Live Performances Gone Awry

Kbarkamian, you are most definitely correct. I have known personally several orchestral musicians who were fired for drug or alcohol abuse.

Entope, I could be mistaken, but, I thought Pavarotti was booed for forgetting the lyrics. You might want to read Frank Zappa's book where he goes into some detail about suing the LSO for unprofessionalism.

We were at a three day outdoor music festival a few years ago , standing right in front of the stage , I told the wife that I was thirsty and was going back to the camper , her and my young daughter accompanied me , we had walked about half way back to where we were set up when the wind blew over a large column of speakers and the stage , killing a women and injuring many .
Needles to say the beer jokes will never end .

Learsfool, I'm sitting here alone in my basement unable to wipe the smile off my face. Your story made my night.

The Conductor of the Youngstown Symphony (we have season tics) told a story till kill time when a violin soloist broke a string. He said it was an Opera I cant recall but a performer is to be shot during anothers singing about events in the Opera, well he said the actor pointed the gun at wrong performer so the cast carried off the soloist while singing instead of the person who was supposed to be removed from stage.
It was a month or so ago I heard him tell that so hopefully I didnt confuse facts but it was a funny story during a uncomfortable mishap delay.