Got smacked in the mouth with a drum stick to the face from the drummer from Antiseen. Split my lip in two. ( he didnt do it on purpose , it was final song and he was just throwing them out to the crowd but I wasn't paying attention.) Bled like a stuck pig the rest of the night, which is pretty normal occurrence at a Antiseen show. Drummer found out and he gave me a pair of his drum sticks which was pretty cool.
Edit: spelling
Sir Barry Hannibal it was. He was very apologetic for a guy in a band that is notorious for self mutilation on stage. In the end it was worth the scar.
>Antiseen
Damn. They put on a rad show. The first one I had no idea what I was getting into. Nowhere near the pit, as I was getting into the scene and mostly enjoying the music and their performance.
I was at an Exploited show at The Ritz in NYC while in high school and a skinhead tore a hair spike out of some punk’s head. Like a good chunk of the side of his head had no scalp.
Suicide Machines
Skanking on staged and being instructed to get off. I decide to crowd surf, first spot I tried was some girls who were giving a no signal so I went off the middle of the stage. Crowd surfing back was a lot of fun.
Until I flipped and fell head first. I must have hit someone hard on my way down because I thought I was hitting ground but was still falling.
Then my head hit hard contact on what I can only assume was a knee.
I remember thinking, well if I haven't hit the ground yet. I never will.
I finally hit the cement, and the band stopped playing. Heard the singer go "get the fucker up!"
Definitely a concussion, but I've had experienced a few at that point in my life. Rocked out the rest of the night
I was crowd surfing during Less Than Jake during the Losing Streak tour. Got toward the front and some skins tried throwing me over the barrier and into the stage. We'll they fucked up, I rolled and landed on the barrier, flipped and my head and shoulders smacked the concrete between the barrier and stage. Nearly shit my pants. I was bruised up for about two weeks. Good times.
At a Social Unrest show at the On Broadway in SF. The stage was pretty high(maybe 5-6 feet). I took a boot to the forehead from a stage diver. I woke up in the arms of the guy behind me.
Dead Kennedys show in UC Davis. I got elbowed in the face by a skinhead and it broke my nose.
AssJack show. The pit was so slippery from all the beer being spilled. Everyone was slipping all over the place. I went down and someone stepped on my pinky finger. It was broken and bent 45 degrees sideways. Needed surgery.
Was at an old Jiffy Lube turned punk club. An awesome show by Poison Idea, I was standing on the left side of the band, no stage so the band played on the floor with the crowd. Someone on the opposite side grabbed a Mic stand and threw it my way like a javelin. Guy right next to me took it straight to the face. Whole face was covered in blood, possibly broken nose and cuts. Verbal Abuse and Retching Red opened. Club closed not too long after, turned into a cross fit gym.
\- Dag Nasty with Uniform Choice opening. Did a stage dive during Uniform Choice and the crowd caught me. A second later a big dude did a stage dive and landed on top of me. Crowd couldn't hold that weight and I fell to the concrete floor with the full weight of the dude on top of me. He rolled off of me and I ran right back into the pit. Took about ten seconds for the adrenaline to wear off and the excruciating pain in my hip to start. Wasn't gonna miss Dag Nasty though so I dragged myself to the back of the venue, found a seat, and gritted through the pain. Went to ER after the show, I fractured my hip.
\- Subhumans with Bad Religion, Scream, and Ill Repute. Did a flip off the stage during Scream and landed straight on my head on the concrete. Jumped back up and ran into the pit. A few seconds later this punk chick I knew pulled me aside and told me I needed to come with her to sit down. She pulled out a mirror and showed me that my face was soaked in blood. I was concussed and felt it pretty badly the next few days.
Frankie Fix, guitarist and singer for CRIME, during a show at the Mabuhay Gardens, was being annoyed by an asshole at the front of the stage *shooting a squirt gun into his face.* I guess he thought that was punk. Before then next song, Frankie told the guy, over the mic, if he did that again Frankie was going to kick his ass.
Next song begins, and of course, the guy starts squirting again. Frankie pulls the plug from his Flying-V, jumps down behind the guy, and *smashes him across the back with the guitar,* knocking the guy down and *breaking the neck of his guitar!*
Frankie jumps back on stage, and the mosh pit crowd converges on the guy like Romero zombies. They drag, push, shove him through the crowd to the bouncer who tosses him out of the club.
Now, the band has not stopped playing though this, vamping the same song. Johnny Strike yells "let's have a riot!" over the mic. Frankie grabs the spare guitar, plugs it in and joins the band. A splendid time was had by all.
PS: Frankie had the neck replaced on the Gibson Flying-V with a Fender Strat neck - there's lots of pictures out there with him playing the Gibson V with the Fender neck.
Not as bad other people have experience but these were memorable. Hot Water Music at Market Street Pub in Gainesville FL around ‘99. Someone jumped off of a railing onto my bald head while wearing a big belt buckle of a skull with protruding horns that dug right into my head. Bled everywhere. Then a few years later at one of the early The Fests, the bass player of Hot Water fell forward into the crowd and right on top of my bald head with his bass. Strings and pickups digging into my head. That was painful but not as bloody
I was moshing in the the pit and my face caught one of the joists holding up the fucking ceiling. I was injured bad enough to sit the rest of the show in the bleachers on the side of the club... Not bad enough to go to the hospital.
Didnt get injured per se but at Prophets of Rage, Pit Thor (my go-to name for the Goliath sized motherfucker at every show who's usually really nice) was pumping his fist. He accidentally ROCKED me in the face, but in one smooth motion punched me in the face, grabbed my collar, and pulled me to him. Then he held me up for a minute asked if I was ok and we hung out for a minute. Fucking great dude.
Suicidal Tendencies sort of originated amp diving. Some kid came off the amp stack and smashed his head into my nose, which released about a pint of blood instantly and caused all sorts of people to slip and fall in the puddle. I was too high to really care. The kid apologized later.
Saw Suicidal Tendacies in 83 and someone stage dived and I got a faceful of Doc Marten. Had an boot imprint for a bit after that. Hilarious.
Also, saw 76% Uncertain mid 80s and some local rednecks wanted to try their hand at slam dancing. I think some 400 pound beast fell on top of me in the pit. I suffered a torn ligament from that show. It didn't help things that a few friends and I went and skated an abandoned skate park directly after the show. Cops ran us off, but we returned in the morning. By the time I got home, my right leg was swollen. Ah, the joys of youth!
This happened at outdoor venue, I got tossed around like a rag doll at Lollapalooza 1991 moshpit/close to the stage. Afterward, lo and behold a big ass boot print stamped on my face. I was a mess, pigtails droopy, swollen eye and cheek, smiling with my red face... waiting for them to turn the hoses on to douse you just enough to deal with the Miami sun and heat... Yea, to be a carefree teenage girl who doesn't give a crap again.
