The Automatik

The Joel Plaskett Emergency
Harbourfront Centre
August 20, 2005

There was a time, say before 1984, when you could see a band perform in a crowded venue and the most you had to worry about was the lingering smell of pot smoke or spilled beer. Those halcyon days are gone – and mosh pits aren’t for the floor section of a Metallica show anymore. If crowd surfers could infiltrate a Celine Dion concert they would – but I won’t be gathering empirical evidence to support that hypothesis anytime in the next century.
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