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To pair with my post on the album.

I always heard this is what sparked MTV Unplugged but I guess that was already in development.

I removed the Slaughter post I made because I found the full show. This was filmed at Irvine Meadows on May 19 and aired as the first episode of the series on June 7.

This was produced by Bret too. And for the few people who don't know, Susie was the girl in the "Fallen Angel" video.

Like the post I made on Larry Morand, this is from a 2000 Metal Sludge interview:

Give us the best story or encounter you had with: Axl Rose, Lars Ulrich, Nikki Sixx, Gene Simmons.

Axl - On my 34th birthday in 1990, he showed up at my house in Culver City with Sebastian Bach and Ian Astbury. Maybe a dozen close friends were hanging out and in walks this trio of rock stars with Del James. Axl and Bas sang “Amazing Grace” in my kitchen. But the highlight was when Axl pulled his BMW into my backyard carport, open the car doors and cranked the basic tracks of “Use Your Illusion.” There were no vocals on anything so he sang along with the music to “November Rain”, “Estranged,” and others. It was amazing. The neighbors were gathering around my back alley. Axl and Bas left my house pretty drunk around lam. Five hours later, they were calling Howard Stern. He put ‘em on the air live. It was hilarious.

Lars - Read “The Memory Remains” article at KNAC.COM. It’s about my life with Metallica. Okay, here’s one I didn’t put in the piece. A few months before he married Skyler, Metallica played Las Vegas. I think it was ’97. I flew in for the show. Backstage afterwards, Lars was in the mood to frolic and Elektra Records promo girl, Margie Weatherly, was there with her company credit card. We ended up at Olympic Gardens, the Dionysian strip club where like a 100 girls walk the floor day and night. Lars was like a lightning rod; the girls could smell his enormous wallet from across the massive room. I’m not much of a drinker but that night I went deep. When we left, the sun was coming up and I felt like shit. But I didn’t spend a dime. Oh yeah, one more quickie: I rode in the car back from Donington, England, to London (about four hours) with Lars and King Diamond. The two spoke another language the entire trip.

Nikki Sixx - Motley Crue did a surprise show at The Ritz in New York while on the Dr. Feelgood tour. The place held like 700 people and they completely smoked it. Everyone was in a great mood after the gig so I invited Sixx up to my room to rap. I hadn’t interviewed him before so this was our first on the record conversation. We sat on my floor, I turned my tape player on and off he went. It was effortless. The drugs, the violence, the music. Like magic. Instant trust. It was one of the best interviews I ever did and led to the feature, “Where the Crue Sweats,” a piece I’m particularly proud of. The belly of Motley’s beast was breathtaking to behold, and they let me in with no filters or barricades.

Gene Simmons - I’m out on the KISS/Slaughter tour back in ’89, I think. We’re in Worchester, Massachusetts. Mark Slaughter and I go in the pit during KISS’s set and Gene is flinging picks at us. The crowd around us gets excited about Mark and all of a sudden, we’re getting crushed up against the stage. Gene is looking down laughing. After the show, I’m backstage and Gene asks me how I’m getting back home to Los Angeles. I told him I had a flight in the morning out of Worchester. He gets on his walkie -talkie and calls his tour manager. “Hello, this is Gene.” A pause and he says to me, “Ever been on MGM Grand?” I shake my head “no” as a voice comes through the walkie talkie, “Go ahead, Gene.” “Lonn Friend is flying home from NY with us tomorrow. Book him a seat with me and Paul. And he’ll be riding in the car to NY with us in the morning.” I just stood there and said, “Cool!” The next day, I spent 10 hours with Gene, in the car from Massachusetts to NY and on the plane home. It was the foundation of a long relationship. There was nothing this man couldn’t talk about. He had an opinion on everything. Still does. He’s a remarkable man.

This was from a Metal Sludge interview in Dec. 2000

MS: This is going to involve a bit of writing on your part, but tell us a good story about each of the following bands you have worked with:

Vince Neil: We were starting a tour in Wyoming somewhere...We fly in on a G4 private jet, limo to a club the size of a corner bar, have two buses and a truck there. After the show the band and I took the limo back to the private airport, got aboard our jet and flew to Denver...What a way to travel..pizzas and a movie, made last call in Denver...and all I could think about was we just played a club and what the hell am I doing on a private jet.

