What's the worst mosh pit you've been in?

Question

Mine was System of a Down...I came thisclose to dying. Cradle of Filth comes in a close second.

Answer 1

Nine Inch Nails for the Pretty Hate Machine tour. Smoke bombs were let off at the very start and messed up my contacts so getting out from the front when blind was tough with boots flying through the air and people leaping off speaker stacks.

I agree with Lovnrckets, Ministry was a particularly burly one as well.

Pit etiquette has dropped miserably. Now it's just to see who can hurt each other and how bad.

Answer 2

Sookie has me peeing my pants from laughter - hit with a shoe!? Well, even Perry Farrell was hit with a shoe back in the day... I've been hit with a shoe as well but unfortunately it still had the mosh pit enthusiast in it.

I too found the Nine Inch Nails pit to be quite chaotic. I pushed my way to the front to get a closer look at Trent. I had my ticket and $5 pretty secure in my bra but some how they managed to go missing somewhere in the pit.

Also, Face to Face at the Canes Club in San Diego.
It wasn't really the ideal venue for a punk show. I had to be pulled out by some helpful onlookers. I swear they filled that place way beyond capacity.

Answer 3

This may sound crazy but the worst Ive seen is at a country concert. Hank Williams III. He plays his country then metal/hardcore punk. In the country set the mosh pit is extreme.

Answer 4

The 2 craziest pits I have ever been in were Pantera and White Zombie. During the White Zombie song Grindhouse-A-Go-Go they had a strobe light going and all you saw were fists flying and I got hit in the face with a chain...it was pretty sick. The Pantera pit was just brutal, the entire club was going nuts people were getting tossed around like ragdolls.

Answer 5

It was a local Cleveland hardcore band quite a few years ago. I wasn't even in there and I got hit with a shoe, and I saw torn shirts, broken glasses and some hits that were definitely black eyes a few days later.

I was never one for the pit, but even as an observer I've noticed the decline in pit etiquette.

Edit: huevo - exactly! I stay far away from it.

BuzzKill - I was standing there, minding my own business, and my shoulder got hit with a big, black shoe. It almost knocked the beer out of my hand. *grrr*

That's better than getting hit by a flying body, though...ouch! LOL @ your NIN pit story...hilarious! :)

Answer 6

have been given kicked interior the lung as quickly as by utilising an entire stranger who wanted to do the completed "sitting on somebody's shoulder" element. That wasn't mosh pit territory although. have been given clonked on the top by utilising a plastic bottle crammed with urine interior the mosh pit at Monsters of Rock one 365 days. To be honest, that became into the 365 days that Poison (bless their little cotton socks) reported that they had in no way play the gig returned via fact of each and every of the flying urine that had come their way...wusses...even although now I undergo in suggestions, it became into additionally the 365 days a pair of moshers have been killed by utilising surging crowds... additionally butted heads with a bloke in a somewhat bouncy mosh-pit at a Pantera gig. Shaved head, facial tattooes, the lot. extraordinarily advantageous guy, became out to be an accountant. Silliest gig tale became into from the completely mosh-loose nation-states of comfortable rock. Went to a Bon Jovi gig (i understand, i understand, I could probable be horsewhipped...), with a team of buddies, and we've been authentic up the returned. "Sod this for a lark," reported certainly one of my buddies, premiere the way authentic down the front. vast bouncer there, cos the status places on the front have been gated off(!). "Oi!" says the bouncer, "permit's be conscious your tickets then?" My pal confirmed them. They needless to say reported we could desire to consistently be up interior the a*s of the gods. The Bouncer reported as a lot. "Ah, however the fee ticket's revealed in English," reported my pal. "So what?" reported the Bouncer. "properly, we are Welsh, we won't study that, can we?" reported my pal. a seem of deep confusion and placed-uponnedness handed over the Bouncer's face. "honest adequate," he reported, identifying we've been greater hassle than the well worth of it, and enable us to in. And as good a night as may well be imagined at a Bon Jovi stay overall performance became into had by utilising all...

Answer 7

Actually, and I'm sure you will find this funny, I was at a Panic! At The Disco concert. Hey There Delilah played[PWT were opening], and BAM. everyone goes crazy I get trampled knocked over like 5 times, I cant breath and I had to get lifted out by the guy next to me. I wish I got to thank him ;D

Answer 8

This SHOULD be Embarrassing but I HAD to see the Paramedics.

it was Fall Out Boy.

I had my hair pulled out from my head, Converse straight to my eye turning it black and 5 crowd surfers were dropped on my head giving me a concussion ALL BEFORE the fireworks!!! so technically I really didn't get to see them only AAR, From First to Last and Hawthorne Heights.

Those crazy EMOS! lol

Answer 9

job for a cowboy, I was so sore after that.
next time you are at a moshing concert wait untill everyone is gone and go back in, they have medics and **** waiting for the show to end to get people off the ground.

Answer 10

Slayer at the Baltimre Arena. I lost a gold necklace