d sent him out to do Real Wild Child only to have him pull an Elvis Costello and launch into something decidedly less audience-friendly, like the 8-minute version of Search and Destroy that appears on the legendary bootleg Metallic K.O.. And I know that he’s an old man, but I would have loved to seen him rolling around in broken glass in front of the American Idol audience.
