Comments by "" (@johnwattdotca) on "Burning Man festival: 70,000 attendees stranded and one dead after rain and flooding" video.
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This reminds me of Woodstock. Seeing that hippies could go through the rain and sit in the mud so they could
hear their music, stoner music, inspired concert promoters to come up with "festival seating", like Woodstock,
saying arena concerts by rock bands don't need seats, just an empty floor. Right away, young men would gather
at the door, wanting to get in first, wanting to get up in front of the stage. At Cobo Hall in Detroit before The Who
played, seven men died from glass cuts, breaking through windows. But that was the rock business at the time.
The next Who gig was in Toronto, Canada. Security wanted to increase because of this rush the venue threat,
but The Who got off on young men dying for them, and denied extra security. This made Pete Townsend decide
he wanted to show the people of Toronto something, so one day he had roadies go and buy up all the Gibson
Les Paul and S.G. guitars they could, over 150. He stood onstage one afternoon and smashed every guitar.
Oh yeah, finding a body afterwards, that's so Grateful Dead.
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