Anyone taken part in it before? It's been about 15 years or so, but I did it a few times. It's really not the most intelligent thing to do, but it can be a rush that's for sure. 
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Roody
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Posted 4 years ago # -
donna
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When I was learning to swim (I was around 7 or
there was a high dive at the pool. I don't remember how many times I would climb up there saying "I'm going to do it this time". But I would end up climbing back down the ladder every time. I have since been successful in getting into the water from the high dive, but I've always jumped. So I think I'll pass on the stage diving.
Posted 4 years ago # -
glamster
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It's actually never interested me and consider it a grunge thing to do.
A glam thing to do is at a show, find a girl, take her home and show her Nothin' But A Good Time.
Take doing that over a stage dive any time.
*cheerz&glamrock.com*bobbyPosted 4 years ago # -
Syndrome477
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Same here, glamster. Never did the stage diving thing. Wouldn't want to either.
Was that you I met at the Van Halen concert in '81?
J/K
"I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve PriestPosted 4 years ago # -
Stanley
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I absolutely hate stage diving and moshing. It is an insult to a band and to music. It's stupid, dangerous and disrespectful to your health and to those of others around.
There is no place for it in glam rock or metal. Why would you want to do it and miss out on the visual performance of the band?
"I'M BACK!!"Posted 4 years ago # -
Syndrome477
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I don't know why people do idiotic things like stage diving. I don't get it. I've watched movies where people have done that, and then someone comes to a thud on the floor in front of the stage. Oh what fun!
"I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve PriestPosted 4 years ago # -
JerseyBoy
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I saw someone stage dive straight to the concrete floor. Dude stood up and there were 5 or 6 of his teeth on th ground and blood pouring out of his mouth. That convinced me never to try that!
Posted 4 years ago # -
Syndrome477
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That makes a concert so much more special...blood and teeth on the floor.
Gross..."I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve PriestPosted 4 years ago # -
sandi
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I really could not see myself moshing or stage diving, what if every was drunk and no one caught me? Yea I don't think I want to explain that to the ER doctor "Someone dared me", that would go over really nice I'm sure.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Syndrome477
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people are not in their right minds when they go to concerts.
"I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve PriestPosted 4 years ago # -
RockNeverDies
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Never had the urge to stage-dive, and somehow I doubt that I will anytime soon. To each their own though.
Just seems like an awfully risky thing to do, for only like a 2 second rush.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Syndrome477
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Very risky.
Not enough of a rush to risk having my face fall apart from my skull."I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve PriestPosted 4 years ago # -
motleyguy
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What's all this bullshit about loose teeth and blood. Obviously written by someone who hasn't done it before but nevertheless, has an opinion.
If you saw School of Rock when Jack Black did a stage dive, hit the floor, got up, dusted himself off. Well, that's about the extent of it.
People couldn't really climb but stages that are more than 8' off the ground. It ain't a long way to fall and the injuries wouldn't be much more than a bruised pride!
Rock & roll over babePosted 4 years ago # -
Syndrome477
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We're talking about people who have actually done it. Not a movie. Some of this thread are replies to someone who has been to a concert where serious injuries happened.
"I even had a little mini skirt and waistcoat made for Wig Wam Bam. The skirt was so short, my undercart hung beneath the hem. I thought it best to keep my underwear on"-Steve PriestPosted 4 years ago # -
AniseedRock22350
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Andy Scott did it...on a show...they were doing Poppa Joe...and there looked to be a competiton as to who could be the silliest...then all of a sudden 13 seconds before the end...Andy dives...and he's suddenly off our screens...all i know is that i could have sworn it looked like it hurt...but Steve, Mick and Brian were laughing.
"I Want Some Glam RockingZ in My StockingZ!!!" Posted 4 years ago # -
glamno1
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whats the point of hurting yourself stage diving?
im happier just jumping around listening to the bandPosted 3 years ago # -
RcksAngl
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Stage Diving is just Plain Retarded if you ask me!!!And Glamster is right,there is no place for it in Glam!!!
Lovin' Keri KelliPosted 3 years ago # -
RcksAngl
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Glamster you are Hilarious!!!But yeah that is the Glam thing to do!!"It's actually never interested me and consider it a grunge thing to do.
A glam thing to do is at a show, find a girl, take her home and show her Nothin' But A Good Time.
Take doing that over a stage dive any time."
- glamster
Lovin' Keri KelliPosted 3 years ago # -
SOLA
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A little history on moshing/stage diving...let me put my reading glasses on...lol. And correction there Admin..it never was a grunge thing...it all started back in the late 70's with punk. And in the 80's it was the expression at crossover & thrash metal shows. And in the 90's when grunge & flannel took over...their audience adopted it and it lost it's credability...cause from there it became the popular thing to do. Now you see it in tv commercials, disney movies...hell i even saw ppl moshin @ the snoop dogg show i was at last week....rock on.
The Animal In Me!!!Posted 3 years ago # -
KaylaRules
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I will be the odd one out and say that i think it looks super fun. it looks so fun!! and who wouldnt be happy about a hot guy lifting you off your feet??
~glam baby bearPosted 3 years ago # -
RcksAngl
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It's all about the Guys isn't it Kayla?"I will be the odd one out and say that i think it looks super fun. it looks so fun!! and who wouldnt be happy about a hot guy lifting you off your feet??
