TOOL: Video Footage Of STREET SCENE Incident Posted Online
August 7, 2006NBCSanDiego.com reports that video footage has surfaced of the incident Saturday night (August 5) when nearly 100 fans were hurt after thousands of rock fans surged forward at a San Diego performance by TOOL. [Watch the video footage at NBCSanDiego.com.]
The Los Angeles band was the headliner Saturday night at the Street Scene 2006 music festival in the parking lot of the Qualcomm Stadium. The group had just taken the stage.
"Everyone was getting pushed up toward the front," said Eric Hanau, who was at the show. "People were getting crushed."
In the end, more than a dozen people went to the hospital after being crushed. One person is being treated tonight for life-threatening injuries.
Multiple ambulances and paramedics were sent to the venue in the Qualcomm Stadium parking lot when the crowd got out of control
Home video of the event shows the crowd before TOOL came onstage.
"The crowd was getting real hyped, chanting 'TOOL,' " Hanau said.
But at the end of the first song, the band stopped playing.
"What they were saying was, 'Back up — take two steps back. It's better than somebody's life,' " Hanau said.
Witnesses said they saw injured people stumbling out of the crowd as TOOL's lead singer, Maynard Keenan, told the audience to "Mellow out — it's just rock 'n' roll."
The lead singer of the band AFI said basicaily the same thing happened during Street Scene two years ago. That night, fans piled up when part of the stage collapsed. Several people were brought to the hospital after that incident.
"The music is so intense, it just gets people's adrenaline flowing so much," Hanau said. "People get so focused on the music and the lyrics."
After stopping for several minutes, TOOL starting playing again and finished their set.
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