ever been in a mosh pit?
 

salutary social evolution?

or, same old shameful mess?



j-

fun for about 5 minutes

social ... it was a great experience... went moshing like 3 times... one time it broke out into a racial as the crowd was mixed with Primus fans and Naughty By Nature fans and all the brothas didnt like the whole mosh pit thing that broke out during the Primus portion of the MTC spring break thingy...

nope nope

many Lollapalooza's ... Fishbone was the best

I used to be a champion crowd surfer. Damn, that was fun. They don't have them so much in Los Angeles the same way though.

it's a good time. i'm a pretty big guy, bout 6'3" so i usually don't mosh. i do my duty and keep the edge of the pit from spilling into bystanders. ;)

but if there are some bigger guys in the pit i will join it. just gotta follow proper rules, and help someone up if you knock em down.

I was at the Troc in Philly many moons ago. Sound Garden and Faith No More were there. This is right before both of them got big.

I was in the pit, but there were all these skinheads moshing a little too rough. People were getting hurt. I worked my way to the fringe of the pit and was banging my head violently when I felt this sharp pain in the crown of my skull. I turned around to see this huge black guy holding his mouth. I gave him a reverse headbutt to his front teeth!!

He shoved me hard in the chest sending me flying backinto the chaos. My one friend saw it from across the pit and was laughing about it the rest of the night.

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I prefer to watch the band - mostly the drummer.

The biggest pit I've ever been in was at a Primus concert. I got caught right in the middle of it as it erupted during Jerry Was a Racecar Driver.

No one was safe from that thing.

nope never been

I last moshed to Iggy Pop at Tipotinas about 10 years ago, I'm an old fart :upsidedow

Best one I've been in was for GWAR (remember them?). Much fun, great energy, no problems with people getting knocked down or hurt (although I still wore the steel toes... protect your feet and the mosh is way more fun I've found). I must have put a couple dozen people up to crowd surf that night. :thumbsup

Too old now. Now I just watch the next generation of jackasses and wonder if my generation had made as large a steam cloud back in the day. :winkwink:

a looottttttttt of times....(too many to count)

sounds right -- :thumbsup


j-

I think back then we thought our rage could change the world. Kids these days think their rage can get them what they want :glugglug

Last time Slayer played, all the Nazi's came out to fuck shit up...a few of them wore mouthpieces, no shit.

i got really hurt in a mosh pit at a Weezer Concert in this small ass club in Pittsburgh, PA (called Metrapole in the Strip District)

anyways, i was 16 yrs old at the time. i was moshing, fell down, and couldnt get back up. i was being stepped on, kicked, pushed because nobody saw me on the floor.....i thought i was going to die. Luckly, some big dude cleared a small circle for me and picked me up and brought me to the side of the club. after that, i enjoyed the show from the 2nd floor balcony area lol

scary shit, yo.

hardcore mosh are the best... :Graucho
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i stay away from it as much as possible. don't wanna get trampled on or something like that...

I say a good time had by all..

hatebreed 4 or so years ago in cleveland lol.

I have pictures of myself in a mosh pit..

The worst hit I have gotten was a 500lb dude falling on me...The most damage I have done was poked someone in the eye on accident and I littlery felt the back of his skull.. I know he got halled of in an ambulence...(Earthday Birthday)

The worst mosh pit was either (Static-X) or (Slipknot)

loads of fun... :)

yes, I used to be bald and partially bald (with a modicum of egg whites and knox gell) back in the late 70s and early 80s in LA, was a fun time to grow up there...fightin and fucking is just good clean cut American fun...

w00t


DK, Suicidal Tendencies, JFA, Flipper, Bad Religion, Circle Jerks, Sex Pistols, Darby Crash, etc etc etc......oooo, good clean fun...


oi oi oi

One thing I've always regretted was not going to see the Dead Kennedys when I had the chance. I was a little poor and figured 'fuck it, they'll be back'... and, of course, they never came back. (For the record, DK without Jello Biafra is a pale shell... like Led Zeppelin with Robert Plant imo).

