Roger Daltrey!!!!

[Seabird]

The Who was my first concert too. It was the same tour as the one where the people got trampled but not the same show. I was Who obsessed as a teenager in the 1970s. I still have some of my collection.

 

[tiger_luver64]

I heard about the people being trampled, don't know why they did though...anybody wanna tell me?

 

[U2Kitten]

We used to have a People mag with that story in it. My family saved a lot of People mags, I still have the Live Aid one and need to get the big Bono pic scanned!

But back to the subject. It was Dec. 1979 in Cincinnatti, Ohio. People were waiting outside to be let in to run for their spot in GA. Someone up front heard a noise from the soundcheck and screamed the show was starting, which started a mad rush to get in. There weren't enough doors open, and several fans were crushed to death or injured in the stampede

It's not the only concert that has happened at, and that's why for years many places in the US banned GA. It hasn't only happened at concerts. In 1896, at the coronation celebration for Tsar Nicholas II, people had come from miles around and camped in a field where the Tsar was to come. The first so many got a commemorative mug, so everyone wanted to be as close as possible to the front. Like in the Who crowd, someone screamed something that it was starting, and there wouldn't be as many mugs as had been previously promised, so everyone started to push and shove and run. There was a fence in front, with a ditch on the other side. The fence broke as the crowd surged and most of the people up front fell in the ditch, and were stampeded over by the ones rushing forward. Others in the crowd were trampled too, over a thousand, some say as many as 2 or 3 thousand died So you can't blame rock and roll. It's people.

 

[Seabird]

It was 11 fans who were trampled. The Who were very upset about it.

I also remember the day Keith Moon died. I was driving down the road and heard it on the radio I was in 11th grade.

I have an online friend who met Roger at his house in 1979!

 

[najeena]

How things have changed. Moon and Entwistle are dead from drugs, and Townsend is trying to live down his kiddie-porn arrest. Roger is only guilty of over-acting. His History Channel series was amusing, though. I wish they had looked at European history as well as American. How would Rog have fared being a Roman soldier, for instance?

 

[tiger_luver64]

Oh, I loved his history show, but it was on too late and i coudlnt stay up and watch it. POO! I wonder what Keith would be like if he was still alive....hhhmmm.

 

[Billie Midol]

The Who was my first concert, I thought Roger was God's gift to women. The hair, the face, the body... I was right up front, and I was never the same after that. Neither was my hearing, coins souded like aluminum to me for month. It was the mid-seventies, no one thought twice about the damage the volume might cause. I didn't care, I loved the whole experience. Now, thirty years later I'm ready to be wowed by U2, my first concert in seventeen years.

OMG!! LMAO!!! I was the same way,najeena!!! Daltrey was my first love!!! I,too, thought he was God's gift to women!!!

He's still adorable today at age 60! Of course he doesn't look the same but it's his personality! He is such a cute 60 year old,you know what I mean?

 

[Billie Midol]

How things have changed. Moon and Entwistle are dead from drugs, and Townsend is trying to live down his kiddie-porn arrest. Roger is only guilty of over-acting. His History Channel series was amusing, though. I wish they had looked at European history as well as American. How would Rog have fared being a Roman soldier, for instance?

That outfit the Roman soldiers wore would look great on his hard body that's for sure!

 

[Billie Midol]

I posted a few pics of Daltrey and Townshend in the "Roger and Pete" thread,too!