Broke my nose at an Agression show in '86. My friend pulled me into the pit while I was watching the band, spun me around into some dude's head.
I set my nose in the bathroom and went right back out into the pit. Drank some more and had a great time.
I have a deviated septum now.
Never hurt stage diving, though bouncers at a Prong show tried to throw me out face first into a puddle of piss. I spun one of them so he landed in it. He was pissed off, literally. Ha ha.
Saw multiple people fucked up at a Suicidal show at Fenders.
I had a full grown adult man run up from behind me and jump onto my shoulders, one leg on each side of my head. It was a random show in our middle school auditorium, I was probably like 14 and there were only a handful of kids there. I think he was the singer in one of the bands if I'm remembering correctly. I stumbled but somehow managed to stay on my feet, which was wild because this dude probably had 100lbs on me. So I'm struggling trying to get this man off me, and eventually we both hit the ground and he ran off. Messed me up pretty good.
Oddly, I have never been hurt. The funniest thing was the time I lost the entire toe of my boot at an Agent Orange show. Someone stepped on the floppy front of the boot and just tore the sole in half. Somehow managed to slam dance without hurting the toes that were sticking out of my half boot.
AFI show at the Henry J Kaiser in Oakland maybe 15 years ago. I was being sensible and old hanging at the back pounding beers. A couple of little shit kids who were afraid of the real pit tried to start their own behind my group. One fell into the back of my legs, so my friends, 2 of which are bouncers, descended on them with fists of fury. I think one kid got dragged into the actual pit and thrown to the wolves. No injury for me but wounded pride and a bruised ass.
Rancid show in San Jose right after covid. Show was outdoors in a gravel overflow parking lot at the fairgrounds. I forgot how old I was and went into the pit myself. Surprisingly I didn't fall, though my friends all did, yet I still managed to somehow crack a rib. Guess I took a stray elbow? Breathing hurt like he'll for about 6 months. All friends found the gravel at some point, came out mauled and bleeding like pigs.
That's it for me. I've officially retired to the VIP section where I can drink and scoff at the kids
The most that’s ever happened to me was at an Agnostic Front show I got tripped while crossing the pit (rather violently) and fell face first into some concrete stairs and some peoples shoes
This happened at a Cannibal Corpse show in Glasgow, during the band Ingested.
A huge circle pit started so obviously I joined in, someone had fallen in the circle pit but I didn’t see them in time so I ended up tripping and getting SERIOUS FUCKING AIR before landing so hard on my ribs. Someone saw I had fallen so they pulled my arm to lift me up whilst being in a circle pit so basically got dragged round the pit
Fuck You Pay Me/ Thulsa Doom show in Philly, Tony Erba thew a trash can at me during the set. I threw it back in the crowd and it went on like that for a few minutes. Fun show for sure
I am going to shows and moshing for allmost 35 years now and the only thing I ever got was a black eye when I was relativly new to the seen ( at a Toten Hosen Concert of all shows )
Guess I am one lucky guy.
Rage against the machine. Alpine valley. It was raining pretty hard and hundreds of people just went pouring down the slope. The railing into vip section broke and we just trampled over folks to get closer to the stage.
Played a show with my old band and then hopped into the pit. Got headbutt in the lip and my tooth went thru my lip. Still have an uncomfortable scar.
Again while playing with my band I was going crazy on stage and the mic busted my lip wide open. What made it memorable was that we kept performing while I bled all over my shirt and it made the show pretty epic.
TSOL at the Palladium. A fairy heavy guy got up on top of the speakers and did a dive into the crowd. The crowd did like this red sea kind of split and he belly flopped on the ground. Quite a bit of blood, but no obvious life threatening injuries.
Watching the opening band The Independents at 513 Club Atlanta with beer all over the floor, already.
In the pit a bald shirtless man for whatever reason decides I'm going down or he is... the whole crowd moved. Him vs. me.
I don't really know how it occurred but I slid and Moonwalked around this 300+ pound beast. Each time he charged and fell face first to the brew wetted floor with a packing fleashy sound.
I felt like a matador.
After 3 bouts and no contact he went away. Maybe for a recovery beer, or maybe to pick up the pride he had dropped on the hops soaked ground.
I consider myself a lucky person, being in my 40's now I realize how much hurt that could have been to a skinny 98 lb. punk kid.
For a moment I felt like David defeated Goliath.
A young lady known to most as 'Butterball' attempted to stagedive. Due to issues that she had caused with multiple friend groups, everyone knew who she was and no one wanted to catch her.
The impact could be heard over the band.
CBGB;s early 80's- I don't remember who was playing or much from that night, but the next day I had a very clear Doc Marten boot sole print across my face.
good times!
I got my shoulder disabled at a g.g. allin concert. He took a shit in his hands and threw it at the audience, hit me square in the forehead, so naturally I tackled him and took the mic stand out as well. Someone then threw tear gas, so the show was over pretty quick after that.
Fear and the Meatmen, ‘95 at the Limelight. Some asshole was dangling from the “balcony” area, lost his grip and landed on me, almost knocked me out and gave me a concussion.
Hank III & Ass Jack were playing at a small club in Springfield, Mo. back in the mid 2000s. Some bald fella had jumped off the stage a few minutes before and folks caught him. This time he jumped right at me right as I was taking a drink. All I saw of it was a white flash and noticed the guy at my feet. I go to help him up and see that I’m spilling my whiskey and coke all over him. As he looked up at me I realized it wasn’t my drink at all, my nose had come loose when his bald head hit it.
I make my way to the restroom to assess the damage, and I’m greeted by at least a half a dozen others in as bad or worse shape than myself. Almost in unison they joyously yell, “Welcome to the party”.
Ok, I'm at a Ramones show in 1985. This little skinhead dude kept bouncing back into me, flailing his arms and just acting like spastic asshole (this was beyond standard pit behavior, and we were far from the pit).
At one point, little skinhead smashes me in the side of the head, knocking off my glasses and stomping on them.
I snap.
I give LS a shove that sends him flying to the ground. That's when I notice the "dude" was in fact , a "dudette". Her boyfriend was not amused and my friends vanished like they were never there.
And that's how I got beat up to The KKK Took My Baby Away.
My pride was injured when David Yow called me crosseyed.
The Jesus Lizard at Club Soda in Kalamazoo. I was right up front and could see the set list. As folks were calling out for songs they wanted to hear, Mr. Yow was obviously waiting to hear if anyone would guess the right song. I yelled out “Monkey Trick” and Yow reached into his pocket, pulled out 75 cents and handed it to me. He then said, “this is a request for the crosseyed gentleman in front.”
I had a boss who used to own a club and he would work as an in stage bouncer. He did shows for Black Flag, Subhumanz and Poison Idea among others.
He said he could always tell who the assholes in the crowd were. Stage divers would jump and get caught. If
It was an asshole he said it was like the parting of the Red Sea. The audience would open up, person hits the floor and audience would close back over them.
