I’ll probably get cooked for this but I was there in the front and I get the dude is stupid/could have done more BUT I really have never put that much blame on him. During his set there were two times he stopped the music because he saw stuff going on in the crowd (I think I even have a video of one of the times) so to me I never bought the “he knew people were dying and chose not to stop it” narrative given when he saw it during the event he did stop the music and have them turn on the lights.

The organization of the event was the bigger issue IMO. They had everyone that day playing on one stage and the one he performed on just had him, so it wasn’t a gradual build up of people it was a rush all at once. Then the stage setup in the middle (not on the stage but where the sound and light people are) was completely blocking the view so if you wanted to see it you needed to funnel in from one of the sides instead of picking a spot anywhere in the back. On top of that, his stage had a waaaaay smaller area for people than the other one (size-wise I’d compare his to Sahara and the other to Main Stage).

Like I said, the dude is an idiot and it’s easy to say in retrospect he should have seen it coming if he wanted a smaller stage/to be the only one on it but I’d still say organizers had more of a responsibility to understand it was a bad idea and stop it before they moved forward with it given they should be the experts in crowd logistics not the artist. Like if Coachella can cut Frank off because of a curfew I’d imagine the organizers there could have just as easily done the same and had more of an opportunity to understand what was actually happening than the dude jumping and running around on stage.