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Message: [QUOTE="CaptainJ, post: 1027312, member: 1553"] I didn't watch the 30 for 30, but saw a documentary on Hillsborough years ago and it was sad. I can't remember all the details, so I won't comment. It may have been on youtube or a torrent. If anyone has ever been to a very large general admission concert where there performers excite the crowd enough(sometimes before even stepping on stage), you'd realize sometimes you don't have a choice in your movement and it is like waves in the ocean...except for the people in front getting crushed against the fence or any poor SOB who goes to the ground. I know at least one other member on here has been to such a concert I coincidentally was at. At another one, I learned a trick during the surprise guest(Red Hot Chili Peppers) last act of a festival at RFK stadium for the Tibetan Freedom Concert. Ironically, the fellow I watched doing it appeared to be Native American(you've only got to look a sentence back if you didn't catch it). He was a large guy, but apparently he wanted to avoid having trouble breathing like myself, and clasped his hands chest height in front of him making a space between them and his chest. It worked surprisingly well for me as well, but after about a 20 minute set, my shoelaces were torn off and I probably had quite an endorphin rush. I was either 4 or 5 rows from the front fence, having followed some guy pushing a guy in a wheelchair for a large portion of the way, then edging further on my own. Check out the pictures. Apparently a number of folks thought the show was over and started to trickle out after Pearl Jam finished, but most of us hung around, and then the Chili Peppers took the stage using Pearl Jam's equipment and this is where the surge came. Check out the picture and imagine being at the front of that(that wasnt RHCP, just something to give an idea of the crowd size and how standing still isnt always a choice). I threw in a picture of the tickets with the lineup...um...just because I wanted to show the great acts who like to perform for great causes. ;) The stands weren't necessarily safer. The day before, shortly after my friends and I turned from the stage to go grab something to drink, we saw lighting hit the stands. I thought surely people had died, but I guess one young lady was hit directly and survived, while 10 others were injured. ...Of course that wasn't as hard to read about as hearing one of the speakers tell of the Tibetan Monks and Nuns having electric cattle prods pressed against or inserted into their genitalia. Hats off to Adam Yauch/MCA(RIP) of the Beastie Boys for organizing these events and the protests that some of us stayed to participate in the next day. [IMG]http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1288/1001880535_9575f27d88_o.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://archive.org/services/get-item-image.php?identifier=bt1998-06-14.flac16[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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