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originally posted by: PhyllidaDavenport
a reply to: Onlyyouknow
That story is from a very disreputable source which got that story from another disreputable source Neon Nettles. The valet has not disappeared after giving the interview to kitv.com there is zero evidence to support that since he has been posting on facebook after the interview
originally posted by: Boadicea
originally posted by: spy66
Who ever was working the lights on that stage that night would have been a interesting individual to speak to. This individual must know something.
Definitely. But I'm pretty sure he's getting a lot of pressure not to talk, perhaps even from the band, but also from authorities. And they could have him and everyone involved under gag order for all we know. If they could convince a judge that it pertains to national security, they could even get secret gag orders in a secret ruling after a secret motion...
Oh dear. Now I sound like Speed Racer and his secret meetings in secret rooms in secret buildings in secret cities... but this is real life! Arg!!!
Anyway, while it's all quite bizarre with the lights, I am glad the folks had lights to see where they were going while fleeing. I think it helped more folks get away safely than if they'd been fumbling and panicking and running in the dark.
Apparently he is missing now...
I think those lights above the stage are emergency lights that come on automatically when the stage lights are cut off but I don't know that for an absolute fact.
I heard an interview with a member of the crew that was running the sound that night. I think it was coming from a Nashville station. The news crew had caught them arriving at the Nashville airport to interview them. The guy whose interview I heard was a sound tech, not the crew chief. He said the crew chief, a veteran, was the first to recognize that a gun was being fired. He credited that guy with saving quite a few lives. Apparently a shot from the that first volley hit a piece of equipment near the chief, tipping him off that it was gunfire. He hit the kill switch for the sound according to the tech, then the light guy killed the stage lights.
I think those lights above the stage are emergency lights that come on automatically when the stage lights are cut off but I don't know that for an absolute fact. Wish I could find that interview but it looks like I'm going to have to do a lot of digging. I was in a waiting room and only heard part of the report. There was also a piece about the funeral for Sonny Melton, the Big Sandy, TN victim being held the next day so I guess it was on the 9th but Google isn't giving it up to me.
Anyway, it was sound roadie who had a lot of praise for the crew chief who was quick to recognize what was happening and got a lot of people to safety. He felt he owed his safety to the quick thinking and quick actions of his chief and the police who came to lead them to safety. He talked about how long ten minutes can be... I don't think he was even asked about what he thought about the origin of the shots.
There was a "leak" about the keycard to his suite being used while the parking garage receipts showed him as being away from the hotel on Saturday
Which again, was later retracted as an error (like many other "leaks")
I think after 2 weeks what still bugs me the most is the fact that Paddock made no attempt whatsoever to hide, he was very visible in all the time he was there, doing everything in his own name or gf's, even to the point of ordering room service and complaining twice about music from another room. This just doesn't seem the actions of a man about to commit a pre-planned mass murder!
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: diggindirt
Thanks, Dirt! I'll give Spy66 a heads up to your comment, since he mentioned it to me.
I think those lights above the stage are emergency lights that come on automatically when the stage lights are cut off but I don't know that for an absolute fact.
I've wondered if that was an automatic thing... perhaps those floodlights came on automatically after the show, when folks would be leaving and needing lights. I figured it was probably programmed in somehow or somewhere. Isn't everything?
But the show wasn't supoosed to have been over yet....so the programming angle for the lights doesn't hold up....
...then the light guy killed the stage lights.
I think those lights above the stage are emergency lights that come on automatically when the stage lights are cut off but I don't know that for an absolute fact.
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk
I think you're right... mostly right... but they've gotten cocky and they're going to overplay their hand (if they haven't already).
Plenty of people all over the country -- all over the world! -- know they are lying. They know what they saw and what they experienced while they were there, and many of them have told their friends and family, and many of them are screaming it from the rooftops. Every time they pull this crap, the people get a little smarter about their games. The next time something like this happens, people who didn't speak up the first time will speak up the next time... others will remember the rumors and lies and suspicions, and they'll be paying more attention and be more ready to speak up.
Despite their best efforts to turn us all into sniveling and whining cowards afraid of our own shadows, I think we have much greater mettle -- which they have grossly underestimated. But push will come to shove, and I'm betting on the people.