Jonezen – CRAZY TOUR STORIES

In this Crazy Tour Stories segment, the hip hop artist, Jonezen, talks about some of his crazy moments from touring. You can check out the feature, after the break.

This was a few years ago when I playing with a group called Outta Control. We were in S. Lake Tahoe on tour with Swollen Members. The promoter that night was a good friend of mine, so he put me in charge of running the show. I was handling set times, doing sound check, all that.

To cut a very long story short, a bunch of guys were smoking weed in the bathroom of the green room right before Swollen’s set. Rob the Viking, their DJ, had just taken the stage and all of a sudden we start hearing this alarm. Rob’s looking at me like “WTF is going on”. I’m shrugging my shoulders as if to say I have no idea.

We are at the Mont Blu casino, in the showroom, there are 1000 people in the crowd, it’s packed and this alarm is going off. This goes on for a while, at least 10 minutes of trying to figure out what’s up with this alarm. Then, before I know it, hotel security, cops, firefighters, and the goddamn fire marshal surround me. They all circled me on the stage and we’re giving me the 9th degree. Keep in mind at this point Rob is still on the stage, the crowd is getting restless, the alarm is going off, and I still have ZERO idea what actually happened. It’s complete madness.

Finally, I figure out it’s a smoke alarm that went off due to a bunch of dudes smoking weed. These guys are all asking me where the promoter is, who was smoking weed, etc. I keep saying I have no idea (even though I can see his ass front row in the crowd). Finally, they turn the alarm off, but wouldn’t let Swollen back in their dressing room. One of the guys refused to go on stage until he could grab something from the dressing room. So, as if the whole alarm thing wasn’t enough, I had to convince hotel security to let this dude in his dressing room asap or else they were looking at 1000 very upset people. They let him in and they took the stage, killed the show, and we all had a great night. But that shit was hectic!

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