Bands Gone Wild: Guns N’ Roses and The Riverport Riot

Once Upon A Crime

Esther Ludlow

Truecrime, History, True Crime, Crime, Criminals, Criminology, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In our first “Rocktober” episode of the month I’ll tell you the story of the Bad Boy of Rock and Roll - Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses. In July of 1991, Guns N’ Roses was on its 28-month “Use Your Illusion” tour when the lead singer got into a fight with a fan kicking off a 3-hour riot in St. Louis, Missouri. Guns N’ Roses would be banned from performing in St. Louis for years and face criminal and civil charges as a result. Resources: “Guns N’ Roses: The St. Louis Incident” https://youtu.be/1qVzAA-v3qM “Looking Back at the Riverport Riot” by David Durchholtz for Billboard, July 26, 2017 “Reclusive Rocker Breaks His Silence” Luke Bainbridge for The Guardian, Oct 25, 2008 “Axl Rose’s Tragic Real-Life Story” by Rob Smith and Brian Boone for The Grunge, August 30, 2022.

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0:00.0	This podcast details true crime cases. It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.
0:06.0	This episode contains explicit language. It is not intended for children.
0:11.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:13.0	Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime and welcome to the first episode of October or what we like to call around here,
0:31.0	Rocktober.
0:32.0	I'm going to be doing this and probably the subsequent
0:35.0	episodes in this series a little differently for a couple of reasons. As you might
0:40.2	already be able to tell, this is going to be a little bit more casual.
0:45.4	And the reason why it feels like it lends itself very well to this subject, which is
0:51.6	rock and roll mayhem. Rock and roll mayhem, rock and roll mayhem rock and roll stars rock and roll music
0:56.8	all kinds of music actually but I am a big rock and roll girl from way back a
1:01.1	lot of you guys who have been following the podcast for a while
1:03.6	know this about me. I was one of those people that spent my money on you know the
1:07.8	latest album that came out or a cassette or CD depending on your time of when you came up in your music loving days and was the one
1:18.2	that was always in line for the concert tickets back when you had to stand in line for concert
1:22.2	tickets and have been to see so many
1:26.4	bands anything from ACDC to Metallica Van Halen, Depeche Mode, oh my gosh I can't even think, so many, so many. I have a list, I have a list somewhere
1:39.6	of all the bands that I've seen, you know different kinds of music and I've had a great time.
1:44.9	I still do when I can catch some of my favorite bands.
1:48.2	Of course, the ticket prices have gone up a little bit, a little bit over the last 20 or 30 years which you know sometimes makes it
1:56.8	cost prohibitive the last concert I really wanted to see was going to be near
2:01.0	San Jose California my hometown was the Red Hot Chili Pe peppers because I have never seen them live and I could not
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