You ever hear of Dayglo Abortions? I used to party with those guys when I lived in Victoria a lifetime ago...

Good confessions here.

It's so crazy when you make like really solid contact and you get that numb, conflicted rush: shock for your own pleasure in it, swift guilt in the belly, heat in the head -- then the RULES and PERMISSIONS of the whole thing -- quite unexpectedly -- triumph -- and (just like that) you've overturned a taboo.


j-

Yes, I've also crowd surfed... lots of fun, but can be very dangerous

only at hardcore shows

jeeze all this talk about pits at weezer shows? and pri,mus shows? gimmie a break only one person said DK.. you want a pit go to a punk show.. at a local venue.. and no.. blink is not punk either is green day or rancid.. rancid is half punk but that does not count... go see DK, Black Flag... if you want excitement go to a misfits show.. get up fron aginst the rail.. and watch what happends when they come out... I ended up with a broken jaw at the last danzig show when Doyle was playing with him,.... the lights went dim.. then all of a sudden "20 eyes" breaks out really fast and hard.. and with danzig sining.. I just broke into a fist fury as well as everyone in the place... great fun

hehe me to.... soooooo sexy! :thumbsup

I live in the mosh pit

last one i was in was at a Strung Out concert in NYC hectic ...

Plently of times. Korn/Static X/Slipknot would probably be the mainstream worst.. Napalm Death and Marduk is pretty hardcore. Killswitch Engage was sweet ^^'

It's just a metal heads way of dancing :1orglaugh

I learned from the best...
http://www.michaelmolestedme.com/mosh.jpg

I guess there's something to be said for controlled violence. The great film Rollerball dared to call it evolutionary that "war" had been replaced with a "game" where people died... I am not sure about that, but the argument is strong. It depends on whether you think we are inescapably violent by nature, or, if you believe we can do better.

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2hp

During Donington rock festival last year I squeezed myself down to the front as Sabbath, Slipknot and Slayer were playing last. Spent the Slipknot part of the night in the moshpit..it was fun but brutal. I backed away for the last two bands but was still near the front. It's crazy in the moshpit during Slipknot. Great show though.

Some goth chick I knew when I was 17 had her nipple stabbed in half when someone fell on her in a mosh pit, and somehow the dude's keychain ended up shanking her in the nip.


At Lollapalooza when I was like, 15, someone got beat up, pushed in a porto-potty, and was barricaded in

I used to go see this band called mas red. There was always a mosh pit. I used to stand on the perimeter because i didnt want to get all sweaty and shit. One dude ran into me full steam. It was on. We must have floored each other about 6 times until i charged at him and lowered my shoulder to foot ball tackle him. But he felt frail and screamed like a girl. It wasnt until I was halfway through my picture perfect open feild tackle did i realize he moved out of the way and I just lit up his chick. Man I felt so bad.

Duke

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Some real horror stories here:1orglaugh

Fun as a teenager.. you can only get kicked in the head so many times by crowd surfers with boots though before you feel like punching them so hard your fist collects kidney juice everytime they go over head.
I'd prefer to actually enjoy the shows these days without bleeding or bruises.. hehe.. one of the worst i've seen though was a ministry gig.. so many bleeding people.. hahaha fucking HIV nightmare.

It's all fun and games until the gutter punks come out with those goddamn spikes everywhere.

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that reminds me a pic I've taken straight into one lol

That night was dope... grimskunk = ownage

:) :) :)

I actually have a blow up picture about 54" wide of my lil bro and sis' first pit couple years back at Inland Invasion.

Mobs terrify me.

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2hp

Popped my shoulder out in one down in Mexico. Tequila was my best friend after that.

I bet you were gentle as a lamb, Poppy -- :) -- One thing you ain't is violent.




2hp

Yeah man I lost my first girlfreind to a mosh pit...:Oh crap