This hilarious, sometimes horrifying, collection spans four decades and chronicles the craziest, druggiest, and most embarrassing concert moments in music historyтАФdirect from the artists who survived them.┬а
тАЬIn the midst of my insanity, I thought it would be a very romantic gesture to go into Fiona AppleтАЩs dressing room and write a message on her wall in my own blood.тАЭ тАФDave Navarro
From wardrobe malfunctions to equipment failures, from bad decisions to even worse choices, this is a riveting look into what happens when things go wrong onstage and off.
тАЬOzzy had a sixty-inch teleprompter with the song lyrics, and that got stolen, along with microphones, snare drums and cymbals. Our drummer at the time was stabbing people in the neck with his drumstick.тАЭ тАФZakk Wylde
No Encore!┬аis an unflinchingly honest account of the shows that tested the dedication to a dreamтАФfrom Alice CooperтАЩs python having a violent, gastric malfunction on stage to Lou BarlowтАЩs disastrous attempt to sober up at Glastonbury, from Shirley MansonтАЩs desperate search for a bathroom to the extraordinary effort made to awaken Al Jourgenson as Ministry was taking the stage. As Hunter S. Thompson famously wrote, тАЬBuy the ticket, take the ride.тАЭ
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тАЬI go to exit the venue, and thereтАЩs 25 people marching towards us. ItтАЩs about 3:00 AM, and they werenтАЩt there to be nice. They were carrying bats, boards, chains, hammers, and they were coming for us.тАЭ┬атАФDee Snider
Drew Fortune is a pop-culture journalist and screenwriter, who has been actively publishing for the past ten years. He is a regular contributor to Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Vulture, but his writings on music, film, and television have been published in Cosmopolitan, Playboy, SPIN, Billboard, the A.V. Club, Stereogum, and many others. His favorite bands are Ween, Superchunk, and the Replacements. He loves fly fishing and loitering in record stores.