Raining? It was pouring, man...especially on the way home after
Metallica. We had to wait for about 2 hours (if i remember correctly)
to get out of the parking lot, the back-road and finally onto the main
road to get us to Portland for the night. We were up front for
Metallica too.....got a couple of cool pics from that. I can remember
turning around and seeing, what was it? 60,000 people behind me...
what a trip. I went to Quebec city that winter to see them on the
Justice tour with Queensryche. Cool pics from that one too, but
Oxford was way better.......
Shovelhead.
We tried to leave when it started pouring and ended up sitting in the car
going NOWHERE for two hours or so. We'd roll down the windows and listen to
the Scorpions go on stage for about 2 minutes, then lightning would strike
and there would be silence for half an hour then they'd come back. When we
go almost to the road a cop told us that there wsa an accident and that we
couldn't leave if we wanted to, so they actually let us back in and we saw
the end of the Scorpions set. A couple of hours later all the lights went
out and the thousand or so people left groaned collectively before Van Halen
"erupted" onto the stage. Sammy Hagar said he felt REALLY bad and that
they'd play as long as there were people still standing. We knew he was
lying, but at that point we'd take what we could get. I know people that
went to the Foxboro show and several of them passed out with HEATSTROKE, I'm
not sure who had it worse!
JK
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I drove up the night before with my friends. We ended up driving next to a tour truck from Van Halen. We talked with my using a portable CB radio! He stopped and gave us guitar picks and tried to get my girlfriend to "ride with him". We slept in a pile of sawdust at a local sawmill. On the way to the speedway in the morning, some guy with a van full of family pulled up to my left in heavy traffic and slowly forced me off the road. Traffic was so heavy that as we move forward a bit, I saw a cop and hopped out of my running car and walked over to the cop and explained. He pulled the guy over and we all laughed and pointed and were generally being annoying teenagers. When we finally got to the event I remember being nervous as I gave my ticket at the gate. They were doing the soundcheck playing AC/DC and it was making me heart skip beats as I walked in. I stayed for all of it. Metallica rocked! Van Halen orbited the stage in their helicopter and left...Fuck you Van Halen! Still love them though. After the show we jumped back in my 5.0 and waited in traffic for hours. When traffic finally started moving, everyone was doing about 30 but still "bumper to bumper". Suddenly there was a chain reaction pileup. There was a break in oncoming traffic and I swerved into the oncoming lane. My friends in the car behind us didn't and the pileup continued. The pileup included at least 25 cars, maybe 40...lots! We pulled into a side street and watched as the police arrived to sort out the mess. A couple of the people in the pileup blamed us and the cops eventually noticed us sitting at a distance and came and got me. I was feeling cocky and told him they were mad because I had better reactions than them...how could it be my fault if I was the only person in the middle of a 25+ car pileup that wasn't involved. The cops took my info and let us go. Good thing they didn't search the car!