Don't be bouncing lighters off Billy's head

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What the fuck is wrong with people.  At least it wasn't as bad as Toots.  

Grateful Dead never played Montana again after Bob got clobbered in the head with a pitcher pitched from the crowd at the Adama Field House in 74.  

People shitting in the crowd, pissing where they stand, puking all over, non stop talking, throwing stuff at artists... it's time we started behaving like a mature responsible audience 

Same as it ever was.

Billy's reaction to being pelted was priceless: "Find out who that was, and sodomize him, please."

https://www.reddit.com/r/BillyStrings/comments/1vhn0hv/full_clean_video_...

It's a jungle out there

He came out night two wearing a hockey helmet yes

> People shitting in the crowd, pissing where they stand

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me had a bit about those things today. I had to google it.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/22/pass-the-pit-diapers-why-a...

From the Guardian article...

"There is a long tradition of people (mostly cis men, let’s be real) pissing into pint-glasses in crowds – and in one particularly horrifying Primavera crowd, directly on to my friend’s leg. Concerts by US psychedelic rockers Phish have become notorious for fans supposedly pooping with gay abandon since an infamous incident in 2015. You can see how it might happen in a boozed-up festival crowd or somewhere drugs are being liberally consumed. And perhaps the Phish experience is so transcendent it elevates the listener outside the workings of their gastrointestinal tract. More desperately, fans could argue they are counterculturally rejecting toileting norms, though this behaviour is actually relatively mainstream: urination was apparently rife as far back as concerts by Frank Sinatra and the Beatles."

Coming to a festival near you, shorter sets and longer shits

who the fuck needs to shit at a show?

in all honesty, i did once. traveling, you know...but it was before the show started. i got a fresh port a john....splashed blue on my butt as my dose was starting.

It didn't occur to me until you used the word "splashed", Turtle, but that could be a splash-guard on Billy's helmet.

> People shitting in the crowd, pissing where they stand, puking all over, non-stop talking, throwing stuff at artists... it's time we started behaving like a mature responsible audience (don't forget the couple humping at the back of floor in the corner, seen that a handful of times)

It's a sick world.

Biz opportunity there... Shakedown/lot enemas! Don't blame me, blame the shitters!

 

>>>He came out night two wearing a hockey helmet

Along with his skateboard t-shirt 

Shitters full

>>>>Same as it ever was.

Saw Aerosmith in 78 and the show before the one I went to Tyler got hit in the face  by a firecracker. 

On March 31, 1986 (Easter Sunday) at the Providence CC, someone threw a bottle and hit Billy during Comes a Time. They closed with Truckin' and Johnny B. Goode. but no encore that night.

https://archive.org/details/gd86-03-31.aud.eD.13463.sbeok.shnf

Another bottle incident with Roger Daltrey in NYC 2002.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcKFSo7Z-zQ

 

And the infamous lollipop that hit David Bowie in the eye in Norway in 2004. Between that and his onstage heart attack not long afterwards, I'm not surprised he quit touring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsfSLzPp1io

Got me thinking that fire works used to be pretty common at shows in the 80's. People randomly lighting a string of firecrackers. I also remember one time in Portland ME a bottle rocket launching from the floor. My memory says it was timed for "Fire Wheel Burning In the Air" but that may not be accurate. 

M 80s in Hartford 81?

I recall a particularly lit up parking lot firework free for all after the SPAC Other Ones show on July 4th in 98!

I learned to duck! US Blues opener was fitting!! Might have lit a few bottle rockets off too..... what a show with Kimock!!