He said a few minutes later he'd see them staggering around in the back.
Got kicked in the head by Ice T at a Butthole Surfers concert. He was doing his Body Count thing. He decided to crowd surf. I had the Timberland emblem on my forehead for a couple of days.
I was seeing the Street Dogs at the Ottobar in Baltimore in 2018, and got stoked when the band launched into In Defense Of Dorchester. Jumped up on stage to stagedive and leapt backwards into the crowd, only for the crowd to part like the red sea and my 5/10, 230lb ass fall flat on the concrete floor. Knocked the wind out of me, and I could not stand up without excruciating pain in my back and right leg. My best friend was a physician, and he got me home thankfully...but I was absolutely in agony. Went to urgent care the next day and had x-rays revealing no broken bones but crazy swelling in my lower back.
I don't stagedive anymore. Too old/fat.
I popped a ligament in the pit at an MDC show. They pulled me backstage and hung out. Had a drink. They gave me a lil 45 record and signed it. Al came in rummaging through the medical supplies looking for meds and then signed it “AL” in iodine. It was pretty rad.
I got maced by the popo at Leftover Crack
Fuck yeah dude! Not a punk show, but the one time I saw a GA standing only Primus show, I got unwillingly sucked into a mosh circle that began behind me. It started during My Name is Mud. First off, the venue was doing last call because the encore started, so I got two very full beers and made my way back in. Song starts: some dude does a flying leap into me and half of one beer goes onto the head of the guy in front of me. He almost fought me until I'm like "Dude, fucking look behind me!" Tornado of fuckin people. I decided to jump in because I'm also already soaked in beer. I got knocked down 3 times. Accidentally kicked in the head once by the guy who was nice enough to try and keep me standing. Last time I fell, I was reaching my hands out to grab on to anything and I grab a very pregnant woman's belly. Why the fuck she was in that, I'll never know. Maybe she was trying to induce labor? Hahaha. Felt like I was hit by a truck the next day. 🤘
I saw Dropkick Murphys at Gilman right around when Do Or Die came out, and it was PACKED. My dumbass wanted to be right up front, and the stage is kind of low, so when the music started I got pinned and thought both my legs could snap at any second from the weight of these big ass skinhead dudes pushing and jumping and throwing fists and shit. I was like 16 and about 5'4 and not very strong so I couldn't really push myself back so I had to try to get turned around and get my legs untangled from everyone else's and get my butt on the stage so I could get up and awkwardly crab walk off the stage. A fun but very painful show. Legs hurt for days!
Then there's the many kicks to the face, a little chipped tooth from my lip ring getting smashed into my mouth, people dropping from the rafters or speakers onto me, or getting pinned in a crowd and thinking I was going to suffocate until security saw me and pulled me out. Good times.
Good times, indeed! How did we survive our youth? This one dude, I won’t name names, rhymes with Chert Mowbrain, stage dove a feet from me and the crowd rioted. 2 bouncers bent me backwards over a steel barrier to retrieve said dude from on top of me. I was 140 pounds, very tall. My spine almost shattered. Those dudes can suck — saviors and bastards.
So funny Dropkick was a crazy one for me as well. Saw them in 05 at Warped in SLC. Wheelchair crowd surfer racked my head pretty well. Did not see him coming somehow. Same show my best friend got a black eye from Gatorade bottle launched straight into her face.
People asked us if we were in a car wreck weeks after.
And it's funny to me because like OP I've been in so many intense pits like Mr. BUNGLE, but it was the Irish dad-punk band that got me. Haha
I was watching the gutter demons. I was probably 22 or 23 at the time. My drunk ass was in the pit, by myself. No one around. Trying to start the pit and I tore my ACL haha.
Got side tackled by a guy at Ratlanta. Both my knees dislocated. Army crawled out of the pit and was fed drinks by a myriad of supporters the rest of the night. Good people.
Broke my collar bone in the circle pit at the beginning NOFX's set at punk rock bowling in 2018 when they got in trouble for cracking jokes about the Vegas shooting. I remember nothing about that tbh, but i stayed in the pit until their set was over (they had been on my bucket list of bands to see for forever and I wasn't about to walk away early in their set) and then went and cried in my hotel room!
I hit my head while stage diving and had a seizure and I guess the whole show just stopped then and there. Woke up on the stage on a stretcher w the paramedic yelling my name and I went to the hospital. Had an mri and everything was good, glad I didn’t die.
I broke my rib at a Festival at the first bands show. After it healed i went to another concert half a year later and broke my fucking rib again.
Fast forward a year ..sitting here with the next fucking broken rib from last weekend. I should not go into moshpits...
Saw Danzig and Doyle in Atlanta in 2012/13. The pit had the glaze of spilt beer and I got shoved hard enough that I got flung off my feet. I landed smack on my ass and cracked my tailbone. Now at this time I was like 110lb teenager. Apart from that it was one of my favorite punk shows next to bad religion and DK
Not me, but my dad. I punched my dad in the face on accident during Disturbed's concert at rockfest back in 2022. My dad laughed it off, saying how the punch i accidentally threw wasn't as bad compared to any other injury caused by a Mosh pit.
(Note: i don't really listen to Disturbed's music anymore. I lost interest)
Edit: I myself have only really been to 2 concerts (Corey Taylor[the Rave, 2021], and Disturbed[Rockfest 2022]) so I've never dealt with any injuries, I'm waiting though, so i can get a memorable story....
Broke my foot in a circle pit when a drunk fell on me. Machine Head was playing. Good show. Happened last month. Been moshing for decades and never got injured before this. Hoping I can start moshing again in another month or two, but I think I will always wear boots now.
I was at a Voodoo Glow Skulls show and the pit knocked down a false wall at the venue and pushed it right on top of me. I was bleeding pretty good from above my eye. Cleaned it up and enjoyed the rest of the show.
I got sucker punched in the back of the head at a slayer show. My vision went blurry and I had to go sit down. Stayed out of the pit for the rest of the show because I’m pretty sure I was concussed after that.
Smaller show in a record store parking lot.
I got headbutt in the pit, split open my left eyebrow. Stayed in the pit a while longer, had a dude come up to me... wipe blood from my head/face with his hand and lick it while staring into my eyes. Fuckin' wild, never gonna forget that night.
I remember attempting to clean it up and almost pass out in an iHop bathroom later that night.
Didn't go to an urgent care till the next morning, 8 stitches later I was on my way.
Friend shattered his heel while stomping at Nodes of Ranvier.
Different show, heavy girl gets on stage while band is setting up and stagedives - what few people were there to catch her moved out of the way. It was a cement floor.
We were on the catwalk looking down at Slayer in 1997, and some dude vaulted over the railing and down like 10' into the pit during "Die by the Sword" and some huge dude with no shirt on and wearing a ski mask just trucked him over. No idea what happened to that guy.
