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Title: The Donington Disaster 1988 Post by: Irish gunner II on July 08, 2007, 11:36:36 PM As i'm sure we all know, this was an obvious low point in the whole monsters of Rock festival history. I have found something through Wikipedia which is a paper on the incidents at Donington in 1988.
http://www.safeconcerts.com/documents/Donintondisater1988.pdf It's from one of the head security guys at the event and to be honest, even when i wasnt a GNR fan, i heard about the incident but i don't like how it was blamed 100% on one group or one specific thing.From reading the thing, its obvious that it was a few things that happened at the time which made the situation worse. It's an interesting read IMO, and gives another view other than the one the press gave at the time and the guy mentions the press and how they reported the tradgedy which it obviously was. And the two guys who died RIP. Title: Re: The Donington Disaster 1988 Post by: faldor on July 09, 2007, 12:21:06 AM Interesting read, thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: The Donington Disaster 1988 Post by: BlowUpYourVideo on July 09, 2007, 07:39:02 AM Never seen that before. Thanks.
Title: Re: The Donington Disaster 1988 Post by: Gunner_Rose on July 09, 2007, 09:05:42 AM Wow, really interesting information, thanks!
Title: Re: The Donington Disaster 1988 Post by: nightrain_jh on July 09, 2007, 11:19:33 AM Very interesting read and good to hear about the events that took place from a perspective thats not the press.
I was at this concert myself and to blame the band for what happened was just ridiculous. But that is the press for you, especially the British press. Title: Re: The Donington Disaster 1988 Post by: ShotgunBlues1978 on July 11, 2007, 10:41:35 PM I remember reading an interview with Izzy about how that incident really messed him up and was kind of the beginning of the end for him in GnR and made him realize what they were doing wasn't just fun and carefree anymore
Title: Re: The Donington Disaster 1988 Post by: Krispy Kreme on July 12, 2007, 10:33:43 PM Wikipedia is NOT a reliable source and should not be taken as the "truth." It can be "edited" by any reader without any control whatsoever. So an idiot or deranged person could write text and no one would know or care. This is the "trash can" of the internet that Axl referred to in 2002. Take it for what it is: unconfirmed rumor and gossip, with no quality control.
Title: Re: The Donington Disaster 1988 Post by: Irish gunner II on July 12, 2007, 11:26:57 PM Wikipedia is NOT a reliable? source and should? not be taken as? the "truth." It can be? "edited" by any reader without any control? whatsoever. So? an idiot? or? deranged person? could? write? text? and no one? would? know or? care. This is the "trash? can" of the internet? that? Axl referred? to in 2002. Take it for? what it? is: unconfirmed? rumor? and? gossip,? with no quality control. im well aware of that. But the article was a seperate article written by the one of the heads of security, and was linked to the article. Did you even bother to click the link ? If you had you would have seen it wasnt a wikpedia article, that I had linked to. Title: Re: The Donington Disaster 1988 Post by: Krispy Kreme on July 12, 2007, 11:46:31 PM Wikipedia is NOT a reliable? source and should? not be taken as? the "truth." It can be? "edited" by any reader without any control? whatsoever. So? an idiot? or? deranged person? could? write? text? and no one? would? know or? care. This is the "trash? can" of the internet? that? Axl referred? to in 2002. Take it for? what it? is: unconfirmed? rumor? and? gossip,? with no quality control. im well aware of that. But the article was a seperate article written by the one of the heads of security, and was linked to the article. Did you even bother to click the link ? If you had you would have seen it wasnt a wikpedia article, that I had linked to. Ok then, we are agreed. :peace: |