I looked as pathetic as you might imagine I looked.Īn hour or so later I was elbowed heavily in the chest by a punter who had decided she wanted to get out of the mosh pit - quickly. And then let it go after realising it weighed 105 kilograms-plus. In my defence, for some reason, a couple of young 1.9 or two-metre-tall fans with long hair and beards took an instant liking to my scruffy, medium-length hair and beard, and lifted my 1.8m torso up. His dad disappeared into the crowd during the first song, heading for the mosh pit, and left his son behind.Ī few minutes later, the young man was wondering where his father had got to, when his dad appeared on the shoulders of two younger concertgoers a few metres away. Photo / Craig CooperĪ 20-year-old I know was at a gig in Auckland not that long ago, with his father. And you're surrounded by other people who are doing the same bouncing and running and lurching and bumping.Craig Cooper's recollection of a Pixies concert is a little fuzzy. ![]() You bump into things but it doesn't hurt unless you're really unlucky. In fact, in my own experience, the thing that has felt the most like moshing so far has been those bouncy castles in amusement parks and fairs and children's events. It's like mixing dancing with being on a roller coaster or a bumper car. You might suddenly move to the right! You might move to the right an inch but then suddenly move to the left! You might unexpectedly spin! With moshing, you're dancing but there's also a random number generator constantly running. If you step to the left, you will move to the left. If you jump up, you will go up for a second, and then you will come back down. I like to dance (like, regular dancing), and that's a lot of fun, but when you dance you know everything that will happen at each step. And this is just a fledgling idea right now, but what I'm thinking so far is: I mean, obviously, there are the things like "in a good pit everyone watches out for each other," but those are what makes a good pit, not what makes the actual act enjoyable. I was thinking right now about why moshing is fun. Posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 7:11 PM on Aug I would not have guessed.Īs some point he must have bounced cause I looked around and couldn't find him anywhere. Honestly, a total exhilarating experience. He stopped, took a look at me, pronounced the work 'perfect' (he might have even said 'pretty') and then, without warning, propelled me into the mosh pit with him. (Reminded me of how Lance in 'Apocalypse Now' had painted his own face.) I think it turned out half of one color, one half of another. He then proceeded to warm the ends of the sticks in a lighter flame and paint my face. I guess hanging with him reminded me of someone he lost, that was OK.Īnyway.at some point he insisted that I needed to have my face painted and when I agreed (in for a dime.you know the rest)) he pulled out a handful of military camo paint sticks. More than anything I felt something more like a sadness in him. Plus I was there with some friends who could keep an eye out on me. ![]() I just rolled with the whole thing, never getting any kind of menacing vibe from him. He even called me by that name-I don't remember what it was, unfortunately. Best as I can tell from his mutterings I reminded him of a friend/buddy who was killed in Vietnam. Part way through the evening I found myself adopted by some burly dude all dressed up in military camo garb and with his face painted up in camo colors. ![]() ![]() Many years ago I caught a Dead Kennedys show in (of all places) Palo Alto, CA.
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