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I was never a big one for shows (more into record collecting), but in the few I did go to I did experience slam dancing. Anything from Motorhead to Mojo Nixon had a mosh pit.

Do you see slam dancing as:
(1) a bunch of morons who ruin what could be a good show for the rest of us, or
(2) an almost theraputic release, good-natured aggression, and a necessary element of the punk scene (from which much of our music came)

I'm kind of mixed about it.... I'd like to think I could go see some interesting punk band without getting a steel-toe combat boot to the head; once everyone starts pushing into each other I think "how much do I trust this group of hyped-up stangers?"

At the same time, I think "hell, kids will be kids; it's part of the deal"...

(Just to clarify, it's been the late eighties since I've actually been in a mosh pit. But I think about it every now and then....)

I tried. It sucked--it wasn't for me. It was too painful.
I see it as both; unfortunately, I feel it's more "A" nowadays with more drunken frat boys ruining it for the rest of us. If not everybody is doing it, then it's no fun. When I saw the Epoxies rec

#2 for me, from about 1978 to around 1988 or so.

In fact, we used to go "chicken slamming," where you would go into the pit with someone on your shoulders, or vice-versa.

I used to stage dive all the time at shows, too, and the crowd would catch you

I have been a few mosh pits. I still bare a small scar on my bottom lip from an errant elbow to prove it. [;)]

My best friend is a metal head, so I've been to plenty of metal shows where moshing occurred. I usually stayed out of it and watched from

1 & 2.

I know when to avoid them when it's more of the case of #1....which is how it seemed at the Skinny Puppy show I attendeded last weekend. I remained on the periphery of the "pit" being a spectator of the handful of fistfights that broke out.

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1&2! But hell yeah I slam danced! I never got too badly hurt. It was fun but I only did it at clubs. At a show they got too crazy!

There's a HUGE difference between "slam dancing" and "moshing". Moshing is all about the violence, aggression, and causing damage. In most mosh pits if you fall down you get trampled. Since about 1990 mosh pits have sprouted up at anything from a Slaye

I remember some fun slam dancing sessions at the Ritz, Spit, Camoflage and Paris NY. Felt like a good natured cross between bumper cars and a demolition derby with some pogoing thrown in for good measure. [;)]

I had one of the most pleasant experiences in the pit when I was about 15. I was at a Half Life show near the front and it was very very crowded....I don't know whose anonymous hands reached around and made my virginal evening so worthwhile, but thank you

Fritz and Ollie hit it right on the nose.

I've been in a bunch of 'em even into the early nineties. Back in the 80's there was pit etiquette. You weren't out to kick the crap out of each other just slam around. If someone fell you picked him up right a

In the mid-eighties, I went to a lot of local punk gigs and I did slam-dance sometimes. I agree that there was an etiquette to slamming back then. At the time that I was into it, I was 5 feet tall and around 85-90 pounds, so if people had been really vi

I truly miss those days.I was young and had massive doses of angst built up.Such a great release of pent up energy at all those hardcore punk shows I attended from the late 70's to early 80's.
I guess #2 applies to myself.It was a fun time for myself an

Thanks for the compliment Kimiiii,

Yeah like all the others that posted here I used to love it and miss it greatly. That is until my back creaks and pains show up that never were there before....basically feeling OLD!

It was all worth it though and

[quote][i]Originally posted by Tebo[/i]
<br>Fritz and Ollie hit it right on the nose.

I've been in a bunch of 'em even into the early ni

Being an "older" punk I still enjoy a good mosh every once in awhile. It is alot different from what it was 20 years ago though. It is much more violent today. I've slammed from Slayer to Suicidal to the Circle Jerks and Ministry and enjoyed it. Sure it i