I was at that show when Alice Cooper was doing his encore, "Schools Out" and some idiot released a canister of tear gas. What a (Welcome To My) Nightmare! Most of us believed that it was a police officer that did it, since it was police grade teargas, but we had no proof of that.
I was sitting in the section where the canister was released and well it was 1978 so not many in the audience were um, sober. One of my friends was so out of it we had to literally drag him out. A lot of kids my age carried Visine so as to try to clear up our eyes before we went into our parents home. The Visine came in very handy that night!
Here's a short ~2 minute video about the show for anyone who's interested or perhaps for any others who were there, for nostalgia's sake.
It was actually released in the void underneath the bleachers/seats. The police used to always patrol under those and that also fueled our suspicion that it was a police officer that released the tear gas.
"I Survived St. Paul"
I was at that show when Alice Cooper was doing his encore, "Schools Out" and some idiot released a canister of tear gas. What a (Welcome To My) Nightmare! Most of us believed that it was a police officer that did it, since it was police grade teargas, but we had no proof of that.
I was sitting in the section where the canister was released and well it was 1978 so not many in the audience were um, sober. One of my friends was so out of it we had to literally drag him out. A lot of kids my age carried Visine so as to try to clear up our eyes before we went into our parents home. The Visine came in very handy that night!
Here's a short ~2 minute video about the show for anyone who's interested or perhaps for any others who were there, for nostalgia's sake.
Alice Cooper and the Infamous 1978 St. Paul Concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jn0ouzhXHQ