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wml7

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Ottawa Bluesfest
« 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
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Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2011, 03:43:49 pm »
RIP Cheap Trick!
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Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
« Reply #2 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 ....
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Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2011, 02:21:23 am »
Rick probably used a 10 neck guitar to shield himself.
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Frank Gallagher

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Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2011, 10:06:02 am »
Even God hates Cheap Trick
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Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2011, 02:38:40 pm »
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bearman🐻

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Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2011, 03:05:28 pm »
The stage collapse in Indiana was horrifying. The video is really disturbing.
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wml7

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Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2011, 03:19:07 pm »
oh my god, that is just horrible with the way that stage came completely down
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sweetcell

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Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
« Reply #9 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?
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Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
« Reply #10 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.
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Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
« Reply #11 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.
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wml7

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Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2011, 02:10:29 pm »
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Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2011, 10:54:23 pm »
What is going on?
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Re: Ottawa Bluesfest
« Reply #14 on: August 19, 2011, 08:15:58 am »
There's no better proof of man-made climate change than all of these stages collapsing.

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What is going on?
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