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)