Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

by Lizzy Goodman

And then they go out and Letterman was like, “Here they are, kids . . .” They play “Get Free” and by the middle of the song it sounds nothing like the single and Craig is just braying like a donkey and then they finish the song and he knocks over the cymbal stand with his guitar neck, and throws the guitar at the drummer. The drummer throws up his sticks like, “Fuck this,” and Craig runs onto the set and flings himself into the guest chair, then gets back on the mic and starts screaming. Letterman called them “troubled teens” and asked Paul Shaffer if Craig was all right. PATRICK MATTHEWS: Someone asked Craig about the Letterman performance and he goes, “Well, the buildings seemed really big in New York and I was a little bit homesick,” and that was his explanation for it. SARAH LEWITINN: Yeah, and later that night Craig was jumping in trash cans and pouring water on his head and running down the empty streets of the Lower East Side shouting.