1987 and my first meeting with LA Guns, how I became their road mgr, and the Hollywood Tropicana

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  • 1987 and my first meeting with LA Guns, how I became their road mgr, and drinking and getting wild at the mud wrestling palace The Hollywood Tropicana with Mick Cripps, Kelly Nickels, Brett Michaels from Poison and more!
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  • @robintaylor485
    @robintaylor485 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    That feeling of excitement when I saw a new upload from you on TH-cam my Wednesday just got much better.

  • @vwbusman64
    @vwbusman64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Another awesome story keep them coming!

  • @jacobcoughlin24
    @jacobcoughlin24 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I look forward to these every week always great stories!

  • @biggybum62
    @biggybum62 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Damn what awesome free fun. The decade of peak of human greatness!!!

  • @wyattsexton7083
    @wyattsexton7083 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love the story!! Keep them coming!! Hope you can get your book published. Would be awesome if you made an audio book!

  • @eddiet6872
    @eddiet6872 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Man!!....I really enjoy your storys!!...Keep them coming Bro!!....CHEERS FROM CHARLOTTE NC !!

  • @robertpavlicart1332
    @robertpavlicart1332 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh nice to see ya here..

  • @bcprzygo
    @bcprzygo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love it! Love it! Really brings us back to what it was like🤘🏼

  • @tombouchard9606
    @tombouchard9606 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for these great stories brother

  • @moebeanz
    @moebeanz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Man I love these videos, keep making em they're really interesting and entertaining

  • @sugarcandzplayz1876
    @sugarcandzplayz1876 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hi! I came from your instagram page! ❤

  • @christophersullivan8009
    @christophersullivan8009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great stuff! Love this channel!

  • @johnnilsson1311
    @johnnilsson1311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another great video! Keep'em coming, I was jonesing. This one was pretty funny. I can imagine Kelly and Bret laughing while you were getting a beat down.

  • @kurth4255
    @kurth4255 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great job as always.

  • @mattrock12
    @mattrock12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great storytelling. I enjoy being a fly on the wall (of sorts) and look forward to these episodes. Hope your book is eventually published!

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for the follow and the kind words 🙏

  • @maryfigliozzi2117
    @maryfigliozzi2117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best years! I hope you release your book.

  • @JesseClutch
    @JesseClutch ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Man, this is a really awesome channel , love all your stories man, really cool!

  • @timscimeca978
    @timscimeca978 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow! You've experienced what many fans only dream about. I mean, seeing Axl Rose in the early days.
    Im shocked yr book hasnt been published. And I have BA in English literature, so I can usually tell when a book is a good read.

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you 🙏 Getting a book published is like getting a record deal. Not easy!

  • @WhyTheHorseface
    @WhyTheHorseface 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great story, thanks for sharing.

  • @jcollins1305
    @jcollins1305 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Always cool stories! We had great friends in Queens that probably ran in the same circles back in the day. The oldest brother was a huge metal head. I was just a kid but simpler times indeed.

  • @emotionalhoe
    @emotionalhoe ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i came from your instagram page and you are a very good storyteller! love that bret was included in this story lmao
    i can totally see bret bidding on a mud wrestling competition or whatever

  • @coachsaldana5708
    @coachsaldana5708 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When are you going talk about your band Sweet Pain? That was a good album and it ended all too soon. I wish you guys would've hung in there. Just came out a couple of years before Guns, Poison and Cinderella hit.

  • @stephenblake2196
    @stephenblake2196 ปีที่แล้ว

    U lucky bastard! A DREAM JOB !!

  • @HistoryChannel1776
    @HistoryChannel1776 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You lived it !!

  • @Project-Jaden
    @Project-Jaden 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please please release the book in some form if you can’t get it published, I’ve been following this for a while now and I’m really looking forward to it

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I will do. Working on it. Thanks for the support 🙏

  • @robertpavlicart1332
    @robertpavlicart1332 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Seeing Axl live for the first time what was your thought about him and GNR? Did you imagine they would explode worldwide? Did you think to yourself : this guy is great this band will not go out unnoticed?...

