hotel rooms across the country. Ultimately, it was certified Gold. In August 1990, while still on the road with Kiss, the band participated in the MTV Celebrity Challenge at the Denver Grand Prix along with members of Mötley Crüe, Skid Row and Winger, among others. Dana Strum was fifth in the race that was run as a support event for the featured Indy-car race in the inaugural Denver Grand Prix weekend. Later, in September 1990, Slaughter had their UK debut performing at Rock City, London's Marquee and the Hippodrome. By December 1990, all members of Slaughter had moved to Las Vegas, Nevada officially becoming the first internationally recognized hard rock band based in Sin City. The four-piece played their first-ever concert in their hometown of Las Vegas on December 15, 1990. The day before the show, in Los Angeles, the band boarded the MGM Grand Air party plane to Vegas along with nearly 40 radio station contest winners from all over the U.S. Upon landing, the party continued by the Hard Rock Café, where the mayor of Las Vegas proclaimed December 14 Slaughter Rock Band Day and changed the name of Las Vegas Boulevard to Slaughter Boulevard for the day. In addition, the band got the keys to the city. The big homecoming event was covered on national TV. In January 1991, Slaughter won the American Music Award for Best New Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Artist, and Stick It To Ya album exceeded 2xPlatinum status. To further the band's reach in America, Slaughter shot and released the third music video, Spend My Life, which charted at No.1 on MTV. Around that time, Slaughter kicked off their first European tour with Cinderella which was canceled that same month because of the Persian Gulf crisis. Instead, they performed a number of free shows on the Poison and Trixter tour. "It sure beats sitting around and doing nothing. The money wasn't in the budget to pay us and tickets were already being sold so we decided to gamble that we'd earn enough in T-shirt sales at the show to cover our expenses," Strum clarified. The band also traveled to New York to tape the MTV Unplugged show, where they played an all-acoustic set, something they had never done before. From the very beginning, the band was very vocal about the fact that they didn't do drugs. During an interview, Dana Strum maintained: "We've spoken