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In 2012, Kesha admitted that she would demand men entering her tour bus to drop their trousers and let her take pictures of their genitals, specifically for the purposes of emasculating them and letting them know they were in the "vagina jungle"
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That, once, while on a tour bus, Busta Rhymes heard one of the songs on Eminem's "Slim Shady EP" and got so into the music that he smashed his head on the windshield of the bus, breaking the whole windshield, because he said Eminem's music was so compelling and powerful.
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A tour bus driver for the Dave Matthews Band released the bus' septic tank over a grate above the Chicago River. A boat full of people was below at the time, and its passengers were covered with 800 lbs of human waste.
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On Metallica's 1986 tour, guitarist Kirk Hammet and bassist Cliff Burton drew cards for bunks. Burton won, drawing the ace of spades. Hammet replied, "Fine ... I'll sleep up front, it's probably better up there anyway." That night, the bus flipped and Burton was thrown from his bunk and crushed.
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In 2004, Dave Matthews Band dumped 800lbs of human waste from their tour bus onto a group of tourists in Chicago
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Cliff Burton won a cards game and chose to sleep in Kirk Hammett's bunk. The following morning's tour bus accident left Burton the only victim.
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AC/DC once changed the name on their tour bus to "Singers for Christ" in order to pass through Tipper Gore's "Moral Majority" protest on the way to a gig in Florida.
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Willie Nelson became a fifth-degree Tae Kwon Do black belt in 2014. He would train by himself on his tour bus and send videos to his master for critique.
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American professional roller skater April Corley, featured in Chet Faker "Gold" music video, was nearly killed in 2015 while on vacation in Egypt. Her tour bus was fired upon by the Egyptian military while stopped for lunch. Her boyfriend, and 11 other passengers were killed during the attack.
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During Waylon Jennings' tour with Buddy Holly in winter of 1959, Jennings gave up his plane seat to the Big Bopper, who had a flu, and took a bus. Holly told him "I hope your ol' bus freezes up" and Jennings responded "I hope your ol' plane crashes". It crashed, giving Waylon a sense of guilt.
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The Dave Matthews Band tour bus drenched 100 tourists with human excrement
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In 1986, Metallica planned on firing drummer Lars Ulrich at the end of their world tour. These plans were scrapped after the death of their bassist, Cliff Burton, in a tragic bus accident during the tour.
In 2004, Dave Matthews Band was at the center of a controversy when about 800 pounds of liquid human waste was dumped from band member Boyd Tinsley's tour bus through the grate in the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto passengers aboard a sightseeing boat on the Chicago River below. - source
Faith No More singer Mike Patton once took a shit in a container of orange juice, resealed it and placed it on Axl Rose's tour bus - source
Nine Inch Nails Used To Deathmatch Doom Using 4 Computers set Up On Their Tour Bus (6:36 mark)
There is a Los Angeles gang tour bus to show tourists gang areas. - source
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Stevie Ray Vaughan was supposed to be part of David Bowie's 1983 Serious Moonlight tour, but was kicked off the tour bus at the last second. This allowed him to promote his career-making album Texas Flood.
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Metallica's Cliff Burton was ejected and killed by his tour bus after selecting a specific bed to sleep in by drawing cards with guitarist Kirk Hammet.
In 2007 a convict nicknamed 'Little Houdini' for his repeated flights from custody, escaped from prison to visit his dying mother, then stole the tour bus of singer Crystal Gayle and drove it to Daytona Speedway where he nearly succeeded in passing himself off as a member of a race team.
Lockheed Martin has a virtual reality "Mars bus" that can take kids on a tour of Mars.
In 2006 when a 1999 video showing Creed singer Scott Stapp and Kid Rock receiving oral sex on a tour bus, Stapp defended himself by claiming that he did not believe oral sex was "actual sex"
During a tour with Motley Crue in 1984, Ozzy Osborne snorted a line of fire ants outside the tour bus.
