>>>>>>>>>>So they want to bust the promoter/owner of the event because people at the show did drugs?
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>>>>>>>>>That's not what was claimed. The claim was that there were open sales of "cocaine, marijuana, LSD, Ecstasy, hallucinogenic mushrooms, opium and marijuana-laced food at Camp Zoe in a Middle East bazaar-like atmosphere where drug vendors shouted sales pitches to passers-by". This with the promotors knowledge and, presumably, consent.
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>>>>>>>>Have you been to a concert in the USA? This is nothing new or unique.
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>>>>>>>Maybe not unique but if the description is correct then not common either.
>>>>>>>(I've been to about 1500 concerts in the States, in every State - I was a road manager for a *long* time.)
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>>>>>>For which band(s)? If it was, say, the Osmonds, your experiences may not have been "representative" :)
>>>>>LOL. Lots of bands but the Osmonds, thankfully, were not among them.....
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>>>>Wild guess - the B52's ?
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>>>There are a few Google hits for ["viv phillips" "road manager"] and ["vivian phillips" "road manager"].
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>>Traffic in '74?
>Before and after.
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>>I wore the grooves out of "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" and "Shootout at the Fantasy Factory"
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>That was the era of 1/2 hr jams on stage (g)
And audiences who loved it. I was at a Grateful Dead concert where there was a 58 minute "Dark Star" that includes about a 20 minute percussion solo <g> You've got to do have a *lot* of acid or psilocybin coursing through the crowd to make that work. Without Owsley, Garcia would have been regulated to playing jug band with Old and in the Way.
Of course an uncle told me of a Benny Goodman concert where in the middle of Sing Sing Sing the band just left the stage while Krupa burned off the benzadrine for what seemed like hours
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj-4FN2umskhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOVZ1gZDexo&feature=relatedoh, man I can't leave out the 1938 Carnegie Hall recording. It don't get no better than this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbzXS49937A&feature=related
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