Guns N’ Roses might have been the biggest rock band on the planet at the time. The show would have been even better had Use Your Illusion been released before the tour so we knew the new songs, but it was still a great show. Too bad there was no encore due to a curfew and Skid Row playing an encore delaying the start of Guns N’ Roses’s set. I have a video of the show and it’s outstanding.
I can’t remember whether I volunteered or I was volunteered, but I ended up helping pack up after the show, and at some point I had a snare drum head and a stick from drummer. It sparked a lifelong fandom of Kevn Kinney, and a firm decision to never be a roadie again.
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In 1991 I was in LA with my family on Spring Break, and we got tickets to the Tonight Show, hoping to get Johnny, but we got Jay Leno. I remember the Pet Shop Boys covering U2, but I didn’t realize that one of them had walked off stage in the middle of the song, and I didn’t remember Jim Carrey being there until I saw the clip (and how awkward it was to watch what Shelley Winters was saying next to my mom). From Literaly (Pet Shop Boys Fan club magazine): “During the first song (“Where The Streets …”) Chris noticed -watching a monitor showing the broadcast -that he hadn’t appeared on camera once and, understandably miffed, walked off during the song. The people from the TV show refused to re-shoot the song and so the Pet Shop Boys refused to play their second song.”
