UPDATE: Col. Bruce Hampton has passed away after the events unfolded below towards the tail end of the Hampton 70 concert in Atlanta.
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Some scary news coming out of the Atlanta music scene tonight with reports that Col. Bruce Hampton collapsed towards the end of a concert honoring his musical career at the Fox Theatre.
Crazy situation at #Hampton70. Col appeared to collapse on stage. Show ended abruptly. Emergency vehicles ouside of Fox pic.twitter.com/dLNGlwhT1s
— Tomorrow's Verse (@tomorrowsverse) May 2, 2017
He just left stage door in stretcher. Loaded into ambulance. Hoping for the best.
— Tomorrow's Verse (@tomorrowsverse) May 2, 2017
Not sure exactly what happened, but we are seeing on Twitter that normally this would have come across just like the Colonel was making a joke. To others there, it wasn’t so obviously a joke and everyone knew there was an issue when the Col. was carried offstage, the webcast stopped short and the crowd got out front of the venue to see an ambulance.
(1/3) Toward the end of Lovelight at the Col. Bruce tribute tonight, The Colonel seemed to be playfully lying down on stage as he often does
— InsideOutWTNS (@InsideOutWTNS) May 2, 2017
(2/3) This time it was not playful and The Colonel did in fact collapse and was taken away quickly. Was a bit of a scarey backstage scene.
— InsideOutWTNS (@InsideOutWTNS) May 2, 2017
(3/3) However we are being told he did regain a pulse before the ambulance took him away. Please pray for Bruce to whomever you believe.
— InsideOutWTNS (@InsideOutWTNS) May 2, 2017
When Col. Bruce was down at #Hampton70 I was nervous. Musicians seemed ok. Smiling. Bruce being silly. Jimmy Herring's face tho… he knew.
— Jarrett Bellini (@JarrettBellini) May 2, 2017
Our thoughts with Col. Bruce on a safe and swift recovery…
