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Posted: **Sat May 17, 2008 9:23 pm**

lemur68 wrote:Bumping a thread to Slint it. Nice touch.

Cosmically, I just watched the video of the Great White fire. Syntaxfree, be sure to use a sock.

Shit, I'd never seen that footage of that before.

Posted: **Sat May 17, 2008 10:51 pm**

Mark Hansen wrote:
lemur68 wrote:Bumping a thread to Slint it. Nice touch.

Cosmically, I just watched the video of the Great White fire. Syntaxfree, be sure to use a sock.

Shit, I'd never seen that footage of that before.

Jesus! They didn't skimp on the roman candles for that show.

Posted: **Sat May 17, 2008 11:00 pm**

Mark Hansen wrote:
lemur68 wrote:Bumping a thread to Slint it. Nice touch.

Cosmically, I just watched the video of the Great White fire. Syntaxfree, be sure to use a sock.

Shit, I'd never seen that footage of that before.

"Photographer Brian Butler from CNN affiliate WPRI was inside ironically working on a story about nightclub safety [bold mine], as onstage fireworks got out of control and quickly spread."

File under "Oh no they dint": OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY NAMED THEIR 2004 ALBUM THIS

Posted: **Sat May 17, 2008 11:01 pm**

madmanmunt wrote:
Mark Hansen wrote:
lemur68 wrote:Bumping a thread to Slint it. Nice touch.

Cosmically, I just watched the video of the Great White fire. Syntaxfree, be sure to use a sock.

Shit, I'd never seen that footage of that before.

Jesus! They didn't skimp on the roman candles for that show.

That particular piece of pyro is known as a gerb, which I just learned tonight.

Posted: **Sun May 18, 2008 2:47 am**

Once Bitten, Twice Fly

Posted: **Sun May 18, 2008 7:45 am**

Dr. Venkman wrote:Once Bitten, Twice Fly

sig'ed.

Posted: **Sun May 18, 2008 11:00 am**

Years after the fact, and I still have to wonder WTF in general for INDOORS concert pyro in a smallish rock club place. Licenses, schmicenses - when is that ever a good idea?

I don't think I've ever personally been to a show with fucking INDOOR PYRO, unless you're talking about an actual arena-size thing (like AC/DC or Iron Maiden at Rosemont Horizon or something like that)

I've seen my share of recovering 80's and 90's hair-farmer reunion tours, in clubs similar in size to The Station there, but I do not recall ever experiencing any indoor pyro. In a place that size, I think at even the first hint of stage pyro I would be inching toward the door, even before something tragic would have to happen...

I dunno - it's just so sad to think that many people had to go out like that. Regardless of who was actually/technically/legally at fault (the band or the club), it's just so frustrating to think WHAT IF these cock-rockers simply hadn't felt the need for pyro to add pizzazz to their rock show, then these people wouldn't have died (like simple cause and effect without necessarily assigning blame, I mean)

Sigh.

Also:

lemur68 wrote:File under "Oh no they dint": OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY NAMED THEIR 2004 ALBUM THIS

Aw, quit playin' - U know they dint:

Wiki-wiki-wiki-wiki..(shut up!) wrote:Burning House of Love is a Great White album released without the band's permission by an Italian record label Horizon-Italy in 2004. The album consists of the same twelve cover songs found on the band's 2002 album Recover, except with a title that is in poor taste after the recent The Station nightclub fire. The band has since condemned the label for illegally making this album, and has urged all fans not to buy it.

Posted: **Sun May 18, 2008 8:24 pm**

Arson Smith wrote:
lemur68 wrote:File under "Oh no they dint": OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY NAMED THEIR 2004 ALBUM THIS

Aw, quit playin' - U know they dint:

Wiki-wiki-wiki-wiki..(shut up!) wrote:Burning House of Love is a Great White album released without the band's permission by an Italian record label Horizon-Italy in 2004. The album consists of the same twelve cover songs found on the band's 2002 album Recover, except with a title that is in poor taste after the recent The Station nightclub fire. The band has since condemned the label for illegally making this album, and has urged all fans not to buy it.

Well that's good to know. Hey, my source was sleazeroxx.com.

Posted: **Mon May 19, 2008 6:41 am**

Arson Smith wrote:I dunno - it's just so sad to think that many people had to go out like that. Regardless of who was actually/technically/legally at fault (the band or the club), it's just so frustrating to think WHAT IF these cock-rockers simply hadn't felt the need for pyro to add pizzazz to their rock show, then these people wouldn't have died (like simple cause and effect without necessarily assigning blame, I mean)

Sigh.

Shit. I've spent a chunk of the morning reading about this tragedy, and boy has it depressed me.

It looks like the tour manager bore the brunt of the responsibility here. The club owners appear to have been excused from blame - initially at least - by way of a twist worthy of a Grisham throwaway.

According to the documents on the Smoking Gun, Great White made no mention of a pyrotechnics display in their rider - owners of other venues they played complained about the use of fireworks without due notification.

Looks like Biechele held his hands up to this.

Holy shit, what a sad, sad story.

Posted: **Mon May 19, 2008 6:50 am**

Minotaur029 wrote:
jimmy spako wrote:Rock and Roller pissing wars, I can't take it anymore

Haha, I've misjudged you jimmy spako. I can actually hear Billy Joel singing this imaginary lyric.

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