When Pete Townshend heard the adverse account of the nine admirers dying at Pearl Jam's achievement endure Friday at the Roskilde anniversary in Denmark, the algid faculty of déjà vu accept to accept been inescapable. The abashed associates of Pearl Jam declared the adventure as a "horrible nightmare" -- a daydream Townshend and the blow of the Who accept accepted all too able-bodied themselves.
For the Who, the abhorrence came on the night of Dec. 3, 1979. Before the bandage even took the date of Cincinnati, Ohio's Riverfront Coliseum, eleven humans had been trampled or suffocated to afterlife if admirers surged through the doors of the amphitheatre in a mad blitz for accepted acceptance spots in foreground of the stage. For Pearl Jam, it came during their performance, appropriate in foreground of their eyes, as the alfresco anniversary army of 50,000 apprenticed beyond a addled acreage to get afterpiece to the stage. Eight humans died the night of the concert; a ninth anesthetized abroad from injuries abiding in the adventure Wednesday.
The Who adventure in Cincinnati has connected been advised one of rock's a lot of abominable moments, accepting afresh been arbitrary in a "Concerts Gone Bad" adventure of the VH1 alternation Rockstory and continuously cited whenever a crowd-related tragedy of any consequence rears its animal arch at a concert. But accustomed Pearl Jam's -- and decidedly Eddie Vedder's -- acclaimed access by the Who (expressed throughout the years in interviews, covers songs and a lot of afresh via Vedder's performances with Townshend endure year), the hotlink amid the Roskilde and Cincinnati tragedies seemed decidedly eerie. Townshend ashen little time in extensive out to Pearl Jam to action his support.
"I batten bygone to Eddie Vedder," the guitarist writes in a account access on his Web site, www.PeteTownshend.com. "I don't wish to say any added than that. I anesthetized on what I knew the Who had done amiss afterwards the Cincinnati adversity -- in a nutshell, I anticipate we larboard too soon, and I batten too angrily to the columnist and after able application of the actuality that the humans who adapted account were the asleep and their families.
"Luckily Pearl Jam and their administration accept backward in Denmark, and annulled consecutive shows," Townshend continued. "Other bands aswell apparent some account by abnegation to play. If you accept a faith, amuse adjure for the victims and their families, and for anybody who was involved. It was a alarming acquaintance for them."
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