I'm 35 years old and I was just involved in my first moshpit

[Pushed To The Left]

Definitely an interesting experience! Hell of a concert too.

[Jamastiene]

1. I used to come home bruised like crazy

Loved every single minute of it too. It's an experience I particularly enjoyed. :yourock:

[Quantess]

2. Never wear open toed shoes.

I'm 37, BTW.
:hi:

[Lady Freedom]

3. I remember my first marshpit. I was saved by the lead guitarist! ;)

[Fox Mulder]

4. I'm 25 and never have been in one.

Hell, I've never been to a concert before.

[ghostsofgiants]

8. That is just sad.

[Fox Mulder]

26. Meh.

Those types of things don't really interest me.

[ghostsofgiants]

29. There is nothing in the world like good live music.

You are missing out.

[LeftyMom]

5. It's a high, isn't it?

Who did you go see? Do you feel like you got hit by a truck yet? Which one is your best bruise?

I've come to the conclusion that from now on I'm taking a cab home from shows. Last one I went too I felt all rubbery in the legs and out of body while I was driving home, which was weird because I was totally fucking sober. The next day I was tired and grouchy and light sensitive and totally fucking hung over as well, I guess from exhaustion and being pretty much one solid bruise (I was way the hell up front and I'm tiny.) Oh, and my voice was gone, so I just kinda croaked at people for a few days, which was problematic since most of my job involved being on the phone- my boss was none too pleased.

I'm afraid I'm getting too old for this shit, and I'm younger than you. Not that I'll actually let that stop me when anybody worth feeling like hell the next day over comes to town. ;)

[Pushed To The Left]

31. It was sort of distracting, but an interesting experience

I saw HELLYEAH, MachineHead, Nonpoint and Bury Your Dead. It was the "More Balls, More Volume, More Strength" tour! Small bruises, but nothing major. It was a pretty good workout, though! My muscles feel the same way they would feel the day after wrestling/grappling.

[qb]

6. Something everyone should experience at least once...

unless they have brittle bones :scared:

[MrCoffee]

7. Good job! Who did you see?

[Pushed To The Left]

32. HELLYEAH, Machine Head, Nonpoint and Bury Your Dead

They all kicked ass!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. My opinion about moshing would start a flamewar, so I won't disclose it.

C ya. :yoiks:

[MrCoffee]

10. THAT'S your contribution?

That's just wrong.

[DS1]

11. Nothing beats an outdoor mosh pit in the mud

[HEyHEY]

21. A mud pitt indoors is fun

[redqueen]

12. Hah, you're braver than I.

Used to do that fairly often... but wouldn't now if you paid me to do so.

[HughBeaumont]

13. Too bad you didn't experience them at 80s thrash/hardcore shows.

They were way better back then.

My most recent one was at a Municipal Waste/Skeletonwitch show at some hole in the wall in West Cleveland, where they were doing speaker dives, walls of death, three-levels; total old school pit. I got a couple of dives in . . . then again, I've been doing this sort of thing for 21 years.

[Forkboy]

22. Oh, those were the days.

Most places barely let you dance these days, let alone stage dive. Probably too many lawsuits.

My friend permanently fucked up his neck after seeing Kreator with DRI two nights in a row.

Last two I was in was Melt Banana, a friendly pit with good vibes, and Pig Destroyer, a keep your head on a swivel before it gets knocked off by a psycho type of pit. The funny thing is, the only thing that ended up hurting me was when this tiny girl smacked into me as I went to get a beer. An elbow shot right to the kidney.

The worst I ever got hurt was seeing Destruction. I went to stage dive just as the crowd shifted and parted like the Red Sea. I smacked the pavement pretty damn good on that one.

