10 Most Infamous Guns N' Roses Moments

1. The St Louis Incident - July 2nd 1991

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H93JFkUe6MQ Ask ANY Guns N' Roses fan, new or old, they'd tell you that this is the one single incident that deserves to top this list. An incident so infamous that it is still fresh in the minds of fans today. On July 2, 1991 16,000 St. Louis Concert goers attended the Guns N' Roses show at the newly constructed Riverport Amphitheatre, 15 miles west of St. Louis in Maryland Heights, Missouri. The band took the stage to a standing room crowd thrilled to see the band after it's three-year absence from the city. Guns N' Roses performed several cuts from its début, Appetite for Destruction, as well as numerous tracks from its forthcoming Use Your Illusion twin albums. An hour-and-a-half into the show, during the track 'Rocket Queen', Axl Rose could be heard to shout "Take that... take that... take that away from him!" to the security guards along the front of the stage. When he realized either nobody was listening or nobody understand what he was saying, he uttered the now infamous response "Then I'll take it from him" and jumped into the crowd. The performance, which was being professionally filmed by the bands crew for a planned home video release (this, by the way, never happened and the band filmed in Paris and Tokyo instead - though that's why such professional quality footage exists) was halted slightly as Rose dove into the crowd and physically attacked someone he believed to be obtaining visual imagery without his consent. Seconds later, Rose was returned to the stage by Guns N' Roses' own security crew. He motioned for the band to stop playing and announced over the microphone that due to the poor security, "I'm outta here." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPEvyapMpl0 A full twenty minutes later, with many of the crowd believing this to be some stage act (before Internet of course there was little speculation or report on particulars from the nights previous gig in another city and this gig was very much at the start of the touring cycle) the house lights were raised and it was announced the performance was over. But the display of emotion from fans was certainly far from over as the crowd began throwing bottles and hurling abuse towards the road crew. With one of Guns N Roses security attempting to tell the fans if they relented the band would return onstage, it seemed it was too little too late and a full blown riot erupted. In the aftermath of the riot Axl Rose was held responsible by law enforcement officials and charged with four separate assault charges, but they had to wait almost a year, before they could fully charge and bring the singer to court. The case was proceeded over in late 1992 and the Judge dismissed the most serious charge against Axl (which carried some heavy prison time) saying that Rose did not personally incite the riot. His behavior, naturally, didn't help although there was still a suspended probation order given to Rose and various media reports printed at the time slammed the venue for selling alcohol against licensing laws at the dry venue. Guns N Roses were also banned from St. Louis for life and Rose was given a $50,000 personal fine. During their introduction at the MTV VMA's later that year the band were introduced with the tagline "here between court dates, Guns N' Roses" Of course you might say Axl had the last laugh. Use Your Illusion I and II's artwork featured a hidden message midst the Thank You section of the album insert: "F**k You, St. Louis!" - lovely!