Have any of ya'll ever snuck in tiger stadium?

Maybe I misread the post, but are you saying Zepplin and The WHO played on campus n the 70's? if so, that's pretty awesome!

I've never really "snuck" in TS. The closest I came was after the Fla. game in '97. I went down on the field and helped tear down the goal posts in the north end zone. Doesn't match up to some of the other stories here, but it was definately an experience I'll never forget.

 

I never knew there was a catwalk on the bridge but back in the late 60's or early 70's when the bridge was still under construction I knew a guy who climbed up the structure and walked across the river and back while heavily under the influence of LSD. And not the kind of mild acid that I hear goes around these days but the real mindblowing Owsley-Timothy Leary stuff that was the norm in those days.

I never snuck into Tiger Stadium (I would have if I would have thought of it) but in the summer between my 9th and 10th grades a bunch of us would go to the John M. Parker Agricultural Center every morning and sneak in to play baseball. We used a tennis ball as the baseball and would go into the seats and spell out Double, Triple and Home Run at different levels of the seats by raising and lowering the seat backs. Nobody ever bothered us until near the end of the summer when the campus police came in and ran us out one day. We called it the AgriDome.

I only went into the LSU Underground once and it was scary as hell. There were rats bigger than small dogs down there. There was also a large campus population of wild cats in the area that kept the rat population under some control. The cats were not the sort that would come when you said "Here, Kitty, Kitty" and rub up against your leg but there was an elderly lady who would show up every day across from Thomas Boyd Hall to feed them. The cats would come out of the sewer and she would sing to them as she fed them. I'm sure the decendents of those cats and rats are still down there.

 

In '97 or '98, I decided along with a friend of mine that it would be fun to drive my Miata around in the Quad in the middle of the night. We drove in between a couple of buildings on the Lockett side, and sped up and down the sidewalk under the big archways that run along the fronts of the buildings (avoiding stairs!). We were seeing how fast I could drive in the middle section around the raised flower beds when someone came walking through and we decided it would definitely not be cool to run over somebody in the quad.

 

In the 70's there were regular big time concerts on campus. Jethro Tull, Emerson Lake & Palmer, things were really loose back then. Heck, at any time of the day in the early 70's there would be one to several circles on the parade ground passing doobies around. Was no big deal, and the campus police were pretty cool about everything, never messed with anybody much that they didnt have to.

In old graham you could stop the elevator short and climb on top, then ride it to the roof. Things were way different then, not nearly as uptight as these days.

 

Never snuck into Tiger Stadium, but did sneak into "Turkey Gobbler" stadium at Va Tech last year. Walked down by the field, pretty cool view with how steep there stadium is.

My best TS experience however was in high school. A teammate of mine was being recruited by LSU and I went on a few unofficial visists with him. Went in the locker room, etc. Got to stay on the sideline from pre-game warm-up up until about 1/2 way through the 1st quarter. Being on the sideline for the bands pre-game and team coming through the tunnel was awesome. Eric Andolsek was one big and intense fricker.

 

Sorry to say but that was pretty stupid. When I was in school around 83-85 there was some idiot who thought it would be cool to drive his car across the indian mounds one night. There was a girl and her boyfriend sitting on the mound and he ran over the girl, killing her. That is why they have that brick wall surrounding them now.
Guess you were lucky no one was hurt.

 

Those must have been the days. Now everything is so uptight. Hell, I'm a freshman and the last day of last semester, me and a few friends were havin a few beers in my dorm and some prick decided he was gonna tell the RAs. RAs come down, write us all up, LSUPD came but they were cool. Now we're all on probation for 2 semesters, have to attend an alcohol class, and had to do some stupid writing assignment.

 

Deep within man lies a biological need to explore. I grew up in the country where hunting was popular because there was nothing else to do. I really didn't hunt so much as explored miles of woods, often getting lost but finally finding a road and a long walk home (back in the those days it was normal to see a boy with a shotgun walking along the side of the road, now a swat team would be called out). Anyway, this thread proves that ya'll are a bunch of city boys (probably never had fresh barbequed squirrel) and had to heed the call of the wild as best you could, in tunnels and under bridges. I missed the tunnels when I was I was at LSU, never heard of them.

Warning to all you students out there, consider the consequences of your actions. A stupid move made now with a few beers under your belt can effect your future!

 

I can verify the indian mound story, very sad. I was a student then. It reiterates my last sentence above.

 

Fanatic:

Some of the great concerts of the '70's that were at the PMAC were:
1974 - Elton John (Sept.)
1974 - George Harrison - Nov 26 - (the 1st "campout show") I have an import CD from Japan of this concert...
1974 - Yes - The Relayer Tour
1975 - Zeppelin - 2/28 - I have bootlegs from this show
1975 - The Stones - 6/1 - they opened their '75 tour in BR.
There was a 3:00 show & a 9:00 show. I went to BOTH. Tix were $10.00 each.
1975 - The Who - 11/21 - Keith Moon's last North American tour.
AWESOME SHOW
1977- Pink Floyd - 4/28 - the Animals tour
1977 - Emerson Lake & Palmer

I'm sure I missed a couple here and there...

I still have copies of most of the tickets stubs to these shows....

In the early 70's there were a lot of great shows at Independence Hall, near the State Capitol, and then later, the greatest little club in the world: Kingfish.

Those were some great concert days...