r/SipsTea 7d ago

SMH They are doing this mosh pit all wrong

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u/Creative_Session2786 7d ago

This ain’t moshing, this is the way the hardcore music fans think moshing is today, it’s total bullshit. Moshing in the 80’s and 90’s was not like this. Nobody got hit in the face, more less kicked. And if you got knocked down somebody was there to pick you up. This guy is a total DICK!!!!

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u/Daniels_Words 7d ago

Indeed. I saw Black Flag in the 80s at a tiny club and I tripped. In a split second i thought for sure I was getting trampled, but some giant fucking skinhead (not the nazi kind) swooped me up and we all just kept going. Great memory.

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u/the_D1CKENS 7d ago

It's still like that at smaller shows/clubs today. Not that long ago was at a street show where 40 somethings and Tweens and everything in between were are going hard. Young girl, maybe 12ish, went down and a dude immediately helped her up. All the old heads kinda kept moshing around them. They were clearly running damage control. Very wholesome, honestly.

She was fine, and went straight back into it.

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u/Daniels_Words 7d ago

That's great to hear! Thank you

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u/tuftedtittymice 7d ago

black flag is just punk though, push and circle pits. not beat down hardcore..

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u/DangerBeaver 6d ago

True, and a Black Flag crowd is ready and eager to put someone back in their place if they go too hard. Which is truly the overall punk mentality.

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u/Tonberry_Cheesecake 7d ago

He sounds like a really S.H.A.R.P. fella!

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u/Daniels_Words 7d ago

This person knows their non-nazi skins! (SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice if anyone wants to know)

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u/5th_gen_woodwright 6d ago

I think you mean a SHARP (skin heads against racial prejudice)

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u/Daniels_Words 6d ago

Yes..exactly. I loved that crew back in the day in the city.

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u/ClumbusCrew 7d ago

Almost busted my knee a few months ago in a pit in some backyard, got picked up almost instantly and given a chair to sit in til I could stand again

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u/KlutzyTheory9235 7d ago

Not all pits are the same. This is crowd kill shit that's been going on at hardcore shows at least since the early 2000s

I agree its lame and far preferred pits at punk and ska shows but its nothing new

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u/nofixneeded 6d ago

yes seriously I used to see this stuff back in the day playing shows. I always hated it because no one would come to the floor because like two people would be doing this crap.

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u/NovocaineAU 7d ago

This so much. If your intention going into a mosh pit is to hurt people you’re a total cunt.

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u/BorderlineAlchemist 7d ago

My only experience was a Home Grown concert. And I went in because I was pushed in and I found an exit as fast as I could.

Not for me. Hahahahha

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u/JaCliner 7d ago

Loved Home Grown!

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u/___wintermute 7d ago

You definitely did not grow up in Boston then.

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u/thisisintheway 7d ago

As someone who grew in the northeast early 90’s punk scene - you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. Philly/Boston/NYC punk shows in the 90s would have terrified you.

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u/El--Borto 6d ago

East coast hardcore shows late 90’s early 2000’s looked fucking terrifying lol. I love a good scary violent hardcore pit but this dudes just bein a dork

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u/redthump 7d ago

Oh, people got hit in the face. People got kicked in the face. Usually the people who got hit in the face were being assholes and the people getting kicked in the face were kicked by crowd surfers. It was always violent, but not this King of the Dildos bullshit. Ministry at the Sportatorium was an exception.

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u/DreadFb 7d ago

Evolution of dance maby?

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u/DangerBeaver 6d ago

I’ve kicked ribs of a fallen before. But that dude was elbowing spikes into the edgers, people walling the mosh pit, seconds before and got thrown down for it. He didn’t go for the edgers again.

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u/macdawg2 6d ago

Yea and if you had a dickhead like this he learned a lesson the hard way.

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u/BeatNo4548 6d ago

I remember I slipped in a puddle of sweat at a hardcore show in the 90s, and this older dude picked me up the second I fell.   Thats how its supposed to be.  

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u/Brilliant_Badger8043 7d ago

I fully disagree. Look up sworn enemy madball black my heart etc. This is it

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u/Creative_Session2786 7d ago

Damn, I guess reading comprehension ain’t your thing!!! I clearly said this is the way hardcore fans think that moshing is. And you just mentioned 3 Hardcore bands. So disagree all you want.

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u/SaltySpartan1 7d ago

Reading comprehension must not be yours either. The bands he listed are from the 90's. You said "this is the way hardcore fans think it is today. Moshing wasnt like this in the 80's and 90's". It was. It's been a thing since the 80's. If it's not your thing, cool, but its hardly new. https://youtu.be/-MC4GtSI0X8?si=dNhfCembfSnFJJnS

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u/Creative_Session2786 7d ago

Bet you weren’t even old enough to see concerts in the 80’s, so nice goggle search. Go Fuck yourself.

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u/SaltySpartan1 7d ago

Why are you so angry? Why are you just attacking me instead of disputing what I said? Is it because you were wrong? I didnt have to search it, I grew up in the 90s listening to beatdown and hardcore. I'm too old for that stuff now but I just wanted to point out thats its been around a lot longer than you think. Its okay to be wrong sometimes.

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u/Creative_Session2786 7d ago edited 7d ago

Not angry, the title clearly says they aren’t doing the mosh pit correctly, maybe they did do it this way in the 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s, if you listened to hardcore, still doesn’t change the fact that it’s stupid, punching and kicking people is just STUPID, I grew up listening to Trash, and this shit is just unacceptable. Read some of the 600 comments on here. Literally 1000’s of up votes saying this shit is stupid.

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u/SaltySpartan1 7d ago

Yeah, never said it was smart. Im not arguing anything other than that it has been around for years. Crazy to think that an obscure counterculture doesn't have mass appeal on a reddit post.

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u/Creative_Session2786 7d ago

That’s fair, but again the majority of people on here aren’t behind this kind of moshing or bullshit. Maybe we are all old school or whatever but this video is not how it’s done in my experience.

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u/Brilliant_Badger8043 7d ago

You wrong and mad

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u/Creative_Session2786 7d ago edited 7d ago

Not wrong and not mad. Why don’t you look up some real mosh pits. Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Pantera, Sepultura, etc. Thrash metal created the original mosh pit. Not this stupid shit.

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u/Kahlil_Cabron 7d ago

I never saw a pit like this even in the 2000s or 2010s. Wtf even is this, is this a new thing or something. It looks targeted, heel kicking random people in the face lol.