Two StageHands Die In Fall After Rolling Stones Concert

[DudeAsInCool]

MADRID (Reuters) - Two workers died on Friday after part of the set from a Rolling Stones concert collapsed on top of them as they were dismantling it, emergency services said.

A third man was seriously injured after four people fell from a 10-metre (33 ft) structure that gave way as the team helped take it down after Thursday night's concert in Madrid.

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[Umma]

I don't think we really appreciate the behind the scenes work that goes into stadium concerts.

[Jim Colyer]

The Stones seem to be dogged by tragedy. One wonders how the band has survived.

[slum_goddess]

they're not the only band dogged by tragedy but they've been around so long, i'm sure if one made a list of all the horrid shite that's happened to them (beginning way before Brian Jones died, way before Keith broke his nose and way before Altamount), anyway it would be a very long list. gah, it all reminds me of how much and how long i loved the Stones until they went semi-disco (late 70s) and then in the mid-90s w/the ticket prices going through the roof, i just totally quit being interested especially since i didn't care for much of the music; this was the first tour i didn't get to see in over 3 decades. then when Donald Trump threw his hissy fit over his crap seats, i was pleased i no longer cared. i mean, c'mon, donald fuckin' trump is suddenly a fan? gimme a break.

on another site for another band (alabama rama lama dingdong 3 of course) there's a longass thread going strong, since so many of the band and their fans have suffered injuries at/after their gigs. one chick (a good friend of the band for ages now) broke both her legs after she was part of the video that was made for 'woke up this morning' (long before the Sopranos; the first WUTM vid in 1998). and a week later, she broke her left ankle (so she basically suffered 3 broken bones in one week and this grrl is no idiot---she's a librarian at one of the Unis in London). after seeing them the 2nd time, i was on a cane for weeks. the lead singer fell off the stage in cardiff two years back and almost broke his neck, was sitting down (very unusual for him) for the rest of the tour. the guitar player fell down a staircase and broke his nose right before a gig (and he wasn't high or drunk at the time).

we all waited for hours until they fixed him up in hospital and then when he reappeared (he got a nurse to drive him back, lol), the gig went on. when those of the Band answered on the thread, it like opened the floodgates for the rest of us to post of their injuries. as well, my friend Pam had to have her shoulder replaced w/a steel plate thingy a coupla years ago directly after leaving a gig. anyway, my point is, there are over 50 replies on the 'injuries thanks to the Band' thread. i'd post the URL but people wouldn't be able to see anything since it's in the backstage area of the forums and one must go through a tedious signing-up process in order to even read it. but the horrors continue...ODs, broken bones, cancer, other horrid illnesses and accidents.

apart from having to rely on a cane almost 7 years ago, two years back some new fans (very young, who'd just discovered A3) began an impromptu moshpit at a major gig at the London Astoria. they were really drunk and since i was up front, every time they pushed/threw each other, i was pushed up against the chainlink fence, to the point my breath was knocked out of me too many times and each time i was crushed and it hurt more and more the lead singers (directly above me) looked down at one point and noticed the huge crush of people pushing me into the fence and pleaded w/the rowdy newbies to 'cut the shit...they'll be in huge trouble if this grrl gets hurt'. they didn't listen and the band quit playing until the bouncers were called in to remove the assholes (about 20, 30 of them). i had the impressions of the chainlink fence in bruises on my front for weeks afterwards. it was horrible and very painful.

from what i've read here and there about other bands (a lot of them classified as heavy metal and a lot not), i think that some bands are totally followed by a weird kind of karma that nobody reallly wants nor can anyone explain.