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Originally Posted by estranged4life
As for the pit at a VR show, That's very, very mild in comparison to a pit at a Slayer show (Pantera's show had the most ferocious pits there was) where it's every person for themself...Being locked into a pit is a bit strange though  |
Yea, I mean, the reason why this was so insane was because with any other gig, even the ones with the craziest most psychotic crowd in the pit, people who are there generally know what the score is, and once the band has been touring for a while, you can estimate what to expect in that front section - some nights might be crazier than usual, some nights a little less so. With this particular show, it had absolutely nothing to do with the band or its "usual pit" - it was a series of security issues with the venue mixed with the fact that the band arrived about 2 hours late for a bunch of drunk/high impatient teenagers. The result was the chaos which happened as the band walked on stage and had absolutely nothing to do with the music. It simply looked like these riot scenes where the police have a couple of hundred people trapped into an area and everyone's
fighting just to stay above shoulder level.
Causes: No minimum age for any part of the venue, people as young as 13/14 being sold limitless alcohol and most of them also taking drugs, totally incompetent security clearly with zero experience, a pit locked on all four sides until the end of the show (the only way out was to climb over the gate), band turning up 2 hours late.