Fact #126314

Pete Quaife (bassist, The Kinks] : The night we were in Taunton, Dave got invited to a party which meant that he would do as many drugs and as much booze as he could possibly shove down his throat. We decided we'd better get him out of the party before any damage was done. So we drive over in the car and literally dragged him out. He was furious. In the car he started fighting with Ray, and we kind of calmed him down, briefly, but at the hotel he went after the road manager, he was really out of his head. Then he went after the night porter, and we kind of broke that up. Mick and myself decided just to get away from it all, because the guy was going nuts. We ran up the stairs but Dave saw us and came running after us wielding a suitcase, and he threw the suitcase, this was up on the landing, and he hit Mick right on the back, wham! So Mick turned round and said, "That's it!" You know? And proceeded to just thump Dave to pieces. He was doing a lot of damage, but Dave was so whacked out he didn't notice.
(Source : not known)