well I mean Madison Square Garden is you
know it's a brand that kind of exists
and rattles around the most-used
Americans heads you know and many
incredible things have happened you know
in there and it's just a piece of
history
so I mean Madison Square Garden is a
great idea it's the central hub of
Manhattan in the Greater New York area
and people understand it to be kind of a
pinnacle place you know every major rock
band in the world has played that menu
because it's the only venue of that size
of course you'd have to perform there
for a goodbye gig if you could fill it
should do it and also be told
I remember sitting down with James going
like James this if anything this really
felt like the end of the 90s because
everything DFA LCD to me had routed it
were things like post-punk
DIY culture and yeah I mean I knew I was
gonna see everyone again you know this
is just like one thing ending they did
it in such a way it's like these are the
three albums that's it this is closed
and there wasn't any missteps so it's a
pretty amazing body of work to have and
you know this is a really cool thing
that it was like you know we did these
three albums he's are great and we're
done I like that idea
I think it's I think a lot of bands
should have done it I think everything
changes everybody changes constantly as
you grow older as you have experienced
more and whatnot it makes sense to me
that you know you sort of put you sort
of close the door on that and leave it
at its prime basically he left on a high
he's decided that okay I've done
everything I need to do here I'm gonna
go and do some other stuff it was
absolutely the best gig of everything to
you
and it meant something everybody was in
a great mood you could tell he was
really emotional everybody knew the
songs absolutely just superb it feels
like that the feeling that you have like
for like your last prom or something
like that because that's really the
theme the theme was really very prom
like you know the whole thing the black
and white thing in a nice suit I mean I
think that was kind of the idea behind
it the last dance
I feel like a giant celebration I can't
imagine someone not feeling like they
got their money's worth out of that well
I remember us in a large group on the
subway to go to Madison Square Garden
and I think as we got closer like you
would see more groups of light and I
remember getting off the Madison Square
Garden into like we're all funneling
into this one place I get just yeah so
great that's pretty exciting to saw
these thousands of people in black and
white and and tell you make those kind
of people dress up for something is
there's a nice thing you just like you
type like everything there's a paid
stuff that happens right before that
everyone went swati nuts I think I've
got kicked in the head and it would just
it just felt like a bomb of god you just
knew that the people wanted to be that
it goes everyone they're just like out
of their minds and it just it feels like
you're really watching something special
and and we kept saying owie we got to
get on the floor we gotta like get down
there and just get in with all these
people I was with my friend Jason during
yeah and he was just like this is the
last time they're gonna do this song is
like a song where everyone goes crazy
like we can't be going up crazy here
like in the seats like let's go down and
Aziz had never like you know busted
through a barricade or and he kept
saying I really want like Kratzer I
really want to get up there and do that
and I gave him I think like the I would
say the most razzing speech that I've
ever given but probably the only like
rousing speech that I've given in my
whole life and I just looked I was like
look like this is the only moment in
your life that this will happen you will
never be at this moment again we have
one shot like empty your pockets into my
jacket and we were going down there
right now and he like he's like alright
we got past one barricade
and then got grabbed and these like
giant security guard I just felt these
arms come around me and I was like okay
I'm done I see Aziz in the corner of my
eye and he has like one foot over the
barricade and the guy holding me he goes
to grab Aziz and just buy him loosening
his left arm I slip out under his arms
and jumped over the thing and then help
disease get over I didn't even have a
chance to like think about anything and
then like some other people like poison
me other girl she had Aziz and they like
lifted me up and before I knew it I was
like crowd surfing and it was insane it
was so so bizarre I'd never done that
before it never had any desire to do
that I always thought it would be a bad
idea but it was actually super farming
was the base of everybody there these
guys just like the static exactly how
everybody was pretty much the whole
entire night alone other people about
that same way
you