RE: Hooked on classics
Sean Draine (seandr@Exchange.Microsoft.com)
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:42:59 -0700
Paul:
"I'll bite, what's a 'mosh pit'?"
You'll find them at concerts featuring bands connected to punk or thrash
genres. The mosh pit is a parting of the crowd, usually right below center
stage, wherein people mosh. Moshing, otherwise known as 'slam dancing', is a
group activity. Participants dance around, glancing, ricocheting, careening,
bouncing off of, and colliding with others in the pit. If there are
sufficient numbers in the pit, you just let its forces push you where they
will.
Mosh pits vary in style. Some are filled with snarling young men from bad
families who wear boots, leather, and spikes. Those pits can be a little
dangerous, although probably not as dangerous as if you encountered one of
these guys alone in an alley. Others are filled with dopey fraternity boys.
A good mosh pit consists of good people.
The best mosh pit I've ever been in was at a Crash Worship show at the now
closed Weathered Wall in Seattle. It was a chaotic mess of wine-soaked naked
torsos (both male and female), fire crackers, milk, tremendous heat, fog,
flames, delirium.
-Sean