In my youth Ron used to mosh quite a bit.

I always enjoyed laughing in the metal room in Corp on fridays at the little lovies kicking and hitting ach other. comic grenius


However, In the main room tonight Rob found himself in the mosh pit (and a very sweaty and fun half hour it was)

unfortunately, there wasn't much moshing going on. After the lads with their tops off and nice tattoes informed me I was in a mosh pit(really? you reckon) I had half an hour of people pushing each other around. All I took was an elbow to the face.

but where was the moshing? pushing is not moshing. the youth of today. not an idea.

Originally posted by robbie
....informed me I was in a mosh pit.....
:confused: :suspect: If it needed saying..... :suspect: :loopy:

EEeee, when I were a lass....

1924 a good year. The Charleston was all the rage;)

:mad: Oi!!! :mad:

Just coz I've still got a Rebels t-shirt :rant:

;)

Yeah, about 4 years ago I used to be terrified if I got caught in the pit in corp, and watching from the balcony was always fun, but wheres it gone? Have all the moshers grown up and stopped going out, or are the new corp goers just crap? People who used to go to corp were nicer and less up themselves. Where have all the nice people gone????

A bit of history lesson, mosh fans...

Moshing is a much misused phrase - which now pretty much just means shoving people around a bit at the front of a gig/club.

The phrase came from the American hadcore scene of the mid 80s and involved going round & round with loads of others in a circle like a big crowd whirl pool.

Moshing was often accompanied by "slam dancing" which is pretty self explanatory - though the two things got a bit confused when they both came over here during the big thrash boom of the mid 80s... and "moshing" came to be used instead of the more accurate "slamming"

So now you know...

Next week - the History of Stage Diving...

..and of course things were better in the olden days.. nostalgia is never what it used to be..

;)

Originally posted by jake
A bit of history lesson, mosh fans...

Moshing is a much misused phrase - which now pretty much just means shoving people around a bit at the front of a gig/club.

The phrase came from the American hadcore scene of the mid 80s and involved going round & round with loads of others in a circle like a big crowd whirl pool.


But 'Moshing' also pre-dates this 'going round & round' too. It was a label for headbanging in a stationary fashion prior to that (or it was in Sheffield anyway)

*waits for MuddyCoffee or somebody of similar age to correct above statement*

I remember *moshing* as the whirlpool thing heheh !! First time i went to a death metal club, i remember watching a ton of longhaired blokes moshing round and round a pole in the middle of the dancefloor. Highlight of the night was *Hawaii Five O* :o It was a sight to behold, and I kept going back for more hehehehe !!

Originally posted by Pauline BHG
I remember *moshing* as the whirlpool thing heheh !! First time i went to a death metal club, i remember watching a ton of longhaired blokes moshing round and round a pole in the middle of the dancefloor. Highlight of the night was *Hawaii Five O* :o It was a sight to behold, and I kept going back for more hehehehe !!

Aka the 'fight circle'?

There was moshing at the Green Day concert I went to in June at Milton Keynes. As it was my first gig I was scared!! We moved away from it all- but as I was watching the moshers, it looked quite fun hahaha

i was a mosher...but not no more im far too old haha.

best mosh....slash's snakepit at corporation

and ANY therapy gig it can be pretty much guaranteed.

Originally posted by Strix
But 'Moshing' also pre-dates this 'going round & round' too. It was a label for headbanging in a stationary fashion prior to that (or it was in Sheffield anyway)

*waits for MuddyCoffee or somebody of similar age to correct above statement*

Being very old I can obviously correct that statement!

"Moshing" was used in hardcore circles well before long haired types had ever even heard of it - it was only when american thrash bands like Anthrax started to use the term in about 86 that most headbangers became aware of it...

Yes. And.....

Please describe what exactly it meant then and there :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Kirsty_87
There was moshing at the Green Day concert I went to in June at Milton Keynes. As it was my first gig I was scared!! We moved away from it all- but as I was watching the moshers, it looked quite fun hahaha

I remember seeing Green Day at Reading in 94 and some punk gobbing acid onto my shoe which was pleasant. There were actually about 6 proper nutcase punk fighters at that as well. Stay well away)

Originally posted by Strix
But 'Moshing' also pre-dates*waits for MuddyCoffee or somebody of similar age to correct above statement*

Age?

surely mosh is just french for can-can ?

I yam an anorak,
I yam an antifreeze

bi der sechs pees tools ?

I'm sorry, It's been a good night and I'm drunk. Carry on, I apologise for interrupting...

Originally posted by Kirsty_87
There was moshing at the Green Day concert I went to in June at Milton Keynes. As it was my first gig I was scared!! We moved away from it all- but as I was watching the moshers, it looked quite fun hahaha

Moshing at a Green Day concert... NO! Who'd have thought it?!

Maybe next week you'll be going to see Mcfly?

:roll:

OY!!!!! Don't pick on McFly.......

;)

There is sometimes mini-moshing at the casbah which can be hilarious. Watching 3 people trying to "mosh" :D

Like any musical genre, the dance that goes with it passes. People moshed together in the 80s because that was the fashion. In my experience of running a rock bar and now as a solo rock DJ, the most I've seen is a group of three or four lads in their late teens standing in a line banging their heads together. I've seen the odd solitary bloke who would be old enought to have been a teen back in the days of moshing, standing on his own banging his head up and down while bent double. That's about it.

These days the fashion is the occasional push, in a friendly kinda way with your mates, rather than pushing a stranger, while doing a sort of jumping up and down dance. That's fine, (and probably safer, especially for the cranium). The fashion too is to show off the teeny muscles and tattoos - chavs trying to be rockers.

In the 80s I was a through and through glammy, so I steered clear of mosh pits (yuck, sweaty nasty things). A couple of years ago I ended up in one briefly at a Motorhead concert, but even then I couldn't really say it was a moshing style place, rather a place for leary bullys to throw beer over everyone while trying to climb on top of anyone they could while their mates elbowed the next victim in the eye. I quickly retreated. That's not what I go to a conert for and that's not what music is about.

Originally posted by Classic Rock
I've seen the odd solitary bloke who would be old enough to have been a teen back in the days of moshing, standing on his own banging his head up and down
Ah.... Sounds like you have the same definition as I do Buffy :thumbsup:

Anybody else remember the concentric circles of thrashers in rebels and Roxy's that kicked the night of to 'the ace of spades'?

Floor punching is the one thing that makes me move out of the way. Circle pits are fun if everyone stays in line and picks up those that fall but you can see some people just go so they can push people around instead of listening/watching the music.

The last time I went in the metal/punk/whatever small room in Corp on a Friday I got rather annoyed with all the stereotypically emo types just standing on the dance floor. Why do they think it's called a dance floor exactly?