1987.09.13 - Bronco Bowl Auditorium, Dallas, USA

Soulmonster wrote:Duff, talking about life on the road and mentioning a show in Dallas which could be this or the December 4, 1987 show:

Duff: "It's gotten bad at times. In Dallas once we almost got arrested, and we had to pay like $3,000. We tore all the doors off our rooms, and there were a lot of local kids around" [The Burlington Hawk Eye, April 28, 1988].

Blackstar wrote:

Soulmonster wrote:Duff, talking about life on the road and mentioning a show in Dallas which could be this or the December 4, 1987 show:

Duff: "It's gotten bad at times. In Dallas once we almost got arrested, and we had to pay like $3,000. We tore all the doors off our rooms, and there were a lot of local kids around" [The Burlington Hawk Eye, April 28, 1988].

Slash has mentioned this incident in his book:

Another time when we were in Dallas, Duff and I had adjoining rooms connected by a door and we invited over too many friends with piles of coke. Our party lasted all that night and well into the next afternoon. Things got out of hand, of course, and a big glass coffee table got smashed, and I walked all over it barefoot and bled everywhere. At some point someone kicked the dividing door off the hinges and tipped the beds over and smashed all of the lamps. There were too many of us behaving badly for Ronnie [=Stalnaker, Slash's security guy] to deal with, so he came up with a plan to get us out of the hotel without the management noticing. He somehow herded us into a service elevator and snuck us out of a loading dock and onto the bus. The hotel had heard all of the noise and was very aware of the party going on, but Ronnie had kept security out of there somehow for an hour or so. We thought we’d gotten away, until the cops pulled us over a few miles down the road at a convenience store where, if memory serves, I’d actually just stolen a bunch of candy. We were lined up against the side of the bus and taken in for trashing the hotel rooms. It was expensive and I can say in all honesty that it was the last time I’ve ever really destroyed a hotel room. Sure, I’ve been through a couple of TV sets and done a few other stupid things since, but that was the last time I engaged in total annihilation because I got the bill for that one. [Slash's autobiography, "Slash", 2007]

Blackstar wrote:No, he doesn't.

Soulmonster wrote:I wonder what that reference to "underage girls" is about.

Blackstar wrote:

Soulmonster wrote:I wonder what that reference to "underage girls" is about.

Yes, I wondered about this, too.

I would guess (provided that the French translation is accurate) that probably Slash had sex with underage girls and then management had to pay off the parents or something to keep him out of legal trouble.

Soulmonster wrote:

Blackstar wrote:No, he doesn't.

Another mystery!