Watch this bald bloke get the wall of death from 360's!

[Johnny Mac]

Yep that's very true and then they get a taste of it and get trapped in a life of hell. I knew girls years ago who were gorgeous that went out with bullys. I've seen some since and their empty shells, scars, drug addictions, alcoholics, nervous wrecks, babys by lots of blokes. Its all from going out with the wrong sort of men from an early age really. Some do break away from that. Loads of women also don't go near men like that when their older and wiser.

[Lew]

Girls love dudes who hit other dudes in the face... they say they don't... but they do.

 :lol:

[Johnny Mac]

 ^ A new quote, nice one  :lol:

[JDC]

I heard the same about widdling!

and doing donuts in tesco's car park

[bucketshred]

There's nothing wrong with a bit of Moshing. I'm straight down the front at gigs having a leap about and a dance and having some fun to the bands I like (other than at festivals where I'm far too wasted!). The only thing that has really started to ruin it (and probably has done forever) is the idiots who get off on throwing their fists around and being the 'hard man'. I don't mind having someone fall on me or an accidental fist/elbow to the head but these guys windmilling their arms about, donkey kicking and throwing their elbows deserve a punch in the dick.

As for Wall of Deaths, why not? They're fun and the adrenaline rush is great! Everyone picks each other up again and we all have a beer, huzzah! The only bad thing about them is having what seems like most of Games Workshop's clientele storm at you.

I did get beat up by a girl at a Biffy Clyro gig a few years back though. Back flips and all sorts!

Paddy

[CaptainDesslock]

Dunno about showing my age, I felt like that when I was 25 or 26!  I always used to go upstairs at the Astoria.

Did you see Radiohead when they played the Astoria?

[Philly Q]

Dunno about showing my age, I felt like that when I was 25 or 26!  I always used to go upstairs at the Astoria.

Did you see Radiohead when they played the Astoria?

Nah, never been a fan to be honest.

[Johnny Mac]

Dunno about showing my age, I felt like that when I was 25 or 26!  I always used to go upstairs at the Astoria.

Did you see Radiohead when they played the Astoria?

Nah, never been a fan to be honest.

I think he might be taking the P!  :lol:

[FELINEGUITARS]

There's nothing wrong with a bit of Moshing. I'm straight down the front at gigs having a leap about and a dance and having some fun to the bands I like (other than at festivals where I'm far too wasted!). The only thing that has really started to ruin it (and probably has done forever) is the idiots who get off on throwing their fists around and being the 'hard man'. I don't mind having someone fall on me or an accidental fist/elbow to the head but these guys windmilling their arms about, donkey kicking and throwing their elbows deserve a punch in the dick.

As for Wall of Deaths, why not? They're fun and the adrenaline rush is great! Everyone picks each other up again and we all have a beer, huzzah! The only bad thing about them is having what seems like most of Games Workshop's clientele storm at you.

I did get beat up by a girl at a Biffy Clyro gig a few years back though. Back flips and all sorts!

Paddy

As long as it stays at hard and extreme metal gigs I dont mind
You get some idiot who thinks that they will bring it to a a classic rock  type gig and it's very unwelcome
Like strating a mosh at a Joe Bonnamassa gig or a ZZ Top gig
They dont care about the gig or the music - its all about having a ruck

I must be getting old ........actually I hated it 25 years ago (when I was only 20) when thrashers gatecrashed  other gigs and wanted to crowd surf and stage dive at gigs that they weren't into - Thunder, FM, Quireboys , etc etc because there weren't any thrash gigs to go to

[bucketshred]

I agree with you 100% there Jon, how the hell could you mosh to ZZ Top anyway? (I was dancing like a FOOL to them at Download).

An older friend of mine was (and still is) well in to the Thrash and Extreme scene. He said that in the 80's rather than go and gatecrash Rock gigs he started to go to the nuttier Punk gigs instead (Discharge GBH etc). Supposedly it was a lot of fun but there were some injuries. The best ever wall of death I've ever seen was at a Testament show recently. Lots of boozed up old Thrashers holding beer + Wall of Death = BEER VOLCANO! It was magnificent!

I grew up in the Punk scene in my area (not that there was much of one) so it was all circle pits or dancing like a loon for me. What makes me laugh these days are all the kids who are into bands like Bring Me The Horizon, Whitechapel and Annotations of An Autopsy who think they are so br00talz. Skipping around like a fool and throwing 'dem elbows about does not make you hard, it makes you a c*nt!!

[Stevepage]

A Wall of Hugs?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWZGj99Alh8

It's like watching the Teletubbies play fighting

[Philly Q]

I must be getting old ........actually I hated it 25 years ago (when I was only 20) when thrashers gatecrashed  other gigs and wanted to crowd surf and stage dive at gigs that they weren't into - Thunder, FM, Quireboys , etc etc because there weren't any thrash gigs to go to

Yeah, you'd see the same little groups of 15-year-olds at every gig, didn't seem to matter what band it was so long as they were "metal" (in the sense that we used the term in those far-off days).  They'd be climbing up on stage going "look at me" to their mates, totally ignoring the band.

Of course, gigs were dead cheap in those days.  I wonder if it still happens now?  It's about six times the price.

[bucketshred]

It's not too bad these days. Depends where you go.

[Johnny Mac]

Some of the punk gigs I've seen, (old punk bands not all these w**ker yank new punk bands) the left and right wing used to kick off inside. I used to think its was funny watching all these idiots knocking 7 bells out of each other. Have drink, listen and watch the bands and fights. To me, it was the norm really.
As for the mosh stuff, I've never seen much of it at rock gigs. If it does happen, its not what I'd call a problem. But then again I used stand in the shelf at Spurs for years and I've seen a hell of a lot worse at football matches than gigs. Its all relative to what you perceive as unacceptable. People play up when they're drunk and excited, its just human nature.
Before all the porn shite hit the fan for that creep Gary Glitter, his gigs were had a mosh pit too! I went to two, for a bit of a laugh. I even got pilled up at one.  :lol: shite gigs though. Most of it was mimed. That must have been around '92.
At BLS 5 years back in the Astoria, just when this forum got going, it was insane in there. It was entertaining though. Its all part of the experience for me. Nothing will change.

[Stevepage]

Some of the punk gigs I've seen, (old punk bands not all these w**ker yank new punk bands) the left and right wing used to kick off inside. I used to think its was funny watching all these idiots knocking 7 bells out of each other. Have drink, listen and watch the bands and fights. To me, it was the norm really.
As for the mosh stuff, I've never seen much of it at rock gigs. If it does happen, its not what I'd call a problem. But then again I used stand in the shelf at Spurs for years and I've seen a hell of a lot worse at football matches than gigs. Its all relative to what you perceive as unacceptable. People play up when they're drunk and excited, its just human nature.
Before all the porn shiteee hit the fan for that creep Gary Glitter, his gigs were had a mosh pit too! I went to two, for a bit of a laugh. I even got pilled up at one.  :lol: shiteee gigs though. Most of it was mimed. That must have been around '92.
At BLS 5 years back in the Astoria, just when this forum got going, it was insane in there. It was entertaining though. Its all part of the experience for me. Nothing will change.

Was that the Mafia tour? I was at that show, at the front for the whole show, even got a free beer from James Lamenzo  :D

Some girl bit me for some reason and kept pinching my rather nice buttocks, probably trying to get to the front but damned if I'm gonna move for some desperate totty  :lol: