Bands that you've seen live
This thread got me thinking of an Aerosmith concert I attended in the late 70`s in Norfolk, Va. at the Scope. We had watched the back-up band play their hour of music (which was quite forgettable) so the roadies came on between acts and did the gear swap in advance of Aerosmith taking the stage. During the break a lot of people started coming down to the floor and crowding the stage. So much so that the plywood barricade that created a safe zone between the crowd and stage had collapsed. People were pushing and shoving and it was getting so crazy that nearly a dozen Norfolk police took the stage, lining up from one side to the other facing the crowd. This seemed to piss off the crowd even more. Aerosmith wasn`t coming on and just as it seemed a riot was about to ensue my friend Donnie threw an empty Miller pony bottle at the stage that miraculously found the exact center of one of the policemans forehead, breaking and knocking his hat off. This staggered the cop and a couple of his fellow policeman ushered him off the stage followed by the balance of the cops and some stage hands. Knowing things were getting out of hand, within a minute of this mass exodus the lights went down and Aerosmith took the stage.
Another quick story: on entering the Capitol Center for a Led Zeppelin concert, a cop stops my friend Brian at the ticket gate. He reaches right into Brian`s front pocket and pulls out about a 1/4 ounce of pot. He shows it to Brian and says "you can`t bring this in", then throws the weed in the trashcan. We looked at each other like "OH SH*T, BUSTED", but then he has the ticket taker rip the stubs on our tickets and send us in to the show. (?) :-D We were freakin, we thought for sure he was busted. Ah, those were the days!