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Joey is a kid's name and it's not nice to pick on children.

I find it a little funny that the OP's thread on Lovano sparked discussion while the Joey A one did not. 

A few months ago, Stereophile magazine published a piece on Andy Summers.  I found this portion of the interview interesting: Summers listens to a lot of music on the ECM label, he says. "There's an oud player on ECM who is amazing, this guy called ..." He blanks on the name. Anouar Brahem, I offer. "Exactly," he says, smiling. "I have at least six of his albums. A lot of the music on ECM has been huge for me. I almost got on that label myself, but it's led by a very strange man." He means label boss and producer Manfred Eicher, with whom he had a minor kerfuffle eight or nine years ago. "I recorded a beautiful album called Triboluminescence, and I recorded it right, with all the necessary care and musicianship. Someone I knew contacted Eicher and said, 'Wouldn't you like to put out this record by Andy?' And Eicher was interested, but he essentially said, 'You must come and record it again.' My feeling was, 'Fuck off, it's already done.' He felt he had to be in charge—could be a very German thing I suppose. I don't make records with someone like that. But I would've felt at home there, I think. ECM has super musicians like [Norwegian saxophonist] Jan Garbarek, so I thought, that's where I belong. But it didn't come to pass, and I'm not crying in my milk about it." (Full article can be found here: https://www.stereophile.com/content/policed-complex-simplicity-andy-summers)

A vicious reaction is when a customer follows the band out to the parking lot to tell them to get their shit together or else get ready for an asswhipping because they work hard all week and didn't pay their money to hear some raggedyass bullshit. That's a vicious reaction, although if we're being realistic, the asswhipping was only threatened, not actually delivered.