Guns N’ Roses Big FD Tour
Use Your Illusion
It was late evening July 2nd, 1991 and I get this call from (one of) my airplane crew member, flying the “Guns N’ Roses” private aircraft, of which I had arranged and managed for their (#gunsnroses) ‘Use Your Illusion” World Tour (1st leg).
He goes… “Michael, we’ve got a problem on the road tonight and we’ll need some brilliant ideas to get out of dodge (St. Louis) without hassles.” Perplexed, I further learned what happened…
You see, on that July evening at the Riverport Amphitheater in Maryland Heights, Missouri, just outside of #StLouis, during a performance of “Rocket Queen”, lead singer, Axl Rose discovered that a fan was filming the show with a camera. After asking the venue’s security to take away the camera, Rose decided to take it upon himself, jumping into the audience and tackling the fan.
He had a heated confrontation with the fan before physically assaulting him. After being pulled out of the audience by members of the crew, Rose said, “Well, thanks to the lame-ass security, I’m going home!”, threw his microphone to the ground and stormed off the stage.
Ha!… could you imagine today requesting that you turn off your camera… [everyone in the stadium goes… WTF-Huh!?]. Amazing what just a decade can mean when it comes to the digital world regarding the capturing images.
Interestingly enough, the sub-title of this tour was… ‘Get in the Ring Mother Fucker’. [LOL!]
The bummer for me at that time was the fact that a good portion of the tour was cancelled, along with a decent portion of my income for this gig… But the experiences, can’t beat-em!
Read more in the Book…
I’m trying to think of the moral to this story
Michael I would like a signed copy of your book please….then I would like to see you make a movie out of the book also….maybe you would let me work with the post production peeps at the studio to cut the movie or maybe work as a producer to get all the right talent and crew together for you….you know I know many industry peeps that are still alive well mostly !!!!!