![]() ![]() ![]() The drummer returned, but only briefly and collapsed again, this time heading off to the hospital to get his stomach pumped. Or watch another take below.) As the roadies tried to bring him back to form, The Who played as a trio. (Watch a condensed version of the whole affair, from start to finish, above. Then, halfway through “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” he slumped onto his drums. During the show, Moon’s drumming became sloppy and slow, writes his biographer Tony Fletcher. The drugs worked all too well, not least because the tranquillizers actually ended up being PCP. When Moon vomited before the concert, he ended up taking some tranquillizers to calm down. It was, after all, their first show on American soil in two years. But despite that, Keith Moon, the band’s drummer, had a case of the nerves. The Who came to California with its album Quadrophenia topping the charts. Though COVID delayed the original plans, countless Cincinnatians are eagerly awaiting when the band can make good on that promise - and no doubt hoping this time for a show that will be memorable for all the right reasons.In November 1973, Scot Halpin, a 19-year-old kid, scalped tickets to The Who concert in San Francisco, California. Little did he know that he’d wind up playing drums for the band that night - that his name would end up etched in the annals of rock ‘n’ roll. Daltrey's bandmate Pete Townshend also announced that year that The Who would soon be returning to play Cincinnati for the first time in four decades. The concert was a pretty good example of how we and The Who have all done that with resilience, a healthy sense of humor, good friends and the music of our lives. The visit represented a real moment of healing for many. In 2019, The Who's Roger Daltrey made a visit to that high school to meet with organizers of a scholarship fund in memory of those students. That night, several of the victims had been just teenagers, three attending the same high school. As Cincinnatian Paul Wertheimer (who watched the news of that day in 1979 unfold and was moved to become an expert in crowd control) told the Los Angeles Times, the Houston incident was "preventable."Īs the Cincinnati Enquirer noted, disasters such as these inevitably bring up painful memories for survivors of The Who concert disaster. Given recent events, though, cities may once again be reassessing its merits. In the aftermath of the event, Cincinnati banned festival seating, though it lifted the ban some 24 years after the disaster, citing improvements in crown-control procedures, says History. "It's this girl," he told Rolling Stone, "and her head was at my waist and she said, 'Excuse me, my feet are back there somewhere.' She was horizontal." He went on to describe feeling a tug on his arm amid the crush of bodies, only to look down and see a young woman asking for his help. Phil Sheridan went on to describe the crush of people trying to get through turnstiles - some three at a time as ticket takers tried in vain to ask for their tickets. I saw guys with blue lips – they couldn't get oxygen." I went down twice and wasn't sure that I would make it. It would be nearly half an hour before police could make their way through the crowd.Īs attendee Mark Helmkamp later described the scene to Rolling Stone, "it was a slow squeeze, not a stampede. Concertgoers streamed through the entry en masse. With no visible security and too few police, the few trying to control the situation were simply overpowered. Around 7:20, the crowd surged and one set of doors shattered. ![]()
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