>>>>>>>>>>>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)
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>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.
LOL
>Without Owsley, Garcia would have been regulated to playing jug band with Old and in the Way.
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>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
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj-4FN2umsk>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOVZ1gZDexo&feature=related>
>oh, man I can't leave out the 1938 Carnegie Hall recording. It don't get no better than this
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbzXS49937A&feature=relatedBit lost on me since I'm not a greart jazz fan I'm afraid....
