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kc_pjkc_pj Posts: 284
edited August 2007 in Given To Fly (live)
Anyone guess how many were there last night for the show??

(I don't know the answer, just curious if anyone knows or can guess well!)

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  • Vedd HeddVedd Hedd Posts: 4,602
    2.3 million.
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  • NY PJ1NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    30 -40,000 imo
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    NY PJ1 wrote:
    30 -40,000 imo

    are you serious? there were 180,000. 40,000??? thats nothing. the field was at least 200yds long shoulder to shoulder
  • AmherstJammerAmherstJammer Amherst, Massachusetts Posts: 1,510
    I counted 82,145
  • ajedigeckoajedigecko \m/deplorable af \m/ Posts: 2,430
    BostonJammer wrote:
    I counted 82,145
    did you count anybody twice?
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  • NY PJ1NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    jlew24asu wrote:
    are you serious? there were 180,000. 40,000??? thats nothing. the field was at least 200yds long shoulder to shoulder


    im not good measuring ,,, if it is that high than HOLY SHIT LOL

    i wanna know
  • RiotAct10RiotAct10 Ohio Posts: 1,620
    I asked how many people would be there on the Lolla message board before the show happened, and this is the response I got from the mod over there...

    "Hey-

    We do not publish this number but if I had to guess the number of peeps a day is around 65,000. Hope this helps.

    Nick"
    words seem so out of place.

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  • evenflow82evenflow82 Posts: 3,891
    fourteen people total.
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  • drinkingmercurydrinkingmercury Posts: 53
    close to 200,000 - largest lolla crowd ever for a headliner. according to this morning's papers
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  • hsewifhsewif Posts: 444
    lots of people.

    I've been looking for a good audience shot but I can't find one. The closest I have seen is this one (thanks to releaselauren) http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e352/laurenlb803/lollacrowd.jpg

    That photo is a tiny sliver of the amount of people... that's just Stone's side. Mike's half (they had an aisle down the middle) is just as big and the crowd was solid far beyond what her pic shows.
  • NY PJ1NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    hsewif wrote:
    lots of people.

    I've been looking for a good audience shot but I can't find one. The closest I have seen is this one (thanks to releaselauren) http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e352/laurenlb803/lollacrowd.jpg

    That photo is a tiny sliver of the amount of people... that's just Stone's side. Mike's half (they had an aisle down the middle) is just as big and the crowd was solid far beyond what her pic shows.


    thats a small part no doubt
  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    I have NO idea! There was a lot. Me and my daughter were I guess, halfway back (near this brown planet-like thing attached to a speaker tower), and we moved up after the first encore, as some people left. Then when the show was over, we kind of stayed there till we *thought* it had thinned out a bit. Then we stopped again at the stairs past the myspace stage, and turned and watched, and the field looked just as full. My daughter took a picture. It was the biggest group of people I've ever been in anywhere. And people were really nice. We did not have even one negative encounter.
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  • NY PJ1NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    JaneNY wrote:
    I have NO idea! There was a lot. Me and my daughter were I guess, halfway back (near this brown planet-like thing attached to a speaker tower), and we moved up after the first encore, as some people left. Then when the show was over, we kind of stayed there till we *thought* it had thinned out a bit. Then we stopped again at the stairs past the myspace stage, and turned and watched, and the field looked just as full. My daughter took a picture. It was the biggest group of people I've ever been in anywhere. And people were really nice. We did not have even one negative encounter.

    YEA I HAD ZERO PROBLEMS ALSO ,, of course i wasnt in that close uo mayhem
  • orig_bise2postorig_bise2post Posts: 193
    it was pretty damn rediculus... i heard about 160 k. i watched kings of leon and had to suffer through my morning jacket to get about 20 back. well worth it.
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  • hsewifhsewif Posts: 444
    JaneNY wrote:
    We did not have even one negative encounter.

    Great to read!

    Overall, the day was surreal in a positive way. The worst thing I saw involved a PJ fan.

    There was a guy standing in front of me and a little to the right. Whenever someone would crowd surf past us, he would try to grab them and slam them down on the ground.

    He was successful twice, out of 6 or 7 people total. The first time it happened, I thought I was hallucinating. WHen it happened the 2nd time during Alive, it was bad. He grabbed a guy and threw him down on his neck/upper back area.

