As a metro Cincinnati resident (across the historic Ohio River in northern Kentucky), I found it really, really weird to read that article. The article's take was that the champion of the little guy, Bruce, was desecrating the site where the police messed up "Public Safety" and 11 kids got the air squeezed out of their lungs for too many consecutive minutes.
The trouble is, I couldn't make up my mind who let me down the most. Consider this: Which party abused their public trust more? The police who (Ha!) screwed up big time, or the blue-collar poet who (Ha!) rushed to the fore with a new album about rebuilding a community only to trample the memory of a PREVIOUS decade's fallen innocents. That's what it's like here. It's too charged. There's an old saying about "Don't barter with them. If you offer an inch they take a mile." So everyone here tries to grab a mile. My solution: For the life of the BUILDING they should never allow festival seating in the building formerly known as "Riverfront Coliseum". The building owner, the City of Cincinnati, should just not negotiate on that one point on any contract. Maybe the biggest screwup is that the City ITSELF exempted this show, overruling a "No Festival Seating" statute. Are we so focused on healing "911" that we cast aside the painful lesson of just 20 years ago? At the Springsteen show, will the cops only open ONE door, as they did for the Who concert, inciting a crush by 30,000 people all trying to use a SINGLE door? Maybe nobody cares cause we're so focussed on THE LATEST PASSING PHASE: 911, A YEAR LATER....... Lamadoo " meet The New Boss (Ha!) same as the old boss." Bree said, >>>>>>For the first time since 11 concert-goers were killed at Riverfront Coliseum(Cincinnati)(Who concert) 23 years ago, festival seating will be allowed at the arena at Bruce's request. The Cincinnati police dept. have given BRUCE a one-time variance for his Nov,22 concert. Bruce was the top story in Wednesday's paper....front page... I've attached the clippings...you have to bend the neck a little to read Bree>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
