Allman Brothers, Wet Willie: Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio

DON'T KNOW how it is up in those choice stageside seats you pro critics reputedly get your asses greased with, but auditing a rock concert from the dismal reaches of Row HH is a pretty strenuous business these days. (And I ain't talking about boogieing in the aisles, either.) Nope, today's prole for a night audiences are beginning to rival those of Shakespeare's Globe for general rowdiness and hi-jinx. Take several thousand Midwestern, affluent late teens, bluejean'd and suburbanized, touched with smatterings of Abbie Hoffman's cry for Free Music and everybody's post-Cream adulation for The Superstar, put them in an imbecilic hockey arena like Cincinnati Gardens, douse the house lights, and you get Jann Wenner's Little Acre, Altamont in a Test Tube.