video producer Jerry Kramer. When Brown delivered the jeans to the studio where Kramer was editing a Styx video he met the band's guitarist Tommy Shaw. Of similar stature to Brown, Shaw complained of the difficulty he had in finding stageworthy clothing that fit. Shaw commissioned Brown to make his red jumpsuit, and then flew him to Chicago, where he was commissioned to make all the clothing for the band's upcoming Paradise Theatre tour, which began in early 1981. Brown's next clients included Ozzy Osbourne, the band Judas Priest, Cher, The Pointer Sisters, Barry Manilow, and Brian Setzer. He also created off-stage wear for a number of his clients, including wedding outfits for Jon Bon Jovi, Vince Neil, Tommy Lee and John Mellencamp, as well as a black wedding dress for the cover of Lita Ford's never-completed The Bride Wore Black album. He created an elaborate diamond-studded leather jacket for the film This Is Spinal Tap, and in 1998 designed and made the first jackets for the then-new Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team. Brown designed his clothes to be durable enough for use onstage . After Graham Bonnet ripped one of his suits onstage with Brown in the audience, Brown developed techniques aimed to ensure that his clothing would not come apart during live performances. When Bruce Dickinson attempted onstage to rip the sleeves from a new shirt made by Brown, the sleeves repeatedly failed to come away in front of several thousand people. Brown began working with a new type of washable synthetic leather, which he found to be more durable than real leather, and less likely to rip. If the fabric got baggy at the joints, this could be easily remedied by washing it in a washing machine. Bands that preferred real leather such as Mötley Crüe and Judas Priest were not wearing real leather at all while touring. He developed a pyramid-studded type of leather with Judas Priest, and was the first to design for artists like Mötley Crüe leather clothing with skulls and crosses, commonly used as ornaments on leather today. He invented lace front leather pants for Jon Bon Jovi; lacing up the side of leather pants for Mötley Crüe, and large banners on the backs of jackets and coats, not seen outside of motorcycle gangs before the concept was developed with Mötley Crüe. Early adopters included Axl Rose and Jon Bon Jovi. One jacket he