Depending on who you talk to, Rage Against The Machine’s set was a life-threatening incident, compounded by poor judgment on the part of one C3 staffer to counteract the expertise of the security guards they hired, or a relatively uneventful set of music that just happened to coincide with some mild, unavoidable crowd control issues. Our reporting can be found here and here, while the Windy Citizen offers another take. Jim DeRogatis and Anders Lindall at the Sun-Times spoke to C3 organizers and got their reactions, and published photos from the pit. Billboard is erroneously reporting that fans broke down the gates, when in reality - as the Sun-Times report makes clear - the fans were able to rush in due to C3’s own mistake.
See for yourself what happened onstage and off, courtesy of our photographer Seth Mooney.
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