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With touring comes lots of downtime, and with downtime comes boredom. And that, as most touring musicians will tell you, is when the mischief starts. Take a look at some of music’s most notorious tour pranksters. (Photos: Getty Images)
By Jeff Royer
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Outrageous Tour ...With touring comes lots of downtime, and with downtime comes boredom. And that, as most touring musicians will tell you, is when the mischief starts. Take a look at some of music’s most notorious tour pranksters. (Photos: Getty Images)
By Jeff Royer
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Justin Bieber Gi...Noted prankster Justin Bieber pulled a fast one on opening act Willow Smith during a tour stop in Manchester, England. As the 10-year-old Smith performed her monster hit “Whip My Hair,” Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun and swagger coach Ryan Goode rushed the stage in full makeup and neon braids, shocking the pint-sized star. On their heels was the Biebs himself, who made Willow giggle by prancing around the stage while banging a cowbell. (Photos: Chris Lopez / Ian Gavan, Getty Images)
By Jeff Royer
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Bieber Makes "On...Justin Bieber showed he could take it as well as he could dish it out during a prank at the 2010 Maryland State Fair. At each of his concerts, Bieber makes a routine of serenading one lucky female audience member while performing his hit “One Less Lonely Girl.” The script was flipped during his State Fair performance, when he skipped across the stage to discover not a lovely teenage girl, but an enormous bald man with a tiara on his head. "The crew better sleep with one eye open tonight!” Bieber tweeted after the show. “Hahahaha...so not cool.” (Photo: @justinbieber)
By Jeff Royer
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Adam Levine Punk...Maroon 5 frontman and newly minted host of “The Voice” Adam Levine has never hidden his joy of punking opening bands. When M5 took to the road with all-girl punk band The Donnas, Levine pulled off a classic prank. "We were partying backstage and we hired male strippers,” he told the New York Post. "So these male cheeseball strippers came in and the Donnas were panicking. These guys kind of looked like cops, enough to fool them. … Once everyone realized they were strippers, one of the guys plugged in the music to start dancing, and by then everyone was over it, and it was extraordinarily uncomfortable!" (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez, Getty Images)
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Kenny Chesney Po...Like Adam Levine, country megastar Kenny Chesney also enjoys some good-natured terrorizing of his opening acts. On the final night of his “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems” tour in 2002, Chesney filled the bus of Montgomery Gentry from top to bottom with multi-colored helium balloons. That, however, was only the beginning. Troy Gentry later recounted to Country Weekly, "When we went to pop them, we discovered that they were all filled with talcum powder! It was everywhere – in the air, on the furniture, and everything smelled like baby powder!" (Photo: Rick Diamond, Getty Images)
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John Mayer Gets ...Notorious goofball John Mayer rattled Sheryl Crow during a co-headlining tour by walking onto the stage in a full bear costume as she sang “My Favorite Mistake.” In a victory lap on his blog, Mayer bragged that his stunt almost made Crow forget the words to her own hit song. Crow got the last laugh, however, surprising a clearly stunned Mayer by waltzing onto the stage during his set wearing nothing but a super-revealing bikini. (Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris, Getty Images)
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Brad Paisley's C...Having toured with Brad Paisley on more than one occasion, Darius Rucker knows a thing or two about the former’s penchant for pranks. Fresh off the road in March, Rucker recounted one of Paisley’s best gags to the Country Vibe. “When my lights went down, right before I came out they went out and put globs of old, old limburger cheese on my microphone,” he said. “I walked out there and I put my hand on it, and it was like, ‘Oh, my God!’ You could smell it.” Adding insult to injury, Paisley later sent an enormous man dressed in a diaper and wings to smother Rucker in purple glitter during his rendition of “Purple Rain.” (Photos: Tom Pennington/ Sam Greenwood, Getty Images)
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Green Day and Bl...Among the least surprising pranksters on this list are pop-punkers Blink-182 and Green Day. In 2002, the two bands teamed up to terrorize opening act Jimmy Eat World. As frontman Jim Adkins recounted to gUrl.com, Blink-182 struck first by setting off pyrotechnics and explosions during one of Jimmy Eat World’s quieter songs. That was followed by members of both bands rushing the stage and drenching Jimmy Eat World with Super Soakers. Moments later, they unleashed a blizzard of potato flakes and glitter from the rafters, thoroughly coating the hapless opening act. (Photos: Jason Kempin, Getty Images)
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Dave Grohl Bugs ...During a 2005 co-headlining tour with Weezer, Foo Fighters funnyman Dave Grohl couldn’t resist messing with his nerdy counterpart. In a series of pranks caught on video, he put Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo through the wringer. During Cuomo’s acoustic performance of "Island in the Sun", Grohl hired a large exotic dancer to walk onstage and gyrate behind the singer. During Weezer’s performance of "Undone (The Sweater Song)," Grohl rushed the stage, played along on an acoustic guitar and then smashed his instrument. Lastly, during the set closer, Grohl sent six security guards onto the stage to stand behind the band. The guards then removed their clothing and began dancing around the stage, each with a letter painted on his chest. Together, they spelled out “Weezer.” (Photo: Dave Hogan, Getty Images)
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Elton John Monke...When Elton John ran onstage during an Iggy Pop concert dressed in a lifelike gorilla suit, he got chuckles from just about everyone – the main exception being Iggy Pop himself. The Stooges singer, who had been battling mental health issues at the time, believed he was being attacked by an actual gorilla and fled the stage to hide behind his drummer. "I was unusually stoned that evening to the point of barely being ambulatory so it scared the hell out of me,” Pop later wrote in his autobiography. "I really didn't know what was going on. For all I knew it was a crazed biker on methedrine in that gorilla suit." (Photos: Jeff Fusco / Mark Metcalfe, Getty Images)
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Taylor Swift and...In the cutest case of tour hazing ever, country starlets Taylor Swift and Kellie Pickler exchanged pranks to close out their joint 2009 tour. According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Swift gave the crowd fair warning of the impending battle. "We welcome pranking," she announced from the stage of the tour’s final stop at Minneapolis’ Target Center. "We almost require it." Swift reportedly struck first, sending her dancers to start a paper-wad fight during Pickler’s set and ordering them to parade around in butterfly and cat costumes. She later sent her road crew onstage during Pickler’s performance of “Red High Heels” to dance around in wigs, skirts, falsies and, you guessed it, red high heels. Pickler later evened the score by hiding under Swift’s grand piano and leaping out during a rendition of “You’re Not Sorry.” (Photo: Michael Buckner/ACMA, Getty Images)
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