From what I remember the band had a crazy touring
schedule with the roadies arriving without sleep in the early morning of
the gig. It was clear from the very 1st minute that they were
completely out of their heads and with a schedule behind them with
hardly any sleep etc. – they were all exhausted and immediately started
looking for reasons to be able to cancel the gig, a kind of a cooked up
scam. The band was apparently in Amsterdam and we later heard from a
journalist/ band friend that Phil L. had overdone it and was not able to
perform. There were some phone calls between roadies and management and
as a result the band cancelled the gig because supposedly the stage and
PA were not in order – the same PA that had Bram Tchaikovsky and John
Mayall playing without problems. |