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9. Interesting story about Bull Durham - the Pink Floyd shirts

When they were filming it - before the season started I think- they needed crowd shots. Pink Floyd was playing a show nearby in Chapel Hill and the producers got someone in the band to announce that after the concert there would be free beer and hot dogs for anyone who showed up at the ballpark. Lots of the crowd shots feature a lot of Pink Floyd T-shirts.


Here ya go
BURG: The wedding scene was a night scene, and we had no money for extras. Pink Floyd was playing a concert in Chapel Hill, so we went and got the band to say, "We'll be partying after the show at the Durham Athletic Field, meet us there!" And around 11 that night thousands of people showed up in Pink Floyd T-shirts, drunk. That's how we got our extras. We just got lucky. It was that kind of movie.

https://www.si.com/vault/2015/07/10/106211232/worshipping-at-the-church-of-baseball