Posted by Bill(Wis) on July 01, 2013 at 08:23:46 from (184.75.123.14):
In Reply to: OT Any Stones Fans? posted by Ultradog MN on July 01, 2013 at 03:41:32:
I didn't know any of them were alive anymore. I flew those guys into Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, NYC on July 2nd, 1966. Or something like that. Boeing-Vertol 107. 25 pax capacity. 2 GE T-58s. Tandem rotors. MGW 19,000 lbs. Nose gear and two mains. Landed on a tennis court on three sheets of thick plywood well staked down. NYPD all over the place. Young kids in crowd that all seemed to be in some sort of trance during the show. Drugs??? Cops locking arms up in stadium trying to keep them from falling out of front row seats (about a 12 foot drop). Patrolman yells to supervisor (three gold stars on his white shirt collar) "WE CAN'T HOLD THEM." Supervisor yells back: "TO HELL WITH THEM. COME ON DOWN." As for me, I had, and still have, no appreciation for that kind of noise , and that's all it was - noise. I have no idea what sent those kids into that kind of stupor. I could have stood right next to the stage but instead went onto one of the courts and found the grass (not the grass the kids were smoking) there to be something amazing. I had never seen anything like it and asked one of the security guards if he knew anything about it. He said it was from Scotland and a Scottish guy was hired to take care of it. All the while, this so called "concert" was going on. Before it ended, the guy with the three stars on his collars came over and told us that we should plan on a hasty departure with the band because he wasn't sure how long he could hold the crowd back. The band loaded, the air stair door was slammed shut and we pulled pitch. As I looked down from perhaps 50' or so, all I saw was a sea of humanity rushing in to the spot we had just taken off from, all reaching upward, strange looks on their faces. After we landed the band back at the West 30th Street Heliport, the stewardess, Astrid, presented each of us with one of our seatback schedules with their autographs. It meant nothing to me so I gave it to my 12 year old sister-in-law, thinking it might mean something to her but it didn't and she promptly lost it. I was too old and she was too young to appreciate. I believe that was when and where America started to slide downhill. That was and is, IMHO, "The Music of The Devil".
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