Often, people in the mosh pit express themselves by jumping up and down on the same spot, known as pogo-ing, and also by body-slamming -- launching themselves into the air onto other people in the pit.
I love the names of the bands there: Disturbed, Stone Sour, Flyleaf and Nonpoint.
I think "Nonpoint" just about sums it up for me.
These sound like a disaster waiting to happen, like in stampede.
human "moshed" potatoes ..
Wow. Far cry from holding a Bic lighter up at a Led Zeppelin concert.
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen.
Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
Robert Anson Heinlein
That's about 7,000 more than go to a Dixie Chicks concert.
He lets his kid go to this thing and expects others to take responsibility for it?
Down with the sickness-- pogoing? Hey, Cedar Rapids- it's 2006!
I was at a Black Crowes show years ago when some punks started that "mosh pit"crap.The singer ,Chris Robinson,stop the song and politely asked the idiots to stop it and give everyone else some consideration that wanted to enjoy the show.When they wouldn't stop he stopped the song again and cussed them out down one side and up the other and threatened to have them all thrown out.I always thought that moshing was ignorant anyway and anyone that does it gets what they deserve if they get all busted up.
You very rarely see this sort of thing at Barry Manilow concerts.
Is it just me or is that the most mis-managed concert venue ever?
I was there with my daughter and we had gotten separated. Stone Sour was playing and I was working my way up towards the front. Everything was going well and then it felt like someone dropped a cinder block on my head from about 50 feet. I grabbed my head and hunched forward as the room got dark(er) and started to spin. After a minute I stood up and asked the guy next to me what the F*** happened? He said "you got hit with a water bottle dude".
Some idiots were heaving half full water bottles as high and hard as they could. The Cellular center has really high ceilings by the way.
So the guy was nice enough to walk me back to the infirmary. It turned out that I was hit in the face but it hit so hard I was sure it had hit the back of my head. I realized my nose was bleeding and as I walked by people they did a double take and wince at the blood on my face and.
In the infirmary were several medics waiting for all the injuries they were expecting. They asked me if I lost conscienceness and I said no. The guy that took me back said "Yes he did". So I guess I did. They asked me the standard concussion questions like what day it was and where I was. I can't tell you how mad I was at the stupidity of someone throwing that bottle. So the medic said I needed stitches or I would have a scar. The bottle put a 1 inch gash down my cheek from the side of my nose to my lip. I could literally stick my tongue through it.
At the hospital I was delayed because the other guy from the concert was in surgery with a torn kidney.
It's healing up very nicely.
I saw a history of heavy metal on VH1. It was humorous if you could get past the feebleness of it all. My favorite "highlight" was the segment on a couple of guys who "invented" heavy metal air guitar, bringing homemade cardboard guitars to London concerts. "They had all our moves down!" -Some heavy metal band member.
his lawyer told him that the center had a disclaimer written in fine print across the back of the concert ticket that absolves it of responsibility for his son's injuries.
This lawyer is not ever going to be rich.
Slated for next year are Smegma, Irritant, Culinary Disaster, and Uncle Carbuncle.
"Barnd was hoping to get some sort of compensation from the U.S. Cellular Center for his son's medical bills, "
Of course. people who have never been made to take responsibility for their own actions blame their misfortunes on everyone but themselves. The participants should pay their own bills. Suing the Cellular Center? Sure. Some law firm wants to make a profit.
Flyleaf is a good band.