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Location: south east Michigan | I found it on thewho.net . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | So Brad, are you a who fan? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Brad, A who fan?
...Every morning the doors open for work, he tramples 11 customers. |
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Location: CT | Anyone remember the days before artist endorsements? Fender had the Tele and the Strat, Gibson had the Standard, the Custom, and S.G., Ovation had the Balladeer and the Legend etc. Now you look thru a Musicians Friend catalogue and there are 5 pages of Strats! Or you can get an 'aged' guitar and pay to have someone beat it up before you buy it. The $2,500 L.P. Custom looks just like the $7,000 special order one. I can't tell what anyone is playing anymore. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Quote by Jeff W.
Brad, A who fan?
...Every morning the doors open for work, he tramples 11 customers.
December 3rd, 1979, Cincinnati, Ohio. The building was called Riverfront Coliseum in those days (today it's called Fifth Third Megaconglomerate Bank Center or something Godawful like that). It was a big old barn then and it's a big old barn now. This is where major concerts were held in the days before they built Riverbend, the beautiful outdoor ampitheatre about 10 miles downstream at Coney Island. That was also in the days before exclusively-reserved seating. We'd been going to concerts for years in Cincinnati and had never had a problem. The Who sounded really good that night, even with the less-than-perfect acoustics. We had no idea what had happened outside; we found out later when we got home and played back about 6 messages from our parents (that was back in the days before cell phones, too) wanting to make sure we were all right.
Eleven people died that night. It should have made more of an impression, but for some reason it didn't. We went back down there for a James Taylor concert and thought nothing of it-- although by then the policy had changed to reserved seating only. It never occurred to us that there but for the grace of God could have gone us. Looking back, I think we were more than a little callous. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | BTW, The Who (two of them, anyway-- maybe they can call it "Who's Left?") is going out on tour again. Don't imagine there will be an "O's" on stage. |
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A Stab In The Heart!!!! Nancy Wilson Signature Martin....
