re: Anybody else remember Layne Staley getting boos when he slagged David Duke?

I remember this tour and that sort of behavior doesn't shock me at all. If anything came out of the Duke/Edwards elections, is that it forced people to confront and admit their racism...although many did "keep their vote a secret" at the precincts. In other words, they voted for Duke. You had a crook and a racist. Edwards could have been Bobby Kennedy and the 30-35 percent who voted for Duke maybe would have dropped to 28 percent. I remember hearing that Duke lost while Sleepy Robinson ran another 30 yard keeper on David Walkup and Ricardo Washington, who did not have a clue about how to stop an option like that one. LSU was beaten as badly as ole Grand Wizzo was that night.

As to the musical aspect of this, this was just before "Grunge" went mainstream (the Houston show was in the fall of 1991) and VH was capitalizing off of their past success with F.U.C.K -- an album to this day has one decent song on it and that would be "Judgement Day." The south being the south -- AIC was mostly unheard of and seen as, prior to the show, a filler for the awesomeness that was Van Halen in their late 30's playing cheese dicky songs like "Poundcake" and "Top of the World". The people I know who went to either the Houston or BR show have all concurred that AIC was out of this world good and that VH was as bad as they've ever been live.