Talk:The Who concert disaster

"Union restrictions"

Could someone please explain the "union restrictions" that kept them from opening more than a few doors? I'm sure a lot more people than myself would like to know details on that. --Bluejay Young (talk) 19:57, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

I was there

I was at the concert and remember it a little differently. There wasn't a late "Sound Check" as the article states. I was one of the first 300 people in the arena that evening. The concert was slated to start at 8:00pm. They opened four doors at 7:22pm. The personal at the Arena were hand patting down almost everyone that entered the building. It was a slow process. I was seated. At 7:35pm or so, the lights went out and they used the PA sound system to start a well known advance showing of the movie trailer for Quadrophenia, a movie released at about the same time in 1979. After the movie trailer had ended, I believe it was 5 minutes or longer, I went up to the main level and saw ambulances and sirens. I asked a security guard and was informed that there were a lot of injured people outside. I can see how anyone outside believed that there was a sound-check or that the concert started, the movie trailer was basically concert level songs from the movie. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.127.94.7 (talk) 18:17, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Wow. I'm sorry you were there. And I'm glad you're okay. If we can get references for some of this, particular for the Quadrophenia trailer at concert sound level, I think that would help to make a good article even better. FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 17:20, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Additional article(s)

11 killed in rush for concert seats, Bryan Times [Ohio], Tuesday, Dec. 4, 1979, page 1, top of the fold.

Weird Al reference

I am going to be aggressive about this one and delete it. I think it's far more likely that the line is an allusion to "The Magic Bus", if anything at all. (It's probably not an allusion to anything - just a comment about how crowded Who concerts were.) Weird Al's song is about a smelly, unpleasantly crowded bus. Unless there is a RS verifying his intent to refer to this tragedy in a parody song like that (which would be scandalously callous), I think we need to avoid assigning tasteless cryptic meanings to a song written by a living person. Dcs002 (talk) 04:19, 24 October 2015 (UTC)