Mosh Pits

[Tara]

However you spell these things, I know one thing for sure. It sure does not look like something that I would enjoy. I could never understand how people could like to throw each other around, head bang, and get beat up while music is playing and call it fun?! lol It seems so barbaric...something that perhaps ancient Romans would probably do (although the word barbaric was used by the Romans to classify anyone who wasn't Roman right? ironic?)

Oh well, sorry if I'm sounding stereotypical and let me know. But I think those kind of things are ridiculous. And wouldn't you find that kind of thing at concerts like heavy metal? Do people do that at rock concerts as well? I couldn't see that being done at a country concert or rap or R&B or any of that sort. I always thought music was for dancing, singing or providing nice background music for a play or a movie or something. Not to kill somebody with! lol

What are your thoughts on this folks?

[PhantomsPandora]

I haven't been to a concert in almost 10 years, and that was a country music concert so..

On my Evanesence dvd they are moshin, ugh, I dont' understand that either.

Then again I'm claustrophobic, and if someone bumped and shoved into me I'd be liable to smack them, hard.

[Tara]

There goes your "inner Texan". lol

[Earthen Child]

I'm cheap, and I have Internet. I don't need no stinkin' concert!

[littlepea]

i used to go to a lot of rock and punk concerts when i was in school. i quite liked moshing, it wasn't dangerous or painful, it was just pushing each other around and if someone fell over you picked them up and kept getting bashed about and stuff, but it wasn't actually fighting or anything. it sounds stupid, but it was quite fun.

then i got into ska music and there's no moshing at ska gigs, just ska-dancing which is even more fun

[Tara]

littlepea said:

i quite liked moshing, it wasn't dangerous or painful, it was just pushing each other around and if someone fell over you picked them up and kept getting bashed about and stuff, but it wasn't actually fighting or anything.

Ah, this is not how I hear of the ones some of my aquaintences have been to. You fal or anything, and you're stuck. And people actually do get hurt in these ones.

[littlepea]

bah, that stinks. i've only once been in a violent mosh pit (such that i got someone else's blood on my trousers) and that was in exceptional circumstances ... (a combination of angry communist music and czech people who didn't understand what a mosh pit was)

i guess i haven't been to see the most extreme bands in my time, but even with the heavy metal bands that i've seen or heard about the mosh pits have usually been pretty friendly. sometimes you lose one of your shoes (never happened to me, but it doesn't sound like a good thing) and sometimes you get headbutted in the face or sometimes a crowd surfer kicks you on the head (that's the worst, i hate it when that happens - i've even seen people pulling the shoes off crowd surfers to get even ... i suppose that's fair).

you don't have to get involved if you don't want to, though, you can just as easily stand at the back or to the side and listen to the music. it's good fun to get right in the middle of it all, though

[PhantomsPandora]

Tara said:

There goes your "inner Texan". lol

Yes and no, I have a weird taste in music..the inner Texan comes out at unexpected spots. There is no doubt that parts of Texas are absolutely fricken gorgeous and the wildflowers are beautiful.

There are a lot of concerts I've missed out on because I'm just not going to go by myself, same with a few musicals that have come...*sigh*