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Members of the all-girl band MT-TV, have quite a history of performing nude and having sex with each other, and fans, on stage.

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Through the urging of Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner and police Chief Mike Navarre, the owner of a Toledo nightclub has canceled a planned concert by hip hop duo Ying Yang Twins.

In a Feb. 1 City of Toledo news release, Finkbeiner and Navarre said they were addressing concerns Bancroft Hills neighborhood residents had about concert goers, leaving the scheduled Feb. 13 Ying Yang Twins show at Gator'z Bar & Grill, 2567 W. Bancroft St., “intoxicated” and creating “disturbances.” Gator'z owner Michael Howard, the release said, elected to cancel the concert.

“There have been past incidents of violence after Ying Yang Twins concerts in other cities,” Finkbeiner said in the release. “They chose the wrong venue. We can't have the potential of violence in our neighborhoods, and Gator'z is in a neighborhood.”

Brian Schwartz, Finkbeiner's spokesman, cited a 1998 concert in Ottawa Park that featured Ying Yang Twins as reason to prevent the Gatorz show from happening. At that event, he said, concertgoers brought weapons and set off fireworks creating a “great deal of disorder.” Schwartz also cited an incident in Miami involving the group as reason the city urged Howard to cancel the Feb. 13 show.

Rock critic Dave Marsh, biographer of The Who, Bruce Springsteen and author of the book, “50 Ways to Fight Censorship,” said Ying Yang Twins are a pop group, not a hip-hop group, and the efforts to cancel the concert are “ignorant.”

“Are they policing after your hockey team plays? Are they going to police the drunks after the Super Bowl parties?” Marsh said.

“This is from an ignorant politician and bigoted cops who are not even listening to this music. It sounds like you have a mayor who likes to take the First Amendment and the Constitution into his own hands and rip it in half.”

Gator'z Bar & Grill near UT will host only rock music concerts to avoid problems with the City of Toledo, said Michael Howard, Gator'z owner.

“I guess the city didn't like the idea of having rap concerts here and decided safety was a concern, so I'm just going along with them,” Howard said. “Obviously they don't feel safety is a concern with rock music.”