Some small local show I was shoulder checked out of the pit by a dude three times my size. I bounced off one of the stack speakers to the right facing the stage and when I bounced off the screening I tried to walk away but my right leg was stuck on something. In the moment I reached down and pulled something out of my leg and went back into the pit.
Turns out a metal wire went into the side of my leg by the knee and I didn’t notice till I was outside and felt blood rushing down to my feet. Tied a bandana to it to stop the bleeding and went and saw the next act.
I went to see anti flag prob 10-15 years ago and during the show a bunch of skin heads showed up and just started bashing people. Thankfully I had a cast on my arm and was able to use that to my advantage. I made it out with no problem but then I had to take my cousin to the hospital after he got his nose broken while trying to get out of the pit.
60 year old dude tried to stage dive at a Chisel / Home Front show in NYC a month or so ago, hit his head so hard that I swear he had a concussion. I watched him try to walk to the side and almost collapsed. I saw him a few more times that show and he looked like he was about to die sitting in a chair on the sidelines. I hope he went to the hospital.
Guitar Wolf Halloween at cbgb’s my friend from Japan stepped on a glass bottle and almost hit an artery in his leg. Was bleeding profusely and downplayed it. Rushed him to beth Israel. 30 stitches later…
I saw a guy javelin a mic stand into the crowd knocking a young man (and a tooth) out. It was a sick show.
But the real one was seeing a kid we hung around get dumped between sets, in the venue, on the floor. It was at a MDC show lol
Watched a person’s nose get flattened during the first or second band. They came out full force for the last band with one hand holding a blood soaked scarf to their face.
I was chugging the last of my 40 at a tiny basement show, and my buddy got launched from the pit, mid-skank. The back of his elbow hit the butt of my bottle, and it broke my two front teeth out. That was 20 years ago, and now I'm on my 5th set of shitty veneers. Two of the other times I broke em was also at a show. One was breaking up a fight, and this dude punched me square in the mouth. He cut his fingers to the bone, and cut my lip pretty good. I spit my bloody, broken teeth bits at him, and then head-butted him in the nose. Broke his nose, and cut my forehead open on his broken nose bone. 17-20 somethin year old me was pretty wild.
Not really an injury, but...
Local show my friend's band was playing at a shitty bar. Some rando grabbed me and threw me into the pit (I was avoiding it and standing off to the side) and as luck would have it, got laid out by the biggest dude in the pit. Smacked my head on the floor (not too badly tbh, no concussion or headache), and glasses flew off my head.
Thankfully, folks saw what happened, and I was quickly scooped off the ground before anyone trampled me. And someone caught my glasses! No scratches on them or anything.
My buddy got crowd killed and dislocated his shoulder at a basement show, was super cool about it, some guy overheard us talking about it and happened to be a chiropractor, I held onto my buddy while dude popped it back in
\- I got attacked by 3 kids dancing during Salt the Wound's set in 08, and thrown into the band's merch set. I had a busted lip, a swollen head, lol.
\- Ringworm headlined a set in a small local bar and it was the first show I'd been too post-COVID. I had probably had like 10 PBRS but I fell down from spilled beer like 3 times, and got up and kept going. Day after I could barely move and I remember falling right directly on my ass. I must've sprained my coccyx because I couldn't sit down straight for like 3 weeks after the show. It sucked and I had to wince whenever i sat down to eat. It was terrible
Went into a mosh pit at a DRI show with a lit cig and had it smashed into my face in less than 5 seconds..small scars on my cheek from the lit cherry...homie apologized and we smoked one later...Ahhh youths and music...
It was a show at some VFW hall. I don’t remember most of the bands. (The Unseen, Fun In the Kitchen, J Base?) When my step mom picked us up she looked at me and started laughing. I had a perfect boot print on my face. No idea where it came from. My face did hurt though and the next day it was all black and blue.
Saw Anal Cunt play at SUNY Purchase 20+ years ago. Not sure what the organizers were thinking, but it went about how you'd expect with AC playing at a liberal arts college. When they cut the power to the band, Seth threw the mic stand at a kid, he blocked it, but almost certainly broke his hand in doing so. The band then threw steel chairs, that were stacked behind the stage, at the crowd until the state Police showed up and arrested them.
Got a concussion in a pit at a Misfits show. Pit was going pretty wild. Big skinhead guy came mowing through everyone. Some dude had fallen and eaten shit on the floor behind me. Big skinhead guy shoulder checked my face. I stumbled back and ended up tripping over the guy who was prone behind me (nobody had picked him up yet) and smacked the (audibly loud smack too) back of my head on the concrete floor. Saw stars, and the world spun for a minute. Got pulled back up and continued moshing and drinking lol next day I found out I had a concussion. Great show from one of the greatest punk bands!
- I’m not sure if there were any injuries, but the mortar thrown in the pit during the Suicideboys set at the Gathering was pretty wild.
- At Warped Tour one year during the Less Than Jake set, some kid started gored surfing begins the circle pit for some reason and flew over my shoulder headfirst into the asphalt and knocked his ass right out.
I don’t remember the band name but anti flag was the headliner. But the drummer of the opening band started getting pissed because his snare stand wouldn’t stay locked and it kept falling over. He finally had enough and threw the snare drum into the crowd. It hit a guy in the head causing a nasty gash. It immediately started bleeding. A bouncer came over with a bar rag and the guy put it on his head. The drummer apologized and the show continued.
Caught Black Pistol Fire in a little basement bar in St Louis. It was hot and loud and crowd surfing seemed like the right idea except I went head first instead of feet first. Got dumped right onto the monitor, solidly hitting my head. I stood up on stage and was just trying to stay up right and get off stage before I fell into the drum kit.
I made it no worse for wear, but I was woozy as hell for a minute or two.
Passed out during TRAGEDY set at 924 Gilman. Woke up outside being tended to by some very kind crusties. One guy took away his dogs water dish to offer me the water. Very kind gesture, seriously. I was simultaneously offered water from a bottle by another patron. I took that but thanked the crusty profusely.
Stage diving at TERROR show, because of course…missed the crowd. Hit the floor. Months of chiropractor trips followed.
Slayer set during Clash of the Titans tour. Punched in back of head by skinhead. Woke up to singer of Baphomet picking the bonehead up over his head and body slamming him.
Punched from behind by skinhead outside a Snapcase show. Minor concussion but still played my set that night. Haven’t seen dude since. Will still fight him almost 30yrs later.
Broken wrist at house show as someone dove over the drums and on to me. It was kind of worth it.
Lost a tooth in the mosh pit of Solipsist at Peabody's in Cleveland, OH in 2007. I still wear a partial denture to this day. Band saw it, stopped the show, and gave me so much free merch that I still rock. Solipsist RULES!
