If Jack White of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs ever delivers you some fine Detroit cuisine before a gig, you may want to pass. Gasoline magazine reports Jesse Hughes, frontman for the Eagles of Death Metal, was forced to perform in Toronto after getting food poisoning from some spoiled pierogi that was exported by White from his hometown:
“Dude, I had botulism,” Hughes said. “Jack White bought pierogies in Detroit and brought them to the gig, and I ended up eating one far too long after it had expired. I ended up contracting mild botulism and sweating out of every hole, so to speak, for 12 hours. It was the worst f#cking experience I’ve ever had. But you can’t call in sick to rock & roll. I believe this with my whole heart. How do you do that?”
Hughes certainly doesn’t believe in calling sick for a rock show and he sure doesn’t believe in calling in anything: “My daddy used to say there are two types of rock bands in the world,” he said. “There’s the kind of rock band that just comes out and jacks off for everyone to watch and there’s the kind of rock band that comes out and fucks everybody in the room. I wanna be in the second rock band.”