By: Leeza Photo Credit: Warners
It seems that Disturbed and The United Center can't agree on what happened to the Chicago Bulls' championship banners.
Disturbed drummer Mike Wengren has gone against The United Center's statement released on March 14th, which claimed the band's pyrotechnics were responsible for minor damage to the banners.
Wengren denied the band was responsible, stating:
"That's actually false. So one of the stagehands ran with the story and now it's turned into something...We didn't burn anything. If you think about the size of it, even it you watch the show tonight, you'll see how high it is. We have extensive pyro and the flames are very high, but it gets tested every day. The fire marshals look at it...Everybody looks [at it] before [the concert] during the day. There's no way we could come even close the the banners. So it's bullshit."
Wengren continued:
"It's frustrating for us. Because on one hand, the fan perspective is, 'Wow, their pyro is that incredible, so I've gotta see the show,' so maybe that's kind of cool but then the other hand is as we're continuing on this tour with the same show, every building we go into is now nervouw about us causing damage to their building. We're big sports fans, especially myself. We were at the game last night. We would never be disrespectful to anyone's building. We are hometown Chicago boys. Why would we desecrate our own team? It's ridiculous. Today, for example, the marshals tested everything. But this building is actually very smart; they have a system where you just have to press a button and the banners roll up. So there's a safe [way to deal with it], but some of the buildings don't have that."
The banners that were damaged celebrated the Bull's championship from 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998.
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