| First off, I feel compelled to mention that AC/DC owned this show hands down!! Just ask anyone who was there! You call it whatever you want, we called it Stonefest. Face it. The Rolling Stones are like the kings of rock n roll longevity and everyone was stoned at this festival so... Stonefest. I mean people were toking right in front of cops and they weren't even flinching. The marijuana laws in Canada at the time were up in the air and so was a whole whack of smoke that day. Lets see... 450,000 people, umpteen bands including the Stones, AC/DC, Rush, Justin Timberlake (poor bastard... I actually felt sorry for the little fucker being pelted with bottles like that...) Sam Roberts, Blue Rodeo, Sass Jordan and a bunch of other bands that I didn't give a shit about and more food and water than you could shake a stick at. They actually threw something like 90,000 bottles of water into the crowd so people didn't dry up and blow away. | It all started with my friend being told he had to eat his muffin as he passed through security. Yeah that's right. "Buddy, eat your muffin or throw it in the garbage." These fuckin hard ass security guards... pffft. They didn't find our cameras though! Pricks! So he ate his muffin. Well... inside that hollowed out muffin were six kick ass pot cookies, the equivalent of taking mushrooms for fuck sake. So buddy's flying within 20 minutes and we haven't even made our way to the stage yet. We made it 30 yards from the stage and we got there at noon. I was sandwiched in between a guy from Pittsburgh who was there for 24 hours before gates opened and some other guys who were there for 48 hours! When I told them I got there an hour ago they almost shit!! Of course hunger set in long after we passed the 1/4 mile BBQ, dry mouth too, we smoked a few joints with a couple people passing them around. | Buddy's so fucked up, hungry and cotton mouthed I had to bum some food off this guy (thanks Rob!!!) to keep my friend from passing out! So, AC/DC comes out and I'm pumped. I never saw the boys live before. They were my favorite band through a good chunk of the early 80's. They came out and played tune after tune that seemingly EVERYONE knew. I had recently spun up a "best of AC/DC" CD for my car and I swear to god almost EVERY song I put on that CD was played live that night. I was amazed. They were dead on. They didn't bugger up a single tune at all. You would have thought they never took a break at all leading up to that show. They had the crowd so whipped up that by the time they left the stage and the Stones came out, everyone was bagged BIG TIME. I stood ALL DAY LONG until after AC/DC left the stage. Then I finally sat down. I almost didn't get back up. Who needed to after that performance? |
My pics suck. they definitely are not the best shots I've ever taken. Not bad for being 30 yards from the stage in a crowd of 450,000 but considering what I'm used to, these pics kinda suck. Not to mention the photo lab fucked up on the exposure and the guys are all over exposed. I'll redo these pics some day and re-post them eventually.
Above photo by Muffin Man
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