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ROCK AND ROLL! => Deep Purple => Mk II: Gillan & Glover => Topic started by: Zzzptm on August 26, 2019, 02:53:55 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC9Y9Vm066k
Go to 1:02 for when the fire is first noticed... then Frank Zappa tells everyone to calmly move toward the exit.
Kinda cool finding this out as I was reading about Frank Zappa because he named his son after Ahmet Ertegun who I was reading about because he worked with Gamble and Huff at Philadelphia International which I was reading about because I'm playing a record of MFSB recordings...
... this is why I donate to Wikipedia, by the way... :pub:
But, yeah, that's the moment some stupid with a flare gun in the audience shot it off and started the fire that burned down the casino - and all of Zappa's tour equipment.
A week later, Zappa was performing in England and was almost killed when a fan pushed him off the stage to a concrete floor.