So I got a story here I used to sell a bunch of that shit at concerts
Back when the cops would just take your tank, throw it in the back of their pick up truck and crank it wide open, and you just have to basically stand there and watch it as it just fucking blew into the wind as the tank turned into an ice cube and the cops stand there and laugh at you and shit, but it wasn’t illegal at that point and they weren’t gonna arrest you. They just took your tank, which was the biggest pain in the ass because if you know anything about that those things are numbered and they need to be able to be accounted for by the gas dealer. It’s kind of a bitch You gotta pay a bunch of money to the guy whos getting it for you Now we didn’t have any shows that were coming up and me and my buddy that used to roll balloons on a regular heard about a house party at our buddy Sammy‘s house so we’re like let’s go over there and we’ll take a six footer with us. You know throw a regulator on it and a hose and you know charge 10 bucks at the door and then you can just sit there and rip that thing all day long as fucking crazy as you want to. now the guy whose house we went to got really into it man and I’m fishing the fuck out on the couch with a trash bag full of the shit, my buddy is too And Sammy is standing up with the tank and has the hose straight in his fucking mouth and he’s like dancing with the tank, you know fishing the fuck out this cat decides to fall the fuck over with the tank in his arm, tank was wrapped in a blanket mind you because they frost over when they’re wide open like that But still the valve hit him right in the fucking face man, and it blew his face up something crazy so he’s like all anesthetized and shit and me and my buddy are like whoa, you know waited for this shit to kinda wear off a bit so we grab this motherfucker and we take him to the hospital and we drop his ass off and takeoff go back to his house Continue to party well this dude comes back and starts ripping on the tank again almost fell over on top of it a second time we packed our shit up and left man. It was nuts. The groooooob was a savage.
He was not tapping out.
Ballooning Tales, I tried to condense it as much as I could:
The Annual 98 Rock "Livestock Festival" ran for 16 yrs in Zephyrhills Fl. from 1990-2006. I attended i think 12 of them. It was held in an enormous cow pasture and went from Fri-Sun. In the early years, camping opened on Thurs. There would be like 5 mile long lines creeping along the rd shoulders from every direction waiting to get in. It was a huge creeping party and leo wouldn't fk with anyone unless they were really getting obnoxious.
My buddy had an old travel trailer we called the "Green Weenie" that he took almost every year. He had a friend in S FL who owned a rave club... "Dave" brought 4-6 tanks (6 footers), every year that he came. The green weenie had a side door where we'd set up the "working tank". It was a multi person operation. The acting "Tank Capt" would run the valve, while the Lt. would attach balloons (straight to the tank, no regulator) and hold them, while they were filled with a 1 or 2 second blast (loud as fuck) by the tc. There would be a short line of "runners" who would get 8-10 (large) balloons-one wrapped around ea finger by the Lt.
You could take off with 10 balloons and barely make it 4 or 5 campsites away with them-$3 ea or 2 for $5 (or whatever you could get for them), all weekend long. Dave would say "just sell the fk out of them & gimme some money back now and then..." runners could make $100's per night, Dave-$1,000's... Anyhoo, after several "crash and burns" (Tank Capt's or Lt's falling out, and taking the tank with them).
We smartened up pretty quickly and attached the tanks to the green weenie entryway with a ratchet strap screwed to the wall. It was common practice to hold a balloon in your teeth and let it slowly seep while you were filling or holding balloons... many people "floundered" right there in the weenie entryway, myself included.
We'd arrange our group in a wagon train circle, with a big fire in the middle, usually about 30+ people. Balloons were free to all the peeps in our group to sell or do. Strangers would be allowed in, or run off depending on their attitudes. I've seen crazy, crazy shit... Everything from people floundering into big ass fires, to dudes offering their ole lady's "services" for balloons, and the ole lady's agreeing! We would end the weekend with all kinds of loot - bud, X, acid, shrooms, 90's.... you name it, and people were trading it for dat "hippy crack" after they ran out of money. Even shit like food, car parts, tools, furniture - sofas, recliners, rugs; you name it, they were trading it lmfao... By sunday our campsite would be pimped the fk out.
Some big names launched from Livestock, from Limp Bizcut & Kid Rock to Hootie and the Blowfish and Creed, Days of the new and a bunch more.
