bobbystar Posted September 24, 2015 Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 I have a few. Buffalo 89, guy is having a bad trip in the lot, the ambulance comes to take him away, whats the guy do jumps up on top. The 2 guys driving it get it in and drive away, crazy. The guys on top looks like he is surfing and all of a sudden does a spring jump off the top, onto the pavement didnt end well. Same show, during row jimmy guy gets up on top of a food takes his cloths off and starts rowing, cops went up and got him, that poor bastard landed hard, right next to me, and the pittsburgh riots, saw a guy get on the ground have 4 horses walk right over him, crazy crazy night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Mango Posted September 24, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 Terrapin hill, 2011 or so, kids tries to jump into a massive burning tree stump... Twice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted September 24, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 Mango, you beat me to it! In all my off-and-on years, that one ranks up there as far as stuff I still remember and that actually maybe happened. And it was no little fire, either, but a great big festie blazing huge flame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Dead duck Posted September 24, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 Ive seen somw run of the mill weird stuff at shows, but in the Kentucky Derby infield, the only time i went, i saw a guy on all fours violently puking, while his buddy(I assume it was a buddy) stood behind him peeing on him. And sone of the biggest fires ive ever been around have been down on the terrapin hill farm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Rude Posted September 24, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 images hosting "Thousands Riot, Throw Bottles, Rocks, Outside Grateful Dead Concert" NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Several thousand people rioted Sunday night outside a Grateful Dead concert, throwing rocks and bottles and damaging some police cars before officers used tear gas to disperse the crowd. Four police officers were hurt, although the extent of their injuries was not immediately available, said Cpl. Clint Bundy of the Indiana State Police. He said the riot began in the parking lot of the outdoor arena, about 15 miles from Indianapolis, when 3,000 to 4,000 people rushed the security wall behind the stage and tore it down, prompting officers to call for help. "It started as a large group, and then it just grew and it got unruly," Bundy said. Two hundred officers from the Indiana State Police, Hamilton County Sherrif's Department and the Fishers and Noblesville Police Departments responded to the riot. Arrests were made but figures were not immediately available. "We object to this sort of behavior," said Grateful Dead spokesman Dennis McNally. "It's characteristic of some youth. Unfortunately, when you have a public event, you can't dictate ecessarily who's going to show up." (transmitted around 12:30 a.m. EST Monday, 7-3-95) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Rude Posted September 24, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 There was a 2nd pic in the Indy star the next day that had a cop holding a dog and a hippie trying to juke the dog. The dog was mid bark in tbe pic. I have the article laminated at my moms somewhere. The headline "Tonight's Show is Dead" with of course dead meaning canceled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Tom Banjo Posted September 24, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 Act like that and you don't deserve a show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP cm_hayden Posted September 24, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 A couple engaged in oral sex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Tea Posted September 24, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 Some weird things I've seen are: Doods who can still run wicked fast in zip-cuffs Multiple Moon Landings Crazies snapping valves off of tanks Close Encounters ship landing on stage 'Vendors' getting mugged Jerry turning into a turtle during Terrapin the bowels of the Omni The whole stage turning into a clay-mation story board naked chick swimming in the foulest excuse of a lake. More like a heavy metal retention pond. naked chick with painted body in 0 degree weather The booking/processing area under the Meadowlands active cult recruitment I guy named Rambo fall 30-40 feet while trying to jump from a building into a tree. Barely a scratch on him. A ball of lightning - I think. The 'cave' in the back of the Richfield Coliseum produced images that to this day make me want to gouge my eyeballs out. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. It gets the weirdest prize because of the diversity of activities all happening at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Rude Posted September 24, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 Some weird things I've seen are: Multiple Moon Landings Close Encounters ship landing on stage Jerry turning into a turtle during Terrapin The whole stage turning into a clay-mation story board A ball of lightning - I think. Sounds like you had fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Rude Posted September 24, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 Act like that and you don't deserve a show. It was all coming to and end 1 way or another. Within another couple years there wouldn't be venues left to play or companies willing to insure them. We went for the show but people dealing on the lot had the non-jail life expectancy of a street corner crack dealer. A home town friend got a 5 year sentence 1st offense for a few doses and no telling how many undercovers there were at any given show. Towns were tired of the circus and cops have never liked hippies and they clamped down. If Jerry hadn't passed and they did deer creek again, I'd guess 100+ people were gonna get busted the next year. I remember leaving through the holes in the fence at that show and all the cops started running up towards us until they realized the show was over and we were just taking the short cut exit. My memory is foggy but about every 10 feet there was a board or 2 gone. People inside were breaking the fence for people to enter. It was an ugly scene. 