Ted Nugent, Hollywood Sportatorium, Hollywood (US) - 6 juil. 1980

Seen Ted Nugent, Pat Travers and The Scorpions. I was with a couple friends who have never been to the Sportatorium before. We watched the Scorpions play a decent set and then decided to show the new guests the balcony outside. Back then you could smoke inside so we decided to get some fresh air. Upon reaching the balcony on the North side about midway of the building, we started watching the people sitting around on the grass outside of the building.

I noticed two police walking towards a couple sitting on the grass and I assumed they were smoking a joint as the cops made them stand up and they were frisked and then handcuffed. As the cops were walking them towards a small trailer also on the North side I could see several concert goers starting to get wound up over the sight of this and started yelling at them. The cops made it to the trailer to drop off their suspects and came back out and started walking towards another small group of people. They started the same procedure and that was the straw that broke the camels back. The cops almost made it to the trailer with their newly arrested when it started raining rocks and bottles on them. I seen one of the two cops that made the original arrest get hit in the head with a large stone and that's when it became real.

Me and the new guests I was with were watching all this unfold from the middle point of the balcony and I was just shocked to see it go down the way it did. We watched the rocks and bottles fly at the trailer when I seen a guy lull the crowd by telling them to stop throwing with his hand gestures. After he got them to stop, he creeped up to the window of the trailer and started hurling large rocks threw the window. Her threw as many as he could before the cops rushed him. He was grabbed and they proceeded to get the crap beat out of him.

It was at this point I told the shocked visitors that we should probably get back in to the auditorium as it was probably a safer place to be. We went through a door on the North side and Pat Travers had already made it to the stage. We watched his set and practically forgot about what was going on outside. After Pat left the stage, we decided to stay put as the place was starting to become radioactive in anticipation of Uncle Ted showing up and blasting us away.

All of a sudden the lights went out, the crowd started screaming and two white lights shone on the stage at a madman swinging from Stage Left to Stage Right on a rope in nothing more then a Loin Cloth. Uncle Ted has hit the stage. We watched him as he methodically blew us away.

The end of the show came and it was time to go outside. We got out into the parking lot and it looked like Armageddon had came. A coupe cars were on its side. Fog was all around and I found out later it was tear gas and because of the humidity it only came two or three feet above the ground. The most memorable part of this time was seeing a cop grab a guy by the throat and lift him up on the side of a car and tell him that if he did not get in his car and go, he was going to shoot him and there was nothing the he would do about it. I got to the car as fast as I could and proceeded to sit in a traffic jam for the next 3 hours.