Mr Efemy and Mr Welch
...friends of my brother, both working in the music industry and had done their share of hard graft and roadie-tasks as well as later on becoming respected sound engineers an producers.

At some time during the 90s they were interviewed by Q magazine for the 'roadie' experience, debunking myths and injecting a note of reality into life on the road.

When asked how times had changed from when they first started to how it was then, they mentioned that certain (unnamed) guitarists would get very upset with the least tiny knock of their precious gear, to the point that during a Meth-induced paddy they would scream, shout, spit and punch the ones doing the fetching an carrying. Where it had changed, in the mid 90s was when the recreational drug of choice became Ecstasy.

Apparently it was almost as unsettling when the same kind of twerps would bubble up to you while you were doing your job an keep on exclaiming "Wow, you're so talented, how can I ever thank you?' while hovering around and giving hugs.

Where getting rightfully pissed off can end up with you in heaps of trouble, however- a concert in Springfield when Skid Row were opening for Aerosmith, someone tossed a bottle which hit the frontman, Sebastian Bach, in the head. He grabbed a bottle and threw it back at the person who had lobbed it, completely missing and hitting a girl in the face- then proceeded to jump, boots-first into the audience to have at the original bottle tosser. Was then later charged by the Police for 'Incitement to Riot' which carried a rather hefty prison sentence of (potentially up to) 100 years....
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