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The Long Beach Arena’s one place they’ve had some serious concert problems, most notably the Run-DMC episode of last year. I don’t know what’s caused those serious problems in the past, but this night—March 21, that is—I do know many in the audience were seriously fucked up.
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ALICE COOPER MEGADETH TESLA
Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA March 21, 1987
John Kordosh
The Long Beach Arena’s one place they’ve had some serious concert problems, most notably the Run-DMC episode of last year. I don’t know what’s caused those serious problems in the past, but this night—March 21, that is—I do know many in the audience were seriously fucked up. Very much so.
I went into the john at one point and there were three guys puking—puking violently. “Maybe I should try to help these fellows out,” I thought—so I found an arena employee and told him what was going down... or up, as the case may be. He smiled, kind of ruefully, and said they get 40 to 80 such cases at every concert. Wonderful that it’s quantized. Anyway, I guess he was right: when I went back later on, there were a couple of new guys puking.