Pretty sure I went to one of the last concerts in this one venue in town. It was on the top floor of an old building.
They turned the lights up and made everyone stop moving so much for the rest of the concert, apparently because bits of the ceiling were falling downstairs. Everyone was annoyed.Don’t think there was ever another concert there, and last I saw it’s now an art gallery.
I was at a concert once where they had the band actually stop the show to tell people to stop crowd surfing because nine had already gone to the hospital.
Which was good on them because random people were being lifted into the air and thrown on the floor, whether they wanted to be or not.
I’ve been to a lot of mosh pits, and involuntary crowd surfing sounds insane to me.
Stupid college kids mostly. The smaller people in the crowd (particularly women) just got hauled into the air by the excited crowd. Wasn’t great.
Damn! sounds like a nightmare. I would be so pissed if I were in that crowd.
That’s why I pretty much only go to DIY shows. There are no rules in a parking lot or under a bridge, and I came to bring the pain. Of course, now that I’m in my mid thirties I usually end up leaving with more pain than I brought.
