Skid Row Hi jinx

We got the highly sought after opening slot for the Skid Row show and we had the balls to put our name on the top of the poster, which looking back on it now is pretty comical.

This was a great show, Skid Row were starting to get really big and were touring with Bon Jovi at this time. Skid Row were playing with Bon Jovi the night before at BC Place stadium which holds 65 thousand people. They had a night off in Vancouver and decided to do their own show at 86 Street Music Hall which held about 1200 people.

I recall a few things about this show. One was arriving to sound check and Sebastian Bach was lying on a table all cocky telling Tommy that Steven Tyler was going to be watching his ass tonight "Aerosmith was in town recording at this time" I don't recall Tyler showing up later. We were kind of pissed off as they made us play two sets, which we thought was really dumb and took away from our show. We ended up splitting our set up and added in some Dolls and Rose Tattoo, AC/DC covers to fill it out. There were a lot of celebs there that night as I think it was Bob Rocks "producer" birthday. There was an allstar jam that took place at the end of Skid Rows set, Billy Duffy from The Cult got up, Nikki Sixx and Mike Reno. I was in our dressing room which was a changing room for the staff, I was putting on my gear when a guy walked in and asked if "this was Skid Rows dressing room?" I said no, they have the nice dressing room upstairs, then I was like "Holy shit!...that was Nikki Sixx!" The bar staff told us under any circumstance that we were not to have people outside of the band in the dressing room. No exceptions!

I ran into an old girlfriend of mine, that I ended up taking into the dressing room. We started messing around when some bouncer guy came in and started giving me shit for having someone in there. He then proceeded to kick us out the back of the club with me protesting about my gear and telling him, do you know who I am....in some half drunken stupor. So me and my girlfriend were stuck outside the club with no way to get back in to let my band mates where I was.

By the time the story got back to my band, it was completely distorted. Instead of getting kicked out for violating their rules, It was "Your drummer was caught doing blow in the bathroom" which was bullshit. The bad thing was Sebastian Bach invited our band into their after party in their dressing room, unfortunately when my mates went up to the dressing room and said who they were, the bar security gave him the supposed story of me doing blow and said they were not allowed into the party. Needless to say they were not pleased when they saw me after the show, until I told them the truth...they were still pissed though.

One cool thing that came from this show was my talk with Dave "Snake" Sabo. He was a really cool guy. We gave him our indy EP and he ended up passing it onto someone at Atlantic Records, which resulted in us doing a demo for them. He was a really classy guy.