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Boston board says the kids can keep on moshing
By adamg on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 11:32am
The Boston Licensing Board has ruled the House of Blues kept control of the situation when moshers began bouncing against each other a little too hard at a June 1 concert.
A police detective wrote a citation after he observed moshers at the Tech N9ne show getting pushed to the ground and the whole scene on the verge of assault and battery.
But the board voted "no violation" of Section 1.0.9 of the city licensing code, which requires license holders to keep patrons from harming each other, after a House of Blues manager and lawyer said bouncers pulled out dancers who seemed to be getting a bit too moshy and that the remaining dancers continued to observe the etiquette of moshing, which requires them to help up anybody knocked to the ground or let anybody who wants to leave the mosh circle do so without belittling him.
The board did issue a warning to the venue for a guy found with a Narragansett on an outdoor smoking deck, where nobody's supposed to be drinking. The House of Blues said that wouldn't happen again because it's since closed the deck to smokers and others.
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Anybody else
read the headline as "the kids can keep on noshing" and wonder when the article was going to get to the new snack bar policy?
monster mosh/green day riot
the MSP definitely did NOT know how to handle mosh pits in 94. they knew how to smash kids heads open with nightsticks but did not have an understanding of the fine art of moshing circa 1994.
welcome back kids!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqe53T-jSpg
I remember that day
We lost my friend Jerry in the crowd.
Found him the next day though-- he was OK.
from my vantage point
when i was a child and i went to see my favorite bands, Soundgarden, pearl Jam, faith no more being the big three back then, i was appalled by moshing, and the characters who no doubt crawled forth from various sewers and defunct drainage areas just to cause pain on other human beings.
the dregs were less organized back then
Faith No More...
... rules. Heavy metal (and rock & roll, opera, experimental music, hip hop) has been blessed to have such a talent like Mike Patton involved in the scene.
just keep...
drew bledsoe away from the pit. the man is a menace!
I can’t imagine...
... the reaction from today’s licensing board after witnessing a matinee mosh in the 80s featuring Slapshot, SSD, Gang Green and Jerry’s Kids, or through the 90s with Bane, Ten Yard Fight, Converge, Blood for Blood and Converge to name a few. Shows nowadays are fairly tame in comparison, like these kids practice dance moves in their dorm rooms and get bummed out at the slightest bit of contact.
Moshing is pent-up, youthful aggression, rarely fueled by drugs and alcohol or as a means just to settle scores. It’s primitive. I remember and still see everyone help a fallen dancer and then shake hands after a show. Honestly, bouncers and security guards are usually the boneheads keying up smaller kids and starting brawls.
I’m way too old to mosh these days, but I still get a kick - sometimes literally - watching younger kids go off at the few and far between shows I can attend. The kids will have their say!
PUNKS
...not dead.