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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…
Stories from the Air, Flying Some of the Biggest Rock N’ Roll Stars of the World…
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 !!!!!