𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗧𝗼 𝗔 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 ~ 𝚅𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝙽𝚎𝚒𝚕 🤍

1984: 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝙽𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜

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Vince's POV, February 15th 1984

Since 'Shout At The Devil' had been released the band had exploded, the album had defied expectations, in terms of our record label we were in a good place with them now, they had more faith in us after this album had done so good and actually gave us a higher budget to use for shows and on our next album.

The album had produced a lot of controversy, as was expected, but that only fuelled more people to buy it, it was a huge fucking relief to know our record deal was safe and we all actually made money with this album, something we hadn't done with our first one.

We'd filmed a couple of music videos since the album was released too and had plenty a promotional photoshoot, it was unbelievable how we'd gone from playing clubs, to small arenas to now pretty big arenas. Nikki's vision seemed far fetched at one time, and I wasn't at all sold on the band at first, I really wasn't but his passion rubbed off on anyone, his drive did and made us all believe in what he did.

Now here we were.

It was insane, everyone was talking about the band, we were in every magazine when on the front of some local news papers. Then just as we got used to being everywhere and everyone knowing who we are, the tour with Ozzy started.

We'd been on tour with him January 10th and it had been one of the most insane experiences of my life, of all our lives. Man, Ozzy was a crazy motherfucker, he brought out the worst in me, Tommy and Nikki and he had an almost endless supply of cocaine which he was an expert at hiding from Sharon, his wife.

We were high most of the time, and the shows so far have gone way too far for all our liking, we've had our asses reamed by Doc more times that we all care to count for damaging hotels and been banned from half of them that we've been to.

Everyone was enjoying themselves, however I missed home, missed Kelly and Alessia. I wish I could have had them here with me but Doc didn't allow it and it probably would have been a lot for Alessia... plus... Kelly not being around did have certain advantages, she wouldn't approve of the drugs we were surrounded with, the antics we got up too or the alcohol and she certainly wouldn't like the female attention that I'm getting.

She'd leave me if she knew the truth. Cheating on her like I was is wrong, I knew that. By now I'd been doing it for over a year, it was like once I started I couldn't stop. It's scummy but it's the truth.

The first time I found myself indulging in groupies back in real late '82, I'd been a little too drunk and just started talking with some girl, but I found I liked the ego food and excused what I was doing in my mind saying there was no feelings involved, it was just sex and that didn't count as cheating, not by usual standards anyways which I'd convinced myself was having a full on separate relationship.

It was bullshit, I told myself so much bullshit to justify my actions and the deep conscious in me knew it, and I hated what I was doing but the ego fuel was nice and now, on this tour being away from Kelly and our daughter was hard and the groupies made that easier to deal with.

I'd managed to keep my escapades secret from the other guys, Nikki hadn't been on my ass since the festival and had said nothing more on the topic to me, so I wasn't sure if he knew I was still cheating on Kelly even after that conversation we had.