There Ain't No Cure for A Summertime Tour

摘要

In a way, rock & roll is a seasonal animal, the high point of its cycle being the summer, when scores of bands and millions of fans make appointments with one another at venues across the land. So what's your pleasure? There are the mega-acts, teenie-bopper bands, rap, heavy-metal shows, country, and alternative-music tours. Summer 2000, like any summer, had its high points and its lows- from the unexpectedly perky success of the Dixie Chicks tour and the triumph of Bruce Springsteen's ten sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden (grossing over $1.6 million per show) to the tragedy of the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, where nine Pearl Jam concertgoers were trampled to death in a push toward the stage. Another fatality struck a Metallica show in Baltimore, where a young man fell from a stadium's upper deck. Of course, most people's summer concert experience falls well outside those lines.