Nope I was there as well!
How times have changed.Any person going past the Highlander now would think its is just another house on the course.
The Bushys thing only really started when the pub closed, and the tent went up on the bottleneck car park.
Reading throught this thread again, it is difficult to to explain the PERCIVED change in behaviour with SOME of the new fans.
Yes, there has always bad behaviour at the TT. including drinking and riding. I was also there the year that someone rode there bike into the lobby of Toffs nightclub, and done a burnout on the carpet, setting of the fire alarm causing a complete evacuation of the Palace Hotel at 1.00am in the morning.
What there never SEEMED to be was the loutish behaviour that you see now.
Time will tell, and I suspect the yardstick on how it will progress will be with the Manx Police and the Manx people.