Skotosynthesis

I don't know if this incident has already been addressed here, but this shit cracked me up. You can see it knocked his guitar out of tune so bad he couldn't even finish the solo and had to hand it off to a roadie for a replacement!

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Skotosynthesis

...and here's an alternate angle with slow motion repeats!

Holme

Nevermind handing it to a roadie,he should have smacked that fat hairy bastards teeth out with it!

brp

Roadie did a great job of catching up and pulling the dude to the side just before impact to avoid him plowing Slash right into the crowd, with zero regard for his own safety diving headfirst off the front of the stage. Props to him.

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Alt Freak

He was even able to keep his hat on

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V-man

These Slash tone chasers have gotten so ridiculous that they've gone ****ing literal on his ass!!!





I give Slash some credit... he's approaching or into his early 50s, he's been dogged/hated by many (outside of his many fans), and the world changed on stage after Dimebag (at least with players of this level of fame). Either it happened so fast he didn't fully appreciate the circumstances, or he just handled it like a pro.

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Söulcaster

I hope that guitar didn't get damaged.....What a moron!

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TwinACStacks

Look closely. The attacker was EVH.

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Are we sure that wasn't you attacking him on that stage???

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mickeydg5

What I saw there was shit. I would be sueing the venue's ass off. I am sure those security people and company are collecting nicely and I witness a complete failure to perform.

The last time I saw something like this a great guitarist lost his life.

It is f'n sad.

willscott182

LOL, the commitment of the security guard who takes him down is incredible!

V-man

Probably a bad call based on the aftermath.

In order to sue, you need damages. The damages I see are a battery on Slash and damage to his guitar, (maybe a contract violation as well). If he didn't suffer psychologically from the incident, you have medical bills (minimal if any from the account) and property damage (again, not significant). The breach of contract probably has its own penalties.

So, based on the aftermath (Slash gets a jostle, and chips a guitar) what is the action worth? That is time and money pursuing a legal action with little worth recovering, and the relationship with the venue would be soured. If he was injured and other performances had to be cancelled, you have a different story.

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LesPaulopolis

I hope that dude got his @ss kicked. Zero respect for another individual gets you zero respect in return.

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Ya, no harm no foul but still, Mickey has a point nonetheless.

"Day Staff" used as venue security is always a concern. It can be very tough to have a zero failure rate as far as security breaching (in this case breaching stage security) but clearly there was a serious failure here.
Often not enough people are assigned to stage security and everyone hopes for the best in an effort to control costs.
And as Mickey said, it can be very sad sometimes like this instance. Slash was inches away from possibly very serious injury.

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V-man

No doubt. I don't know the biz, but my guess is the manager is neck deep in someone's ass and the promoter is falling over himself apologizing while taking care of any bump or bruise to person/property while Slash shrugs the whole thing off. Clearly someone REALLY dropped the ball. Gives me hope to do the same thing to Lars one day. What venue was that?

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You are correct. I got a little agitated when I saw that.
It is definitely breach of contract and hold them to highest order of penalty.
That incident could have easily turned out a lot worse and almost did. That is what I see and understand.
You are paying people to be ready and have expectations. That is what aggravated me. And you can bet Slash was and is pissed too.

brp

lol.
Lars once hit me with an ice cube in the crowd on purpose. He kept a bucket of them beside him and was whipping them at me to get my attention. I noticed a few go by then one finally hit me. I looked up and noticed him behind the drums targeting me about to throw another one and was like "hey you little ****er WTF?"

Yes no doubt a lot of apologizing and schmoozing going on after this one. Good thing it didn't end worse.
It looks like the LP headstock took a pretty good ding off the monitor though.

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Feeling Supersonic

Yeah the security guard did well, certainly committed. Looks like he flew off the stage too with the intruder. It could have ended up with a broken leg, back or neck but he risked it. Hope he's alright.

I couldn't give a shit about the lummox though - **** him.

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Hopefully the majority of his teeth are hanging from a string on the tourbus rear view mirror.

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4STICKS

Not the one I was lookin for, but it'll do. Here's how a seasoned pro handles this kinda thing.

Maggot Brain

To all the sue happy people in the world.

Its called reality, shit happens, if I go hiking and a bear attacks me, do I sue it? Going on the road, playing huge shows in front of humans of all the wild species. You can expect and know shit will happen, that's just life, that's how the world works.


So sick of everyone wanting to sue each other over life.

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4STICKS

Why sue, when you can just put their lights out with a Tele?

DirtySteve

I love that one! ...but in all fairness, Keef saw him coming.

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scat7s

huh? why? is there more to this story?

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4STICKS

DS, there's one of em play'n "Only Rock 'n Roll" that I was lookin for where Kieth Just cleans the dude's clock. But I'm buzzed And I couldn't find it.

scat7s

couldnt agree more, this is why athletes, superstars etc get paid the big bucks.

also, you dont sue the bear, you sue the park, town, and state...j/k

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If it's better than that I want to see it. I just did a search, but came up empty.

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4STICKS

Oh, It's waaaaaayyyyyy better! I'll try to find it.

V-man

Actually, the state and/or state/federal park will typically be covered by sovereign immunity, and an action against a town will be unlikely to be successful based on the property being "state/fed property" (see above) as well as the assumption of risk principles of tort law likely to eliminate one's cause of action.

The "Correct" answer is: carry a .44 magnum (or larger) pistol into an area with large predators, empty the cylinder/magazine of said firearm into the attacking animal, then prepare for the imminent arrest & lawsuit from the Wildlife Game Warden and Federal Government for killing a federally-protected species.

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mickeydg5

I should not have brought up that word or phrase. I am not SUE happy and I dislike lawyers, judges and courts very much. I meant it it terms of contractual obligations only. People should be responsible themselves and for themselves foremost, but should aslo be responsible for their obligations.

No shit does not just happen. Ignorance and stupidity does happen. A person should be aware of and be ready for anything. In this case the security company was being paid to handle that circumstance. I wish Myles would have seen it coming and put a boot to the guy's head.

Maybe it is just me, but I do not take the term "accident" as an excuse and "I'm sorry." is only words unless backed up and proven.

Glad you are ok Slash.
I hope the other security guys and people in the audience are ok as well.