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Originally Posted by cryptowonderdruginvogue
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I have told this story before
back in my university days, (around 1993) I was a member of the student program board, small stage and large stage. we did all the concerts in the school, booked acts, set up stages, etc. it was a lot of fun and I got o see and meet many great bands (danieal johnston, afghan whigs, L7, firehose, etc etc)
well, every year the University of Houston used to have a concert called Perpetual park Party, on an outdoor stage on campus, that ran from noon to midnight, with tons of bands. One year the headliner was firehose. Well, in 1993-4 (cannot remember exactly), we had a co-sponsor 97.9 the BOX (rap station in town) who gave us some money to pay firehose and L7 in return for them putting one act on the bill. The act they gave us was SNOW right when his big hit INFORMER was kicking.
I had spent all morning setting up the stage and the show and I grabbed my girlfriend/future wife and we ate acid and we saw the show, and rocked out. It was fun, ater 7 hours or so, the sun sets and it is time for SNOW, so the DJ from the radio station gets up there and introduces SNOW, and he begins to do his "thang." I was just off the side of the stage. I thought it was the LSD but I could swear I heard a full vocal track all loud at the same time SNOW was "rapping". It turns out the whole crowd (about 10-15 thousand intoxicated students, punks and weirdos from all around houston) heard it too, and halfway through the first song snow stops rapping and calls for the sound guy to turn the track down, because everyone was booing. the soundguy yells something like "I cannot, this is what your manager gave me" and snow tries again, but the "backing track" is louder than him! and so he throws down the mic and storms off the stage and everyone is booing,
soooo
then he leaves the gated backstage area all huffing and puffing and he passes within ten feet of me and my g/f. a crowd of people follow him about 200 feet to one of the campus buildings and he stands upon a large A/C grate and the crowd gathers round him and he begins to "freestyle" to try to show us he could really rap,. well, it was no good because the next thing i hear is shouting and I see him running thorugh the crowd with a group of people running behind him and they are throwing shit, he flies by my LSD addled ass (about 7 feet away) and I hear bottles flying after him and crashing and food being thrown and he runs backstage to where we had security guards posted.
needless to say he did NOT finish his set!
I was never prouder of my Houston brethren.
it was pure fantasticity.
instead of snow they got reverened horton heat up there early!
one bad thing, the radio station complained about "security" issues to the school and they cancelled the perpetual park party for a few years, then restarted it off campus and it sucks now.
oh well.
