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  1. On 4/18/2018 at 2:04 AM, Quasimofo said:

    Alpine Valley in Wisconsin. Saw the Doobies there in 1978.

    The Rolling Stones, Steel Wheels Tour, 1989. Men's room flooded half of an inch deep in nasty liquid. I pissed on a tree behind the chalet. More satisfying than peeing in my backyard.

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  2. MECCA Arena (1979). The New Barbarians fronted by Ron Wood included Keith Richards, Stanley Clarke on bass and Bobby Keys on saxophone. For months there was speculation on who was to be their special guest(s). Mick Jagger? Mick Taylor? Jeff Beck? Eric Clapton? When the band completed the encore and the lights came up, it became apparent there wasn't a special guest. A riot broke out on the arena floor. People were throwing chairs, throwing bottles, fighting - I grabbed my girlfriend's hand and led her up the stairs to the topmost exits.

    Harley Davidson 100th Anniversary (2003). For months there was speculation on who the top secret surprise headliner at the free concert would be. The Rolling Stones? Aerosmith? Several metal bands (Motorhead?) which would appeal to bikers? Nope. Elton "Candle In The Wind" John walked out on stage. "I'd sing you a song about motorcycles but I don't know any." No riot. The capacity crowd quickly left, kind of like the Shaggy to Surly exodus.

    Electric Ballroom (1981). Wendy O Williams of the Plasmatics arrested onstage while simulating sex with a sledgehammer. Near riot as a dozen audience members were arrested for throwing things at the police.  

    Summerfest (1972). George Carlin arrested for saying The Seven Words You Can't Say On TV.  Carlin's career was not doing well as he shifted from a short-haired "square" doing his Hippy Dippy Weatherman routine to a long-haired stoned hippy. Carlin said he wasn't aware there were children in the audience and claimed as he was leaving the stage he detoured to dispose of a gram of cocaine. Bullshit. He had been warned not to do the Seven Words. Summerfest was still family oriented and it was fairly early in the evening. Police were waiting for him in the wings; there was no cocaine disposal detour. And Carlin cried in the bullpen and jail cell which also gets omitted. But the national publicity worked wonders for him. 

  3. 1 hour ago, TornACL said:

    She claimed that there "Was not enough for everybody" and they are all "so big" that she'd just go ahead and cut them up since no one would eat a whole one.

    Your co-worker might not have taken credit for bringing in treats but odds are she wouldn't correct anyone's mistaken beliefs it was her either.

  4. 48 minutes ago, wd40 said:

    did any y'all ever replace the webbing in one of these?  my folks bought a roll of webbing material, planning to do our whole set (of two--- my brother and I had to sit on the ground), but only did one because it was such a PITA.  by the time the webbing went bad, the rivets were all shot anyway.   just the whole thought process was diferent, back then.  seems like we just throw everything away, now.

     

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    I looked forward to projects like that because it meant spending time with my dad repairing things. Good life lessons.

  5. 6 hours ago, Lone Star Horn said:

    Have you ever had an experience with a tire rolling on the highway? I have, and it happens too damn fast to think of all the variables. You have to go with what's the least destructive/safest to do. 

    Not a tire. A metal bracket came off a truck in heavy traffic. My reaction was to duck and remain in my lane. Hit within the strike zone. A little higher and it would have come through the windshield. Amazingly the whole left headlight assembly was taken out. Just the wire connectors and a plastic shard of the housing remained. No other damage. Sounded like a shotgun blast. It happens too fast. 

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  6. 19 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

    I was 6. Not sure I would have appreciated the greatness.

    However, I could have seen Mick Taylor live and lived a happier life.

    You are a Mick Taylor fan? A buddy of mine shared a story with me. Occurred four years after Taylor left the Stones.

    My friend worked as a bouncer at Up And Under on Brady Street in Milwaukee. Dive bar with a small stage; the neighborhood hadn't yet suffered through gentrification. 

    Mick Taylor was the scheduled entertainment one night. The basement of the club served as the green room. I don't remember a poured concrete floor at the time. The building was over one hundred years old so it may have been the original dirt floor and timber and stone walls. On the top of a filthy old washing machine used for laundering bar towels, Mick Taylor was sorting out pills and preparing a line of coke or a speedball. My friend had to help him upstairs to a barstool on stage. The set lasted forty-five minutes and that was it for the evening. Hailed a taxi and carried him out to the car.   

    After the Stone's American Tour 1972 concert, I next saw Taylor in Chicago in 2013 with the Stones as a guest artist. Played on Midnight Rambler and Satisfaction. Really great. Strange that he hadn't been included on Honky Tonk Women as he'd been the one to convince Mick and Keith it was a slow blues song.

    Then, a few years later, in one of those Glimmer Twin twists when we'll never know if it was truly an oversight or if Mick and Keith intentionally slighted Taylor:
     https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/658838/Rolling-Stones-forgotten-Mick-Taylor-odds-world-best-known-rock-band

     

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