Conference mr1pst::music

    Funny you should mention Eddie Money, 'cause when I was at 'BCNs "The
    Rock of Boston" concert a couple of years ago (good show too: Tribe,
    The Call, Something Happens, Hot House Flowers, Masters of Reality),
    Eddie Money did one of these 'celebrity guest appearences' and came out
    to announce a band.  Only, at this show, the had wireless mikes, so no
    swinging, but he did toss it in the air, only it completely failed to
    meet his hand on the way down and struck the stage with a boom that
    sort of embarrassed him, I think.
    
    -Jesse

     One time when "YES" was playing at the Centrum, Jon Anderson fell
    thru a hole in the floor while he was singing and Trever Rabin sang
    the rest of the song. He wasn't hurt.
    
    
    Sean

    I was at a Mannheim Steamroller concert (Fresh Aire) in Chicago in 1987
    or 1988.  Half way through the show the stage-left speaker burst into
    flames.  Stage hands quickly put the fire out and replaced the speaker. 
    The leader/composer/drummer, Chip Davis, joked that he had wanted that
    previous song to be a "hot number" but not to go THAT far...
    
    
    Bill

    When I saw The Monkees in Connecticutt, Micky Dolenz got so into
    his twirling performance that he forgot the stage was a revolving stage
    and fell right into a womans' lap in the front row.  I never saw a guy move
    away from a woman so fast in my life.  He wasn't hurt, and I couldn't
    stop laughing for a week.
    
    What makes matters even worse, is that Davy Jones did the same thing
    the next year.  He wasn't hurt either and they even improvised the
    whole thing, it was pretty funny once again.
    
    Nancy

>>>     One time when "YES" was playing at the Centrum, Jon Anderson fell
>>>    thru a hole in the floor while he was singing and Trever Rabin sang
>>>    the rest of the song. He wasn't hurt.

I was there! In fact, I have a tape of it. This was the first 90125 tour 
and, if I remember correctly, it happened at the end of "Owner of a Lonely 
Heart." I read afterward that Anderson hurt himself quite badly but didn't
break anything.

They started the next song and marked time for a while waiting for him to
come back out. When he didn't, Rabin tried to sing the lead but gave up
very quickly. From his expression, I'm sure he could hear how bad he 
sounded. Fortunately, a very sheepish looking Anderson came back out
to finish the concert.

Barry

    Was at a Billy Squier concert (hey, didn't have anything else to do and
    we got in FREE).  They had a pitiful, pubescent band screeching away
    onstage opening for them.  Well, Billy didn't show and didn't show. 
    God, the music was awful and the audience all but booed these guys off
    the stage.  Finally, two hours later (remember, didn't have anything
    else to do), some guy comes out and said Billy was on his way.  He had
    to bail his bass player out of jail in L.A.!  Guess times were tough
    for ole' Billy...
    

remember the group AHA...saw them in Boston at
Orpheum....the keyboardist got carried away and stepped
up onto a speaker he thought was solid, but it had
a sloped back and he landed on two guys in the front
row of the audience (right next to me).

A bodyguard came right out on stage, and looked as
though he was going to pummel the two guys - thinking
they had dragged him into the audience.

The player got up, laughed and kept right on playing.
The Lead Singer (wearing tight strategically ripped
leather pants) never missed a beat....

and for that matter neither did the keyboardist.


hmmmmmm

    Saw Ry Cooder in London a few years back.
    
    He changed guitars between songs but the one he was putting on did not
    have its strap attached properly and it fell to the stage, perfectly
    horizontal, and hit the deck on its edge.
    
    He picked it up, put it on and said "Did anyone get a picture of that?"
    
    Have I ever wished I had smiggl;ed a camera into a gig :-(
    
    He didn't even have to tune it up afterwards.
    
    andy

    re -.1
    
    smiggl;ed?????????????????????
    
    sorry - smuggled
    
    You wanna hear my guitar playing :-0, the fingering on there is not
    much better than my typing :-)
    
    
    andy

    
    Saw Lollapalooza '92 last night - I suppose this is as good a place as
    any for this . . .
    
    The concert was at Great Woods, and featured Lush, Pearl Jam, Jesus &
    Mary Chain, Soundgarden, Ice Cube, Ministry & the Red Hot Chili
    Peppers, in that order.  All was going smoothly until Ministry came on
    around sunset.  My friend and I weren't big fans, so we went out to
    poke around all the booths set up ( jewelry, piercing displays,
    legalize marijuana, etc ).  
    	Coming back in we were greeted with the interesting spectacle of
    sod from the lawn ( LOTS of sod ) flying through the air.  Looking up
    at the figures on the lawn shilouetted against the setting sun, we
    could seen literally hundreds of pieces of land being lobbed back and
    forth.  Also a few towels and blankets, and even a person or two.
    	Deciding to see what started it, we walked up into the thick of it. 
    Bad idea.  I had my jacket to shield me from the worst of it, but my
    friend got draped by a flying carpet of grass and dirt almost 3 feet in
    diameter.  He had fun shaking crap out of his hair for the rest of the
    night.
    	We made it out just as the worst of it died down, only to see that
    people had started bonfires on the lawn.  We saw them springing up here
    and there, just small ones at first.  One in paticular seemed to be
    growing at an alarming rate, and I wondered what they were buring until
    I noticed largish gaps in the wooden fence behing the lawn.
    	My friend went back to our seats, but I, being somewhat adventurous
    ( and not too bright ), wanted a closer look.  I made my way up
    through the throngs of people ( show was sold-out - LOTS of people ) to
    the highest point.  There were not fewer than 6 smaller fires and one
    huge one, with 30 or 40 people running madly around it.  People were
    leaping over and through the smaller ones.  As I was watching, two guys
    came up and calmly ripped another 8 foot plank from the wall, then
    carried it off between them towards the big blaze.  
    	Having seen enough, I walked back down to our seats over the
    cratered, pitted, scarred landscape the was a nicely manicured lawn 
    earlier that day.  After Ministry's set was done, one of the concert
    organizers came out and ( justifiably ) screamed at the A__holes on the
    lawn to let Security and the Fire Dept. through to put out the fires. 
    It took a while, but eventually they were put out.
    	I was amused to see workers sweeping sod off the stage while they
    set up for the Red Hots.  For their encore, the Red Hots came out
    wearing helmets with fire coming out of the top - sort of a human
    candle effect.  Anthony K. said "Gee, why do I feel like Great Woods".
    	All in all it was a great show, especially Pearl Jam and RHCP.
    
