Tour Story - By Joe Elliott In 2000

"We were young and we were very accommodating as an opening act. They gave us one light, we didn't ask for two. We didn't fight with any of these bands - we did fight a few times with Blackfoot, but most of the time it was with the production manager.

Blackfoot was a really strange bill. It was the only bill going that summer and you talk about wrong... Southern rock boogie band and this glam, pop metal, British scalliwags. When we went down South, talk about a mismatch. It's like the ex-boyfriend turning up at the wedding. It was really not a great bill for us because there were all these "Ya-hoo" cowboys looking at us wearing red spandex trousers and whatever the f*** we were wearing. We were these fag English guys, you know. It was a weird tour. They had a brown P.A. and I could never get my head around that. I mean, black. Edgar or Johnny Winter with a white one, yeah, that's a statement, but a brown one. It was like some radio from the 1940s. It was old, falling to bits. The band was great but the whole production was so Mickey Mouse. Ozzy was a lot more fun."