The following is an excerpt from the Blabbermouth story about the second lawsuit from the Great White tragedy. I do think it was horrible to have something like that happen, and the families should go after the band's management and the club, but this is fucking ridiculous. Suing Budweiser because they were advertising their beer there? Why don't they sue Levi's while they're at it, I'm sure a bunch of those people were wearing them...If this part of their lawsuit doesn't get laughed right out of court there are even bigger problems with the justice system in this country than I already thought there were!
"Also named as defendants are American Foam Corporation, of Johnston, the company that sold the highly flammable soundproofing foam that lined the walls of The Station, Luna Tech, Inc., of Owens Cross Rocks, Ala., which the lawsuit says was the manufacturer of the pyrotechnics used by GREAT WHITE the night of The Station fire, Luna Tech's parent corporation, Luna Tech Pyrotechnik GmbH, of Ascheffel, Germany, radio station WHJY-FM, a sponsor of the GREAT WHITE rock concert and its owner, Clear Channel Communications, of New York, and Anheuser-Busch and McLaughlin & Moran, which the lawsuit says also sponsored the Feb. 20 show.
Anheuser-Busch and McLaughlin & Moran, the lawsuit says, arranged for a batch of Budweiser beer that was brewed in Anheuser-Busch's New Hampshire brewery to be delivered to The Station by McLaughlin & Moran for sale at the GREAT WHITE show "so that fans at The Station that night could have the freshest beer that they were ever likely to have. This fact was promoted repeatedly by 'Doctor Metal' [the WHJY DJ Michael Gonsalves who died in the fire] to the crowd at various times during the evening," the lawsuit says.
McLauglin & Moran is the state's largest beer distributor, and the sole distributor of Anheuser-Busch products."
"Also named as defendants are American Foam Corporation, of Johnston, the company that sold the highly flammable soundproofing foam that lined the walls of The Station, Luna Tech, Inc., of Owens Cross Rocks, Ala., which the lawsuit says was the manufacturer of the pyrotechnics used by GREAT WHITE the night of The Station fire, Luna Tech's parent corporation, Luna Tech Pyrotechnik GmbH, of Ascheffel, Germany, radio station WHJY-FM, a sponsor of the GREAT WHITE rock concert and its owner, Clear Channel Communications, of New York, and Anheuser-Busch and McLaughlin & Moran, which the lawsuit says also sponsored the Feb. 20 show.
Anheuser-Busch and McLaughlin & Moran, the lawsuit says, arranged for a batch of Budweiser beer that was brewed in Anheuser-Busch's New Hampshire brewery to be delivered to The Station by McLaughlin & Moran for sale at the GREAT WHITE show "so that fans at The Station that night could have the freshest beer that they were ever likely to have. This fact was promoted repeatedly by 'Doctor Metal' [the WHJY DJ Michael Gonsalves who died in the fire] to the crowd at various times during the evening," the lawsuit says.
McLauglin & Moran is the state's largest beer distributor, and the sole distributor of Anheuser-Busch products."
