just night after night something traumatic would happen one time in Lake Charles Louisiana Ronnie had vowed vowed two weeks before that to stop stop drinking and he did it was it was really he was a lot better I think he was miserable but towards maybe the second week he got a little bit better but something snapped in Lake Charles two weeks later where he just went crazy and he gathered everybody in a room he ripped off his shirt he grabbed a lamp on the nightstand and broke it against the nightstand all this Jagged glass hanging
up but he slammed me up against the wall and held her right to my neck he said I want you to say a word okay aptly named the torture tour continued Across America the camaraderie between the band members quickly began to break down exacerbated by Van Zant's routinely drunken and abusive Behavior struggling with both the volatile atmosphere and his own substance abuse issues Ed King decided Midway through the tour that it was time to take his exit from the world of Skynet [Music]
