Heavy Metal Parking Lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whZuz5Dwtw8
You know things are bad, when you watch that video and catch yourself saying “at least they’re not all tatted and pierced out the wazoo.”
I tailgated once before a concert (GnR in 2018). It was meh.
I never saw that until years later but it hit home how true it was. A cable television rockumentary with teens outside a Judas Priest concert in 1986 in Maryland showed how discarded these youngsters were.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBryTebK2Og
Among the more twisted points, at 2:35 the interviewer has a few questions for a twenty-year-old and his thirteen-year-old girlfriend.
At about 9:51, you can see some young adults disconnected from the reality that one of their friends recently died.
Interviewer (off camera): "What would you say if you met Rob Halford?" [the lead singer of Judas Priest]
Young woman and her friend: "Ooh, we're going to. We got backstage passes!"
Interviewer (off camera): "How'd you get the backstage passes?"
Young woman and her friend: "It's a long story. It's a real long story."
Young woman: "Okay, a friend of ours got killed in a car accident about a month ago and he loves Judas Priest. So, his mom wrote to the manager and there's about 75 of us here and they were writing back and calling and they gave us all backstage passes."
Interviewer (off camera): "That's pretty nice."
Young woman and her friend: "Yeah, it is pretty nice."
Young woman: "You'll see us. We got a really big banner. It says Timmy loves Judas Priest."
1986 I was 18-19 years old.
Great Time to be young and alive.
Miss those days...