Most Dangerous Band / Concert experiences

[Evilution]

The only gig I ever had a problem at was Ugly Kid Joe :ROTF:
Some guy was laying his fists into a woman, Whitfield Crane (singer) started shouting at the guy who just carried on. I waded through the people and swung my elbow into his face, he went down and I stomped him.
People cheered, Whitfield got his cock out and I went back to where I was standing before, still buzzing. People then started pointing out the blood loss from where someone had slashed my arm open with something very sharp.

I still don't know who did it, wasn't the guy I put down on the floor.

[GuerillaPete]

Slayer w/ Danzig (opening) @ the Felt Forum, NYC, '88. The last show at the Felt Forum before it was shut for renovations/reconstruction. Everyone tore the place apart. Funny bordering on scary.

[Robert Burns]

Well... nothing in the order of a mosh pit gone crazy but in 78' at my
first VH concert, *i was24yrs old) they had general admission and
had a crowd of about 4 thousand outside waiting for the 15 or so glass
doors to be opened. I was about 80 feet back in the middle of the crowd.
Now at the time i was thin..6'3"..200! (now im 53 and 6'2 barely and
250!) Laugh it up yucko's! You will be there sooner than you think!
Anyway.. the crowd kept surging and i would loose my balance, but
still stay upright, and move about 7 or 8 feet in different directions.
But once about 20 minutes into it... we we smashed like sardines...
and i was lifted with my arms down at my sides... picked up about 5 or
6 inches off the ground, and traveled about 30 feet foward! Smaller girls
were screaming, and crying...so it made it easier to hide the fact that i
was too! :ROTF: Anyway.... i could barely breathe...and it was amazing
that things you could not control, could possibly kill you! General admission causing the cattle stampede is just insanely stupid!
Luckily for you guys, i survived~!

[guitarplayer]

I was at an outdoor show where about 30 bands played during two days. I don't remember who was playing (could have been Hagar on his Cabo Wabo tour) and was hit in the head from behind with a trash dumpster. Ya know the big ones you set out by the curb. To top it off there was a kid inside it! That almost took me down for the count.

[Rupe]

Ozzy/Metallica, Johnstown War Memorial, April '86. Myself and couple of friends (all high school seniors) went to this show and I took my 14 year old freshman cousin. The show was general admission and the doors were over 1/2 hour late opening, so by the time they did a huge crowd had built up. I believe there were three or four sets off double doors for the thousands of fans to funnel into and that's exactly what it became...a human funnel. People were falling and screaming, getting trampled. When we got to the door, my cousin got the upper half of his body through but then got pinned in the doorway. I was trying to pull him in but all of he people had formed a "plug" and nobody was getting through. Finally a few people fell and the crowd sort of spilled over the top of them and I was able to pull him the rest of the way through. Because he was pretty shaken up, we went to the seats instead of the floor as planned. He ended up with a bruised sternum and ribs but still enjoyed his first show

[Nuclear Vampire]

Fuck some crazy stories here folks. I've been to so many insane shows, right in the pit back in the day I can't even count 'em. Good friendly violent fun though.

Exodus last Monday was pretty insane. 3 weeks of -40 weather made everyone a little extra mental and thrashing in the pit was the perfect release.

[petedz]

I was in a borderline trample situation at a Kiss show (Revenge tour). It was way too small venue for them. My then gf freaked. I may have dropped a few body surfing a-holes on occasion. I saw a woman who got stabbed at a Dio show (didn't see the actual event--just the aftermath). For all the shows I've been to, my experiences have been pretty tame.

Now, public sex at concerts. Those are the really fun stories.

[Reverend Timmy]

Saw Queen in 1978,I think it was 78,at the Summit in Houston.The crowd started to push toward the front and it turned bad real quick.The band stopped playing and Freddie asked everyone to calm down.As soon as the band started to play again,some guy reached back and stabbed another guy in the chest.Blood flew everywhere and it was on.Security grabbed the stabber,but the guy that got stabbed was passed over to the rear by the crowd.We were at the front and it turned into a free-for-all,until the security and police stepped in.That is the only time I was really uneasy at a concert............Queen was badass,I feel fortunate to have seen them live.............................

[fr0sty]

That doesn't sound like a fun night out to me...

I've seen so much violence at shows that it's absurd. I've been in many, many fistfights and I've even been stabbed at a show.

The most violent major band that I've ever seen is pre-NuMetal-era Slayer. I've been to Slayer shows where cops got killed. Huge bonfires with people getting thrown on them, absolute bloody carnage.

The most violent shows that I've been to on any scale are for my own old band, DUDEFUCKINHELLYEAH! We would always play the shadiest neighborhoods to the drunkest crustiest punks and metalheads you've ever seen. I've had shows where 250 people came out to see us, and a quarter of them end up throwing blows at each other. I've had to carry a gun at shows, I almost had to beat a promoter half to death with a bat once. Rock 'n Roll can get violent my friend. We had the cops come to 7 of our shows in a row!

[fr0sty]

Hearing all these crow crush stories make me wonder how many people die in those massive protesting throngs in the middle east. They alway seem packed in like crazy and not giving a crap.

[Rsmacker]

Stampedes are a regular occurence at the Hajj in Mecca, when up to 2 million people perform a rite where they throw stones at some pillars where the Devil appeared in front of someone or other important in Islam.
Word is that they are trying to book Slayer as entertainment, but the band are probably doing Download AGAIN (and fuck all proper gigs).

[cdwillis]

The worst I've ever had it was in the pit for Lamb of God the time I saw them at the Unholy Alliance tour. I thought I was gonna be crushed. After they got off the stage Slayer came on and shit was tame by comparison.

[Homeless]

The last GWAR show I went to was pretty intense. Like 6 hardcore bands opening, so I got thrown over the merch table a few times. The craziest part was getting electrocuted by the power cables that had been uncovered by the crowd though. All of the shows I've been to since have been pretty tame, though. Who moshes to Blind Guardian in the first place?

[Bri]

Most shows were general admission where I grew up so you get a few thousand people pushing you against the barrier if you're in the front row. I made it through many shows no problem. The second or third time Ratt played, I had a couple of ribs cracked.

When I was about 16 I was at an outdoor show with Mama's Boys, Ratt, Iron Maiden and some others I forget. Some dudes in their 20's were beating me trying to get me to ask to be lifted out. I just told them I wasn't going anywhere so FO. They eventually picked a new target.

If an individual was trying that shit, I'd wait for a crowd serge. When the crowd started moving backwards, I'd give an elbow while they were off balance and be rid of the annoyance.

At a Megadeth show (Marty's last) we were way off to the side to avoid the pit. A guy crowd dived and almost flattened my 5'5" wife. I told him if he didn't take better aim next time he wouldn't be going home. He kept his feet on the floor.

[Freyr]

Slayer was easily the craziest pits I've ever been in... pits here are fucking brutal too, 'cause of the lack of shows. When shit hits, it hits big. I remember a bible being thrown around in the crowd, and one dude pulling out a knife and ripping it to pieces. I ducked 3-4 vodka bottles being hurled outside the show before it started too...

The closest thing to rivaling that, was Neuraxis/Misery Index show... the wall of death + circle pit that came after was brutal as hell.

Atleast people in NS keep the hardcore kiddies under control. I've seen more then acouple get the shit kicked out of them for punching / kicking.