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I guess Pete Wentz and crew
got a little too ambitious:
The day before their Folie à Deux album arrives instores, Fall Out Boy had planned on staging an impromptu concert in New York's Washington Square Park. The only problem? They didn't bother to obtain a permit to do so, which drew the ire of New York's finest.
So, while a crowd of hoodie-clad FOB fanatics — who had learned about the gig just the night before on Pete Wentz's blog — and a throng of rather confused onlookers milled about (not to mention Cobra Starship's Gabe Saporta and Alex Suarez), the band and their management haggled with the NYPD about allowing the show to go on. In the end, they were told that picking up any instruments would earn them a complimentary trip to the slammer, so they did the next best thing: They led the audience in a sing-along.
"This isn't looking good," Wentz told frontman Patrick Stump. "But let's try to do it anyway."
But that won't stop their hustle though:
And just because the gig didn't go off according to plan, Wentz wasn't discouraged. If anything, the whole incident left him determined.
"Basically, that just makes me want to do something even bigger, and I'm going to," he added. "I mean, I did a cover story with Out magazine, so part of me wants to spend a night in the clink."
Keep on striving Pete. Keep on striving.
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