welcome to watch
mojo and today we're counting down our
picks for the top 10
craziest tour stories in rock music
history
i was really lucky really i suspect they
could have put me in prison you can't
hide
you can run but you can't hide jane oh
mommy that's the craziest story i've
heard in a while
for this list we'll be ranking memorable
alleged instances of bad behavior from
rock bands while they're on the road
they say what happens on the tour bus
stays on the tour bus
but these stories were just too infamous
not to get out
when you think of bad behavior who's the
first musician that comes to mind
let us know in the comments
number 10 billy idol's time miss
adventure
hotel rooms and rock stars seem to be
intrinsically linked when it comes to
tales of debauchery
as such you can expect to be spending a
fair amount of time in hotel rooms as we
go through this list
starting things off in style is 80s icon
billy idol
the former generation x frontman and
rebel yell singer
indulged in both flesh and fantasy
during an epic three-week bangkok bender
he allegedly racked up a hotel damage
bill to the tune of nearly a hundred and
fifty thousand dollars
so insistent was idle when it came to
having a good time
that time military personnel reportedly
needed to tranquilize billy and remove
him
forcibly from the hotel premises on a
stretcher i was really lucky really i
suspect they could have put me in prison
number nine led zepp and the tv sets
there's no getting around led zeppelin's
ridiculous reputation for the rock and
roll lifestyle
from guitarist jimmy page's
controversial affair with
groupie laurie maddox to the very not
safe for this list [ __ ] incident
the band was for a time hedonism
personified
the particular incident making this spot
though involved the band's return to the
edgewater hotel
in seattle from where they'd been
previously banned
they somehow booked five rooms while on
a us tour and decided to do something a
bit different with the edgewater's
famous
fish from your hotel windows selling
point they decided to chuck every single
tv they could find into the pudget sound
just for kicks
because that's what rock bands are just
supposed to do right yeah let's say
they've been banned for a couple of
reasons in fact i believe they've been
banned twice but we still have
some of them come back as regulars
number eight the demon scrapbook
have you ever kept some personal
reminder of a prior relationship that
ended prematurely
how about a scrapbook containing every
illicit encounter in your life
that's exactly what kiss bassist gene
simmons did
during the band's 1970s and 80s heyday
documenting documenting documenting you
can't hide you can run but you can't
hide jane
oh mommy the demon is said to have kept
polaroid pictures from nearly 5 000
reported groupie sessions over the years
that is until jean's wife shannon tweed
reportedly asked for them to finally be
burned
why don't i just kill my career right
now
according to the sun in 2016 he and
tweed got together and had a ritual with
the burned picks
kissing them off for good number seven
marilyn manson foots the bill
have you ever had an accident in a hotel
and had to pay a fine for something you
broke
we're guessing it was something like a
hundred bucks or so god damn
look at this place i know
phil they have my credit card downstairs
i'm so screwed
now imagine what kind of mess one would
have to make to be charged a whopping
25 grand shock rocker marilyn manson and
his bandmates supposedly did some
serious damage in 1998
when they went on a multi-stop rampage
first they trashed the dressing rooms at
the mid hudson civic center in
poughkeepsie
where they were playing prompting the
fire department to be called
later they moved the destruction to
their hotel suites at the sheraton
setting fires and staining their
bathrooms with hair dye
manson eventually did offer to pay for
the damage however
so there's that number six all
in the family with avenged sevenfold if
you've ever wondered why parents and
touring rockstars shouldn't mix
here's a pretty compelling argument
avenged sevenfold were riding high in
2005
while promoting their breakthrough city
of evil lp on the warp tour
the band's guitarist sinister gates told
loudwire his story in 2018 about this
particular tour
and how his dad decided to come along
for the ride since pop began
fraternizing with the band's bassist
johnny christ and couldn't for the life
of him figure out why the rest of the
group always made johnny the butt of
their jokes
well daddy gates found out first hand
because johnny christ gets drunk and
pees where he shouldn't
specifically on the shoes and face of
