# The Who return to Cincinnati **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2019, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-who-return-to-cincinnati/844450 "2019-12-06T03:10:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-who-return-to-cincinnati/844450/1 "2019-12-06T03:10:20Z")
> **[The Who returns to Cincinnati 40 years after 11 fans died in a pre-show...](https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/04/entertainment/the-who-cincinnati-trnd/index.html)** > > The Who are returning to Cincinnati to play a live concert for the first time since the tragic pre-show stampede on December 3, 1979, that claimed the lives of 11 concertgoers. Hard to believe it’s been 40 years since the tragedy at Riverfront. I was a young teenager but I remember it well. I’ve never been to a big concert with festival seating, and I’m probably past that age point where I would be in the target audience. I haven’t seen the documentary mentioned in the article, but I bet it’s fascinating. It’ll be an emotional show. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-who-return-to-cincinnati/844450/2 "2019-12-06T03:29:18Z")
I attended the show one night before the infamous one in Cincinnati, at Pittsburgh’s Civic Arena and with my then-girlfriend for company. Awesome show, and I was half-deaf for several days thereafter, but we were in the crush at the front of the stage and at a couple points came close to getting knocked down and trampled. All the ingredients were present for a Cinci-style tragedy, but for whatever reason it didn’t happen that night. It was bit over an hour’s drive back from the show, and a half-mile from home I stopped for a traffic light at a deserted intersection, only to be rammed hard from behind by a drunk kid in his Dad’s ginormous Chrysler. He immediately took off, and my (rented) car was too badly damaged to give chase. We both had sore necks for a few days, but fortunately no serious injury. All in all, a highly memorable night. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-who-return-to-cincinnati/844450/3 "2019-12-06T10:12:11Z")
I caught them at Chase Center. Roger and Pete kicked ass for a bunch of old farts. They had a small subset of the San Francisco Philharmonic to back them up, but had 4 violinists and 4 french horn players so the tunes from Tommy were fantastic. I had a nose bleed seat that I managed to buy the day of the show, and I was not disappointed. I had seen them in 1982 at the L.A. Coliseum which was 37 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-who-return-to-cincinnati/844450/4 "2019-12-06T13:16:40Z")
I saw them in 1982 with festival [del]seating[/del] standing, so the lesson apparently hadn’t sunk in fully by that point. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-who-return-to-cincinnati/844450/5 "2019-12-06T15:43:52Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > I caught them at Chase Center. Roger and Pete kicked ass for a bunch of old farts. They had a small subset of the San Francisco Philharmonic to back them up, but had 4 violinists and 4 french horn players so the tunes from Tommy were fantastic. I had a nose bleed seat that I managed to buy the day of the show, and I was not disappointed. I had seen them in 1982 at the L.A. Coliseum which was 37 years ago. Pete has famously remarked that The Who are now the world’s most expensive Who cover band. I saw them in Det. shortly after the Cinci debacle. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-who-return-to-cincinnati/844450/6 "2019-12-06T16:39:28Z")
Sadly, WKRP is no longer broadcasting from the Flimm Building. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-who-return-to-cincinnati/844450/7 "2019-12-06T16:49:45Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Sadly, WKRP is no longer broadcasting from the Flimm Building. There was a very poignant episode of WKRP about the station sponsoring the show and dealing with the fallout. > **[In Concert (WKRP in Cincinnati)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Concert_(WKRP_in_Cincinnati))** > > "In Concert" is a very special episode of the television series WKRP in Cincinnati. Airing as the 19th episode of the second season, it was first broadcast in the United States on February 11, 1980, and the concept for the episode was described as "admirably ambitious" by William Beamon, writing in the St. Petersburg Evening Independent before he had viewed the episode. > The plot is centered around the deadly gate-rushing incident that occurred in Cincinnati prior to the December 3, 1979, perfor... ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-who-return-to-cincinnati/844450/8 "2019-12-06T17:12:44Z")
Saw them in DC a few weeks after the tragedy. And saw them in May of this year with the orchestra, still a very good show.