I’m telling you: something crazy happened on every night of that tour. And then on 20 January 1982 we played the Veterans Auditorium in Des Moines, Iowa. I’ll never forget the name of that place, that’s for sure. Or how to pronounce it: ‘DEE-Moyn’. The gig was going great. The God-like hand was working without any hitches. We’d already hung the midget. Then, from out of the audience came this bat. Obviously a toy, I thought. So I held it up to the lights and bared my teeth while Randy played one of his solos. The crowd went mental. Then I did what I always did when we got a rubber toy on
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