In the mayhem of large mosh environments and violent mosh pits, a segment of highly aggressive and criminally reckless participants often operate. We’ve all seen this at concerts and festivals where poorly manage mosh pits exist. To prove equality between the sexes, where the more adventurous females are willing to test their will, agility, strength and moxie with their male counterparts. To signal to performing artists, in a way that will clearly be understood, that the audience, or a portion of the audience, gets what the artist is communicating through music.Īs a right of passage for some music fans. (This moshing style I describe as “chaos with etiquette.”) As I see it, people mosh:įor the exhilarating feeling of camaraderie when people-absent of aggressive or violent intent-playfully touch, push, press upon, shove and butt each other. And open your hands, fists are for fighting and there is no place for that in the pit.įrom what I have observed as a concert crowd safety expert, and personally, as a fan, I have identified a number of motivating forces that entice people into the mosh. Especially when it comes to reckless abandon. People use to have their own "style" of dancing, don't be a robot. Because that becomes an imitation, a copy, and loses it pure energy release. Just forget these names for slam dancing like "picking up change" and idiocy like that. That is really all it's about in its pure original form. And my body isn't made of rubber anymore but even though I don't do it anymore I understand why kids lose their minds in their own heads, in a small space to a great song. I use to always jump off the stage at the end of Cro-Mags gigs.Īccess to the stage has changed with barricades, bouncers, and strangers. It was awesome, but it was the last time I ever did that to another band. I jumped and just made it to the sea of people who caught me. There was a choice as I saw it, which was hesitate and listen to a bouncer or commit to it, so I turned away from him and ran to the edge of the stage as fast as I could, because there was a long jump to the edge of the barricade. Suddenly, a security guy said, "you guys have to clear the stage" and gestured (commanded) us away from the stage. Alice In Chains was playing, I was standing next to Jerry's amps with VJ Steve Isaacs who was my roommate at the time. We use to count our bruises the next morning and laugh. I have knocked myself out jumping off the stage at CBGBs during a Bad Brains show, sliding in between people upside down and hitting my head on the floor, waking up later lying off to the side where people had dragged me. No one got punched in the face by accident. In the old days people didn't do that, it hadn't become popularized with instructional "how to mosh" music videos and it was just friends interacting and doing it together. Of course, as long as it's in a friendly context, these days with morons with clenched fists swinging wildly without looking it has become an idiot's game. At that moment, perhaps when the fast part ends on a sonic comma, and your hairs stand on end as the skank part kicks in and you lose your mind. We would slam dance before the band started playing sometimes if the music was great.
It's as simple as that but there is one thing that is needed great music.
Crazy mosh pit movie#
Like being able to jump into the screen, into a movie in a theater and join in with the actors. A joyous reaction to something I loved, it was a way of participating with the bands and the music that you loved. Why did I mosh? First of all, because it was fun.
0 kommentar(er)
