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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: wml7 on July 18, 2011, 08:13:17 am

Title: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: wml7 on July 18, 2011, 08:13:17 am

The freaking stage collapsed the other day.  This isn't some ballon stage either but a full stage setup, crazyness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfqpXNfywT4

Title: Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: Unsanity on July 18, 2011, 03:43:49 pm

RIP Cheap Trick!

Title: Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: chancegardener on July 19, 2011, 01:21:45 am

no -- CT lives on to play another state fair or casino.  And hopefully the 930 again some future day. They were superb at RamsHead Baltimore last year. They continue to be great. Thank the rock gods that they survived the stage collapse in Ottawa. The video of that collapse is something to see ....

Title: Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: Unsanity on July 19, 2011, 02:21:23 am

Rick probably used a 10 neck guitar to shield himself.

Title: Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: Frank Gallagher on July 19, 2011, 10:06:02 am

Even God hates Cheap Trick

Title: Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: Relaxer on July 19, 2011, 10:13:11 am

Au contraire, he doesn't hate them, he was just trying to get them to come play his nephew's Bar Mitzvah.

Title: Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: sweetcell on August 14, 2011, 02:38:40 pm

Quote from: Frank Gallagher on July 19, 2011, 10:06:02 am

Even God hates Cheap Trick

apparently he also hates Sugarland:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/14/indiana.stage.collapse/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRkdwrmzYXg

the flaming lips, INXS, and all NYC indie hipsters are on the naughty list too:
http://www.billboard.com/news/mother-nature-shuts-down-flaming-lips-inxs-1005308482.story
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/massive-flaming-lips-set-piece-220439

Title: Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: bearman🐻 on August 14, 2011, 03:05:28 pm

The stage collapse in Indiana was horrifying. The video is really disturbing.

Title: Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: wml7 on August 14, 2011, 03:19:07 pm

oh my god, that is just horrible with the way that stage came completely down

Title: Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: sweetcell on August 14, 2011, 05:27:41 pm

scariest thing about the indiana collapse was that the stage fell forward, into the crowd. 

so, how long before james ford points out that people shouldn't have been there in the first place and/or that at least they didn't have to sit through a sugarland performance?

Title: Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: Sir HC on August 14, 2011, 07:42:49 pm

This seems to be happening more this year.  I wonder how much is putting a lot of tarps on top to keep the rain off performers.  Maybe they need to have things that would snap off the cover before it could pull down the trusses as the trusses themselves could probably withstand most winds, but add that huge sail (in the Indiana case, it is an insanely huge roof) that can add a lot of force pulling things down.  But if that top snapped off in the high wind before a collapse, all safe but wet.

Title: Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: sweetcell on August 14, 2011, 10:55:50 pm

i'm calling it here & now: these are early indications of the impact of climate change on the concert industry.  you heard it here first.

Title: Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: wml7 on August 18, 2011, 02:10:29 pm

Down goes another stage

http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/08/smith-westerns-stage-collapses-at-pukkelpop-festival/

Title: Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: Stillwater on August 18, 2011, 10:54:23 pm

What is going on?

Title: Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
Post by: nkotb on August 19, 2011, 08:15:58 am

There's no better proof of man-made climate change than all of these stages collapsing.

Quote from: Stillwater on August 18, 2011, 10:54:23 pm

What is going on?