Originally Posted by bonjovi90

He was drunk as hell on many shows near the end of the NJ tour, but in fact, they all were (maybe with the exception of Jon who only kept drinking on the final two-show-day).
The reason for his many fall downs in Rio was simply physical exhaustion - Jon later on referred to that particular concert in an interview in 1993 and mentioned that. Alec was so ill and burned out by the end of the tour that he probably even had a hard time standing on his feet for a longer period.