A while since I posted a diary entry, I’ve been in Europe Amsterdam - Paris - Hamburg - Download (I have no idea where it really is) and Gothenburg (another place I haven’t been since 1985 with Queen and Gary Moore) with Metallica and their HUGE show which was daunting at first then by Download it was a completely different show and I preferred the much bigger one. Download had a 110,000 people each night for two night it was like looking out at a never ending sea of humanity well heavy metal fans and it was freezing the first night and baking hot the second. I did book events in Amsterdam - Paris - Hamburg with Kirk and Rob from Metallica which I think went well really you need to tell me.
Def Leppard/ Motley Crue for the first stadium show in Sheffield someone hates me sending me to the North of England. Plus after driving there the police closed the roads and it took and hour to drive half a mile.
Spent a couple of nights with Johnny Depp which was nice and whatever anyone says he is a good person and a real friend.
The Jeff Beck tribute at the Royal Albert Hall - I spent the whole time in one of the dressing rooms with Ronnie Wood - Rod Stewart - Billy Gibbons - Kirk Hammett and John McLaughlin plus Johnny Depp as he came looking for me in the depths of the Albert Hall.
I thought the best artist was John McLaughlin and Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood were the ’SPIRIT’ of the event. As Rod said ‘Fuck it if it’s a mess lets enjoy ourselves’…..
This weekend I was in Graspop in Dessel in the middle of nowhere in Belgium. Def Leppard played, for me, the best show of the tour a real mixed crowd and it was quite baffling watching the crowd body surf to Love Bites and Hysteria.
I flew home from Belgium with Paul Cook -Billy Idol - Tony James and Steve Jones all on the same flight what a miserable day . I got back from Graspop at 3am up at 7am then queued up with thousands of people at passport control it took two hours then the flight went ’Technical’ which in plain English means it was broken - finally flew late afternoon got home early evening from a 40 minute flight.
