SHORT TAKES : Halloween Prank Bared All During Billy Idol Tour Finale

SEATTLE — It was a Halloween trick all right, but was the sight of five naked men dancing onstage with rocker Billy Idol a treat?

Idol told the crowd of 14,000 at Seattle Coliseum he knew something would happen because Wednesday was the last night of the tour--the night band members traditionally play pranks on one another.

Not to mention that Idol had already had 600 dead fish dumped on Faith No More as they opened the show--in a soggy, smelly gag spoofing one of the band’s videos that shows a fish flopping on the ground.

When the pay-back came, Idol grinned widely as the naked men cavorted onstage in a conga line, wearing only masks or T-shirts over their heads.

Idol kept plugging away at his final song, “Got to Be a Lover,” until the bare band danced off, then blushed a little and broke out laughing.

Police were called in, but by the time they arrived the musicians had left the Coliseum and no one could prove who had pulled the prank, Idol’s publicist Rick Scott said.