 towels, catering, stage  equipment requirements, etc.) that said there must be a bowl of M&Ms  backstage, but with all the brown ones removed. The reason for the  absurd rule was to make sure that the entire rider (which included  safety measurements for the bands exceptionally large and heavy  stage set) had been read and obeyed in full. Sure enough at Pueblo,  Colorado show, the rider wasnt read and the staging crashed through  the floor. This lead to the urban myth that the band flipped out and  intentionally caused the $80,000 worth of damage themselves all  because they found brown M&Ms.