As soon as I was at the top the first thing, I saw was two what appeared to me to be locals (I was on the whole tour and never saw these people.) As the ushers and cops were trying to put some of the boards in place as they said, "go ahead and put them back we will just tear it down again. When they were all in, I headed back up to the fence. As we stood in shocked amazement, I knew it was bad. Then the boards started coming off the fence. The first person over I saw hopped the chain link on the side. I in no way applauded this group as I started screaming GO DOWN GO DOWN they are going to push the fence down on us. I saw one deadhead who WAS on tour running the length of the crowd urging them on. One was walking back and forth with a dog. I heard the commotion outside and looked through the fence and saw people as much as three deep at a marked off line where about six cops stood in a line. ain't that just like the Dead? There's always more than "a concert"!! It was surreal to say the least and the therapy worked but VERY differently than I thought it would. Louis tix thinking it'd be more of the same perhaps (2 people died I think from a porch collapse after a show there) & hung out in Chicago & ended up catching the last 2 shows ever. Sooo, when they canceled the next day we sold our St. i felt bad since my body contributed to the number of people outside even though we did nothing "wrong". Man the Boys were so pissed that when they left the venue the tour bus was in a constant semi-truck horn mode. We did end up force-laughing it off to just get through the night not realizing what the fools had actually done until after the show & our friend told us the "inside" story. We were horrified & of course this all spun us into a funky trip from hell. But when I saw the mob headed up the hill toward the gates/fence we stood up in awe, wondering what violence the cops did to trigger this since these jackbooted idiots were EVERYWHERE that night. Me & a friend were tripping our brains out by the water listening while another friend was inside taping. I was there outside too but with tix for the next night & for the rest of the tour. It was only my 3rd show (gimme a break, I lived in oppressive Arkansas until around that time). I was embarrassed to even be outside on the grounds at all after the nioght was over. I was 21 at the time & felt 60 because of what the youth did that night. I was there for "therapy" to deal with the OKC bombing fallout as my sister had died in it, but that whole week taught me other lessons about life like the utter stupidity & selfishness the youth had become & how NOT to be when faced with shitty situations.
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