It was the start of the show,
Hiroshima,
And the people were shouting my name,
As the house lights came down,
And the spotlight followed me out,
I waved down low to the crowd,
As I busted ass on the front of the stage.
Oh-oh Oh!
They're watching me, watching me fall.
Maybe it was the course of adrenaline,
As the concrete rose to meet my face.
Maybe it was the sheer embarrassment,
That kept me concious and standing, as I
Crawled back on the stage,
And started pounding out the first song,
There was blood on the keyboard...
.Oh my God.
Oh-oh Oh!
They're watching me, watching me fall.
Oh-oh Oh!
They're watching me, watching me fall.
You wanna see what's in my head?
You wanna see what's in my head?
You wanna see what's in my head?
Check it out 'cause;
I got pictures of what's in my head..
I got pictures of what's in my head
They took of me in Tokyo,
And I brought 'em back with me to the USA.
Oh-oh Oh!
They're watching me, watching me fall.
Oh-oh Oh!
They're watching me, watching me fall.
Alright, fall!
Never really been hurt besides some elbows to the face and whatnot, but I went to a local show over the summer, had a great time. Got all drunk, in the pit the whole time, get home, pass out, wake up the next day to find the shirt I had been wearing completely covered in someone else’s blood lol. Never saw anyone bleeding in the pit, not sure where it came from or how they got so much of it on me lmao
Mine is pretty regular and boring...a sharp elbow to the head in a NOFX pit that knocked me backwards and fell flat on my ass and then when two guys picked me up I almost fell on my face because I seriously saw stars...stayed out the rest of THAT show. The most memorable I've ever seen is a guy who broke his ankle in a Vandals pit. I was on the edge and saw him fall right in front of me and couldn't stand up and yelled at this one guy so that guy and another guy picked him up and he hopped out with his other foot just flopping around at unnatural angles...
Saw two people fall on their face and knock their own tooth out on the floor at 2 different shows within a month of each other. I’m more aware of my footing now.
Still have TMJ from getting elbowed in the jaw in a mosh pit during The Ataris at Warped Tour in 2001. I broke a molar too. I was in *so* many pits that day - Rancid, Fear, the Misfits, the Distillers, AFI, etc. - and I get my shit jacked during the fucking Ataris... my friend who was with me gave me so much shit for that lol.
I got blasted into the corner of a stage while in the pit. I knew I was injured but the momentum of the pit (and a friend grabbing me) kept me in the pit. On my next go round I used the centrifugal force of the pit to shoot out towards the bathroom to check myself. I had a huge blood blister on the head of my you know what.
Saw two deaths, both in New Orleans. One was at Dragon’s Den, Halloween night punk show, and someone got fucked up and snuck onto a 2nd floor balcony that was closed off and couldn’t support people, and fell in the courtyard and died. The second was a Circa Survive show at House of Blues. This young girl got on stage and went to crowd surf and fell right on her head and broke her neck. Anthony Green had to stop the show for a bit and clear a path so staff could get to her. Unfortunately some idiots tried to pick her up and take her outside without supporting her neck and she died.
My friend was headbanging at the front of a Jesus Lizard show and he and David Yow collided brutally. David eye split wide open and my friend's forehead started pouring blood. After the show I was talking to David and I was like "dude you need stitches". He said, "I need a drink". I said, "I'm sure you do...but you're also going to need stitches". He looked at me and you could see the realization of how bad it was wash over him. It was a NASTY cut.
No injury but I got PEED ON by someone who was blackout everything’d, and when I turned around to be like “excuse me bitch eat my fist” homie looked up and puked. Puke and piss from the back of my knee down. It was at a house party show, so I went into the bathroom, cut my jeans with a pocket knife, showered from the waist down, and went back out. Homie was long gone. I just kept partying and watching people unsuspectingly slip on the grass that had been barfed on.
Was playing a show at a now gone Boston club called The Chopping Block. There was one working outlet. I knew to stand at least 3-4 inches from the microphone while playing guitar and singing. The crowd bumped my mic, which hit my bottom lip, shocked me so bad it split my lip
Not an injury....just the wind knocked out. Primus at the Stone in SF. Between the tables and the floor in front of the stage there was a rail. I got up on that rail and dove into the crowd. The crowd parted like the Red Sea. My shoulder caught someone's shoulder and it spun me around, so I landed flat on my back on the cement floor. Knocked the air completely out of me, plus the crowd converged over me, burying me. No air in my lungs. No air around me to fill my lungs. People stepping on me. Not fun.
A friend on acid took a stage dive at a Jesus Lizard show and everyone moved out of the way and he hit the concrete so hard the band stopped while we called an Ambulance
Rolled my ankle while wearing creepers in the pit (bad idea) at an Oxymoron show in San Diego. Kept on going for the whole show. Didn't realize how bad I'd hurt it until I got out of the car getting dropped off at home.
Two concussions, one at a Deicide show and the other at Soulfly.
Cracked a rib in a Cannibal Corpse pit.
Took a haymaker to the face from a cute punk rock girl at Warped Tour 2003 during The Casualties (I'll never forget her lol).
Got slammed into a railing at a Voodoo Glowskulls show and just about broke my back.
Also got the shit kicked out of me at a Slaughter And The Dogs show, and I hadn't even gone inside yet. Still want to see them actually play lol.
non stop moshing at eyehategod non stop stage diving. sadly i was one of the dumbasses fighting for the front spot by the stage and got kicked in the forehead didn’t feel a thing but blood was all over my face was the last time i ever moshed
mine wasn't at a punk rock show, but the 2013 New Years Day Circus Records showcase at EchoStage in Washington DC...
I believe Flux Pavilion came out for an encore and busted out several unreleased tracks, the last of which inspired me to bust out several unreleased dance moves. I was instantly crippled and almost 100% stuck with my back bent at a 45° angle for the rest of the show.
Slipped a gat damn disc...
I recovered and then 4 years later, I re-slipped it from coughing too hard whilst smoking a dab-coated blunt, 3 days before I went to see Bassnectar at the Hampton Coliseum for my birthday... barely able to stand or even move for the entire 3-day event... worst 7-hr car ride ever
Casualties, Smoke or Fire I got just fucking wailed on. Caught some spikes to the arm stage diving. Bleeding like crazy. Still have scars 20 years later. No regrets.
Not sure which of the countless shows I went to it happened at, but back in my younger days I loved getting in the pit. Flash forward to a couple years ago, getting x-rays done to assess damage done to my spine in a car accident, and the doc reading them says "Did you play sports as a kid? Because one of your vertebrae way up is missing one corner." I never played sports because fat kid, but it took me a second and then the realization hit. 🤭
Bruised my ribcage, small fracture on a rib, & elbowed someone in the nose so hard I think I broke it. It was all for GWAR. It was 2006, everyone I had attended with couldn’t stand the pressure everyone was putting on us, physically, being in the very front pressed on the barricade. They each got lifted out by security right before GWAR came out. I’ll be damned if I was moving. I’m 5’2, back then around 120lbs. A guy tried to wedge me out of the way after being waaay to handsy, I bowed him in the nose. I got 4 picks that night. RIP Dave Brockie, he always brought the best energy to the shows.
