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frankstallone That was fantastic @icculus

The things that stuck with me over the years were Page (and the entire crowd) crying during Velvet Sea, FEFY was hauntingly appropriate, The Slave jam where I didn't want it to end b/c that was the end of the last set ever, the eerie silence after the show as 70,000 people left the concert field through the mud and nobody said a word, and of course everyone abandoning their cars and hiking in to say goodbye. Driving out the next day there were still cars on the side of the interstate for 30 miles, never seen anything quite like it.

Lots of moments like that are what I remember. Being there during that velvet sea where the entire crowd lost it when page choked up is the most emotionally charged moment I've ever felt at a concert or any other public setting. So while a lot of those moments were really sad, looking back I'm glad I was there to experience that as I doubt I'll ever see something at a concert quite as moving and emotional as that was. You couldn't help but watch the clock countdown during that last set, and as hard as that was for the fans it must have been even harder for the band

the whole highway scene was like something out of a movie. We were lucky and were in line when the gates opened, got in after 4 hours and set up just in time for 2 straight days of rain. But a bunch of my friends got stuck on the highway, waited for 36 hours, then hiked 12+ miles in. They could only drag a couple things with so of course they chose their ice chest full of beer. We ended up housing about 8 interstate refugees in our crappy little camp site. It was cool to see the people lucky enough to get in early take in and help out all the highway refugees


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