"
- KaylaRules
Lovin' Keri KelliPosted 3 years ago # -
KaylaRules
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"
"I will be the odd one out and say that i think it looks super fun. it looks so fun!! and who wouldnt be happy about a hot guy lifting you off your feet??
"
- KaylaRulesIt's all about the Guys isn't it Kayla?
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- RcksAnglALWAYS
~glam baby bearPosted 3 years ago # -
LEATHUR
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I think moshing/slam "dancing" is STUPID.It hurts others aroud the "pit" who justwannas watch the band and watch cute people
Stage diving also is,to me,stupid and dangerous.
If people wanna be adventurous,they should charm the panties offa some hotties.
As a related anecdote,I had an acquaintance who used to get parts in rock videos and do a bit of acting work and "extra" crap....he got cast in a punk rock video.
This guy did an impromptu stage dive.
(Stuff is normally choreographed and rehearsed on video shooots.).
Nobody caught the guy.He hit his head on concrete.
Theres fine print on our "vouchers" (how ya get paid at these things) that states,if you get injured they do a blood drug n alcohol test.
Long story short.Dude had pot and booze in his system.
Dude is now blacklisted.Workmens compensatiojn, plus most studios, do not like taking risks like that.It affects their ability to get financing and insurance.
IN MY OPINION.....concerts are for making LOVE not mischief!
"Sacrifice before Compromise" "Live the rock n roll dream"Posted 3 years ago # -
RockLibertyWarrior
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I try to do it every time I go to a show that permits it. Fuck I used to not care back awhile ago but now I am 10 years past 18 and I don't want to get sued/arrested. I love the rush of "will they catch me or not?" Its the adrenaline. There has been a couple of times I have ate floor but that possibility of danger really gets the blood running, kind of like car racing.
Posted 3 years ago # -
dorkstarmy93
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Hmmm... Here's a show I went to last night. It was pretty cool, but I'm still fucken sore from last night. Did probably more than 20 stage dives, soo if anybody sees an asian kid in an Exodus shirt, that's me
"Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus." - Ozzy OsbournePosted 3 years ago # -
niki
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I have known a couple of people to do this but only one of them ended up falling and broke his arm. After that I really never saw a reason to chance it.
Posted 3 years ago # -
StillRocking
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I have never been into stage diving or any related activities at concerts. When I go to concerts, it is for the music, and not to play dare devil, or to look cool, although I do have friends who are into that stiff.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Retroman
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I've seen some crazy shit at gigs and festivals. I've done crowd surfing but not always had a choice in the matter as a group of meat heads at a London Motorhead gig once decided to throw me forward for the role and that's not the first time.
I remember being on the front row of a busy Cradle Of Filth gig and it rained goth girls for most of the show... yes I know - the tart I was sleeping with liked em!
One of the members from Slipknot jumped off the first floor balcony at a Wolverhampton show...
I've had blood spat at me from the frontman of Dimmu Borgir (Shagrath) and the kid next to me hosed down. You get to see a lot of different shit at festivals. These goth chicks are bad, bad, wicked
Don't even ask about Rockbitch and my ex girlfriend...
All I can say is that it's a great feeling coming off the stage after your own gig and shaking peoples hands.
Posted 2 years ago # -
LEATHUR
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A year ago I was at a show to see Nine Inch Nails,and trying to be as close as possible to the stage but there was a stupid pit (slam pit).I was wearing a minidress.Not a top and a miniskirt.Well some jackass strong guy pushed me in the fracas,and a security guard trying to help me get out of it pulled me by both hands.Then people or one person in the crowd,yanked my dress hemline up to my NECK.Exposing my thonged backside.I saw flashes from the damn cellphone cameras.There wasn't anything I could do about it.I HAD gone to the show wearing a studded belt but security was confiscating all studded belts,made us chek them,OTHERWISE a belt woulda stopped the dress yanking somewhat.Okay my ass would still be exposed but.....would you believe when I related this tale on other rock forums I actually got dissed by others (chicks mostly) because I chose to wear a short hemline.
I don't wear pants.Especially not at shows.I go to shows alone,I don't bring a bodyguard (also known as a date).Blame the victim right.
Security should restrain peoples bad behaviour.Meaning no damn pits.No damn stagediving or surfing.People get kicked in the face.
What the fuck's wrong with people!!!!!!!
"Sacrifice before Compromise" "Live the rock n roll dream"Posted 2 years ago # -
KarKing Jack
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Me and a couple of friends went to a Black Metal/Death Metal/Glam Metal Festival (I know right? LOL), and the rules were all 'NO MOSHING', and no one did it. Which was cool. I dont Mosh or anything... I dont headbang either, actually.
Also, to Retroman- blood spat over you? Hehe, my friends' sister, at The Hole in the Sky concert in Norway, and Akrokoke... Or something. Were doing this flame-eater trick. I've seen them do it before, actually, my friend showed me a video, he's good at it, lol. But not this time. He choked up, and dropped the can of gasoline. Went all over this girl. And some people had lighters and stuff, haha, lighting cigarettes and all. They took her out and put her back stage, 'cause she'd explode.
She's now a personal friend to all the members of that band
Personally I wouldn't stage dive, lol. But I dont see it as stupid as Moshing or anything. It'd be cool if they did it like they do in the movies, were the guitarist from the band jumps onto the crowd mid-solo.
Posted 2 years ago #