Conference napalm::heavy_metal

672.0. "Spinal Tap Lives in Heavy Metal!" by COMET::FRISBYA (Love Bomb Baby) Mon Dec 30 1991 12:34

    Spinal Tap lives in Heavy Metal:
    
     Taken from Metal Edge without pemission...
    
     Back in the band Spectres, we had confetti rigged-a box and a fan-and
    the whole thing dropped on MY head.
       BRET MICHAELS,POISON
    
    I'm doing my drum solo and I'm playing real good , and my drum kit
    doesn't come down. I'm waiting, an eternity. I had to finish the solo
    on my other kit, making things up as I went. When things happen to me,
    they happen big time, like falling in the 'Talk Dirty To Me' video.
    That was real-RIKKI ROCKETT,POISON
    
    On the way to the show, I got picked up for outstanding parking
    violations and ended up in the San Francisco jail. I was late for the
    show, but did end up making it. TROY LUCCKETTA,TESLA
    
     They used to spell our name wrong in the magazines in the early days--
     Telstar, Tulsa. They never got it right. BRIAN WHEAT,TESLA
    
    
     This tour manager of ours had suites and we were in dumpy non-air
    conditioned sh*thole rooms. We fired him. FRANK HANNON TESLA
    
    England , 1984 tour, Newcastle. We couldn't find the stage.-Gene
    Simmons,KISS
    
    One time we were led to the stage door but it didn't go to the stage.
    Another time there was a collsion between me and Gene. Thank God it was
    in the dark. BRUCE KULICK,KISS
    
    During a gig in high school, I got hit in the head by the bass player's
    bass. I finished the gig with blood all over my face and was rushed to
    the hospital for ten stitches. Steven SHAREAUX,KIK TRACEE
    
     Getting hit by a water balloon on stage and having to jump up and down
    to avoid being shocked. GREG HEX,KIK TRACEE
    
    Using too short of a guitar chord at a show. When I went to make my big
    move, I pulled my whole amp off the stage. MIKE MARQUIS,KIK TRACEE
    
    I wore a brand new shirt during a gig at the Roxy show in Hollywood.
     Afterwards, I ran off the stage to realize the shirt shrunk four sizes
    on my back. The sleeves barely made it past my elbows.ROB GRAD,KIK
    TRACEE
    
    I was playing in a club in Texas and our light man  had mounted this
    police lighton top of my gong stand behind me. He didn't do it good
    enough--The thing fell off and hit me on the head in the middle of a
    song. JOHNNY DOUGLAS,KIK TRACEE
    
     During our last show of the 1984 European Tour, I threw my microphone
    up in the air and it never came down. I later discovered that the crew
    played a trick on me. They had rigged a fishing line so the mic just
    stayed up there. KLAUS MEINE, SCORPIONS
    
     This thing is huge....with lots of different bands.
    
       More Later!
                      Frizkid
    

    The time we left Erik at a truck stop in Joplin, MO. We figured it out
    200 miles later. He had to get a ride from a truck driver and fly in on
    a Cessna. JANI LANE,WARRANT
    
    At HammerJacks, opening for Britny Fox, I fell on my back during the
    first song and I counldn't get up. I'm looking up and everybody'e
    laughing at me. It was f.cked.JOEY ALLEN,WARRANT
    
    Being left at the hotel in Bismark,ND.
     Everyone thought I rode with someone else. I'm in my room going,
    Show's in 45 minutes. JERRY DIXON,WARRANT
    
    Wearing spandex in 1980...I couldn't afford anything else!JOE ELLIOTT,
    DEF LEPPARD
    
    When you goto your own concert and they won't let you in 'cause they
    don't know who you are. LITA FORD
    
    
    Ten years with Black Sabbath. OZZY OSBOURNE
    
    I was at the airport coming home from a gig and was stopped going
    through the metal detector. The scanner kept beeping on my zipper.
    KYLE KYLE,BANG TANGO
    
    Getting lost backstage--Joe LeSte,BANG TANGO
    
    Psycho Cafe tour, 1989-1990. KYLE STEVENS,BANG TANGO
    
    I fell off my drum kit. MICHAEL FOSTER,FIREHOUSE
    
    Going through the airport in SC, on the way to do demos with Slaughter,
    I said to C.J. as a joke, "I'm sure glad they didn't find my plastic
    explosives". A lady heard me and yanked me in the back room, and this
    big black guy strip-searched me. I'm lucky I made the plane.BILL
    LEVERTY,FIREHOUSE
    
    Perry and I played Minot, ND in a cover band about five years ago.  We
    played in a place called the Firehouse lounge for six nights to like
    ten people a night, 20 on the weekends. There was a pole right in the
    middle of the stage. It was winter and it was like 30 below zero. All
    the band and crew stayed in one hotel room. C.J. SNARE,FIREHOUSE
    
              Loads more.........
    
        Frizkid
    

    
    I gotta few of those from when I was with the Gorehounds...
    
    The time I was unloading at a show in Portland, Maine and I slammed a
    finger in the car door. Sat backstage all night with it on ice and then
    played.
    
    The gig at the Ranch House in Marshfield. Only 6 or 8 people there and 
    they were playing pool!
    
    Headlining the Rathskeller on Halloween night 1987. That was a
    highlight.
    
    Getting a flat tire on the way back from a show at 242 Main in Burlington 
    VT...and no jack and a car full of drum equipment. The first car to
    pass stopped and helped. It was out in the middle of nowhere! Then the
    next day with the small spare still on the car we had the
    simulcast/interview at WERS, and from there to WFNX. It made it.