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electric_blue68

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7. While in NYC (and not there) I as a super Who fan...

Reply to hurple (Reply #5)

Tue Nov 9, 2021, 01:35 AM

Nov 2021

... was horrified at what happened. As was the band who weren't told till after the show.

A year or so ago Roger Daltrey (singer/front man) went to visit a HS in one of the surrounding towns where they lost 4 students, and had set up a permanent memorial.

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It is a sad day for Houston and what happened at the concert. [View all] Texaswitchy Nov 2021 OP

Laws could have been in place to allow police or fire marshal to say no. Tetrachloride Nov 2021 #1

When the kids knocked down the fence earlier the concert should have been over Texaswitchy Nov 2021 #2

Ah , i wasn't aware of this detail. Not my side of the Atlantic. Tetrachloride Nov 2021 #3

The concert was outdoors. Texaswitchy Nov 2021 #4

They didn't require tickets for this ? JI7 Nov 2021 #8

1979. Cincinnati. 11 people died at a Who concert. hurple Nov 2021 #5

Money Texaswitchy Nov 2021 #6

While in NYC (and not there) I as a super Who fan... electric_blue68 Nov 2021 #7

The local station WCPO made a great documentary about that hurple Nov 2021 #10

Thank you. electric_blue68 Nov 2021 #13

Yes, especially when you know it will be a largely young audience JI7 Nov 2021 #9

That moron will have to pay a shitload of money for insurance to play anywhere else. BlackSkimmer Nov 2021 #11

That's horrible XanaDUer2 Nov 2021 #12