Moshing

[ComradeDavo]

I am curious - what are CFC'ers opinion of the fine noble art of Moshing?

Do any of you mosh yourself?

Do you approve of moshing?

What is reqiured to make you mosh?

When did you mosh last?

What injuries have you recieved in a mosh pit?

What was the best mosh pit you have ever been in?

If you don't know what moshing is look here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosh


Personally, I do mosh to the more heavier metal bands, where everyone else is moshing as well (though occasionally I may start the pit ) but it has to be to very metal bands, I don't approve of moshing to bands where you are likely to get alot of girls watching or where the music doesn't really fit and so on.

Examples - I will mosh to bands like Machine Head or System Of A Down, but I would not mosh to and I frown upon moshing to bands such as the Foo Fightersd or A Perfect Circle.

 

[Godwynn]

I don't Mosh, I never will Mosh.

I approve of moshing, it doesn't bother me.

 

[Truronian]

Due to the recently uncovered links between moshing and male pregnancy I do not mosh.

 

[farting bob]

I mosh, its great fun.
List of injuries: 1 bleeding lip and a bruised rib. Ive seen soemone in a mosh pit have his nipple ring ripped off by accidnet, and there was blood everywhere. He lost half his nipple that night.
The best moshing comes when its a thrash metal, or death metal group. Load, fast, and aggressive. Cant beat it live.
The best mosh pit ive been in would either be lamb of god, in a pub with 300 people in, or Metallica, Master of puppets, which was litrally 5,000 people moshing together.

 

[Yom]

I don't mosh, and I doubt I ever will. Let people mosh if they want to, though.

 

[ComradeDavo]

I mosh, its great fun.
List of injuries: 1 bleeding lip and a bruised rib. Ive seen soemone in a mosh pit have his nipple ring ripped off by accidnet, and there was blood everywhere. He lost half his nipple that night.

Thats really nasty. People should really take piercings like that out before going into a pit.

I've had countless brusies from moshing, most of the time I don't even notice I just wake up the next day thinking 'that rib didn't hurt before!'

I wonder how mosh pits differ in other countries - in the UK they are usually friednly and everyone looks out for one another.

 

[farting bob]

ea, in the UK, its custom that if someone falls over or is injured that people help them get out if they need it. Otherwise if you fall down, you wont get up until the song ends. In october i think im going to a death metal festival with a friend. Aparently its 9 hours of heavy moshing 2 nights in a row. Imagine the pain the morning after that... Gunna be fun!

 

[stormbind]

Most pathetic, but on account if it requiring only minimal skill, moshing is about the only type of dance I can perform effectively

However, heavy metal does not appeal to me, and I prefer to step on people's toes anyway

 

[farting bob]

Yea, if you dont like heavy metal, then your gunna think moshing is stupid (which i suppose it is when i think about it, but its still fun), but like you stomrbind, i have absolutely zero dancing ability, so its pretty good for me. I woudlnt have a clue what to do at a disco (apart from sit at the bar drinking all night, which is a valid tactic in my book)

 

[Truronian]

I woudlnt have a clue what to do at a disco

I finding leaving works quite well

 

[sabo]

I do it only when I'm drunk

 

[Jawz II]

im too old too mosh i guess

ive gotten a few fat lips from stage divers landing on me, usually i respond with, instead of passing them on to the people behind, i slam their ass into the floor hard

if youre gonna have an accident with my face, im gonna have one with your face

and spine

 

[Captain Carnage]

I have not yet been to a concert

 

[De Lorimier]

I haven't moshed in years, but I used to do it a lot. There's something really exilarating about jumping in the air and throwing yourself against other people.

I also like the fact that a mosh pit is like a little community.
We're different people with different lifestyles, but for that night we all have something in common: love for the band on stage. When someone falls, the people around usually stop to help that person up. the same thing goes for body surfing.

I've been hurt a lot while moshing, but just small things: bruised ribs, fat lip, fun things you know! I've been to a lot of concerts and, curiously, the best mosh I was in was during an Offspring concert in 98. The show started with the song "Americana". The arena was in the dark and only the drummer was playing the intro. When the song started for real, all the lights went on and I didn't see any on my friinds for the next two hours. I had a major blast. Good times.

 

[brennan]

I have been known to mosh, but really I am one of life's natural pogo-ers

 

[Hitro]

Most pathetic, but on account if it requiring only minimal skill, moshing is about the only type of dance I can perform effectively

Unfortunately true for me as well. So I do it occasionally, but not often. And practically always when rather drunk.

 

[ComradeDavo]

Yea, if you dont like heavy metal, then your gunna think moshing is stupid (which i suppose it is when i think about it, but its still fun),

Punks mosh to

I do dance to other stuff (like Goth, ebm, industrial) in clubs without moshing.

There's something really exilarating about jumping in the air and throwing yourself against other people.

Good way to put it

 

[Sparta]

Yeah, moshing's great fun. Haven't had an opportunity to in years, but that's the closest I'll ever get to dancing (term used loosely). And agreed that moshing to crappy bands is supremely lame - the heavier the music, the better. You guy ever mosh outside of concerts? I can remember some good times had when deciding basement parties would be spruced up a bit by adding a mosh pit. Unfortunately the guy I typically used to start them with later wound up severely lacerating his face (severely as in a hanging lip, over 50 stitches, and later plastic surgery) on a wire fence while running from the cops at the "I'm leaving for college" party I threw (running with a full leg cast on that was the result of an unsuccesful rooftop backflip attempt one weekend earlier - that guy was one of the craziest bastards I've ever met). But yeah, moshing's quality entertainment. Good way to get some aggression out.

As to the OP questions, I've mostly just received relatively minor injuries, and if I had to pick a 'best pit' I've been in, it would probably have been at a White Zombie concert circa 1996.

 

[Pyrite]

Moshing is great.
Skanking is great too.

I dont' understand the whole, if you don't like metal you'll probably think moshing is stupid, idea, I am not a huge metal fan, and I like moshing.

The last time I moshed was at C-squat, when leftover crack played, I think like 2 weeks ago..

My worst mosh injury is a cut across my arm below my shoulder from a fight that resulted from a stumble into a drunken fool.

The best mosh pit may have been at a The virus, unseen, and river city rebels show.
Effin amazing show/crowd energy.

 

[Wolfe Tone]

I'm not a fan of moshing. I go to a concert to see a band and enjoy the music, not to fight for survival.