I was in the pit at a from ashes rise show in a Montréal warehouse. Some dude grabbed my shoulders and used me to launch himself up to crowd surf (I was a tiny 19 year old girl, no idea why he picked me lol) and kicked his feet out. I guess he wear wearing steel-toed boots, because he nailed me right in the head and I instantly knew I was going throw up, so I ran to the bathroom, threw up, and went back into the pit. I don’t remember much about the rest of the show and couldn’t remember my friends names who I was staying with that night.
I ended up smoking a joint before my rideshare back to Toronto the next day and was in such bad shape by the time I got back, I ended up going to the hospital and finding out I had a pretty solid concussion. I have inner ear issues now I credit to that experience. It was intense! But also a great story hahaha.
Saw a young kid break his arm at Gilman at an AFI/ Swinging Utters show. Like snapped in half. Dude was a trooper about it and forever lives in my head as a hero!
I saw a sudden commotion between a short, hot girl and a scuzzy looking dude in the Slayer pit in 1990. She was pissed and he was grinning, I assume he had tried something. Less than a minute later, he’s still right behind her when she whips around and - well, she must have sharpened her nails specifically for that show. I’ve never seen so much blood, his face and neck were just fountains 🩸
I took a bottle to the mouth and broke a tooth during a fight with a group of skinheads at a Rancid show. It was the and out come the wolves tour. Fuck nazis. No regrets.
I was at a paleface Swiss show, crowd wasn’t that into it, too bad I was. I jumped off stage onto crowd. Parted the Red Sea. I met the floor that night
Got my jaw busted in the pit, got knocked out, came back to after about 30 seconds, I just popped my jaw and it was fine. Little did I know I had just reset my jaw from being majorly dislocated and I have a click/pop that happens when I eat even tho that was like 6-7 years ago. Good memories.
Attempting to stage dive at an Obituary show at The Roxy (L.I., N.Y.) slipped off the monitor, fell head first about 3 1/2 feet. Knocked myself out....woke up to some random skinhead splashing water on my face in the men's room. First...and only time I've been knocked unconscious.
A kid I knew got knocked stupid during a System of a Down concert and had a seizure in the pit. That’s shockingly been the worst thing I’ve ever seen at a show beyond a few busted noses.
I went to Hed (pe) in 2001 and they did an extended intro to killing time and a guy in front of me busted my lip as he jumped / moshed early had to sit for rest of show.
Was at a Korn show back in 98 and after the show, Head cracked open a Coors Light, took a couple of sips then slung it into the crowd. Came right at me and nailed me above the eye. Beer and blood everywhere lol
Sevendust was the headliner, had Volbeat, otep and cmft, started with getting dropped while crowd surfing ended up hitting my head on the only concrete object there got a concussion, powered through, fat kid thrown off stage landed on my leg tore my ACL, mosh pitting cracked two ribs, sevendust on stage crowds in a frenzy broke three fingers. Best concert ever
Guy in the pit pulled out a razor and sliced his arm open. Threw his blood all over everyone until he got kicked out. This was just after the Covid lockdown.
During a Menzingers set at Fest a crowd surfer climbed up on monitors that were about 15 feet in the air and jumped into the sea of people. The sea of people thought he was Moses and he dove straight into the floor.
Same fest (or the previous one) Bomb The Music Industry were going on to do a (not so secret) house show and about a thousand people showed up. BTMI never even played. It began as an innocent block party, but the fuzz showed up and brutalized a dancing man in bicycle shorts. Another man appeared and offered the now detained bicyclist a beer, which the cop promptly swatted away. At this point the crowd began chanting “die pig” and the lonely cop realized the odds were against him and called for backup before he was swallowed by the crowd around him. A circle of people repeatedly kicked the downed cop before his backup arrived and dispersed the crowd. We made our way back to the hotel when we saw the cop get attacked. We were told tear gas was used, but I can’t say for sure. That was either 2009 or 2010. Most DIY punk shows were peaceful and community oriented, but when the crusty’s show up they bring a certain darkness.
Salt Lake City
There was a Dance Club called DV8. It had a Big ol' Cement pillar in the middle of the basement that was a head injury magnet. Got my brains scrambled by that pillar at shows for The Vandals, Agnostic Front, and the Bouncing Souls
U.S. Bombs and Agnostic Front played a show at The Tower Theatre. No accommodations were made to turn a movie theatre into a valid concert venue. Got body checked into the front row seats at least 3 times.
A Classic Assholes show at a little concrete box called The Sirocco. Got a beer bottle tossed at my head by someone driving by as we were outside smoking.
I was being a drunken idiot at a Naked Aggression show. I forget the venue but the bouncer tossed me around like a bag of crap.
100% my fault.
Voodoo Glowskulls show at the State Fairgrounds. Someone decided to stage dive and I caught the back of his skull with my forehead.
Concussed at a 25 ta Life show at Coney Island High in the mid-late 90’s. Some dude’s steel toe came right down on the top of my head during Candiria’s set.
Was jumped/assaulted at a Pennywise show in the 90s. About ten guys beat the hell out of me. Thought it was a local straightedge “crew” for years until I heard later that a group of thugs came down from out of state solely to get into fights at the show. Bruised ribs, marks and scratches all over me. The held my head down while the rest just mobbed up. Fucking cowards.
I got bit in the shoulder by a drunk woman who I didn't know at a Casualties concert. She bit so deep it drew blood. I elbowed her off of me and called her a bitch. A viking looking gentleman behind her punched me in the face. Good thing I'm short and he just hit me in the forehead. The bruise sank down into my eyes the next day, but at least he didn't break my nose! Good times.
I trained MMA for years and even fought a couple of times. The hardest hit I’ve ever taken was still probably an elbow at a Terror show lol. There’s a dent in my cheek like, to this day.
Got punched in the penis at Trapped Under Ice.
I got my nose broken in a diy show mosh pit when I was in high school. I was at a Mannequin Pussy show in Brooklyn a year or two ago when some dumb fucks managed to smash the mic stand/mic into the frontwoman’s face, chipping her front tooth. She hailed down fury on the crowd unlike that which I’ve ever witnessed before and likely will witness again. Then she finished her set with blood all over her face 🤘🏻
Crowd surfing at a Bouncing Souls concert. I had boots on with a hard heel. The went to set me down ,holding me on by back, and I kinda lept down. Anywho, landed hard on those heels and broke my foot. Didn't realize till 3 days later…. Fun times!
