1977 backstage with FM in Australia & cocaine

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Their testes in alcohol

Yuck. I wouldn't want to partake of this drink.

[luckydimecaper]

I would love to go back and be a part of that for one night, and just go crazy

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by luckydimecaper

I would love to go back and be a part of that for one night, and just go crazy

I'd want to be a part of it for a month or so!

[Aussie W/Heart]

This whole excerpt from Chugg, has made my day!!! i have been trying with no luck to find some info from this concert Rockarena 77... I was there!! & if seeing F/Mac perform wasn't awesome enough, front row.. now this is the cheaky part , me being a care free 15 yr old, decided to venture back stage noticed the large marquee i casually walked over & stood in the doorway for a couple of minutes, it was wild inside just as Chugg mentioned. I scanned the room for Stevie, there she was sitting in the back corner next to Christine beer in hands & laughing with each other.. it crossed my mind to just walk up to say Hello, i chickened out thinking she might tell me off for being in there. 15 min later they were on stage

[luckydimecaper]

Originally Posted by Aussie W/Heart

This whole excerpt from Chugg, has made my day!!! i have been trying with no luck to find some info from this concert Rockarena 77... I was there!! & if seeing F/Mac perform wasn't awesome enough, front row.. now this is the cheaky part , me being a care free 15 yr old, decided to venture back stage noticed the large marquee i casually walked over & stood in the doorway for a couple of minutes, it was wild inside just as Chugg mentioned. I scanned the room for Stevie, there she was sitting in the back corner next to Christine beer in hands & laughing with each other.. it crossed my mind to just walk up to say Hello, i chickened out thinking she might tell me off for being in there. 15 min later they were on stage

Wow! Seriously, that's amazing.. Do you regret not just taking a risk and going over to them?

[Aussie W/Heart]

Originally Posted by luckydimecaper

Wow! Seriously, that's amazing.. Do you regret not just taking a risk and going over to them?

Yeah i do, but at the same time i realised gatecrashing or intruding in their space was probably not a cool thing to do, though if i had of thought up a reason for being there, eg:like i was related to someone inside the Marquee, then i would of casually wondered over. I have mentioned this before that i had talked to Stevie on a bus for 10 min, i know it sounds unbelievable but its very true!!! a treasured experience i will never forget..

[SisterNightroad]

Flashback: 43,000 pack in for Showground rock
40 years on, we revisit Paul Dainty's one day Rockarena festival, the biggest outdoor concert of the time, featuring headline acts including Fleetwood Mac, Santana, Little River Band, Kevin Borich Express and Creation.

First published in The Sydney Morning Herald on November 12, 1977

Lindsay Scott

More than 43,000 people – a record Sydney rock concert crowd – packed into the Showground yesterday for Paul Dainty's one-day Rockarena festival.

For more than seven hours they sat on the grass and perched in the stands, many bare-chested and basking in the ideal summer conditions. By 9 pm tickets were still selling. Crowd estimates varied. Mr Dainty put the figure as high as 48,000. Three of the world's top rock groups. Fleetwood Mac, Santana and the Little River Band, headed the five-act show. With all but 30¢ of the $12.50 going to Mr Dainty, he would have grossed more than $525 000. He has personally invested more than one million dollars in the two Rockarena festivals. The second will be at Calder Raceway, near Melbourne, tomorrow. About 6000 people made a dash for the best vantage spots when the Showground gates opened at midday. Some had slept there overnight.

Sixty uniformed police, about 12 detectives and 80 security men kept watch on the biggest Sydney gathering since the Rugby League grand final two months ago. By 8.30, police had arrested about 20 men, mostly for drunkenness. The 40 ambulance workers treated about 30 serious cases, mostly for cuts and drunkenness. At 9.30 the headliners, Fleetwood Mac, received a tumultuous ovation when they started their first-ever Australian concert.

Backstage, a party atmosphere prevailed among the 200 performers, crew and guests. They ate, drank and played pool and pinball machines in two specially constructed tents.

Out front, people were sitting on friends' shoulders, dancing and clapping to the music being pumped through the biggest sound system constructed for an Australian show – twice as big as that used by Abba and Rod Stewart.



http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/...12-gzjnky.html

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by cliffdweller

Yuck. I wouldn't want to partake of this drink.

Their testes in alcohol, not surprisingly, are five-star


Dammit, you beat me to it!!!