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**travelpunk** · 07-31-2003, 02:17 AM

How was the concert, CDude?! The pictures show a very packed concert. I´m sure that a wild time was had by all

Any personal backstage pictures?

**Canadian Dude** · 07-31-2003, 06:53 AM

What a frik'n concert!!!!! I started work at 4am on Wed. morning and all day long, the people just kept coming and coming and coming...it was a flow of thousands of people alll day, and in the end the Toronto Police estimated the crowd at 490,000. Everyone was in great spirits going in, and fufulled coming out ( execpt for the drunk guy who told be to stick my megaphone up my ass, to which the responce was an very nice police man identifying him as a problem in the crowd and he was removed, i smiled.) All the bands where fantastic, and I did get backstage 2 times
( no cameras allowed) I was an escort for bus loads of Dr. and nurses ( they were so hot), the Concert had a hostital on site hat was fully staffed on 3 shifts. I saw \Rush going on stage and caught the tail end of ACDC, that was unexpected, but very cool to see the workings of a concert of this size.

The exodus was insane but civil, no problems moving them out, it was just a matter of waiting, I think everyone involved did a fantasic job.

I do have a request, because this concert was so importent for this city to prove that travel here is safe, could I get some feed back on how the media where you live make this concert out, good? bad? was there any stories on it? let me know, and I would love some clippings from some news papers.

Thx guys, now after being awake for since 3am yesturday morning, i need to sleep, good night!

**travelpunk** · 08-01-2003, 06:03 AM

I only saw a couple of quick clips from CNN. Haven´t seen a newspaper since the birth of the internet

I can´t believe RUSH was there! That´s one of my all time favorite bands! You lucky guy

**crionnacht** · 08-01-2003, 09:26 AM

our paper did a full page story and a 2 page spread of pictures. It was nicely presented. wish i could've been there!

**Diorama** · 08-01-2003, 02:23 PM

Yeah the story was pretty big here as well. Both major newspapers the province and the vancouver sun had it on the front page as well as a few pages inside. I also watched a little bit of the CBC special that night.