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davidt
on Thursday April 14 2005, @09:00AM
Jeff writes:
Treble has published two new Morrissey-related articles! Review of Live At Earls Court and a column about being a Latino Morrissey fan.
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Latino writes about being a Moz fan, Live at Earls Court review - Treble
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I had a similar feeling.... (Score:1)
"But it was the lack of voice or Morrissey not showing up at all that put a strain on my admiration for the man and his art. It was during the Kill Uncle tour, his first journey to American since he left The Smiths, and I had tickets to a show in Austin. I could remember the anticipation I was going to see my hero in the flesh. The day arrived, driving to Austin from San Antonio my heart was beating fast, it would be just as a magical night as the moment when I first heard his voice in my brothers car ten years earlier. But, it never happened. The night before in Dallas the crowd rushed the stage and Morrissey ran off stopping the show earlier than expected. The venue where Morrissey was supposed to play, the City Coliseum, had an old fault stage and his tour crew said it was unstable so they canceled the show. My friend said it best, "I thought I was going to be depressed but this is worse having not seeing him at all."
I saw Morrissey in 1991 at the Costa Mesa show and it was great. I remember bringing in a cheap disposable camera and taking pictues but they never turned out.
He came back later in the year and I saw him at the UCLA Pauley Pavilion, WESTWOOD (LOS ANGELES), CA show.
At this show, from Passions Just Like Mine:
"Southern California is notorious for being the scene of the wildest Morrissey concerts. This one started quietly. Morrissey tried to boost the atmosphere by throwing a tambourine into the crowd but it didn't seem to work. Before "King Leer", he said "Thank you friends... you know that we're fully grown adults and if you sh-sh-sh-sh... if you really want to stay in your seats then that's ok, but if you don't want to stay in your seats, you don't have to". It took a few seconds, but eventually there was a mass movement of the crowd towards the stage. Before the next song, Morrissey added "Now that we're all out of our seats, please don't tread on anybody's toes". By the time that song was over, many people had already been injured from the pressure, or from tripping into the folding chairs.
Before "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful" Morrissey said "I think we're being told that this concert has to end... but maybe it can continue if we all stand very still". He didn't have time to finish the song. A few verses into it he was escorted off stage, the band following him. The manager announced that the concert would continue if people would cooperate and help settle everything down. However there were too many people injured, and they were afraid there would be more if they went back on, even if the crowd had quieted down. After waiting for an hour, the concert was finally stopped and people were asked to leave the venue.
Of course, many fans were upset by this, setting off fire alarms on their way out, and rushing to the merchandise stand for t-shirts, programs and posters (a few thousand dollars worth of merchandise were supposedly stolen). Of course more people were injured there, the television news people and the police riot gear quickly arrived on the premises, the latter dispersing the remaining troublemakers"
Because of the "trouble" that I and others I know felt Morrissey caused, I was "mad" at him and didn't go to any shows until 2002, even though he played a number of times in cities that I lived during that course of time.
I don't recall the event exactly as described in the Passions narative though. After the hour long wait hoping for the show to resume, everyone was told to leave, and as soon as we were outside, the "riot" police, with helmets and night-sticks were waiting outside for any potential trouble. My thought was that the hour long wait was to get the police there, not waiting to get the show back on - I never felt like they were going to resume the show after the people started getting trampled and hurt down by the stage. I had never heard about the looting of the merchandise stand, and I never saw any Televison reporters there.
I have the bootleg of this show and it is longer than I thought it had been, but it still makes me mad that Morrissey said what he said causing the trouble. Did he actually think people would stand politely up front?
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