Live Performances Gone Awry

I remember fearing for my life during a Johnny Winter concert at Madison Square Garden. The crowd rushed the stage and many were trampled on, bottles flew all over the place. We had second row seats and the crowd just pushed them over, I left with bruises on my ribs from being pressed against the wooden barricades. Johnny had to stop the show numerous times, pleading with the audience to calm down, threatened to leave for the saftey of all (who could blame him?). Johnny then played a beautiful slow blues tune, the crowd finally settled down, and the show went on.
All in all, just plain ugly!

Tpreaves, were you there?

Entrope, classical music concerts have had their share of such incidences too. Stravinsky's premiere of: "The Rite Of Spring" is perhaps the most notable. More recently, Steve Reich's performance of "Four Organs" had one woman banging her head on the stage, yelling; "Stop, stop, I confess".

Entope, I could be mistaken, but, I thought Pavarotti was booed for forgetting the lyrics. You might want to read Frank Zappa's book where he goes into some detail about suing the LSO for unprofessionalism.