Live Performances Gone Awry

Went to a Dixie Dregs concert around 1990 at a downtown NYC venue that is long since closed down. We waited more than an hour past the posted start time for the warm-up band to start, which was a quasi-Kansas progressive fiddle-rock band as I recall. They weren't terrible but they were not the Dregs and the crowd rapidly grew hostile. After being steadily pummeled with beer and assorted projectiles the front man stepped up to the mic and said, "You know, you guys stink like smelly feet", at which point a barrage of footwear of every possible description was thrown onstage. The warm up band beat a hasty retreat and the Dregs came on and played a killer show.

Attended the Stones' "Steel Wheels" tour at Veteran's Stadium in Philly. Besides being far enough away that seeing the jumbotron was a struggle, witnessed a completely drugged out guy stomp the seat off of his chair and hurl it further down the stadium, which knocked out some poor lady. I was pretty irate and was moving to do something when the guy next to me told me to wait and watch. Security converged on the doofus from all sides and dragged him by his feet, head banging on the concrete steps out of the stadium. Everyone cheered. That was the last stadium rock show I ever attended.