1990 (Livestock I): Uncle Sally, Deloris Telescope, Bobby Friss, Stranger, Cry Wolf, King’s X, Trixter, Savatage, Every Mother’s Nightmare; Day 2 featured Rocky Ruckman & the Beat Heathen’s, Saber, Bleeding Hearts, Spread Eagle, Blackfoot
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1991 (Livestock II): Colorblind, Tyger Tyger, Deloris Telescope, The Scream & Dangerous Toys; plus Factory Black, Men From Earth, Bobby Friss, St. Warren, McQueen Street, Tall Stories, Heartless, Savatage, Galactic Cowboys, Four Horsemen, Soundgarden, Saigon Kick; and Uncle Sally, Bleeding Hearts, Asphalt Ballet, Stranger, White Trash
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1992 (Livestock III): U.R.O.K., Secret Service, Steinhardt‑Moon, Life, Sex & Death, Copperhead, Stranger, Young Turk, Heartless, Jackyl, Lynch Mob, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Love Junkies, Deeforce, Spread Eagle, Trouble, Every Mother’s Nightmare
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1993 (Livestock IV): Here Comes Rusty, Eric Gales, Saigon Kick, Anthrax, Steppenwolf, The Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, Cry of Love, Candlebox
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1995 (Livestock V): Toadies, Green Apple Quickstep, Lillian Axe, Live, Sponge, Tesla, Hootie & the Blowfish,
Great White, Dokken, Bush, Animal Bag, I Mother Earth
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1996 (Livestock VI): Joe Satriani, Dishwalla, Self, Into Another, Drivin' N' Cryin, Sugarspoon, Korn, I Mother Earth, Tripping Daisy, The Hazies, Life of Agony, Men From Earth, Hello Joseph, Seven Mary Three, The Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, Killer Kona Buds, Bloom, Joe Popp, Stabbing Westward, Filter
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1997 (Livestock VII): Jackyl & Brian Johnson, Bloodhound Gang, Seven Mary Three, Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, Matchbox Twenty, Tonic, Type O Negative, Mötley Crüe, Gravity Kills, Helmet, Stir, Darlahood, Local H, Mighty Joe Plum, Handsome & Drain S.T.H.
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1998 (Livestock VIII): Fat, Cool for August, Third Eye Blind, Limp Bizkit, Days of the New, Neurotica, Sevendust, Creed, Jimmie’s Chicken Shack, Life of Agony, Brother Cane, Impotent Sea Snakes, The Hazies, Mighty Joe Plum, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Megadeth
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1999 (Livestock IX): Neurotica, 2nd Coming, Honky Toast, Virgos Merlot, Oleander, Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, Loudmouth, Buckcherry, Godsmack, Slash’s Snakepit, Stabbing Westward, Sammy Hagar, Staind, Econoline Crush, Sponge, Kid Rock, Silverchair
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2000 (Livestock X): Guano Apes, Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, Lit, Static‑X, Sevendust, 8 Stops 7, Kittie, Chevelle, P.O.D., Foo Fighters, Staind, Creed
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2001 (Livestock XI): Crossbreed, Darwin’s Waiting Room, Hed PE, Tantric, Black Crows, Tesla, Staind, Linkin Park, The Offspring, 3 Doors Down, Disturbed, Cold, Oleander, Nonpoint, Skrape, Systematic, Mudvayne
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2002 (Livestock XII): Stone Temple Pilots, Jerry Cantrell, Kid Rock, Rob Zombie, Puddle of Mudd, Sevendust, Adema, Soil, Ear Shot, Gravity Kills, Local H, Fu Manchu, Reveille, Course of Nature, Chevelle, Lost Prophets, Apex Theory, Sinistar, Custom, Kevin Martin (of Candlebox), Battery, Ned Zeppelin
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2003 (Livestock XIII): Godsmack, Def Leppard, 3 Doors Down, Stone Sour, Seether, Theory of a Deadman, Powerman 5000, Oleander, Socialburn, Trapt, Shinedown, Presence, The Little Kings, Battery, Hell’s Belles, RA, Pacifier, Four Star Riot, Crossbreed, Soulfound, Saliva
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2004 (Livestock XIV): Second Drop, Hatebreed, Finger Eleven, 3 Days Grace, Shinedown, Trapt, Tantric, Smile Empty Soul, Soil, Sevendust, Drowning Pool, Damageplan, The Offspring, Puddle of Mudd
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2005 (Livestock XV): Halestorm, Mercy Fall, Egypt Central, Hybrid, Black Stone Cherry, Revelation Theory, Tantric, Saliva; Day 2: Clenchfist, Faktion, Hybrid, Hurt, Evans Blue, Hinder, Theory of a Deadman, Trapt, Shinedown, Staind, Rob Zombie, Mudvayne
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2006 (Livestock XVI): (Lineup details not published; event occurred April 28–29, 2006.)
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