Posted on 11/21/2019 6:02:39 PM PST by DoodleBob
THE WHO bandmembers Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey share their detailed personal accounts of what happened the night of December 3, 1979, when 11 young people were killed outside a coliseum before their concert started. In the WCPO documentary "The Who: The Night That Changed Rock", they talk about how this single event forever changed rock and the lives of so many people. While they didn't know about the deaths until after the concertended, they have lived with the pain of the losses for 40 years.
"You know, I'm still traumatized by it," says Townshend. "It's a weird thing to have in your autobiography that, you know, 11 kids died at one of your concerts. It's a strange, disturbing heavy load to carry."
"That dreadful night of the third of December became one of the worst dreams I've had in my life," recounts Daltrey.
The band's longtime manager, Bill Curbishley, witnessed the deaths and made the call to let the band play. "Despite everything," says Curbishley, "I still feel inadequate. I don't know about the guys, but for me, I left a little bit of my soul in Cincinnati."
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**”That dreadful night of the third of December became one of the worst dreams I’ve had in my life,” recounts Daltrey.**
It wasn’t a dream mister.
That they were died in line wanting to see Quadrophenia made it even more tragic.
I saw the documentary The Kids are Alright a few months ago. One thing that was clear from the movie was that Pete Townsend was a royal asshole. I hope he has gotten better over the decades since.
Ha. That post needed to be edited. I apologize for the “were”
Meh, Altamont was a forced issue, damned idiots insisted on bringing in Hells Angels and Boozefighters for concert security.
In Europe, there have been plenty of tragedies at soccer matches.
Ibrox in 1971, Heysel in 1985, and probably the most infamous, Hillsborough in 1989, where 96 people were killed.
After reading the Townshend and Daltrey autobiographies, you realize those two couldn’t be any more different.
It was the Hells Angels who stopped the dangerous lunatic who was waving the gun around near the front of the crowd. And they were acquitted for killing that AH.
I remember this event.
I was visiting my friend, Andy who was a newly hired manager of a old radio station that played really outdated song. His boss, Arthur liked my friend but was afraid of the real owner, his mother. Met some really good DJs, Doctor Fervor and Venus.
Plus a really hot secretary, too.
They covered the episode and it was really sad.
Cincinnati, what a turkey of a town. Only Lester thought it was “hog heaven”
I remember they did that WKRP episode about it.
Kind of like now?
There was also The Station nightclub fire that occurred on Thursday, February 20, 2003, in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, killing 100 people including Great White guitarist Ty Longley and injuring 230.
Yeah I saw that too. Soccer matches seem to be deliberate violence among groups of opposing fans though, not tragic accidents.
Mad tooth bar chin-up, box zing outta her hair now
Still do the modern day whack-a-mole ditto-o-o
What's that? Good bartender, i'da hat-beer 'n' head out
I said I wouldn't do it if a poodle had a lid on
I might add, that the same thing occurs when the Eagles play at home, especially when they lose. Or at least that used to be the case when I watched the NFL. 8>P
Uh no...The 60s were not like current day in regards to the drugs and how young folk reacted to rock and roll concerts etc. Going to a concert back then was like a zombie fest, where people over-dosed as a matter of routine and pushed everything to the limit. Even most all be big RR players back then had to go to rehab on a routine basis or die and many of the biggest names did just that. Ya it goes on today, but nothing like the 60s.
Soccer matches/football etc., are made up of two opponents...Many of which go into it wanting to kill each other. Comparing sports violence to rock concerts is a bad analogy.
I am not suggesting you spend the money to go see a concert today, but it hasn’t changed all that much.
I know we like to think we did everything better, but when it comes to walking around like a zombie, the kids today have access to more money, higher quality, and more promiscuous playmates.
I used to work at venue starting when I was 15. My eyes were opened really wide at a Grateful Dead concert in 1974. My eyes were opened wider at a Phish concert a few years ago in Vermont, in the rain.
I gotta to hand it to some of these kids—they paid attention to the woodstock movie and try to improve on it.
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