[Phillycat]

14. I'm the same age as you, and grew out of them about a decade ago.

Not quite, I guess...maybe 8 years ago. Got to be where the exhiliration was not worth the bruises/broken bones afterward. I still like to watch them, though, especially at a club with an upstairs and a general admission area in front of the stage. I went to a Deftones concert last year (I was under duress, believe me) and watched the pit from the upstairs bar area. It's sort of beautiful in a weird way.

I've broken 3 ribs, 7 toes, left wrist, left ankle, and chipped a tooth in mosh pits. I did my time. Heh.

[EstimatedProphet]

15. Dude, you're harshing my mellow

[Javaman]

16. I was in my very last pit 3 years ago. I'm now 45. LOL

slam dancing (what we used to call it) now is nothing like it was years ago. People were more polite back in the late 70's early 80's. LOL But then again there was the gobbing...(spitting) :)

Probably the two worst most terrifying pits I was in was at a DK show in NYC in the early 80's and a Circle Jerks show around the same time.

Still was fun! ahhh the days of my misspent youth. LOL

[DS1]

17. Yeah

in the 80s when people fell everyone around would help them back up


these days it just seems to be an excuse to run around in circles and punch people in the face.

[Javaman]

19. exactly right. I remember the first time I fell, I thought I was done for until

several hands reached out and helped me up. It was about the music not about violence for violences sake.

Now the pits are just nasty and hateful.

[Forkboy]

23. I still see quite a few shows and for the most part they're still like that.

There's usually one drunken musclehead, but most people still help people up when they go down. Some of the younger kids don't quite know that yet, but a lot do.

I have been to a few shows like you describe though. Pig Destroyer last year was vicious ( I have to admit I loved it anyways..PD's last CD was my favorite of the year), and Watchmaker, another hateful band, both come to mind.

But overall, most of them are still cool.

[Javaman]

30. That's good to hear. Maybe the humanity is returning to the pits LOL :)

Cheers! :)

[Pushed To The Left]

33. Everybody in the pit last night seemed pretty friendly

even though some of them had angry faces when they were running into people.

[Bake]

18. Geez, that's sooooooooo pre-9/11

How passe ...

:rofl:

Bake

[Tikki]

20. Pogo...anyone?

;-)

[Forkboy]

24. Someone pogoed on my foot and broke two toes.

It was a Rocket From The Crypt Show. Still had fun and stayed for the rest anyways. :)

[Forkboy]

25. They're a blast.

I'm getting a bit old, but still try to catch a few shows a year that provide that kind of fun.

I remember years and years ago I had a roommate who into pop and real emo type stuff. He wanted to see one of the shows we were always going to, so we took him to see Sacred Reich with Coroner. He went into the pit to see what it was like and came out less than a minute later with a bloody nose. :rofl:

[Pacifist Patriot]

27. Is it anything like childbirth?

[Shell Beau]

28. What battle wounds did you suffer?

[Pushed To The Left]

34. No battle wounds, just very tired!

It's a hell of a workout.

[Ahpook]

35. Never did do that.

Been to all kinds of shows. I mostly stand back and watch the carnage, but i can see the attraction:)

I went to a Slayer show recently. I noticed some get out of their mind. One poor bastard had to be carried out. As they walked by, his face was bloodied and broken.

I don't know, not my game. I would rather watch the band:)

[Pushed To The Left]

36. The mosh pit sort of came to me

I started off watching the band, then the mosh pit was close enough where I was in position to do the goalie thing of shoving the moshers back into the pit when they bumped into me. I actually think I did more shoving than bumping even when I was in the pit. I found that I could really send people flying when I shoved them!

[Ahpook]

37. People are nuts:)

I would rather sit back than get the shit kicked out of me. Seems it has changed over the years?

I went to a Cure show back in 98' or 97'... Good show, but a mosh pit somehow started:)Robert Smith got a bit upset about it and asked them to stop. I guess the reds got pissed off and started screaming "gay" insults at the band. Robert Smith said he hates American crowds. Can't blame him for that statement, really.

I don't know why idiots like that attend a show they think is "gay" in the first place.