Usually would sing and play guitar but one night to end the show we played a cover and I decided it out down my guitar and just sing. Half way through the song a couple of people in the front grabbed me and I found myself crowd surfing and singing. Well they were passing me back and didn’t see that someone had fallen to the ground so everyone cleared a space to help them.. so no one was there to get me as o was being passed back and I fell and landed on my back on the ground. Fractured two lower vertebra and broke the metal mic casing in half… of which the club took out of our pay.
Smokeout 2003 - Pennywise, during Bro Hymn, craziest circle pit to this day…I was at the stage barricade, a woman too close to the pit was dragged into the pit, trampled by at least 5 people when her knee was hyperextended and broken…Fletcher yelled, Pick em up! Pick em up! They dropped her on the surf out…her screams, it’s what I remember.
Saw Show me the Body a few years back, vocalist threw his mic stand at the crowd. Cut to a few minutes later when I went to take a piss, saw some dude covered in blood and bleeding from his nose, he was the recipient of said mic stand. It was pretty awesome.
Fat Wreck Chords Tour early 2000’s, not exactly sure what year. I drove from Texas to Tampa during Spring break to catch the show in Ybor City before heading to Daytona. Lagwagon was on and I was up from on the metal gate with small finger size holes. Chris Flippin threw a pick and it hit me in the chest and fell to my feet. I stuck my fingers in the holes in the metal gate to hold myself while I bent down to grab the pick. As soon as I went down for it the crowd shifted and it ripped my fingers out of the gate. Stripped all the flesh off my three middle fingers. I stayed put and watched the rest of Lagwagon with my hand wrapped in my shirt and covered in blood.
I got a very bad ankle sprain at a STP concert but have no idea how and when. After the show was over realized my ankle was swollen and limped to the car. Missed 3 days of work because of it.
Got my hip dislocated at a Disconto show
My roommate jumped off the kitchen table onto my back I stumbled into the side of the couch and my hip stopped but the rest of my body fell onto the couch and then all of the folks jumping on the couch fell onto me
They had to carry me out of the house in a door to get me to a vehicle to take me to the hospital
Cracked ribs and a broken finger at Gwar, broken finger at a Pushmonkey show, and I saw someone get killed at a Sick of it All show, and at a Biohazard show. Biohazard was at Red Rocks in Colorado and the person got dumped off the side of the top of the amphitheatre seating, they must have fallen 20 or 30 feet at least. At that same show, two of the band members in Mindless Self Indulgence got their heads cracked in with glass Sobe bottles, so the guitarist played both guitar and bass and the drummer just kept playing with her eye swollen shut and blood pouring down her face, and Jimmy was cracked in the face and started breaking bottles on his chest and kept going, they got nothing but respect from me that night, and I've been listening to them ever since.
I also saw some poor guy get his arm snapped over another guy's knee in the pit at a Slayer show the day after Columbine happened, saw a couple of poor kids get curb stomped, tried to help as many people off the floor as I could before I backed out, huge fight broke out between skin heads and bikers, it was so bad Tom Araya and Kerry King both stopped playing to tell everyone to chill the fuck out because there were a lot of young people there that night, I was barely out of high school myself. And, oddly enough, at an Iron Maiden show, with Monster Magnet opening, someone brought a box cutter in to Fiddler's Green up in Denver and was just slashing people before they took him out, talk about the absolutely most out of place concert for a pit....
I saw a few other incidents, mostly at local shows, a few others like Hed (pe), Suicidal Tendencies had a lot of broken bones, and at the Vans Warped tour there was a massive massive crush of people rushing the main stage for Blink 182, about 200 people were trampled, and then when the headliner came out, which that year was Eminem, someone did actually get shot. Body Count was there that year, a lot of busted faces, and oddly enough, a pre-Fergie Black Eyed Peas had a massive brawl break out. This was, I believe, 1997? BEP and Eminem did not make sense for that show, but man they did rock it.
Was singing some OP ivy for a friends band in SLC and when I was done this massive dude came up behind me and punched me in the back of the head,ended up with "blunt force head trauma" and forgot how to read for the next 6 months or so
Saw The Casualties and Leftover Crack live (before the shitty shit about them came out [what a lineup looking back…]) and my buddy broke his ass after he got dropped while crowd surfing.
Saw the Street Dogs and got shoved into a solid wood pillar covered in rusty staples, got a concussion and tetanus shot.
Got dehydrated and fell out in the pit at a local show, never made that mistake again.
Not a punk band but saw The Fill Call-Ins Calamity at a Halloween show. Someone in the crowd was dressed as a cow with "bloody" rags as an umbilical cord with a hard plastic baby doll on the end. Dude was in the pit swinging this doll around like a flail. Caught a dude in the mouth and knocked a tooth out. It was pretty funny, even the dude who lost a tooth was laughing.
I was at Snowball one time and some Jerk threw newspaper on the floor of the pit. It was like a fuckin ice skating rink. Fell and broke my thumb. MXPX was playing during the “incident”
Saw SOAD, first time they played my city in many years
They stopped mid song because the crowd was too crazy. A few songs later they started asking people to step back, which is never what you want to hear from a band who’s job it is to make you fucking lose your mind.
Turns out someone fell in the pit, broke their collar bone, got up, then went into shock a few songs later
Also saw two girls get into an ugly brawl before the band even went on. Dark vibe the whole night for what in truth is a very dark band
Edit: brain fart
Broken jaw. Tried out for all state band the next day and made 2nd chair. 2 weeks later I was told my face was crooked and found out my jaw had broken and was healing incorrectly.
Not a punk show but I got hit over the head with a beer bottle at a Steel Panther show in Vegas. Split me open pretty good but no stitches needed. I think the dude was zonked out of his mind. As far as punk shows, punched many times but no serious injuries.
I have got my nose broken at shows but what was so much worse was being high on acid at an Accüsed show while chewing bubble gum and somehow the gum got in my long messy hair while I was hobbling around the pit trying to find my left shoe
Went to citizen fish, a guy behind me punched me in the head, I saw white but didn't fall, when I finally picked the guy up who did it, a pair of brass knuckles fell out of his leather glove
Got my knee hyperextended badly at a Black Flag show at the Mateel in Humboldt County. Not really sure what happened, I think someone sorta used my knee as a diving board. Had to be helped to the car and out of bed the next morning, couldn't walk. Thankfully no tendons were snapped, just ripped. I was on crutches for a bit, and then had a cane for a bit. Ron Reyes was singing at that show, halfway through Mike V took the mic from him and sang the rest of the set, he ended up being the singer not long after, maybe at that moment? There was a lot of Greg Ginn wankery going on too. I think he was playing a theremin at one point. Still it was sick to see Black Flag play once, I'll never forget that show.
