# Greg Jacobs Compiles The ‘HELL ON WHEELS – TOUR STORIES: REMEMBERED, REMIXED, REMASTERED’

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- Published: 2024-07-01T16:00:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

### **‘HELL ON WHEELS’**⏎ **_TOUR STORIES: REMEMBERED, REMIXED, REMASTERED_, BY AUTHOR GREG JACOBS****A compilation of tour stories, told by the band members who lived them.**

#### **Features recollections from members of Bad Religion, All, Dead Kennedys, X, The Specials, Rocket From The Crypt, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Ramones, The Get Up Kids and many more.**

#### **Set For Release on October 25th, Published by University of Hell Press**

#### **Signed Copies Available For Pre-Order Starting on July 25**

**[Pre-Orders Launch July 25 Here](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=25624993.66150.1.cde1c30ba3341ed7178ba78f5ce3da1c)**

**Joby Ford (The Bronx)**– _“So, we all run out there and, sure enough, there’s 
a Mercedes Benz right in the roof of our van. The lights are still on, the wheels
are still spinning. And there’s nobody in the fucking car! Our van is completely
totaled.”_

[⌊Hell on Wheels by Greg Jacobs⌉⌊Hell on Wheels by Greg Jacobs⌉[

**PORTLAND, OREGON** — In 1994, **Gary Hustwit’s** Rockpress in San Diego published**‘
Hell on Wheels.’** Now, in 2024, author **Greg Jacobs** has curated 20 of the original
collection’s best stories and added 54 new ones to create **_‘Hell on Wheels—Tour
Stories: Remembered, Remixed, Remastered.’_** 

This new 373-page book includes recollections from members of bands like **Bad Religion,
All, Dead Kennedys, X, The Specials, Rocket From The Crypt, Brian Jonestown Massacre,
Ramones, The Get Up Kids**, and many more. It will be released by **University of
Hell Press** on October 25 and will be available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and 
other bookstores. **Pre-orders start on July 25 at** [**www.universityofhellpress.com**](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=25624993.66153.1.5639b12bee207a7343a36d34ee9493dc)
and will be shipped by September 25, with all pre-orders signed by the author.

This compilation of tour stories, told by the band members who lived them, is so
much more than sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, but, of course, that’s in here too. 
There are stories of scrapes with biker gangs, dog attacks (on stage!), the Berlin
Wall coming down, broken bones, floods, dangling a promoter out of a window by his
ankles, Saturday Night Live and so much more.

**Ian MacKaye**– _“I remember walking off after we had danced, we were walking off
and Eddie Murphy was standing there and he said, “FUCK YOU!” Life is rich.”_

**Derwood Andrews (Generation X)** _“And at one show, a Hells Angel walked up on
stage, swung a right hook into Billy’s face, then wandered off again. Billy didn’t
miss a beat and was singing again before the guy got back in place.”_

**Joey Shithead (DOA)**– _“We flew back to Canada. We made it out alive and we didn’t
spend any time in a Yugoslavian jail!”_

**Billy Ledges Ciraulo (Mad Parade)**– _“Mike jumped over the counter at a McDonald’s
and stole some Big Macs just like the Hamburglar.”_

**Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)** – _“… this venerable gossipy columnist who’d been
writing for decades in the San Francisco Chronicle, Herb Caen, comes out with this
little thing about bad taste and how, along comes this band called Dead Kennedys
who are playing on November 22nd, the anniversary of JFK’s death.”_

**Mark Arnold**– _“Every so often you get yourself into a situation on tour where
it could have never happened except you are in Berlin. In a train station. Looking
for the biggest creep in the building. A drug dealer.”_

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**Ryan Ritchie (The Heathens)**– _“My diary for the night in Roppongi reads:
• Two
shots of Jack.• Two shots of Scotch.• One shot of sake.• Two eight-percent Chu-His.•
Two vodka cranberries.• One shot of Jäger.• One glass of champagne.That’s what I
remember drinking”

**Brent Stickels (Inch)**– _“An instantaneous fire hose of shit blasted out the 
side of the RV as he jumped into the passenger seat. We hit the gas, roaring with
a mix of laughter and horror as a torrent of chunky brown sludge spread across the
entire station tarmac.”_

**Matt Pryor (Get Up Kids)**– “And later on that night, we could hear him saying
he wanted to get a hooker. So, he started looking in the phone book under “H” for
hookers.”_

**Eric VonArab (Red Hot Chili Peppers)** – _“I see Madonna with legendary gossip
columnist Liz Smith come strolling down the corridor. When Madonna makes an entrance,
it’s like the Queen of England has entered the building, security was scrambling
about, and her bodyguard was only a couple feet away.”_

**Joe Sib (Wax)**– _“Finally, I said to Scott, “Man, how do you think it’ll go for
you?” He took a sip of his beer and looked me straight in the eye, “We’re gonna 
be fucking huge.” Then, he wandered off and caught his flight. I stared after him.
It was like he’d just revealed his manifest destiny. I thought, Holy shit. I don’t
have that “we’re gonna be fucking huge” swagger.”_

**Rat Scabies (The Damned)**– _“I always remember playing the Santa Monica Civic
and we were staying at the Sunset Marquis. It’s that really swish place down in 
Hollywood, with all the fairy lights outside, nice big suites, and a hundred channels
on the TV. I was there looking out at Hollywood below the lights and washing my 
socks [laughs] and thinking, Well, I really wish I had something better to do than
this.”_

[⌊Greg Jacobs⌉⌊Greg Jacobs⌉[

**ABOUT GREG JACOBS**
Greg Jacobs managed the bands **Big DRILL Car, Drive Like 
Jehu, Rocket from the Crypt,** and **Supernova** and has worked at the record labels**
Enigma, CRUZ, SST, Cargo, Capitol** (for one day), and **Trust**. He currently manages
two of the aforementioned bands (even though they’re inactive), freelances for one
of the aforementioned labels, is a music photographer and has written one book, 
twice. By day, he is a mild-mannered insurance executive living in Long Beach, California.
Sharpie portrait by **Chris Shary**.

**ABOUT UNIVERSITY OF HELL**
University of Hell Press promotes artists who are creating
irreverent and thought-provoking works in quiet corners of their worlds. Specializing
in intimate literary arts that communicate the human experience with raw views into
the everyday condition, University of Hell Press aligns with like-minded individuals
who are making their mark through unique vision and simple, yet heightened, language.

We are a deliberately genre-less press because we like to be surprised by what crosses
our desks; we have published books that might not have otherwise seen the light 
of day if we had been a genre-specific press. We have published a number of poetry
and prose collections, memoirs, fiction, and creative nonfiction.

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