Alice Cooper Toronto Riot August 19 1980

[MrFudgeIt]

Well your canadian beer is a lot stronger than the Clydesdale piss they sell in USA.

[blastingcaps]

@MrFudgeIt They sell all kinds of beer in the united states. If you dont want to drink shit beer, you dont HAVE to. I drink rail bender ale. Its 26 bucks a case 6.8 percent alc and a great ale, oh by the way its brewed in Erie P.A. which happens to be in the U.S.A.

[Esperanza1023]

I remember this too.....pretty scary (especially since my brother was down on the field in the thick of things!). I was so shaken up when I got home I remember telling my mom "The CANCERT was CONSELLED".....guess it could have been alot worse!

[bobeee1969]

I MISS THOSE BRIGHT YELLOW COP CARS!!!!! YOU COULD SPOT THEM A MILE AWAY WHEN YOU WERE IN A LANE WAY SMOKING DOPE.

[railfan666]

Oh how i miss concerts at the C.N.E stadium/grandstand.

[Esperanza1023]

@railfan666 - I miss those concerts too!

[Beatnikzombie]

I would like to have one of those chairs.

[CanadaIndieFilm]

I was 15 years old when I attended this "event." I didn't see Alice Cooper until 10 years later at this same stadium.

[billyzzzee]

@CanadaIndieFilm i was seventeen ...this cbc clip is way better than the new music clip with john jd roberts...

[99daveo]

I was there to celebrate being 18 to Alice's anthem.......

Nobody mention that a group called "Zon" had to fill in... that's when it started........

Their equipment was trashed.......

My buddy and I ran after he got hit in the back with a chair!

Good times.....

[rocknrollattic]

@99daveo

ZON was supposed to fill in??

No wonder everyone went apeshit...lol

[billyzzzee]

@rocknrollattic they covered Hocus Pocus by Focus maybe 3-4 times that night

[CanadaIndieFilm]

@99daveo Oh yeah. I almost forgot about Zon and even though you mentioned them I only vaguely remember. I didn't participate in the riot, just sat in the bleachers and watched it until a cop came up and told us to leave. The overturned cars and phone booths outside the stadium. I had to call my mother to pick us up. I was 15.

[mooksterUSofA]

@CanadaIndieFilm

Yeah, the Mounties on horseback and the riot cops with their shields and helmets.

[mooksterUSofA]

@99daveo

I was there as well.

Yep, Zon did play.

I remember the fire extinguishers being set off in the halls.

[MrFudgeIt]

Damn that Canadian beer must be real strong!

[billyzzzee]

@MrFudgeIt i remember one jerk threw his bottle at a cop who was standing beside the scaffolding on stage . the bottle smashed right in the good ol boys face. hope you cops and horses are all good . it was a bit scary being in row eighteen

[snowstormcan]

Wow, in 1980 you could be the CEO of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, the highest office of Canada's biggest metro area, and look and dress like a stoned hippy. Good times. Wish I was there.

[CanadaIndieFilm]

@snowstormcan You could probably do it today. Crazy Steve of the Bunchofuckingoofs ran for alderman. If you can get people to vote for you ...

[billyzzzee]

@CanadaIndieFilm bring back the goofs

[billyzzzee]

@snowstormcan yeah and trudeau's wife was screwin mick jagger who was screwin david bowie who was screwin elton john who married a canadian boy

[FREDDYMERCURY1996]

wow

[CelesteK]

Yeah. It's just like the Alice Cooper killed a chicken incident in 1969. Wow! It's a good thing I didn't care about this.

[thegirl44]

This is the reason why I had to lie to my mum about the first 10 Cooper shows that I attended, probably about the only thing I ever did lie to her about.  Fucking media hysteria.