Kids today aren’t drinking and smoking dope anymore. They’re eating Xanax and Hydrocodone and zoning out to crap like Dashboard Confessional or Coheed and Cambria.
Give me Killswitch Engage, Godsmack, KoRn, Nonpoint, Sevendust, or Powerman 5000 ANY DAY, ANY WAY. I’d rather thrash around a mosh pit and get a little bruised and beaten than pop and pill and become a pile of mush.
Despite having my nose broken on more than one occasion in a mosh pit, I’ve found that there’s an unspoken camaraderie in the pit. Someone falls, you pick them up. Someone gets hurt, you let them out of the pit. You go to some of these new age rock or punk concerts, and you’ve got assholes with nails in their boots and full on brawls in the middle of the crowds.
Metal is organized chaos.
Korn is my favorite band.
I also like Marilyn Manson...
(ducking my conservative head in shame)
What about Hip-Hop and Rap venues? Shootings and stabbings are expected.
Between sets at one show, I got into one discussion about Georgie Schwartz (George Soros). I quickly found that many metalheads hate Soros, and consider him a threat to freedom. A lot of conservative types there (as in free markets, minimum government), and this was in St. Paul, MN. The “drug of choice” at this particular show seem to range between PBR and some good strong ales. This was Amon Amarth at Station 4.
Yes, I’m 56, and I still go into the pit!