Took teeth to the right eyebrow in 94 or so… this was Silver Chair too… kind of pansies now but that CD with the Frog on it (?FrogStomp?) was nice!
Second Stage Rob Zombie at Ozzfest in C-bus four or five years ago now.
i have two that stand out in my memory. the first was an old Dropkick Murphys show, circa 1998, and the second was an Agnostic Front / TSOL show around 2002.
the highlight of the former show was seeing a 250 pound skinhead literally crawl out of the pit, stand up, and spit a tooth into his hand. that was awesome.
the latter was just an all around insane pit. i can’t think of another show where i saw more fights break out than this one.
[quote]JGerman wrote:
Took teeth to the right eyebrow in 94 or so… this was Silver Chair too… kind of pansies now but that CD with the Frog on it (?FrogStomp?) was nice!
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I really liked Silverchair all the way up through and especially the Diorama album.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
I know there are a lot of Metalheads on T-Nation and I can imagine that, between all the members here, pretty much every metal band has been seen live.
I’ve worked concert security before and mosh pits can be odd phenomena. Some REALLY heavy bands have surprisingly dull mosh pits, whereas some bands you would never classify as heavy have insane ones.
So lets hear some stories.
Although I’m “retired” I’ve probably been in over 150+ mosh pits. Some particularly violent ones were Pantera (no surprise), Life of Agony (no surprise) and Live (MANY people are surprised to hear this! Pretty tame band)
The winner though…EASILY…was Clutch. Clutch is a highly underrated band IMO, who make really cool rock and roll/groove/stoner/bluesy type music. Not a particularly heavy, angst-ridden band. However, their mosh pit was at times, without exaggeration, a street-fight. People punching each other in the face, stomping on heads, etc. Absolutely ridiculous.
These weren’t isolated incidents either; it seemed to be generally accepted that if you went into the pit, you might get beaten. I came out relatively unscathed (someone punched me in the ass for some reason) but people were spitting out blood/teeth/etc. Not an especially enjoyable concert experience[/quote]
Yea just read the whole post and that song “The mob goes wild” by clutch is the shit.
Sadly, I’m pretty sure the Wal-Mart I was at during black friday was the craziest. It was fucking nuts.
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Phoenix Arizona, the former Bank one Ball park New Years eve 1998-1999
Black Sabbath reunion tour,was called New Years Evil.
it had pantera,soulfly,megadeth,black sabbath
the field tickets were several hundred dollars and the nose bleed was like 25 dollars.
I feel for the suckers that paid up to 500 dollars for tickets.
during the Pantera set people started migrating from the upper levels to the second level and then started jumping off into the field.
everyone that had a seat ended up on the field and then people started burning the field down.
Pantera actually stopped the set to tell everyone to know the shit off and if anyone else got hurt in the mosh pit and we kept acting fools then ozzy wasnt coming out and everyone would go home now.
everyone was so exicited and Ozzy was drunk he finaly said Happy new years at about 3:30 am
the last song was war pigs and the roof opened up and there was tons of fireworks smoke and black confette with the date on it and walking out of that ball park looked like it just got blown up.
I was in the upper level and ended up 4th row in a pit. I left with a broken nose got 4 stitches in my head that night and I got laid in the bathroom of B.O.B
and not to mention it was The first show in the ball park ever,not a bad way to pop the cherry on a stadium.
A close second was a summer event in the mid 90s with cypress hill at the old pevallion, under the infulance of anything anyone handed me and I caught many elbows to the mouth.
Unholy Alliance 2 at Brixton Academy in London. I really miss that venue. Thine Eyes Bleed (Canadian band I think?), In Flames, Children of Bodom, Lamb of God and Slayer.
Moshed for four hours straight, all I could taste was blood for two days and it hurt to breathe to deeply for a week. I’m relatively sure I passed out for a hour or two in the basement at work the next day.
I agree on those hardcore dancing kids as they’re referred to over here, finally got to nail two of the fuckers at a Bullet/Avenged gig I took my gf to.
[quote]Stronghold wrote:
Iv had my fair share of violent metal show moments…especially being one of the few people attending shows in this area of the country who refuses to deal with the dancing, spin kicking, ninja bullshit.
When I was in high school, I saw Between the Buried and Me at New Brookland Tavern in Columbia, SC and what happened during the breakdown in “Shevanel Cut a Flip” is still by far the most frantic, violent concert moment Iv seen.
At an Unearth show I attended in 2004, during “Zombie Autopilot”, there was a 200+ person circle pit inside of Ground Zero (a relatively small venue in Spartanburg, SC). I got run over by a 50 year old biker guy that looked suspiciously like Paul Tuttle from American Chopper.
