12:49PM Jess McGuire | Big Day Out founder Ken West has spoken to New Zealand’s Sunday Star Times about some of his favourite rock and roll memories from the festival’s history, and along with some amusing stories about Kim Thayil of Soundgarden trashing hotel rooms and Ian Astbury of The Cult driving around the Gold Coast looking to replace expensive plastic chairs he’d thrown off a hotel balcony the night before, there’s an absolutely brilliant tale of Lars Ulrich and the backstage party that never was.
“… the funniest [story] I remember was with Metallica. When we signed them for the Big Day Out, they were in nervous breakdown territory, really, as you can see in the doco they made at that time (Some Kind Of Monster).”
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