Ratt: It was the 1st show back when they re-united, I think we played Albuquerque and the band was awesome! They rose to the show, about 3000 people in this hall, Merch sold out before the band hit the stage..RATT was on cloud 9! We left afterwards and drove over night to the next city , on the way out of town Blotzer was hammered and feeling like a king...."Man, we are back, that show was awesome!!" As the guys opened the second bottle of Capt. Morgans, I kept thinking, you guys are not 22 anymore...slow down and pace yourself, we have a LONG tour ahead of us. The next morning as I was getting the guys off the bus at the hotel...Blotzer looked like he was seventy years old, white as a ghost, moved like he needed a walker...I think he stayed away from booze for a few days..

Slash: Partying with the AC/DC crew. They made these things called "Liver Transplants", we took over the hotel bar at the Woodlands in Wilkes Barre and the next show day nothing but nightmare stories going around about our bands behavior, and how AC/DC did not want the crew to hang with us anymore..LOL!

XYZ: Here is one for the "Trailer Trash" chapter: We were doing an "all ages" show in S. Carolina, after the show was done we were doing a meet and greet by the bus. Terry (vox) comes up to me and asked if he could bring this "chick" on the bus for the overnight ride to the next gig, I told Terry that we had a rule : No riders unless they are goona do everyone! She looked at me and said "I never!! All I want to do is ride and party with you guys". To shorten the story...I told Terry and the "chick" several times "NO", finally I caved and we left ( a quick note: this "chick" showed up with her son (3-4 yrs) which she sent home with a friend..). Anyway, 45 minutes into the journey I notice there is only Marc, Paul and myself in the front lounge of the bus...so I walk back to the feared and dreaded "back lounge", there I found the "chick" ( who only wanted to "Party with us") with a dick in her mouth, one in her pussy, jerking one of the crew off...basically a XYZ gang bang. I look at the "chick" and go..."yeah you really are partying with us now". I left went up front and laughed about it with Marc and Paul. ( note: made the "chick" clean the bus the next day...and how about leaving your kid to go get gang banged on a bus????)

Rough Cutt: There are so many...So little time. I just laugh now everytime I see Amir in Orgy, and think "I wonder if he gets pissed everytime someone comes up to him with a RC album to sign?"

Warrant: Here is a later day Warrant story. So the guys and I are tooling down the some highway in Iowa and the OJ verdict is about to come down on court TV, all of a sudden our driver goes..wooaaaa!!! fellas hanger on!!! We come screeching to a holt ...BAM!! I come running up with Scary Larry ( the guys real name is John-go figure) and the driver , all three of us run off the bus to see our trailer half off the road and smacked up on the bus. our driver tells us how the axle ripped off and a two of wheels flew off and actually passed the bus!!...So in Iowa, on the side of a highway we sat til a wrecker came and got us....and that is where we watched the OJ "Not guilty" verdict.

Cold Sweat: They were still Ferrari, and playing the Whiskey, George Lynch comes to the show and heckles the band all night from the balcony ( "Oni!! you want to drive a Ferrari or be in a band called Ferrari!!"). After the show, george got a bit more agressive and confronted Mr. Ferrari and Wendy Dio. Watching this build and get nasty... I could not stand there and let Marc get smacked so I jumped between them....long story short they threw George out of the Whiskey. A week later Oni was in Lynch Mob.

Loudness: We were playing in the South somewhere and my brother was out as production manager...I remember these girls coming up to me and remembering me from another tour. They really wanted to meet the guys, and since these boys were way too shy ( and really did not speak english well) I decided to tell them to come back after the show and my brother would bring them back to our hotel ( was going to be a suprise for Loudness). SO after the show was done the four girls came back and I put them with my brother for safe keeping. I had the runner take the band and myself back to our hotel and let them start partying in a room. A bit later my brother shows up with the girls and I have him bring them to the "Party" room. Finally, after a hour decided to check in and see what was happening....I knock at the door, knock again, knock a third time ( I can hear all sorts of noise) the bass player answers the door ..In pumps!! Not only did they fit Masa, but he looked a little too natural in them. Anyway, I walk in and the band and their Japanese crew members are all kneeling around the bed with handfuls of bills in their hands. The girls are dancing in underwear and snatching up the guys cash...and agian there is Masa walking around the room in high heels...I had to make a fast exit before I fell over laughing! I was their favorite tour manager for about 2 weeks.

By the end of the year, this 2-disc mail order edition went Gold and the streamlined single-disc retail version went Platinum.

Guest starring Hanoi Rocks' Michael Monroe