People were packed tight in front of the booths. After getting your Tics the only way out of the madness was to climb on top of the ticket booth and jump off the back side. The crowd began to tear down the fenceing and forced the ticket booths to start selling Tics at 9am. The ticket booths were located out side behind a chain linked fence. As the morning dragged on the crowd grew restless. People had parked over night in the lot in order to get their tickets early. I drove from Kazoo to Pontiac Silver Dome the morning they went on sale. It was an awsome experience that I will never ever forget. I hope the video of the show comes out sometime. I'm 51 now and it's the greatest concert I've ever been to. It took that long to get off the arena floor. I finally did make it to the upper balconys for the second half of the show. I decided that the floor area was not the place to be.
I was shocked at the number of people who were experiencing this. People that were passing out were lifted up above the crowd and carried hand over hand to the wall in front of the stage where they were tossed over it.
When the show started there was such a rush forward by the crowd that I was literally picked up and carried off my feet in a wave going in all directions that lasted for a good part of the show. We would laugh and say, "there goes another one that ain't going to see the show." People all around were being carried to the stage from overdoses. We were some of the first to get inside and sat on the floor right in front of the stage. The atmosphere in the Silverdome parking lot was party city. We got there early from Saginaw and rented a room in Pontiac for that night. Attending this concert was our unofficial senior class trip of 1977.
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