Kinda ironic ... Tommy spoke about these issues just a few weeks ago.
Here's an audio interview with Tommy Stinson conducted by Preston & Steve on 93.3 WMMR in Philadelphia on Aug. 11th.
WMMR: Tommy, I gotta ask though. Over the years, and how many different shows you've played, there'd been times when I'm sure you've sensed an angry crowd and it's like "Oh my God, we gotta go out there and let it all hang out...."
Tommy: Two words: Piss bottles. When those babies start flying, I grab the mic and tell them to stop or I'm leaving. It's worked a couple of times. Luckily, I haven't gotten one in the head yet.
WMMR: Well listen, being in a band that Axl Rose fronts, I can imagine it's gotta be, like a wild card. You don't know what you're gonna get at any given time.
Tommy: That's the rock n' roll element of it though. I appreciate that from, obviously, from my days of The Replacements and things like that. I mean that band was no different really in a lot of ways. You just didn't know what we were gonna do, we didn't know what we were gonna do and we kinda went with it. Although it's a lot more fun when you're in your twenties... You know.
WMMR: I would imagine at some point you just have to accept his kind of... erradic nature...
You're at the gig, you're in gig mode, you're ready to play. And he's not there, and you're waiting and you're waiting and you're waiting. And you can either get really tense and upset and angry about it, or you can just sit back and go "well, the show doesn't go on until he gets here and I'll just wait and do it when that happens".
Tommy: Yeah the thing with that is though, you don't want him to go on until he's ready. Trust me. When he's ready to go on, chances are pretty good that it's gonna be a pretty good show. But if you made him go on before that, all bets are off. You don't wanna push that.
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