I vividly remember Montreal 1. It was part insanity and part hilarity. They opened the doors early because Im pretty sure had they of not there would have been a riot. People had been lining up all day (myself included) but yellow caution tape had been used for the GA line instead of real barricades. Once hundreds and and i'd even say thousands of people arrived, the line pretty much got destroyed and collapsed and turned into a giant crowd of people. At probably about 3pm, everyone thought the doors were open (for some stupid reason), and all started pushing towards the front. There was so much pressure it was hard to breathe, short people actually started leaving because they couldn't handle it. The security guards ended up having to make a man-made barricade holding each others hands to keep us back. Security and fans were badmouthing each other, even shoving each other around. It got pretty nasty. Once they started letting people in mid-afternoon-ish, security was yelling and telling everyone to run. I remember they scanned my ticket, I looked at the security guard and he was wide eyed yelling at me to run as if there was some sort of tsunami approaching behind me. I'll never forget thousands upon thousands of people sprinting onto the grounds once the doors opened. Sand flying everywhere, it was like some sort of movie scene. You could have been crushed had you of fallen. But i had never seen that kind of encouragement from security staff before, telling you to run as fast as you can onto the grounds. All that hoopla for nothing, because once you ran onto the grounds and got your spot, you still had a few hours to go. And then the rainstorm that hit during Moment of Surrender. Seriously that was a legendary night.
I'm glad we went through that traumatic experience together. 
. Setlist got a bit soaked but luckily it survived.
