this is probably gonna be long.. but it's funny
so anthrax is playing europe and we were staying at the Mayfair Hotel in london. We were all hanging out in the bar next to the front door when we saw a large group come in that included "Billy Idol". So we start yelling for billy to come to the bar. He checks in and a little while later comes in to the bar. So now this bar has all of anthrax AND Billy Idol. At some point some girl wants billy to sign... something. Apparently her boyfriend becomes jealous and after some chatter back and forth, he kisses billy on the lips. This gets things going pretty loud in the bar. Eventually it calms down until somebody from a group of suits and ties throws a shot glass that slams a pillar next to billy's head and showers billy and me and a few others with liquid and glass.(more damn glass throwing) That's when it got real loud. The barkeeper tries to shut down the bar, so billy and his guitarist at the time(not steve s) go behind the bar and start chatting up the barkeep. while he's not looking I convince billy to grab a huge bottle of Bacardi. As he's starting to walk out from behind the bar he drops the bottle and it clanks onto the floor which alerts the bartender. Billy immediately turns around and puts his arm around the barkeep and turns him away from the bottle on the floor. In the same fluid movement the guitarist walks away from the barkeep, bends down and picks up the bottle and walks out of the bar. It was poetry in motion. The old smoke and mirrors. Anyway, so the bar closes and we pile into the front lobby of this hotel and proceed to drink the bacardi. Everyone goes their separate ways and eventually we put together a pirate raid. Somebody grabbed a fire extinguisher and in the ensuing raids we get busted by hotel personel while trashing someone's room. We immediately claim we are with Billy Idol. Then bright and EARLY the next morning we see Billy checking out. Apparently the hotel asked him and his group to leave because of all the destruction that went on the previous night. billy hadn't done anything. It was us. And it was pretty clear that he had been woken up in order to be asked to leave.
years later i heard billy on a t.v. awards show, talk about the guy kissing him on the lips. I immediately said, "I was there."
so anthrax is playing europe and we were staying at the Mayfair Hotel in london. We were all hanging out in the bar next to the front door when we saw a large group come in that included "Billy Idol". So we start yelling for billy to come to the bar. He checks in and a little while later comes in to the bar. So now this bar has all of anthrax AND Billy Idol. At some point some girl wants billy to sign... something. Apparently her boyfriend becomes jealous and after some chatter back and forth, he kisses billy on the lips. This gets things going pretty loud in the bar. Eventually it calms down until somebody from a group of suits and ties throws a shot glass that slams a pillar next to billy's head and showers billy and me and a few others with liquid and glass.(more damn glass throwing) That's when it got real loud. The barkeeper tries to shut down the bar, so billy and his guitarist at the time(not steve s) go behind the bar and start chatting up the barkeep. while he's not looking I convince billy to grab a huge bottle of Bacardi. As he's starting to walk out from behind the bar he drops the bottle and it clanks onto the floor which alerts the bartender. Billy immediately turns around and puts his arm around the barkeep and turns him away from the bottle on the floor. In the same fluid movement the guitarist walks away from the barkeep, bends down and picks up the bottle and walks out of the bar. It was poetry in motion. The old smoke and mirrors. Anyway, so the bar closes and we pile into the front lobby of this hotel and proceed to drink the bacardi. Everyone goes their separate ways and eventually we put together a pirate raid. Somebody grabbed a fire extinguisher and in the ensuing raids we get busted by hotel personel while trashing someone's room. We immediately claim we are with Billy Idol. Then bright and EARLY the next morning we see Billy checking out. Apparently the hotel asked him and his group to leave because of all the destruction that went on the previous night. billy hadn't done anything. It was us. And it was pretty clear that he had been woken up in order to be asked to leave.
years later i heard billy on a t.v. awards show, talk about the guy kissing him on the lips. I immediately said, "I was there."
