Did you used to mosh/stage dive?

[BDG135]

Did any of you mosh and stage dive? Do they still allow it in some clubs? It was very loose back in the day, and the security was so sparse they couldn't do much to help. Any fun stories?

[GoodJudge]

I went to thrash shows. I was down the front as much as possible - Exodus had it right: good friendly violent fun. I haven't stagedived for years and most places don't let you now but I was last in the mosh last year for Bloodywood (Indian metal / folk music crossover).

I always hated crowdsurfers though. You can see divers coming. The first thing you know about a surfer is getting their boots in the back of your head.

[Hellsinkey]

Yes. At late 80's, mostly at Finnish trash metal shows, with bands like Stone and Airdash etc.

[SterileEyes1]

When I was an angry incel teenager, hell yeah I moshed!

Slayer, Pantera, Slipknot, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Machine Head, Fear Factory, etc.

Long-since retired from it but it was a lot of fun and I’m glad I survived without too much brain damage!

[Ham Stroker's Ejacula]

All the time, back in the 1980s. Hardcore, crossover, thrash. Napalm Death, Sheer Terror, Slayer, Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, etc. Never got into surfing, but dove like a maniac. Stopped in my mid-20s, but accumulated some fun injuries (dislocated elbow, broken collar bone, deep bruises).

[kytepunches]

All the time, back in the 1980s. Hardcore, crossover, thrash. Napalm Death, Sheer Terror, Slayer, Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, etc. Never got into surfing, but dove like a maniac. Stopped in my mid-20s, but accumulated some fun injuries (dislocated elbow, broken collar bone, deep bruises).

Same here. I still mosh but stage diving is pretty much a thing of the past. Every metal venue here sets the space between the stage and barricades super far.

[GoodJudge]

All the time, back in the 1980s. Hardcore, crossover, thrash. Napalm Death, Sheer Terror, Slayer, Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, etc. Never got into surfing, but dove like a maniac. Stopped in my mid-20s, but accumulated some fun injuries (dislocated elbow, broken collar bone, deep bruises).

Same here. I still mosh but stage diving is pretty much a thing of the past. Every metal venue here sets the space between the stage and barricades super far.

I stopped diving at gigs after seeing too many people hit the floor and not wanting the next one to be me. I stopped moshing for a few years after getting a cracked / bruised rib 4 times in the same place over about a decade, and I'm too out of condition to do more than a few songs at a time, but the right band or tune will make me feel 18 again.

[Sleek]

I did not.

I WAS, however, the guy who would body tackle you if you jumped up on stage to do that shit for a number of years.

It was kind of a highlight of the gig...some dumbass would jump onstage and didn't realize that there were multiple people watching them all the way up, calling dibs on who was going to take them down.

Shit was seriously like the pitcher/catcher signals in baseball...doing hand signs for: "This one's mine" from across the stage, then getting waved off with a maglight beam.

Sometimes we couldn't pull people off the sides or back of the stage, so we would have competitions to see how much air we could get chucking them off the front.

GOOD TIMES.

[pieceofme]

Yep. In my teens and early twenties. Not the heaviest person so was bounced around a lot. Also crowd surfed at a festival. Reading 2001 I think.

[CrankerBait]

Mosh, I guess so occasionally. Stave dive, no. Never went to any really hardcore shows. Just bands like the Ramones, Rage Against the Machine and Green Day. It was fun to get to the front of the stage, bounce around for a few songs, and then enjoy the rest of the concert from a more comfortable spot.

[TooOldToCare]

Never. Not my thing and never understood paying to see a show to not really watch the show.

[rockker]

I moshed at an Iron Maiden concert at the age of 40, good times. All the little punk ass teens thought they’d have the upper hand on the old guy, they were wrong

[pieceofme]

I moshed at an Iron Maiden concert at the age of 40, good times. All the little punk ass teens thought they’d have the upper hand on the old guy, they were wrong

You really are true rocker.

[diablomozart]

i was in the pit at both anthrax among the living and a slayer show both at the metroplex...i was sore for weeks after both and i was in my early 20's at the time...d.m.

[Spongie]

Of course. It was a blast. To this day I wear a very visible scar over my eye from stitches received after a Korn show. Great times.

[MadmanShepherd]

Never. Not my thing and never understood paying to see a show to not really watch the show.

This.

I used to mosh at school dances though and they stopped playing stuff like Green Day because of it. I was at a state event for school and there was a dance to finish the weekend. Me and 2 or maybe 3 other guys started moshing. I inadvertently bashed my shoulder right into this guys face. I see him pause, then take off to the bathroom. I felt fucking terrible. I went to the bathroom to apologize, he either had a bloody nose or mouth or something. He was like, "No problem man. That stuff happens in a mosh pit." I decided moshing was stupid and never did it and definitely look down on people that do. Obviously I dont give a fuck what people do to willing participants, but it's not like they get consent from everyone standing there.

[Aerosmith87]

Hell yeah. When you're at the right show it enhances the entire show. Mosh pits are sometimes the most friendly places in the world. If you're shoe is untied, you get a full circle blocked off until you tie your show To each their own, but I think moshing and getting in the pit makes the show better at the right show. You're definitely not missing out on the overall experience if you get in there.