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I did not although I knew axl was a ferocious front man and singer right away . Once I heard the song mr brownstone on a UK single in 87, I knew they were gonna be big .

  • @stevebarker4681
    @stevebarker4681 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Killer content. And story's about randy Rhoads. Savatage?

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No stories about Randy or Savatage unfortunately! Thanks for following me 🙏

  • @louisolachea1076
    @louisolachea1076 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Guns N Roses played three nights at Perkins Palace. I was there the first night with TSOL opening up (Junkyard opened the second night). Fred Coury of Cinderella filled in for Steven Adler on the night I went. Do you remember if he filled in for Steven again on the night L.A. Guns opened?

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I don’t remember. It was my first show working for the band and I had alot going on. I do remember there was alot of tension backstage!

    • @user-ty2xv6xw8j
      @user-ty2xv6xw8j หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes,,,,, I think I remember he did!

  • @teecuzbruh4058
    @teecuzbruh4058 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Man those 2 Circle Jerks records on Combat, particularly VI, were killer records. I put VI on par with Appetite For Destruction and LA Guns (technically first week of '88) as far as raw kick ass LA rocknroll from '87

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  ปีที่แล้ว

      Those records were great! Combat released some good stuff. Thanks for watching!

  • @layn3904
    @layn3904 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What are the duties of a touring road manager?? Have always wondered that. Thanks. Love your videos.

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for following me. Duties? Pretty much everything and anything. You are in charge of moving a dozen or more crazy people from place to place without losing any of them, paying for all the perks and mistakes along the way with a bag full of cash and hoping everyone arrives back home when it’s all over in one piece.

  • @jamiebeach3243
    @jamiebeach3243 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Did u ever hear anything from Axl being in La.guns or Tracey as the Guns in GnR? This would make an interesting video.

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes axl and I talked about tracii once. Might do a video on that . Thanks for following me 🙏

  • @vincentmessina3480
    @vincentmessina3480 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mike! The stories are great, remembering how all you slightly older (than me) guys were back then, always animated & unbelievable stories as they were happening then! Question: Wasn't there a bass player standing in for Kelly on that 1st AC/DC tour? I didn''t go to that show because I think it only came to Jersey...if I'm remembering right, who was it? I know they went out a few years later as a 4 piece with Mick on bass as well, that I saw...thanks, keep 'em comin'! 👊

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello! Yes mick cripps filled in on bass but that was later on the cocked and loaded tour. Def not the AC/DC tour . The whole first tour in 1988 Kelly was on bass. Thanks for checking in 🙏

  • @tomjames8268
    @tomjames8268 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The best!!! 😃 My fave dude out there right now. Btw Dec 27, 1987.. wasn't that the date of Nikki's od?

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was right around there. A day or so before or after . Maybe it was that day! I do remember people talking about the OD at the gig

    • @tomjames8268
      @tomjames8268 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@beforeiforget1985 it was actually Dec. 23... so yeah.

  • @dirtybeard70_Alivein85
    @dirtybeard70_Alivein85 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Back then anything that had the importance label I bought. Need a combat shirt. Ha. Stories are fucking awesome. Keepum kummin

  • @markmcintosh6968
    @markmcintosh6968 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Do you have any GNR stories?

  • @thrift-a-lotvintage5741
    @thrift-a-lotvintage5741 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Today Bret seems like a down to earth, fan-loving dude. Was he that way back then or was he different?

  • @dolphinzrwj1
    @dolphinzrwj1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Are you still friends with LA Gunns?

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sometimes . Thanks for watching 🙏

  • @ryanropers
    @ryanropers ปีที่แล้ว

    Which girl did you wrestle?

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  ปีที่แล้ว

      Who knows ! They all look the same 😂

    • @ryanropers
      @ryanropers ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@beforeiforget1985 Just wondering if it was Candy? You had several pics of her on your instagram

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ryanropers candy was a stripper not a mud wrestler. There are distinctions!

    • @ryanropers
      @ryanropers ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@beforeiforget1985 Candy from the Tropicana, friends with Tracii Guns

    • @beforeiforget1985
      @beforeiforget1985  ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ryanropers it was not her

  • @ryanropers
    @ryanropers ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What's your Instagram?