A Few Odd Things From St. Louis

[brat7760]

Was she at least knitting a RUSH blanket?

 

I don't think so!

[Ancient Ways]

GA shows definitely draw the riff raff. They're generally cheaper, which means more booze is gonna flow. :)

 

I myself prefer reserved seating as well. I pay more for the comfort and arena position. I am often glad Rush never does GA pits anymore.

 

Ugh. I did Riotfest in September in Chicago and spent most of the day trying to keep my friend's girlfroend from getting trampled During Dropkick Murphy's and Social Distortion. The civilized old school punks watching Naked Raygun were too old to move around, just like me :)

 

We've attended some Billy Idol and Green Day club gigs in the last several years that were def sketchy for my wife to be in the moshing area, and maybe even my old ass as well.

 

Too old for that shit. Heck, I never liked it back when I was young and dumb for that matter. I'll take a front row loge seat any day over a GA floor.

Moshing at billy idol and green day? That's gotta be a joke, right?

 

Def not. Full blown, headbangin', drunken idiotic mosh mobs. The Billy Idol ones are small and relatively benign, but he plays smaller clubs and venues. Green Day, though...they usually do an entire GA arena floor, and last time we saw 'em at the Forum, the whole front section - several hundreds of kids - were thrashing away on each other. Security was going nuts escorting dudes out left and right. We were safe above the mob in reserved loge seating at that gig. But the GD club gig we hit a couple years ago was the one I had to pull the wife outta,,,,stage side club patrons were pushing on us and flailing all around us, the wifey got scared, and I booked her outta there to the bar in the back of the club. Bloody noses and ripped clothing and spilled beer everywhere, BJ just going at his thing like it was all passe. Gigs like that, you tend to appreciate the relative order of a Rush show. :)

That's a bit surprising. Green day hasn't been considered punk for years. They're essentially a pop band so there must be plenty of scared people at those shows. Billy idol hasn't been in a punk band since billy Joe was just a lad. Billy is also essentially a pop act. Steve Stevens actually knows how to play his guitar.

[rushbass]

I got a real nice shiner one time while in a mosh pit years ago (no, it wasn't at a Rush concert)... too old for that kind of thing now. :codger:

 

Puke incidents at a concert? Fortunately, I've never been to one with that issue! And I hope it stays that way... know when to say when! :hail:

[Ancient Ways]

I got a real nice shiner one time while in a mosh pit years ago (no, it wasn't at a Rush concert)... too old for that kind of thing now. :codger:

 

Puke incidents at a concert? Fortunately, I've never been to one with that issue! And I hope it stays that way... know when to say when! :hail:

Best show I attended for moshing was exodus, testament, megadeth at the kabuki in San francisco. The sheer amount of moshers combined with the level of violence was actually a little scary. Great show though.

Edited May 17, 2015 by Ancient Ways

[satchmothesnowdog]

The best mosh was still slam dancing back in the day when I saw Public Enemy and Anthrax play at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. Punks, skinheads, dorks, and all walks of black folks were getting along in perfect harmony because of music and having a great time.

 

However, after the show, the damn Chicago police managed to start a freakin small scale race riot in the street

[Jaminbenb]

In Lincoln some assclown threw up repeatedly into a multitude of plastic bags a few rows in front of me.

 

Are you kidding or are you serious? If you are serious, he should have been escorted out. I don't pay a lot of money to go see a band to sit amid the smell of vomit from someone who thought getting drunk at a concert would enhance his experience.

 

LOL. Really? Because I tend to find - particularly at indoor arenas - that avoiding the smell of vomit and/or urine is pretty much impossible.

 

There's always somebody- a lot of somebodys, actually - who's ruining the show for the people immediately adjacent to them. :(

 

One of the worst offenders? :) People who don't know how to STFU during the songs with their loud incessant cheering YEAH GEDDY YOU RULE NEIL ALEX YOU THE MAN AW YEAH....blah blah blah.

 

For the record...it's okay to cheer and scream between songs. It's not okay to cheer and scream over the songs as they're being played.

 

You'd think it was rocket science.

 

Friggin' drunks. :)

 

I think when they started selling alcoholic beverages at concerts it wasn't a good thing.

 

 

Yeah...I drink my fair share (and a little more if I buy it). But I think they should leave the drinking to the pre show tailgating, and not sell it inside!

 

Hershey walks the lots and makes people stop drinking out in the lots (it's a family place)but soaks you for crappy domestics inside!

 

 

[rushbass]

I got a real nice shiner one time while in a mosh pit years ago (no, it wasn't at a Rush concert)... too old for that kind of thing now. :codger:

 

Puke incidents at a concert? Fortunately, I've never been to one with that issue! And I hope it stays that way... know when to say when! :hail:

Best show I attended for moshing was exodus, testament, megadeth at the kabuki in San francisco. The sheer amount of moshers combined with the level of violence was actually a little scary. Great show though.

 

I've been in some early 1990's Pantera mosh pits, and those were rather interesting, to say the least!