The same goes for late ’80s/early ’90s shows I attended catching Public Enemy and A Tribe Called Quest. Prior to working a rap show co-headlined by Run-DMC and LL Cool J, which also featured the Beastie Boys in 1986, our security team prepped as if we were going to war, and it was so overblown. I had to drive to the venue to pick them up since they had no money to pay for public transit. However, after the show ended, her pal’s wallet was stolen during the concert and most likely during the crowd’s advancement when fans were all over the pair. Fortunately, Jillian and her friend were no worse for wear. However, when my daughter Jillian, 23, caught Kendrick Lamar in 2017 in Philadelphia, the crowd surged. “I wasn’t on the floor, where it was getting crazy, but I didn’t see anything that was too bad,” Eddie recalled. ![]() Why wouldn’t that lawless and horrific behavior cross over to concert venues? My son Eddie, 19, saw a Scott show in 2017 in Philadelphia. Every day, there are drive-by shootings, and they often include innocent children in the wrong place at the wrong time. Gun violence in cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia and Houston continue to rise at a startling rate. There is considerably less respect for life than there was a generation ago. It was less than kind, but what’s happened at Scott’s shows mirrors society. I’ll never forget being smashed against the wooden barricade at Black Sabbath since fans pushed forward hoping those in the front would climb over the wall, and they would be closer. Sure, there were was action in the pit, but that was the extent of it. Moore took the risk as he led his eclectic and incendiary punk-funk band, not fans. Moore was so physical that he has had hip and knee replacements at 50. Moore, who is an accomplished singer and musician, performed like he was out of the circus without a net. The only person leaping out the mezzanine was Fishbone’s daring vocalist Angelo Moore. No one was pushing a fan off a third-floor balcony. As I thought, “What am I going to do now?” eight hands picked up my prone body, and I was ambulatory once again. I remember the first time I hit the floor just a few feet from the stage at a Fishbone show. However, there was never any malice from a peer in the pit. I was kicked in the head, which might explain some of the Dad Daze content, banged in the ribs and at times knocked down. A portion of my misspent youth was inside mosh pits during Fishbone shows, which were unpredictable and physical. Yes, it’s just a song, but young, impressionable minds are easily influenced by a ridiculous message that doesn’t quite rhyme. If that’s not enough, there’s Scott’s “Stargazing,” which features the Houston-based rapper belting out “and it ain’t a mosh pit if it ain’t no injuries / I got ’em stage diving out of the nosebleeds.” “They going to catch you, don’t be scared,” Scott said during a video taken by a fan during that event. Green suffered a fractured vertebrae, broken left wrist and fractured left ankle and is paralyzed. ![]() When Kyle Green caught a Scott performance at Terminal 5 in Manhattan in 2017, he was pushed from a third-floor balcony. Not a single individual in a massive crowd jammed together sported a mask.īut what’s most tragic is this isn’t the first time mindless violence marred a Scott show. It’s difficult on many levels watching the horrific video, and no one is writing about the COVID-19 possibilities due to the deaths and injuries. ![]() Nine people are dead, including a 14-year-old, and many more are injured, including a 9-year-old in a coma, after a crowd surge at Scott’s performance at his Astroworld Festival. When I covered a Guns N’ Roses show for Rolling Stone in 2002 that never happened since Axl Rose decided to not show up, I expected a riot, but nothing happened. After experiencing hundreds of concerts as a fan, music critic and usher/security guard, I’ve never seen anything quite like what’ happened at the Scott show. I caught a plethora of shows in my youth into early adulthood, so I took a few minutes to process before responding to Milo. After experiencing the opener to the Rolling Stones Tattoo You Tour in 1981 at Philadelphia’s massive JFK Stadium as a high school freshman, I indulged in myriad concerts. ![]() Editor’s note: A 9-year-old Dallas boy died Sunday after the Astroworld Festival crush, bringing the death toll to 10 for Travis Scott’s concert tragedy.Īfter the Travis Scott concert tragedy, which claimed nine lives in Houston last week, my son Milo, 16, asked about crowd behavior during shows a generation ago.
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