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During what has been described as 'the most depraved rock tour ever', Depeche Mode play at Deer Creek Music Centre, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, supported by Primal Scream. Full article:
Marc Elfenbaum (production manager, Deer Creek Music Center): That was quite some night. During Depeche's set, the guys from Primal Scream went out in the crowd and started firing off bottle rockets, which was very dangerous and would have got them arrested if our security guys hadn't managed to defuse the situation. At the end of the show, Dave Gahan decided to take a dive off the stage into the crowd, but it was a twelve-foot jump over a barrier, and he ended up going shoulder first into the seats which were fixed into a concrete floor. The security guys waded in right away to stop him being mobbed, then our first aiders stretchered him off to St Vincent Hospital.
Dave Gahan: I came away from that tour with two broken ribs, haemorrhaging from the inside. I mean, it was 180 shows. I pushed myself too far. My body was going on nothing. I landed on the crash barriers and cracked two ribs. It took me twenty-four hours to feel anything as I was so drunk. Next day I was in incredible pain. They wanted me to stay in hospital a while. I said. Look, I don't want to go into one of those places, I'd rather do this on my own. So I got a little cabin up in Lake Tahoe and just kind of disappeared. I was all strapped up for three weeks.
Andy Perry: Despite all the mayhem, the two bands seemed to get along really well. There was a lot of jamming together in hotel rooms, for example.
Dave Gahan: We had fantastic times, sitting up til seven, eight, eleven in the morning, with The Clash's Mick Jones yabbering on at me, going, 'You gotta eat! You gotta eat!'
Andy Fletcher: Dave should have been dead, honestly. I don't know how his body actually kept up with it. Four years on, we're all fit, healthy and a lot wiser.
(Source : interviews and research by Johnny Black, for Q magazine, 1998)
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Dave Gahan: I came away from that tour with two broken ribs, haemorrhaging from the inside. I mean, it was 180 shows. I pushed myself too far. My body was going on nothing. I landed on the crash barriers and cracked two ribs. It took me twenty-four hours to feel anything as I was so drunk. Next day I was in incredible pain. They wanted me to stay in hospital a while. I said. Look, I don't want to go into one of those places, I'd rather do this on my own. So I got a little cabin up in Lake Tahoe and just kind of disappeared. I was all strapped up for three weeks.
Andy Perry: Despite all the mayhem, the two bands seemed to get along really well. There was a lot of jamming together in hotel rooms, for example.
Dave Gahan: We had fantastic times, sitting up til seven, eight, eleven in the morning, with The Clash's Mick Jones yabbering on at me, going, 'You gotta eat! You gotta eat!'
Andy Fletcher: Dave should have been dead, honestly. I don't know how his body actually kept up with it. Four years on, we're all fit, healthy and a lot wiser.
(Source : interviews and research by Johnny Black, for Q magazine, 1998)