his new friends
gross that's the craziest story i've
heard in a while so now he's on our side
he's no longer here
number five moon the loon
the who drummer keith moon didn't earn
the moniker of moon the loon for nothing
this talented skins man was an absolute
wild card
with a resume of offenses that perhaps
earns him a top 10 list of his own
for starters moon's penchant for hotel
craziness reportedly got the who banned
from
every holiday inn maybe it was that time
he allegedly drove a rolls-royce into
the pool
that became a bit like televisions out
the window that became a sort of
very much part of drumming law
furthermore moon
infamously passed out during a
california stop on the quadrophenia tour
after imbibing an unwise mixture of
horse tranquilizers and brandy
the who actually ended the night with an
impromptu guest on drums
scott halpen a fan from the crowd who
was invited on stage to finish the set
number four zz top loses a buffalo
picture this an epic crisscrossing
american tour for blues rocker
zz top with the mission of bringing
texas to the masses
sounds like a good old time right maybe
but it also has the makings of a perfect
storm
a whole lot of chaos and one lost
buffalo
you see the top were determined to make
the worldwide texas tour as authentic as
possible
to the point where live animals were
transported from venue to venue
buzzards dogs rattlesnakes the works
it was the sort of hot mess that could
have only taken place during the 1970s
and sure enough
at a stadium show in pennsylvania their
buffalo apparently got loose
and damaged the field where the
pittsburgh pirates play
number three led zeppelin and their fans
enjoying
ancient greek tragedy led zeppelin's
here again
this time with a little class well maybe
you could describe it that way
if mixing sophocles with physical
intimacy is what you'd call having a
good time
we're not sure if jimmy page was just
being cheeky or if there's any
truth behind this tale but given led
zepp's ridiculous reputation
we're not putting it past them for a
minute a 2015 post from buzzfeed
featured a quote from paige documenting
the time when
surrounded by groupies the band decided
to instigate an off-the-cuff reading
from sophocles
greek tragedy antigone you know as one
does
according to paige quote for a bunch of
half-naked amateurs
we knocked it out of the park number two
no brown m ms for van halen next up is a
double dose of van halen
we were tempted to include david lee
roth's reported
game with crew members apparently he
gave a hundred bucks to whoever brought
him the groupie he spent the night with
instead we're going with something even
more infamous
the brown m m's my shell is brown it
just looks like my milk chocolate is
showing
only a fool would they gotta actually
show up naked the band specified on
their rider that absolutely no brown
iterations of these candies were to
appear backstage
but this wasn't just an example of a
band behaving badly
this was there to make sure each
promoter read the rider carefully
because van halen's equipment was heavy
and could cause
injury or destruction if not properly
secured
if i came backstage having been one of
the architects of this
lighting and staging design and i saw
brown m
m's on the catering table then
guaranteed the promoter had not read the
contract writer
and we had to do a serious line check
unfortunately this actually happened at
a tour stop in colorado with a stage
collapse reportedly resulting in over 80
thousand dollars in damage
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number one where's ozzy good evening
ozzie what good evening
ozzie hello there hey are you looking
for a
crazy ozzy osbourne story take your pick
there was that time where he supposedly
snorted a line of ants while on tour
with motley crue
though ex-osborne guitarist jake e lee
claims it was only one spider and not
ants
or that infamous time he relieved
himself on the alamo or rather on a
monument across from the building
we would be failing coming to texas and
not no i forget but
i'm i'm obviously i don't know no
honestly what do you think's the worst
that could happen
get shot of course there's the infamous
bat biting incident
but perhaps less well known as the time
ozzie missed a gig with black sabbath
while on tour in 1978.
well it turns out that oz actually
missed a couple of days
never even making it into his booked
room at the hotel the singer ended up
passing out in a room that wasn't his
sleeping for over 24 hours before waking
up and asking when they were leaving for
the gig
better luck next time ozzy do you agree
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