    Very uncool. We thought about saying something but we were afraid of the guy by that point. The others made it down to security without incident. They probably accidentally kicked a few people on the way down but it was fun for others to watch.

    There was a woman (around 40 years old) that made it all the way down and it was kind of cool to see her flopping around overhead with a big smile on her face. :)
  • whome13whome13 Posts: 72
    What was this person wearing? Might have been me.
  • hsewifhsewif Posts: 444
    whome13 wrote:
    What was this person wearing? Might have been me.

    who are you? the 40 year old surfer or the slammer?
  • whome13whome13 Posts: 72
    Well I'm not 40 and I dislike crowd surfers..
  • iamicaiamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    The Red Eye this morning says there was about 200,000 people. Biggest Lollapalooza turnout yet in Chicago.
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  • hsewifhsewif Posts: 444
    whome13 wrote:
    Well I'm not 40 and I dislike crowd surfers..

    I'd hate to think that there was more than one of you in the crowd.

    why don't you tell me what you were wearing and we'll see. I hate calling you out if it was you... but if it was, I really hope that someone you loved was hurt in a crowd surfing incident or something like that.

    You could have killed or severely wounded someone. I threw up in my mouth a little when the 2nd guy came through. Thank god (or another likeness) that he was severely impaired and bounced off the pavement like a super-ball.
  • whome13whome13 Posts: 72
    It probably wasn't me but I was wearing a green Pearl Jam shirt and white hat until it got knocked off and lost forever by a crowd surfer. My friend later got kicked in the back of the head and a nearby girl was crying because some huge guy landed on her.
  • hsewifhsewif Posts: 444
    whome13 wrote:
    It probably wasn't me but I was wearing a green Pearl Jam shirt and white hat until it got knocked off and lost forever by a crowd surfer. My friend later got kicked in the back of the head and a nearby girl was crying because some huge guy landed on her.

    It wasn't you and sorry about your hat. Hopefully, it went to a good home and not a garbage dump. :)
  • NeilJamNeilJam Posts: 1,191
    drinkingmercury wrote:
    close to 200,000 - largest lolla crowd ever for a headliner. according to this morning's papers


    These 6 figure estimates sound way off to me. I wonder if that might be the attendance for the entire 3 days, where 1 person going all 3 days would be counted 3 times.

    Bonnaroo only had about 70,000 each of the past 3 years and it's a much bigger (and bona fide) festival. The main stage area at Roo also seemed bigger than the AT&T stage.

    RiotAct10 wrote:
    I asked how many people would be there on the Lolla message board before the show happened, and this is the response I got from the mod over there...

    "Hey-

    We do not publish this number but if I had to guess the number of peeps a day is around 65,000. Hope this helps.

    Nick"


    This sounds a bit more accurate.
  • ddirt80ddirt80 Posts: 12
    There's no chance that there were 200 000 people there on Sunday.
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    ddirt80 wrote:
    There's no chance that there were 200 000 people there on Sunday.

    why? during July 3rd fireworks and air and water show there are close to 1 million. I say there were at least 150,000 ON SUNDAY
  • vedhead011vedhead011 Posts: 300
    All I know is that I used Google Earth to measure the field, and it was about a tenth of a mile wide (nearly two football fields) and a quarter of a mile long (about 4 and a half football fields) and there were people standing practically on top of each other reportedly covering the entire field.
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  • NotAFuckinGodNotAFuckinGod Posts: 20
    bisepost wrote:
    it was pretty damn rediculus... i heard about 160 k. i watched kings of leon and had to suffer through my morning jacket to get about 20 back. well worth it.

    thats pretty much exactly what i would say. looooong day, well worth it in the end...KoL were awesome but MMJ kind of sucked ass IMO
    Any new realizations would have to wait until he had more time. More time.
  • Prioronfire22Prioronfire22 Posts: 393
    Haha whoever said 40 k you are crazy haha but i'll agree with whoever said about 180,000 to 200k
  • ryph raphryph raph Posts: 887
    Alot!
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  • gndcd402gndcd402 Posts: 2,563
    jlew24asu wrote:
    why? during July 3rd fireworks and air and water show there are close to 1 million. I say there were at least 150,000 ON SUNDAY

    agreed thatd be my guess. that place was a sea of people from the front of the stage the whole way back almost to the main fountain...
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