I guess they never heard Smoke on the water

[Tero]

..or did not know what the lyrics meant.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/latin- ... story.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_on_the_water

In the middle of Don Preston's synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place suddenly caught fire when somebody in the audience fired a flare gun into the rattan covered ceiling, as mentioned in the "some stupid with a flare gun" line

[klr]

Penny-pinching and lack of proper regulation.

In many other countries, it has taken a lot of people to be killed in a single incident before attitudes and laws (and their enforcement) change for the better.

[Tero]

I blame idiots. There are always a handful in a rock concert. I only go to outdoor concerts of that size.