1st Annual Barndance and Bar B. Q. Sep 1, 1974 (49 years ago) Memorial Stadium Austin, Texas, United States
Jimmy Page played with Bad Company on their encore
80,000+ people, Hot as Hell. Was a great concert, none the less.
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Bob, you're spot on. I was one of the fools squeezed into the center of the infield, sweating my tush off. A friend and I were able to squirm through the crowd to the concession stands under the stadium and scored something to drink. We witnessed one of the BBQ vendors run away after his stand while it was mobbed by a bunch of hungry hippies, grabbing food with their hands. We also managed to squirm our way up to the stage to see Joe Cocker up close. One strange acting dude. But he was outdone by the drug-crazed crowd around us. It became tolerable when the sun went down and ZZ Top and Santana played. That was a day I will never forget!
Hot as Hades that afternoon. I remember getting there about 30 minutes after the gates opened and they had already run out of food and drinks. They wound up opening all the gates so you could come in and out (no checks or stamps). Everyone packed the infield till there was no room to move. Most of the crowd was very chill, but still kinda hacked off at the lack of food, water, and facilities. By the end of the night the stadium was pretty well torn up, the infield taking the brunt of the hurt. During hurricane Rita when all of Houston tried to evacuate at once, I had crossed over IH-10 near Columbus and the sight of all the standstill cars 4 and 5 deep up and down the frontage roads and freeway with litter ankle high, reminded me of the trashed out / torn up infield at Memorial Stadium that day. Bob McD
This was a concert for the ages. ZZ Top's Tre Hombres Tour, Bad Company's debut, a drunk as a skunk, throwing up Joe Cocker, Santana, fantastic, as usual. This concert was sponsored by UT's student body. It was expected to draw 4-6 thousand people, instead there was 85,000. It was total chaos.
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