Fact #172687
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Short story:
Elton John plays at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, USA, supported by The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver.
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Gavin Sutherland : I was with the Suths and Quiver, opening for Elton John. It was the first time the giant football stadium had been used for a rock show and we were the first band to play there. Someone had heard we were ‘Scotch’ so they put a load of Johnny Walker (Black Label) in our dressing room. Obliged to drink it - a matter of diplomacy - I had an over the top swig at a bottle or two. By the time we got on stage the place was spinning and the heat was starting to get to me. Half way through the first tune I caught my foot on the cable between the Hammond and the Leslie, and bang, I was down.
High above the stadium stood a huge screen, designed to show close-ups of ball game highlights and disputed plays but, at that moment, the cameras were fixed on me. Oh no! I looked up and there I was, about fifty feet long, floundering around the deck like a drunken Jock. The bastards were showing a slow-motion replay! When we finished the tune there was raucous laughter around the whole stadium. It's quite something when eighty thousand people laugh at you. Character-building stuff. So I picked myself up, dusted myself down and went into clinical depression.
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High above the stadium stood a huge screen, designed to show close-ups of ball game highlights and disputed plays but, at that moment, the cameras were fixed on me. Oh no! I looked up and there I was, about fifty feet long, floundering around the deck like a drunken Jock. The bastards were showing a slow-motion replay! When we finished the tune there was raucous laughter around the whole stadium. It's quite something when eighty thousand people laugh at you. Character-building stuff. So I picked myself up, dusted myself down and went into clinical depression.
(Source : not known)