trumad
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Thu Oct-28-04 07:17 AM
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Did you know that there's a beginners guide to the Mosh Pit. |
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Edited on Thu Oct-28-04 07:17 AM by trumad
It's a comprehensive guide to all mosh related issues. It explains how to Mosh, how to stage dive and how to crowd surf. Ahhh the kids today......:hippie: http://members.aol.com/rik0lar/moshing/mosh.htm
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Arioch
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Thu Oct-28-04 07:20 AM
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We never needed no stinkin' manuals!
Dance hard and try not to break anything vital... :P
-Veteran Pit-Master- Boston 1988-1991
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Thu Oct-28-04 07:31 AM
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We don't need no stinkin' how-to.
Step 1, go nuts. Step 2, if you succeed in getting on stage, avoid bouncers. Step 3, don't give the band too much trouble or you may get smacked with a microphone (trust me on this one). Step 4, if it's Halloween in Bakersfield, California and the Vandals are playing at Mars, you might even get a dual stage dive with you and Stevo (both drunk off your butts) :) Step 5, if there's a 6'5", 300 pound skinhead in the pit, it's best to avoid him (especially if you're a 5'11" 140 pound toothpick) :)
That is all.
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Thu Oct-28-04 07:20 AM
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2. Ugh...the whole concept of "moshing" sets me on edge.... |
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...it wouldn't be so horrid if it weren't applied to all forms of "alternative" music and didn't amount to anything more than a bunch of meatheads running into one another. It started as strictly a heavy metal thing and then somehow the mainstream appropriated it to any and all forms of music no matter how inappropriate. When I started seeing people "moshing" and crowd surfing at Radiohead shows the urge to inflict pain was rising....rising...rising.
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Thu Oct-28-04 07:31 AM
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4. I am no expert on the history of moshing, |
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but it was big at the punk shows, called harDCore, I went to in the early 80's. It was a really small scene and moshing and stage diving was something done among friends, always male. They didn't like it when a non-scene person would try to take part and that was the only time there was pain involved. But otherwise it was a kind of tribal/fraternal thing.
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vi5
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Thu Oct-28-04 07:33 AM
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5. I've been into hardcore and punk since the early 80's... |
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Edited on Thu Oct-28-04 07:34 AM by vi5
..and I still am....and there was pogoing and slam dancing and circle dancing and any number of things as far back as I can remember. But I don't remember ever hearing the term "moshing" to describe any of it until the metal/hardcore crossover in the late 80's when bands like Anthrax and Metallica started dropping the term. So I know that form of dancing has been around more or less since that time but the term "moshing" itself is something that at least in the circles I travelled was strictly a heavy metal appropriation.
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Thu Oct-28-04 07:34 AM
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6. Yup, it always just dancing to us, sometimes called the circle |
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I don't remember when I first heard it called the "pit" even.
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vi5
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Thu Oct-28-04 07:39 AM
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The form of dancing has been around for more than 20 years now. It's just the idea that they marketed it as moshing that always irks/amuses me.
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Thu Oct-28-04 07:52 AM
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8. I guess you're right, it was not called 'moshing' early on, |
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probably slamming or something. But allot of the guys involved in that scene liked metal, too, so maybe that is why I am not clearly defining the genres. No pogoing in my group, though. That was for poseur new wavers.
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Thu Oct-28-04 08:10 AM
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9. I was usually the only girl in any type of pit.... |
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We didn't refer to is as Moshing either-- That came later. I recall it being either "the Circle" or Slamming. LOL, I can remember at Monsters of Rock in 88, I was the only chick with a Purple Mohawk, Standing on a Dugout at 3 Rivers Stadium going wild to Metallica-- Ya know, Before they were Sellouts... Everybody was looking at me like I was insane--they were mostly there to see Van Halen. I was there to see Metallica. But I digress.
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Thu Oct-28-04 08:19 AM
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There were not all that many women even involved with he scene in DC at that point, and I was always fairly peripheral in my involvement. I knew some of the band guys from high school and my best friend was really active with that group, but I was always off in my own thing. It is sad when you are such a misfit in high school that you don't even fit with the punks. But I digress.....
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