The Faint is not for the faint of heart, apparently.
Well, touring with No Doubt has it's consequences. From the Omaha World Herald newspaper:
"Omaha new-wave band the Faint showed a little too much flesh during the last night of its tour with pop superstars No Doubt - a move that landed lead singer Todd Baechle in an Albuquerque, N.M., jail on public nudity charges Monday night."
To read more of this admittedly funny and absurd story, click READ MORE. Also, I find it amusing how the new No Doubt song sounds like the Faint. Anyway. If you want more info on the Faint, go to TheFaint.com, and if you want to read a review of the Faint's most recent masterpiece, "Danse Macabre," click here.
After some male members of No Doubt pranced on stage during the Faint's set wearing only G-strings, the Faint's Baechle, his brother and the band's drummer Clark Baechle and synthesizer player Jacob Thiele jumped on stage during No Doubt's performance wearing nothing but napkin loincloths and the Faint's logo stenciled on their bodies.
No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani, singing the band's breakthrough hit, "I'm Just a Girl," handed her microphone to Todd Baechle, who substituted the lyrics "I'm just a boy" and then exposed his spray painted private parts, Baechle said from his tour bus Wednesday as the band returned to Omaha.
"It was all in good fun. She played along. The band was not upset by the antics," he said.
Thiele exposed his buttocks, which had "ND" spray-painted on them, Baechle said. According to a press release issued by the Faint's publicist, the police report said Baechle "engaged in a lewd and inappropriate behavior as he danced."
Baechle was arrested by Santa Ana-Pueblo Reservation police and booked on one count of disorderly conduct and one count of indecent exposure. The singer was released three and a half hours later after posting $200 of the $2,000 bail.