Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The 'royal we' with Rob and Kevin Moshing. You hate it, right? We hate it ourselves. You want to defy moshing? Hey, we want to de fy moshing. We have never fully understood this dance scene. We’re down with the whole “music flowing through you” vibe, but when did it get so damn vio lent? We think it was at the craze of the grunge mu sic scene. Music was getting louder and faster, and peo ple couldn’t just bop their heads to the music anymore. So what happened? In a show in Seattle, some guy in a crowded club tripped over a beer bottle. He fell into this other guy who, in turn, fell into another guy. And it seemed to cause a chain reaction. Several people collided that night, and the music world would’nt be the same after that. This “pit” of people faljing into each other was an exhilarating ex perience for all in attendance that night, so they just kept doing it. Strangers would just run from one side of the club and hit some guy on the other side. Even tually, the space was reduced to a circle, but you see where this led, right? This blunder started a new dance craze that had Advil and Tylenol screaming for en dorsements. People were getting incredible kicks by simply smashing themselves into other people dur ing a rock show. You were either in the mosh pit or you were trying to get away from it. Moshing and grunge went hand in hand (note how we don’t men tion metal, because in our ignorance, we don’t know if moshing was ever really a metal scene. It could have started there, for all we know). Then, one day, grunge died. But in the same manner as any revolution, some people decided to carry on with the spirit of grunge. These people forget that the last true grunge al bum was released in 1996. Face it, guys, it s dead. Enough with the moshing, already. Why do you still insist that the spirit of grunge lives on? Why do you still insist to fomi a mosh pit at the drop of a hat? Why do you still insist that running into us is cool? It isn’t. Some of you were at the Hank Williams III and Reverend Horton Heat show Thursday night at the Music Farm. You thought it was cool to start moshing when Hank III started playing. Sure, he was clad in a Misfits shirt, and sure, he was playing some pretty rough stuff, but come on. You were moshing to Hank Williams ID! It’s a sad, sad day in rock music when the grandson of Hank Williams can inspire you to mosh. Just what were you thinking? Or have more than one of these collisions to the floor deprived you of this ability? Let’s look at stage diving. It doesn’t happen anymore. People realized that they weren’t going to be caught anymore, and they stopped. Let’s pick apart the act of moshing for a second here: The music starts, you hear it and you start jump ing around and hitting strange people. They might not want you to do it, but you don’t care. You do it any way. You know, they make rubber rooms for behav ior like this. The fact of the matter is, you’re just be ing rude. You’re hitting people, for Pete’s sake (have we said this yet?) You’re hitting people! Why? They don’t ask you to hit them. They certainly didn’t pay in anticipation to get hit by you morons. “Ooh. I can’t wait to get to the show and have some MORON hit me while I try to enjoy the music. I am getting anxious just thinking about it.” Sounds stupid, doesn t it? Now, we don’t want to deprive you of free will or anything because we are huge champions of this (as you have read in past rants.) Just stop hitting us. That’s all we ask. We can understand this course of action if you’re at a NOFX show. Moshing should be expect ed there. But when there is a possibility for a mixed crowd, give everyone their space and respect their de sire to watch a show. You can’t really take it all in when there are idiots running into you the whole time. In fact, it makes you want to turn around and run at them with all your might and... wait a minute. By the way, welcome back, Dave. 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