Eve 6 singer pays for dressing like Adam

An alternative rocker's naked jaunt around his hotel lobby last week will cost him $514.

Max Collins, 24, of Studio City, Calif., the lead singer for Eve 6, was charged last week by Moon police with indecent exposure, but under a deal reached Tuesday before District Justice Shirley Trkula, Collins pleaded guilty to two counts of disorderly conduct, both summary offenses. He was fined $400 and ordered to pay court costs.

Collins thanked reporters who were at the hearing, and plugged his upcoming album and his next gig in Pittsburgh.

"I promise to keep all my clothes on at our show July 2 at Metropol," Collins said.

That's something police say Collins didn't do May 27, when he was arrested at the Crowne Plaza Hotel after responding to a directive to get dressed by showing up in the lobby wearing only some strategically placed shaving cream.

He had performed on Memorial Day at X-Fest, an alternative concert at P-G Pavilion in Burgettstown, and was staying at the Crowne Plaza in Moon.

Police said they got a call about a naked man in the hotel lobby, and found Collins, who is also the band's bass player, naked and sitting at a piano in the lobby. Police said he was drunk at the time.

They told him to go upstairs and clothe himself. He got on the elevator, but came back wearing only the shaving cream.

"Shame on you, sir. What's wrong with you?" Trkula said yesterday. Collins didn't reply.

Because Collins didn't flash children and since probation wasn't an option, the outcome to the case was reasonable, Moon Patrolman Doug Ogden said.

"He wasn't treated any worse, he wasn't treated any better than anybody," Ogden said after the hearing.

Collins' attorney, Stan Levenson, also agreed with the case's disposition, saying it called for nothing more than citations for disorderly conduct.

"It wasn't a matter of defending his behavior," he said.

Eve 6's third album, "It's All In Your Head," is to be released July 22. The band debuted with a self-titled album in 1998 that went platinum, selling more than 1 million copies. The band's second album, "Horrorscope," went gold, selling more than 500,000 copies.