What is this photo?

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What is this photo?

Post by Dannorama » Mon Aug 05, 2024 11:56 pm

This photo shows a chicken about to get hurled. I thought the chicken incident only happened once in Toronto. These are decidedly different clothes than the ones worn at the Toronto concert. What's happening here?
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Re: What is this photo?

Post by Si » Mon Aug 05, 2024 11:58 pm

Dannorama wrote:
Mon Aug 05, 2024 11:56 pm
This photo shows a chicken about to get hurled. I thought the chicken incident only happened once in Toronto. These are decidedly different clothes than the ones worn at the Toronto concert. What's happening here?
We've known for some time that a chicken appeared at more than one show.

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Re: What is this photo?

Post by Dannorama » Tue Aug 06, 2024 12:03 am

Si wrote:
Mon Aug 05, 2024 11:58 pm
Dannorama wrote:
Mon Aug 05, 2024 11:56 pm
This photo shows a chicken about to get hurled. I thought the chicken incident only happened once in Toronto. These are decidedly different clothes than the ones worn at the Toronto concert. What's happening here?
We've known for some time that a chicken appeared at more than one show.
That's news to me. Thanks, Si.
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Re: What is this photo?

Post by mot$$33 » Wed Aug 07, 2024 3:50 am

Dannorama wrote:
Mon Aug 05, 2024 11:56 pm
This photo shows a chicken about to get hurled. I thought the chicken incident only happened once in Toronto. These are decidedly different clothes than the ones worn at the Toronto concert. What's happening here?
Looks like that chicken might have been photoshopped in.

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Re: What is this photo?

Post by Si » Wed Aug 07, 2024 7:07 am

mot$$33 wrote:
Wed Aug 07, 2024 3:50 am
Dannorama wrote:
Mon Aug 05, 2024 11:56 pm
This photo shows a chicken about to get hurled. I thought the chicken incident only happened once in Toronto. These are decidedly different clothes than the ones worn at the Toronto concert. What's happening here?
Looks like that chicken might have been photoshopped in.
Nope. There are a couple of other photos from shows also showing chickens from the same period. I want to say this one is from the Detroit Motor Show or similar, but I could be misremembering. I'm very bad at remembering where specific shots are from.

There's a wider version of the same photo right here on STUK: https://www.sickthingsuk.co.uk/10-trivia/t-chicken.php

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Re: What is this photo?

Post by Dannorama » Wed Aug 07, 2024 1:32 pm

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Wed Aug 07, 2024 7:07 am

There's a wider version of the same photo right here on STUK: https://www.sickthingsuk.co.uk/10-trivia/t-chicken.php
I knew I'd seen it here. I thought it was under the "Timelines" tab. Thanks again, Si.
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Re: What is this photo?

Post by Dreary » Wed Aug 07, 2024 3:40 pm

The Hiwatt amps behind our amps in the photo of Alice holding the chicken and pointing tells me that its from Alice Cooper and the Who at the Grande Riviera in Detroit 10/11/69.
We used chickens a few times. Alice would toss one out and whoever caught it would be invited back stage to meet us and we would give them some signed posters.

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Re: What is this photo?

Post by Dannorama » Thu Aug 15, 2024 3:03 pm

Here's another pointless question for anyone in the know... The detail in this picture shows a group of guys on Neal's left bass drum. I'd like to think it's a shot of the band, but there appears to be six figures, and their hairstyles don’t look familiar. Any clue who this is? Thanks in advance...
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