Conference napalm::heavy_metal

    
    I remember the first time that I went to a Mosh Pit... I had a BLAST!!!
    
    No one was there to KILL anyone...I was sore, but I wasen't DEAD.
    
    I went to one recently though and there were people jumping on top
    
    of people, I had never seen so many unconciouse(sp) and bloody
    people in my life!~!!
    
    I wouldn't go moshing now if someone paid me.
    
                                                             jazzzzzzz

    
    It was great back around 1985 before slamming got introduced to
    metal. As soon as that happened, it was all down hill.
    
    I'd rather be in a pit with skinheads than be in a pit these days.
    
    It's too bad, I really miss it.

    
    I truthfully believe the band that's playing decides how bad the pits
    are... I enjoy a few...good way to let out aggeression, with out making
    mortal enemies... skinheads like to take things personally, pete. I 
    always get my a__ kicked by about ten for makin' fun of their mamas 8^)
    
    Chris

    Da only pits I ever been in were in L.A. I always had a blast, but then
    again I've always liked agressive stuff.

    
    Jesse, the agressor. L.A. is a cool place to mosh, espescially in the
    club scene. 
    
    What I'd like to see is the centrum leave the floor open with no seats
    for a giant mosh pit with thousands of people. With Diving boards off
    the balcony seats. What the hell, to make it more intresting they
    should leave the Ice Skating Rink uncovered...
    
    Chris, Just Dreamin' away

    
    re: .5
    
    sounds like the orpheum for the anthrax show.  the seats got torn up
    :').  i used to love moshing (in fact thats what the license plate on
    my car said), but i sort of got tired of the club scene, so moshing
    died with it.  i was just as violent as the pit made me need to be
    then, but i really have no iea how they are now.  sounds like things
    are much worse now.  then again, back in the old days my mosh 'partner'
    was this guy glenn who was about 7' tall and weighed in at 250 or so.
    nobody bothered us :').
    
    

    
    are you idding me.. guys like him are the ones to bother. 8)
    
    trip'em up and they take out 8 or 9 people...
    
    
    Chris

    Mosh pits suck!  I'll admit, I get a kick out of them (pardon the pun). 
    ...that is as long as I'm a few hundred feet away!  It's not so bad
    until they start floating around on top and kicking their legs around!
    
    Then it's time to GTFO!
    
    'pril

    
    That's another interesting subject, Why are so few women involved in
    mosh mania?? I always wondered why... could it be they are too
    fragile 8) I have seen a few but they are, like BUILT. I tend to stay
    away due to the fact that angry women can do a lot of damage to vital
    body parts.
    
    
    Chris

    ...and flailing feet can definitely do major damage to those two
    thingies every woman has on her chest!  8)
    
    YOWCH!
    
    'pril

    
    
    So few women mosh because men think that it is fun to see their little
    body's hurdling threw the air. Plus moshing is dumb....
         That's what I think...
                                                            jazzzzzz

    RE:  the Jazzmeister!
    
    You're exactly right!  Men like to show off how much more physically
    stronger they are then women.  That's PHYSICALLY, not mentally...8)
    
    'pril

    I like to mosh when I'm in a bad mood and wanna bang some heads
    (literally).

    I useta like to slam dance cuz it was fun. Even chicks did it and it
    rarely got too outta hand. I mean as far as getting ultra violent.

    
    moshin' may be dumb....but it's better to have fun while beatin' up an
    enemy than shootin' him in the skull out in the streets. With a few
    exceptions no one really cares what color you are in the pit...yer just 
    another piece of meat in the grinder. Buck, isn't it hard to mosh to
    the partridge family's greatest hits??? :)
    
    I missed the slam dance period cause I was such a youngin' maybe that's
    why the pits now don't seem really different to me, although in the
    past few years or so, even I have ut down the number of people I bash
    with my fists, and elbow. 
    
    It's good women stay outa the pit. I can't see my self utterly
    destroying a woman. I'd feel guilty and get my young a__ kicked in.
    
    chris

    
    Re-back a few
    
       Pril,
    
           Thingys on a womans chest....THINGYS.....
    
    
                         ....so that's what they are called.
    
    
    
                               Imagine I always called them t.....
    
       **************Now back to our program already in progress**********
    
    
    
                                               Smile,
                                                      Jase

    
    Did anyone see OverKill play the Orpheum (or some other club like that) 
    recently... I heard there was a killer Mosh goin'...now I wish I had
    been there, it's been to long since i've had a good thrash and a half.
    
    
    Chris

    
    A mosh at the Orphieum? That's impossible. I bet it was killer,
    literally. WendyO, remember the Anthrax show? 8-)

    Re: Chris,
    
    Yes, I just went to see them last Wednesday at the Channel.  The pit 
    was cool.  I took few bruises home with me.  
    
    -Dle
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    TEASER!!!!!!!
    
    Chris

> A mosh at the Orphieum? That's impossible. 

No it ain't. When I saw the Clash there, the first 10 rows of seats were
taken out, so there could be a "dance" area down front! (The band insisted
on it, and wouldn't play unless the seats were removed.)

alan

    
    There was one there for Testament if I recall. I had a blast. (and a
    black eye *^)
    
    
    
    Chris

    
      Do the TOXIC WALTZ !!!
    
    
     Head-spin:Pete
    
    

    Mosh pits are a blast...as long as everyone is out there to have fun!
    If the as*holes come in and start the B.S. thats when they get
    dangerous!  If you follow the pit rulz and have fun then nobody should
    get hurt.
    

    
    I've only experienced three mosh pits in my time. Two was at the
    Headstones and the other was at a Stone Temple Pilots show during their
    Core tour. All three times I had a blast. Ottawa is generally quite
    tame and laid back (read: boring) but these nights the crowd was into
    it big time. 
    I have yet to get into a 'real' mosh pit with a band like Slayer
    playing. But I will....... 
    
    Dave

    re: .24
    What rules?
    
    Ya mean there 'b' rules?
    :-)
    

    Yes actually, they're posted at the entrance to the pit, on the back of
    the 400 pound security guard.  Actually, you have to read, understand,
    and pass a short verbal exam on the rules in order to get in!
    
    Paully 8)

    THat 400 lb security guard is actually 4 ambulance attendants waiting
    for bodies to carry out.
    
    Assuming nobody gets killed, they have an easy night.   And since they 
    come in wearing one large jacket, they only pay for one, and get to
    sell advertising rights to the jacket.
    
    (cooooool, a money-maker_
    M
    

    heaviest pit i was in was on the PANTERA far beyond driven tour !
    
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