Slingshot - (not recommended) is when a person runs at another person who bends down, grabs their foot and flings the person back into the crowd.Stage diving - often banned at venues, stage diving involves band members or members of the crowd leaping off the stage into the crowd to then crowd-surf, but there's a risk the crowd won't catch you and you can fall to the ground.Crowd-surfing - when a person is lifted above the heads of the crowd and carried to the front or side where someone, usually security, gently lowers them to the ground.Pogoing - when the crowd jumps up and down either on the spot or moving around and bouncing off each other.Slamdancing - another term used for moshing, as the crowd slams their full body into each other and pushes each other around.The aim is to slam into each other but to keep elbows down and not punch each other. Wall of death - when the crowd splits into halves which then run at each other during a music drop or prompt from the artist.Circle pit - when the crowd runs and jumps in a circle, pushing and bumping into each other, often leaving a clear space in the centre of the circle.The pit is usually behind the barrier near the front of the stage, usually in the centre where moshers dance aggressively, jumping, bumping and slamming into each other.Some pits can develop into the crowd swinging their arms and legs around, but if you are the only person doing that at a gig, you will be asked or forced to leave. Generally, arms should be kept in close to your chest. How violent a mosh pit gets depends on the type of music and the crowd at the gig. 'Nirvana is 'baby's first grunge' - then you grow up and listen to Soundgarden and Alice in Chains.''A big one is don't be too macho everyone's there to have fun and knows what they're in there for, so don't go over the top and deliberately hurt someone.' If Grunge hadn't come around and pushed a darker, more cynical, more depressing form of rock into the mainstream, we would have been stuck with several more years of shit like Poison and Whitesnake singing the same cheesy songs with mildly different chords.īut I will never forget what an old stoner at one of my favorite record shops once told me: Thrash bands like Metallica and Megadeth only got one or two songs in regular rotation. Personally, I think the grunge era saved rock because the end of the 80s was basically just hair band power ballad 'metal'. Or a Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, one might say. A bunch of throw away lines designed to play on the radio.

Unoffensive trash pop-rock designed for radio play to sell albums. Foo Fighters is exactly the kind of band Kurt railed against. It's funny because I hear modern day Foo Fighters and know that if Kurt could reanimate he'd absolutely slap the living shit out of Dave Grohl. So many people soured on them with In Utero, which was more in line with what they were about than Nevermind ever was. Nirvana basically had only one and a half popular albums. Like I said Nirvana were a good band and they made some great music but rock suffered from following their lead. Today what passes as rock as softer than what we hear on easily listening stations. Even the last gasp of hard rock in the mainstream borrowed heavily from rap and hip hop. While rock was busy being grungy, sexless and eschewing the things that made rock and roll in past decades so fun rappers openly embraced those things and they became the new rockstars. It's no surprise that rap and hip hop really crossed over to white America in the 90s. Kurt was openly against the masculine swagger that almost defined rock and roll in past decades and the genre turning it's back on that deeply hurt.

They took almost all the sexuality, fun, joy and swagger from rock and replaced it with angst and depression. Hair metal was bad but the cure was almost worse than the disease. Yes Kurt was talented and yes they had some good songs but if you ask me they took the fun out of rock.

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