Former Television guitarist Richard Lloyd, who left Pittsburgh at age 7 for New York, was excited to return home to play the Brillobox on the last night of his tour.

What happened instead was a show-stopping fiasco.

Tempers flared Saturday in the Bloomfield club when a fan of opening band The Gems walked on stage during Lloyd's set-up, leading to a shouting match. According to Lloyd, when a different female fan grabbed his arm, he gently pushed her aside.

Five songs into his set, there were loud accusations by the Gems and fans that he had hit a woman. "It was spreading like a virus," Lloyd says. "I was hearing this slander from the audience."

When Lloyd left the stage to talk with security, The Gems, who had supplied drums and other gear, started packing it up and the show was over.

Gems singer Cory Allen claims Lloyd "had this temper that was scary from the get-go."

Lloyd insists he was just trying to keep the stage safe and secure.

For more on the story, see the Pop Noise blog.