2nd set they left the house lights on too so spotlights were shining in our face. That was supposedly b/c Jerry got a death threat b4 the show. Gate crashers suck stickers were the hot item at soldier field a few days later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP 2muchfun Posted September 24, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 24, 2015 A couple walking together together lovingly into a porta potty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Michael Doc Watson Posted September 25, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 About four or five hundred thousand young people all together at a couple different festivals with no fights, no hazel beteen people...everyone just being friends and lovers....just the way things ought to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian NJ Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Weird things I have seen at shows: Yes Mango and Chuck that did happen at Terrapin Hill DSO Alpine Valley 89 or 90 or 91 Torrential rain for days, main path through parking field a mud pit. As we were walking up the path the crowd ahead was parting like the red sea as we approached the parting we see a woman in sun dress laying in the mud path w dress pulled down and up, left hand caressing right breast tweeking nipple and right hand furiously pleasuring herself all the while hysterically laughing. NLQP DSO maybe same woman nicknamed sandy crotch girl… Dead show Midwest around 1990 saw people enjoying and really getting down dancing to Victim or Crime. Dead Cover band maybe Bears Choice at forest lodge early 80s ? night after or before Thanksgiving? They set the venue up to have parabolic images everywhere you looked. Things in frontal vision were just feet away and by turning your head to view through peripheral vision they would smoothly glide to their proper distance 30ft away as if seeing the world through 5000 mics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetivanmarshall Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 I was a bass player in a punk band a really long time ago and our guitar player vomited on stage,scooped it up and ate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advisory Board Dr. Barry Posted September 25, 2015 Advisory Board Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Alpine Valley 89 or 90 or 91 Torrential rain for days, main path through parking field a mud pit. As we were walking up the path the crowd ahead was parting like the red sea as we approached the parting we see a woman in sun dress laying in the mud path w dress pulled down and up, left hand caressing right breast tweeking nipple and right hand furiously pleasuring herself all the while hysterically laughing. I was there. I saw that woman too! The rain was biblical. The tent city was Noah's Ark at about 3 or 4 in the morning. Rivers and streams around floating tents. Quite a scene. Dr. B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP gr8fulpair Posted September 25, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Dead show Midwest around 1990 saw people enjoying and really getting down dancing to Victim or Crime. LOL Brian! That made my day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Rude Posted September 26, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 Dead show Midwest around 1990 saw people enjoying and really getting down dancing to Victim or Crime.LOL Brian! That made my day! Hey now. Victim isn't that bad. Plus it's a perfect song to describe dead tour around when it was written and became even more fitting as the years passed. Was the Dead the victim of all the trouble surrounding later tours or were they the cause/crime. At least that's how I viewed that song. And I think it was the 1st song to start 2nd set of the gate crashing at deer creek so I'm guessing that was intentional. And the answer is they were the crime. Being so apolitical and the band did a bobby take a step back of their own into isolationism and refused to confront the reality of the external tour environment. Every time there was trouble they would denounce it but really did nothing to try to "fix" the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP gr8fulpair Posted September 26, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 Your explanation just made Brian's story funnier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Ammagamalin Crew Posted September 26, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 Dead show Midwest around 1990 saw people enjoying and really getting down dancing to Victim or Crime.LOL Brian! That made my day! Hey now. Victim isn't that bad. Plus it's a perfect song to describe dead tour around when it was written and became even more fitting as the years passed. Was the Dead the victim of all the trouble surrounding later tours or were they the cause/crime. At least that's how I viewed that song. And I think it was the 1st song to start 2nd set of the gate crashing at deer creek so I'm guessing that was intentional. And the answer is they were the crime. Being so apolitical and the band did a bobby take a step back of their own into isolationism and refused to confront the reality of the external tour environment. Every time there was trouble they would denounce it but really did nothing to try to "fix" the situation. Fire's first verse bled into victim. I always raised my hand when Bobby asked: "Is there anyone else that needs to know?". You're right on with it being a song of the times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy-O Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 Co-ed showers at a golf course outside of Hamilton, ON. The course was closed for the season but let everyone camp. They opened up the clubhouse and the rest was history. I can still hear Willie the Groundskeeper (he was really Scottish) running around apoplectic about such indecency. I was without contact lenses at the time and therefore heard it all but saw nothing. What luck. Part Two: Was woken up by the OPP outside my tent asking me if I knew I was sleeping on the 17 green. They let me go back to sleep. Now if you know the OPP, that's weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy-O Posted September 26, 2015 Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 A lot of the love potion at those '90 Alpine shows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP acududeman Posted September 26, 2015 Forum MVP Report Share Posted September 26, 2015 1) RFK '86 - A very stoned chap flapping around like a bird in a mud puddle near the rear of the in-field. He was ecstatic.... 2) Hampton '84 - At half-time trying I was trying to understand why the seas were parting on the floor close to the front of the stage. I later learned......very stoned and sweaty naked dude. 3) Hartford '83 (my 1st show & 1st lysergic excursion) - Everything was weird and mind-blowing, actually. I was confused by the olfactory "hallucination" that came & went....I learned a few shows later that it was patchouli. Also, I was amazed that the band had a kid playing keyboards....it was Brent, of course.......silly drugs...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franknkeene Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 I had to choose from 1 of 5 experiences that I wanted to share. 2 belonged to SPAC, 1 belonged to Syracuse Carrier Dome and the other Olympic Arena in Lake Placid. No shortage of stories...but I'll share this one- It was either Portland, ME 1986 -OR- Worcester, MA (some year in the 80s) where an anti Grateful Dead bible thumper was preaching an anti GD rant. The weird thing was that for part of his time he was in the middle of the a busy intersection with cars whizzing by. He wore a long black trench coat and waving the bible above his head. He quoted lyrics from Friend of the Devil in support of his anti GD message. To escalate the scene, deadheads were risking the traffic running out to where he stood (like Frogger) and tagging the back of his coat with stickers and bumper stickers. He would avoid some, but when multiple people came from multiple directions he could not completely aviod. I still remember the back of coat covered in bumper stickers. I respect freedom of religion and speech (and his courage) but I'm not sure what anyone could have expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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