    						-Jimbo
    

    Jimbo, thanks for the write up. I'm amazed, your write up and what I
    read in the paper appear similiar. I didn't believe that this could
    actually happen. ;-)
    
    Too bad a bunch of morons screw things up for everyone else. This
    event will not be back to Great Woods next year.
    
    Jim C.
    
    

    Why not, the sod was torn up and there were fires (though not as big)
    last year?  Of course, if there are two many complaints from venue
    owners across the country, and Lollapalooza gets cancelled
    alltogether...
    
    -Jesse

What was the usually-aggressive Great Woods security team doing when people
first started tearing up the lawn, etc.?

Amazing, considering at other shows there you can get chewed out for dancing
in the wrong place.

- Dave

    Re -.1
    
    	I was wondering about that too - but the show was sold out,
    which means there was upwards of 15,000 people there, probably a
    3rd or so of that on the lawn . . . . would YOU go up there if you
    were an unarmed security guy?
    
    	Actually I was surprised that there weren't more blueshirts
    around - they only had seven or eight in front of the stage - a
    few people managed stage dives . . .
    
    	Does anyone have a write up from a paper handy - I haven't seen
    any - was it in the Herald or Globe?
    
    					-Jimbo

    I was at Lollopalooza on Friday nite and the same stuff was happening;
    fires, tearing down the fence, etc. I actually saw several people swinging
    burning clothing above their heads with lit ashes going everywhere. No
    announcement were made....Security was just watching....I think they
    knew that the type of crowd that was there would be very easy to get
    rioting....I thought it was a very volatile and potentially explosive
    situation.
    
    The Bands were great!!!
    
    Bob

    Front page of the Herald. Havn't seen the Globe yet.
    
    re: A couple back - Probably because they've had enough. Or, do
    they wait for strike 3 next year?
    
    Jim C.
    
    

    The Globe had a short blurb buried in the middle of the paper.  They
    asked a policeman (I'm not sure of his title) about it and he said that
    the damage was less than expected and that it was basically a good
    crowd. 
    
    The Herald put it on the front page and has many brief interviews with
    concert attendees, Great Woods management, etc.  Noone seemed
    particularly alarmed or surprised, although Great Woods will be
    considering what to do about the show next year (i.e., will they have
    it or not).
    				- Paul

    Which issue of the Hearld was that?  Sunday's?
    
    I'd love to read a photocopy of the stories if the paper's not on the
    stands anymore.
    
    -Scott

    
    
                            It's in todays Herald!

    COOL! I was there saturday too! it was intense!
    
    SueJ

    Not that this is a mishap, but as an aside, what did folks who saw it
    think of the Jim Rose Circus Side Show.  He said on Saturday that
    they're coming round to Boston for a full 2 hour version of their show
    (they only did 20-30 min at Lollapalooza).
    
    -Jesse
    

    Lollapalooza will not be invited back to Great Woods next year.
    I heard a spokesperson from the Woods say that although the
    incident was a little overblown they don't need the hassle.
    His words were basically that it was too bad a small group
    of jerks spoiled this for others.
    
    Jim C.
    

    I was talking to a woman I know, whose daughter was at Lollapalooza,
    after I heard about the happenings.  I asked her (thinking that she
    heard) if her daughter was all right.  She answered: "Is there
    something that my daughter should have told me?"  :^)
    
    Incidentally, daughter was completely out of that area.
    
    K.C.

    
    	In the Herald- The general manager said this is something
    	that the committee will definately be looking at. That the 
    	LaLa tour may have to seek an alternative venues next year.
    
    	Bummer... 8(
    
    	SueJ

    
    	No one has mentiond the Metallica/GNF'R show that got cut short due
    to explosions and voice giveouts!
    
    	This was in Montreal I think...
    
    Another...Lose your Wallet...concert!
    
    B.A>

    About Lollapalooza, my daughter was there both nights...and on the
    lawn. She told me about what had happened and we discussed the fact
    that it's too bad a small group will ruin it for everyone (i.e., no
    Lollapalooza next year - this is her second year in a row going). In
    the meanwhile, there was a lot of slam dancing on the lawn as well. Her
    boyfriend said he was sore from all the slamming... On
    Saturday she stepped on a nail in a board left from the fence being
    torn down (never could get that kid to keep her
    shoes on) but she said that one kid was hit in the eye with a board
    with a nail in it... that's tragic. And yes, she did go for a tetanus
    shot on Sunday.
    
    In the meantime they enjoyed the music both days and said it was a
    great concert.
    
    
    Suegene