the show was incredibly striking. J: The absolutely amazing thing, the sidestory about that show in LA? It's going in my memoir as I write it, it's amazing. We're up there in the dressing room, the audience is still applauding, asking for an encore, and Michael comes into the dressing room and yells at all of us! He says that we are the worst incarnation of the Swans that has ever been, and that we have embarrassed him in his home-town, since he's from LA. So he says all that and then he leaves the room! Wow! J: The entire band - and I am dead serious here - the entire band look to me, including Phil Puleo, the current Swans drummer, they all look to me and they said, 'Jarboe... what do we do? We are ready to fly home tonight and quit.' Every member of the band except Michael was in the room, and I said to Bill Bronson, the bass player, 'Bill, it's not about us, it's not about the fact that Michael just screamed at us, it's about the name Swans and that this is the final tour of this legendary band. We have to carry on and move forward, and we have to do the European tour.' The US tour came first, so without me, quite frankly, there wouldn't have been a European tour. I said, 'We have to move forward! Swallow your ego, swallow this, and move forward and do the best you can.