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1. The sky is reddened by a typical Midwestern sunset.
2. The sky begins clouding over just before dusk.
3. But no threat of rain can stop something.
Just before dusk, the sky typically clouds and reddens into a Midwestern sunset, but a threat of rain won’t stop something like this.
4. Twenty thousand rock fans flock to Cincinnati’s River-front Coliseum.
5. They are coming to see and hear Pink Floyd.
20,000 rock fans are flocking to come see and hear Pink Floyd at Cincinnati’s River-front Coliseum.
6. The concert is still three hours off.
7. The concert has already attracted early birds.
8. There are several thousand of them.
9. They are all decked out.
10. They are wearing their best rock-concert, faded blue jeans.
11. They are wearing their best rock-concert, tie-dyed T-shirts.
12. They are all keyed up for the high-energy Pink Floyd show.
Even if it’s still three hours off, there’s several thousand decked out early birds keyed up for the high energy show wearing their best rock-concert tie-dye shirts and blue jeans
13. There are newcomers to the rock scene.
14. Their newness is obvious.
15. They wander about.
16. They gawk at the others.
17. They are conspicuous.
18. They wear neatly pressed checked slacks.
19. They wear expensive shirts.
There are the obvious and conspicuous newcomers wandering about gawking about and wearing their expensive shirts and neatly pressed checked slacks.
20. There are loners.
21. Their eyes are barely open.
22. Their arms dangle uselessly at their sides.
23. They weave aimlessly around the circles.
24. The squinting is so they can steady themselves.
There are the narrow-eyed loners steadying themselves while weaving in circles and dangling uselessly at their sides.
25. There are couples.
26. They cling to each other.
27. They are near fountains or in remote corners.
There are the clingly couples near the fountains or in remote corners.
28. There are real police.
29. They are not the rent-a-cop breed.
30. They stride confidently.
31. They stride in large groups.
32. They stride among the crowd.
33. They twirl their billyclubs.
34. They sweep their eyes over the area,
35. They look for trouble.
There are the real-deal police that aren’t a rent-a-cop breed, striding confidently in groups among the crowd twirling their billyclubs and sweeping their eyes over the area looking for trouble.
36. Hawkers call out.
37. They call wherever there are crowds.
38. They try to unload cheap T-shirts.
39. They try to unload pennants.
40. They draw only laughter from most concert goers.
The hawkers call out wherever there are crowds, drawing only laughter from the crowds as they unloading cheap t-shirts and pennants and
41. The numbers grow.
42. There are circles of roamers, couples, and cops.
43. Roamers swarm confusedly over the acres of concrete.
44. Couples swarm confusedly over the acres of concrete.
45. Cops swarm confusedly over the acres of concrete.
46. The acres of concrete that lead up to the auditorium.
As the numbers grow, circles of confused roamers, couples, and cops form over the concrete leading up to the auditorium.
47. The management realizes something.
48. The hordes can no longer be contained peacefully.
49. Then, the doors open.
50. Waves of fans pour into the coliseum.
51. They are already tired from waiting.
52. They are already sweaty from waiting.
53. They are just in time for something.
54. They wait out the final hour before the show.
Management realizes that the hordes can’t be contained peacefully as the doors open and waves of fans pour in already tired and sweaty from waiting, as they are just in time to wait for the final hour before the show.