Craziest show in general still goes to Dillinger. That was mind blowing.[/quote]
you saw btbam? that must have been sweet. hxc dancing is so fucking stupid. I was at a local show once and some 110 pound kid with some really lame piercings got tackled by this fat guy while dancing. It was epic.
The craziest pit ever, but not the biggest i’ve been in, was at a small basement venue for some underground hardcore bands. The band was Saints Never Surrender, I’d recommend their music to anyone who enjoys some good quality hardcore music, they resently got signed. Anyway I had a few friends in the band, and they hired me to “Hold the Line” with a few other guys so the band didn’t get trampled by fans.
About 300-400 people were at the show, and people were getting hurt left and right in this basement. Bloody noses, bruised eyes, sweat, blood rockn’roll. Was incredible. Hardcore Dancing/ Walls of Death or whatever the hell they are called / Crowd surfing / small emo children getting trampled.
By the way this room was about 60x30-35 feet. Cramming that many people in it = hurt
The picture I have attached is by a proffesional photographer who caught me and a few people “Holding the line”
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NOFX and Pennywise gigs in some of the small venues round the sydney beaches in 94 - 96 had some pretty hectic pits. Had that camaraderie though. Always picking people up and helping people get out.
Being on the bottom of a collapsed pit is always a bit intense.
[quote]Drizzt wrote:
The craziest pit ever, but not the biggest i’ve been in, was at a small basement venue for some underground hardcore bands. The band was Saints Never Surrender, I’d recommend their music to anyone who enjoys some good quality hardcore music, they resently got signed. Anyway I had a few friends in the band, and they hired me to “Hold the Line” with a few other guys so the band didn’t get trampled by fans.
About 300-400 people were at the show, and people were getting hurt left and right in this basement. Bloody noses, bruised eyes, sweat, blood rockn’roll. Was incredible. Hardcore Dancing/ Walls of Death or whatever the hell they are called / Crowd surfing / small emo children getting trampled.
By the way this room was about 60x30-35 feet. Cramming that many people in it = hurt
The picture I have attached is by a proffesional photographer who caught me and a few people “Holding the line” [/quote]
Where’s the line? Lol
[quote]RebornTN wrote:
Where’s the line? Lol[/quote]
Maybe that pic wasn’t the best of holding the line. Its not easy when you have a couple hundred people behind you pushing to rush the band. haha
I recall my foot being on stage pushing about a foot away from the drums.
Their was moments when we had a couple big guys up front, it felt like we were in the movie “300” pushing against the persians.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
JGerman wrote:
Took teeth to the right eyebrow in 94 or so… this was Silver Chair too… kind of pansies now but that CD with the Frog on it (?FrogStomp?) was nice!
I really liked Silverchair all the way up through and especially the Diorama album. [/quote]
I am partial to the Frogstomp album. I used to really like them and then it seem like the went soft but they had some other good songs around 2000. At said concert, I was 15 and the band was 16 and we were all drunk…
Seeing Metallica headline the Milton Keynes Bowl(in the UK).
All these metalheads going apeshit, it was actually idiotic: i saw people getting stomped on as they fell to the floor/girls getting felt up as they crowd surfed and had to help a friend get out of this huge moshpit(a few hundred people) as he’d messed up his ankle.
Yea i quit going to heavy metal shows a couple years back because of this…it gets old real fast.
[quote]JGerman wrote:
I really liked Silverchair all the way up through and especially the Diorama album.
I am partial to the Frogstomp album. I used to really like them and then it seem like the went soft but they had some other good songs around 2000. At said concert, I was 15 and the band was 16 and we were all drunk…
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I’ve been to a few festivals they’ve been at over the year, they refuse to play frogstomp and make a point of saying they won’t at times.
Most dangerous pit I’ve ever been in to had nothing to do with the fans. There was a band (I think it was Bury Your Dead but NOT POSITIVE) that wasn’t going over well (not totally their fault, mic was going in and out) and a couple people booed in between songs. The band starting throwing glass beer bottles at the crowd and two guys got dropped with blood gushing out of them.
On a related note: I hate bands that are constantly instructing the crowd.
“Open it up. When the music starts, I want to see the biggest fucking circle pit EVEERRRRRyeah.”
The best bands are the bands that don’t need to say a word to the crowd, they just wreck the mic and make the crowd get hyped with their performance.
I know what you mean…I saw Whitechapel and they opened with This is Exile…it went from everyone standing around calmly to complete chaos and destruction. That place erupted. Top 3 most violent shows. A lot of blood and people getting carried out
I saw Whitechapel this past winter at the 35th Metal Blade Anniversary. It was a lot of fun!
