Those shirts are fucking awesome, lol.
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I know… they didn’t know each other either. One guy came over to give me a hand and the other guy was walking by a few minutes later. We got a pretty good laugh at it.
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Large venue: Ministry at the Second Lollapalooza. Large crowd was overheated and super-aggressive. Small venue: Fishbone at The Academy. Unrivaled positive energy.
Ministry at the Riv, New Years Eve 1989.
Was that '92? I was at that show. I thought the dirt fight was pretty harmless until the fires started and the fencing came down.
Ministry was in 1992, but I saw them at the NJ venue. So no dirt fight or fires that I recall. I know that after Ministry I thought I would relax and move to the front to see RHCP. Big mistake. Nearly got crushed when they came on stage and the crowd surged forward pressing us up against the retaining wall in front of the stage. Couldn’t breathe.
Small venue: A band called Twitching Gollum at some rural Indiana armory in 1993. The whole place was a mosh pit. Doc Martens, spiked leather accessories and men in skirts were flailing all over the place in a haze of cigarette smoke. Good times.
Large venue: Probably has to be on the lawn at a Cracker concert at the World Music Theater in 1994. Also my first crowd surf. Muddy teenage fun.
Tinley Park?
I saw Nitzer Ebb open for Depeche Mode there in 1990. Coincidentally, Depeche Mode played there again last night.
That’s the one. I’m from the part of Indiana that the rest of Indiana (AKA North Kentucky) considers part of Chicago.
I’ve been to a lot of great shows in and around Chicago. I went to some kind of Monsters of Rock show at Hawthorne Race Track back in 2003-ish. Limp Bizkit got boo’ed off the stage after saying that people from Chicago were a bunch of fags and pussies, but not before the band got pelted with bottles and rocks. Then Linkin Park rocked the house and Metallica killed it with a set that was almost entirely pre-Black Album.
No mosh pits in our section, but there was a minor riot at the end of the show. It worked out well for us. The port-o-potties near us were all knocked down and there was no line for pissing on the ground. Whoever tore down the fence made it super-easy to get back to our car. Thanks, rowdy concert-goers.
Going to see Every Time I Die in a small venue soon. I’m in my 30s with a toddler now, so we’ll see how that goes.
People like you are why I love shows like this. It’s always rad to see dads getting in the mix
I saw Suicide Silence a month before Mitch died and he had everyone rush the stage and kick over security to get up there with them. So it was a mix of security, people and the opening bands all in this massive half floor, half stage put getting fucked up. My roommate and i pushed our way to right in front of Mitch right before the breakdown of No Pity For A Coward. He got kicked in the head, I left with a busted jaw, and I can honestly say it was one of the best days of my life.
Just got home about an hour ago after seeing Whitechapel, Rings of Saturn, and Carnifex. The pits were good, especially for chapel. They did their first album in its entirety so the entire floor was insane for that. I realized tonight I’m not as young as I used to be even at 24. I hurt all over, and probably will for the next few days, but to hear Bozeman still hit those older gutturals, and highs was all worth it. Still, I don’t know that i’ll be as active in the pit in my later 20’s which is sad to say because that’s the part I love so much.
And off of this, I saw two guys in the front of the crowd tonight who had to be at the very least in their mid-late 50’s. One of them had on a Cannibal Corpse tour tee and was pushing everyone around having the time of his life. Some metal heads just never stop.