Anybody ever go backstage at a show?

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I got to hang Side stage. With the Misfits. Marky Ramone was drumming. He got rushed off the stage by MIB the second the last note was played. Jerry Only stayed and signed every single last autograph and hung out with my wife and I for a while. Super cool dude.

I had backstage passes to slipknot with some friends but waited in the parking lot. Frign line was too long.
 
This was a good 20 years ago...
Blue Oyster Cult was playing at a small club. After the show my friend and I snuck around the back of the building to see if we could catch them coming out before they got on the tour bus. Unfortunately we missed them, but they left the back door of the green room open. We ran in, grabbed an unopened 6 pack and a bag of chips. My friend's running out going "we got Blue Oyster Beer!!!" LMAO!!!!
 
I got backstage after DLR band in St. Pete during ribfest. I've told this story here before. Backstage was pretty boring tbh and Dave tried to discreetly bounce out save for one d-bag fan who just about accosted him to shake his hand.
 
All access at a Stones concert on the Bigger Bang tour was the most memorable. Backstage behind the equipment as well as backstage where people are.
 
I’d hang out backstage at most of the shows at a casino I used to work at. The casino circuit is mostly legacy acts so nothing too crazy was going on though.
I had to fix Vince Neil’s air conditioner once and he was surprisingly super nice lol
 
No, and if I’m honest, I don’t really care to. I would enjoy checking out the guitar rigs, the PA gear, and seeing how everything is mic’d, cabled and routed for production, though. There are musicians I admire, but I don’t really care to meet them. I also don’t care about autographs or celebrity “trinkets”. Things like that are hero worship adjacent, which has always seemed weird to me 🤷
 
Does side stage count? Gary Holt from Exodus showed me and 3 or 4 other fans around his guitar pit area in a fairly small club in Toronto during the Shovel Headed Kill Machine era. Super chill and cool in person with zero pretension.
 
Dan Gleesak said:
I’d hang out backstage at most of the shows at a casino I used to work at. The casino circuit is mostly legacy acts so nothing too crazy was going on though.
I had to fix Vince Neil’s air conditioner once and he was surprisingly super nice lol
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In the 80s on the strip he was a quintessential douchebag. Probably a lot of popular artists get way more humble when they hit 60. lol
 
Backstage, no. But, I did have one really cool experience. Living Colour played my college, met Vernon right after the show. Their next gig was in my hometown after I went home from college, met Vernon again after the show and he recognized me. Super cool guy.
 
SatanicPanic said:
Backstage, no. But, I did have one really cool experience. Living Colour played my college, met Vernon right after the show. Their next gig was in my hometown after I went home from college, met Vernon again after the show and he recognized me. Super cool guy.
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I've got to meet and hang out with Eric Gales a couple times cause a mutual friend introduced me. He's a really nice, chill guy.
 
thegame said:
Does side stage count? Gary Holt from Exodus showed me and 3 or 4 other fans around his guitar pit area in a fairly small club in Toronto during the Shovel Headed Kill Machine era. Super chill and cool in person with zero pretension.
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Gary is the best. Slayer should let him write the music, not Kerry King and his lame ass 16th notes. Every fucking song sounds the same. Zero riffage.
 
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