I was in my first semester at what is now Kutztown Univ. near Reading, PA when this happened.
I was outside of Philadelphia and I remember seeing this on Channel 6 news at 11pm, I think from Jim Gardner. They played The Spectrum a week later (I missed them that time around).
I decided to pass on the Chicago stop of that tour. They played the old Amphitheater. The next year I joined the Corps so my concert days were postponed.
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Altamont was 10 years before that (almost to the day, December 6th 1969)
Those two concerts led to a lot of the restrictive gates and rules at concert venues for bigger bands.
Attended this AC/DC concert in Salt Lake City 1991. I normally would have been standing toward the front of the floor but my friend had a bum leg so we were up in the stands unaware of what was going on on the floor. Lawsuits followed and, not surprisingly, the band hasn’t been back since.
“Salt Lake teenager Jimmie L. Boyd, 14, Brigham Young University student Elizabeth Glausi, 19, and Child, 14, were crushed to death when frenzied fans rushed toward the stage during the opening numbers of AC/DC’s concert.
The deaths grabbed national headlines and prompted a ban on festival seating at concerts held at the Salt Palace and Delta Center.
Fans began pushing toward the stage during the opening number of the band’s act. Fans in front of the stage were trampled to the floor and crushed by the press of people. Some were crushed for more than 30 minutes while security guards tried to control the crowd and stop the music.
The band stopped playing for 15 minutes while fans passed injured people overhead to guards and paramedics.”