These are photos I took at a concert in Hattiesburg, MS, in November 1982. To get in, my friend Ron and I decided we didn’t need no stinkin’ tickets. We devised a brilliant plan to cheat Cheap Trick out of the outrageous $7. The concert was held at the coliseum on the USM campus, which during the day was an open facility for students (gyms and some campus offices). So we decided to just saunter in in the late afternoon and then hide while they locked it down in preparation for the concert. So we hid out in the toilets for many, many hours (time was cheap — $7 was hard to come by!). When we heard crowd noises we waltzed out into the main arena whistling Dixie. It was quite a while longer before it seemed like a regular concert sized crowd. But finally, we were rewarded with free rock and roll. I snapped these shots during the show. I’m sure I have more somewhere if I could only find the negatives! These are scans. I’m neither a great photographer nor a great scanning artist, so this is just for the record. After the show, we hung around even longer while the audience cleared out. When it was nearly empty, the band came out and actually helped the roadies break down the gear. Ron chatted up Robin (no pix of that, sadly) and then we finally left, getting more than our money’s worth out of that show.
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