Posted on 12/22/2006 10:18:44 PM PST by iowamark
You very rarely see this sort of thing at Barry Manilow concerts.
I hear that it gets pretty rough during "Copacabana" from time to time...
Four tax hikes
Three new regulations
Two "W" investigations
and a Nation in a deep funk !
(it's a start)
Is it just me or is that the most mis-managed concert venue ever?
Back in the '70s and '80s, I'd drive 90 minutes one-way to see everything from the Doobie Brothers to Def Leppard to Alice Cooper there. (This was back when those bands were huge headliners, not county fair acts.)
But, from what I'm told, it's the "wrong size" for just about everything these days. It can't compete with the larger, newer Mark of the Quad Cities. Seems like the only things the 'Cell' Center can count on anymore is the state high school volleyball championships and a few high school basketball games.
Maybe the Hawkeye women should play their basketball games there. At least they'd have a better chance of a sellout and getting a noisy crowd; a couple thousand people in the cavernous Carver Hawkeye Arena probably sounds like a church in comparison.
Regardless, happy new year to you 'n yours.
I was there with my daughter and we had gotten separated. Stone Sour was playing and I was working my way up towards the front. Everything was going well and then it felt like someone dropped a cinder block on my head from about 50 feet. I grabbed my head and hunched forward as the room got dark(er) and started to spin. After a minute I stood up and asked the guy next to me what the F*** happened? He said "you got hit with a water bottle dude".
Some idiots were heaving half full water bottles as high and hard as they could. The Cellular center has really high ceilings by the way.
So the guy was nice enough to walk me back to the infirmary. It turned out that I was hit in the face but it hit so hard I was sure it had hit the back of my head. I realized my nose was bleeding and as I walked by people they did a double take and wince at the blood on my face and.
In the infirmary were several medics waiting for all the injuries they were expecting. They asked me if I lost conscienceness and I said no. The guy that took me back said "Yes he did". So I guess I did. They asked me the standard concussion questions like what day it was and where I was. I can't tell you how mad I was at the stupidity of someone throwing that bottle. So the medic said I needed stitches or I would have a scar. The bottle put a 1 inch gash down my cheek from the side of my nose to my lip. I could literally stick my tongue through it.
At the hospital I was delayed because the other guy from the concert was in surgery with a torn kidney.
It's healing up very nicely.
I saw a history of heavy metal on VH1. It was humorous if you could get past the feebleness of it all. My favorite "highlight" was the segment on a couple of guys who "invented" heavy metal air guitar, bringing homemade cardboard guitars to London concerts. "They had all our moves down!" -Some heavy metal band member.
his lawyer told him that the center had a disclaimer written in fine print across the back of the concert ticket that absolves it of responsibility for his son's injuries.
This lawyer is not ever going to be rich.
It also has a Crackerjack security force, from the sound of it. A-holes like that ought to be arrested and made to pay for their crimes. (Sure, it'll happen soon enough. But, not until someone else gets hurt.)
Then again, I'm reminded of the old saying, "When you lie down with dogs, you might wake up with fleas." In other words, it's a risk of hanging with that crowd. The management quoted in the story seems to brush it off that way. If such injuries are so predictable, I'm somewhat surprised the place hasn't been sued into oblivion by an enterprising ambulance chaser.
Anyway, I'm sure glad to hear it's working out well for you. I trust you have good health insurance. Pity those innocents who didn't (dogs-fleas notwithstanding). ;)
Slated for next year are Smegma, Irritant, Culinary Disaster, and Uncle Carbuncle.
I don't think so, although I do think he is college educated. I know the singer for the Offspring is pursuing a PhD in molecular biology and Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) has an MBA from Arizona State.
Agreed. I'v been to 3-4 shows there and try to avoid going again.
"Barnd was hoping to get some sort of compensation from the U.S. Cellular Center for his son's medical bills, "
Of course. people who have never been made to take responsibility for their own actions blame their misfortunes on everyone but themselves. The participants should pay their own bills. Suing the Cellular Center? Sure. Some law firm wants to make a profit.
Flyleaf is a good band.
Yeah, I guess you're right. Although he is a college graduate who had a triple major, apparently.
Not a fan at all. Takes no talent to play drop D bar chords.
He is a smart guy. Their stuff, from what I understand, does not deal too much with politics.
I'm not a big fan of theirs, but the guy can seriously do some cool stuff with his voice.
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