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Thrillho:
When the crowd around you is staring at you instead of the band...you're an idiot.

october1983:
Moshing I'm happy with, even if I don't do it much myself. Being too drunk to stand up while dancing and crashing into my back every five seconds, though, annoys me.

Jackie Blue:
Even when I was seeing my first shows 14 years ago, I didn't really "get" moshing.

No band I have seen since like 1996 has had fans who mosh.  I mean, it's hard to mosh to Mogwai or Spiritualized.

So it doesn't really affect me anymore.

Still, I'm amazed it continues to happen.

TheFuriousWombat:
I saw Man Man at the Starlight Ballroom in Philly (where they're from). Their music is pretty crazy and I guess that fueled the hometown frenzy b/c the crowd moshed the entire  time. I had to cling to my then-gf, who happens to be very tiny, so she wouldn't be swept under the sea of sweaty, frenzied moshers. Not only was it really uneccessary b/c it didn't suit the music, but it made the music much harder to pay attention to and enjoy. Since Man Man has such killer stage presence and put on such a great performance visually as well as aurally (part of the fun of seeing them live is actually watching them) and this moshing made it impossible to really watch, I quickly got pissed off. It should have been one of the most enjoyable shows I've been to but I barely recall the music. That being said, I've been to more hardcore shows where the crowd moshed and it was great. Basically moshing has a time and a place and when people do it at obviously the wrong time and/or place it annoys me to no end.

KharBevNor:

--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 23 Nov 2007, 10:29 ---You don't see them when bands like Nile play and since that's the kind of death metal I'm fussed about that's fine by me. It's a shame you're overrun with the morons down there, nothing worse than an unfriendly gig.

--- End quote ---

Yeah. I doubt Nile could fill any venue in Bournemouth, Portsmouth or Southampton big enough to make it worth them coming here, which is the real problem. If we get a foreign metal band down here, it's more likely to be Soilwork or The Haunted. Once you combine the dearth of bands that I like, plus the proponderance of utter fucking blowjobs, you'll get why Wacken has been the only gig I've been to this year. And it's a shame. I really, really enjoy gigs. But not if I spend the two support acts as the only guy headbanging, then during the headliner some fucking idiots actually try and single me out and beat me up in the moshpit for headbanging. This happened to me when I saw Crowbar last year.

Last time I moshed was in fact at Wacken, to Sabbat. But that was utterly awesome, because it was in Germany, and they still know how to be metal over there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laSzQrGfpB0

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