Previous Post Justice Friday
It all started on June 21, 1997 at the Los Angeles Olympic Colosseum. Rage Against the Machine was opening up for U2 on their Pop Mart Tour. My friend Chris Boeltl and I were volunteering with YWAM in LA and wanted to go to the show, but didn’t have a cent to our name.
We decided to go down to the even even though we had no money and see what would happen. I remember us walking around the venue listening to the sound check and watching thousands upon thousands of people pass us as they walked into the Colosseum. After about 2 hours we saw a lady standing around wearing a black business suit and looking like she had some authority. Chris and I walked up to her and asked her if she had any tickets to the show. She told us that we should come back in an hour, just as RATM came on and she would let us know.
Excited and wanting not to get our hopes up at the same time we walked over to Burger King to get a burger and pass the hour. One hour later we walked over to the same girl and as we were walking she turned to us and handed us 2 free tickets to the show. What? Did this really happen? Yes it did, and it would continue to happen to me dozens and dozens of times over the next 11 years.
My intent for this weekly Saturday evening post is to share with you the experiences and miracles that have happened to me over the years in getting into free shows. Some I have just been curious of and some have been life long dreams come true. I look forward to walking through these memories with you and hope it will be as fun for you as it will be for me. See you next Saturday.
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