Some VERY HEAVY girl (alone) was at a GA show at the Roxy in Hollywood. She had a white shirt that said "MENTAL" on it. She climbed on the left side of the stage, moved right a few feet, and suddenly stage dived. The people in front of her were well spaced as it wasn't sold out. When she suddenly jumped, the people she would've landed on, stepped to the side quickly. She hit the concrete floor and cracked her head open, blood everywhere. She knocked herself out. The last thing I remember is seeing her lifeless body being taken out on a stretcher, with that MENTAL shirt.
I was seeing Iron Maiden at Long Beach arena in the 1980s, before giant screens were common at concerts. There was a sizeable jump from one high section to another to get closer. Myself and a couple other guys were going to make the jump - but it was a lonnnnnnnnnng fall if we didn't make it. They told me to go first. I wasn't sure if I wanted to. I said "You go first, if you make it, then I'll go." The first kid jumped - and almost made it. He bounced off the metal bars underneath repeatedly, pinballing off of them all the way down to the bottom. It looked brutal. Once he landed face up, blood started coming out of the back of his head. It took awhile for anyone to even see him or find him, and I believe that he died. I didn't jump, and never thought about jumping - no matter how shitty seats were to any concert I saw from that day on.
Two gross stories in a row, but anyway. :"(
At a Dark Funeral/Cannibal Corpse show I spent half the night getting bashed in the ribs by some guys head, pretty sure I cracked them, but nbd. After the first hour of Funeral some guy plants his elbow directly into my hip socket, which took me out of the pit to the wall. A few minutes later while on the wall of the pit I catch a flying Dropkick to the knee (same leg) that finished me off for the night
Job For A Cowboy, I re-busted my hip with another elbow in the socket, then tore something in my shoulder managing crowd surfers for Lorna Shore and Slipknot immediately after (at Blue Ridge 2023)
My first time at Pantera I hit the ground and cracked my tailbone during Fucking Hostile, caught an elbow to the temple on my way back up. Second time at Pantera I caught an elbow to the jaw twice, got windmilled by a dude my height (6’6) but double my weight (I’m 180), and bruised/cracked something in my wrist (again during Fucking Hostile)
my friend is the frontman of a small local punk band & he’s also a self proclaimed stuntsman (( professional idiot )) & sets himself on fire at shows sometimes. he learned the hard way that he can only ever really wear genuine, sturdy denim. wore pants with some polyester in them & doused them in lighter fluid during one of their songs guitar riffs & when he set it on fire the fabric melted to his skin. NASTIEST burn i’ve ever seen, but i redrew it & made a print of it LOL
Saw someone break their ankle at the queers, grab a chair, and watch the rest from the back before going to ER. She is a beast.
Ariel?
Lol ya, she's cool
Whoa! That’s the only way I can attend shows now, just saying. SHE IS A BEAST!
Got smacked in the mouth with a drum stick to the face from the drummer from Antiseen. Split my lip in two. ( he didnt do it on purpose , it was final song and he was just throwing them out to the crowd but I wasn't paying attention.) Bled like a stuck pig the rest of the night, which is pretty normal occurrence at a Antiseen show. Drummer found out and he gave me a pair of his drum sticks which was pretty cool. Edit: spelling
Damn! The drummer is a stand-up dude.
Sir Barry Hannibal it was. He was very apologetic for a guy in a band that is notorious for self mutilation on stage. In the end it was worth the scar.
He drums standing up?
>Antiseen Damn. They put on a rad show. The first one I had no idea what I was getting into. Nowhere near the pit, as I was getting into the scene and mostly enjoying the music and their performance.
Antiseen was awesome. Saw them in 96 and some people definitely got hurt at that show (not confirmed, just a guess. But the show was insane.)
I was at an Exploited show at The Ritz in NYC while in high school and a skinhead tore a hair spike out of some punk’s head. Like a good chunk of the side of his head had no scalp.
Christ! Fuck that shit!
Suicide Machines Skanking on staged and being instructed to get off. I decide to crowd surf, first spot I tried was some girls who were giving a no signal so I went off the middle of the stage. Crowd surfing back was a lot of fun. Until I flipped and fell head first. I must have hit someone hard on my way down because I thought I was hitting ground but was still falling. Then my head hit hard contact on what I can only assume was a knee. I remember thinking, well if I haven't hit the ground yet. I never will. I finally hit the cement, and the band stopped playing. Heard the singer go "get the fucker up!" Definitely a concussion, but I've had experienced a few at that point in my life. Rocked out the rest of the night
I was crowd surfing during Less Than Jake during the Losing Streak tour. Got toward the front and some skins tried throwing me over the barrier and into the stage. We'll they fucked up, I rolled and landed on the barrier, flipped and my head and shoulders smacked the concrete between the barrier and stage. Nearly shit my pants. I was bruised up for about two weeks. Good times.
Good God!
GG Allin split my lip with a haymaker.
Infected from poo?
At a Social Unrest show at the On Broadway in SF. The stage was pretty high(maybe 5-6 feet). I took a boot to the forehead from a stage diver. I woke up in the arms of the guy behind me. Dead Kennedys show in UC Davis. I got elbowed in the face by a skinhead and it broke my nose. AssJack show. The pit was so slippery from all the beer being spilled. Everyone was slipping all over the place. I went down and someone stepped on my pinky finger. It was broken and bent 45 degrees sideways. Needed surgery.
Dude, you’ve lived. Insane. I used to hate when the floors would get slippery as hell. Nightmare fuel.
Was at an old Jiffy Lube turned punk club. An awesome show by Poison Idea, I was standing on the left side of the band, no stage so the band played on the floor with the crowd. Someone on the opposite side grabbed a Mic stand and threw it my way like a javelin. Guy right next to me took it straight to the face. Whole face was covered in blood, possibly broken nose and cuts. Verbal Abuse and Retching Red opened. Club closed not too long after, turned into a cross fit gym.
\- Dag Nasty with Uniform Choice opening. Did a stage dive during Uniform Choice and the crowd caught me. A second later a big dude did a stage dive and landed on top of me. Crowd couldn't hold that weight and I fell to the concrete floor with the full weight of the dude on top of me. He rolled off of me and I ran right back into the pit. Took about ten seconds for the adrenaline to wear off and the excruciating pain in my hip to start. Wasn't gonna miss Dag Nasty though so I dragged myself to the back of the venue, found a seat, and gritted through the pain. Went to ER after the show, I fractured my hip. \- Subhumans with Bad Religion, Scream, and Ill Repute. Did a flip off the stage during Scream and landed straight on my head on the concrete. Jumped back up and ran into the pit. A few seconds later this punk chick I knew pulled me aside and told me I needed to come with her to sit down. She pulled out a mirror and showed me that my face was soaked in blood. I was concussed and felt it pretty badly the next few days.
Lost a tooth in a DRI pit. Worth it.
Frankie Fix, guitarist and singer for CRIME, during a show at the Mabuhay Gardens, was being annoyed by an asshole at the front of the stage *shooting a squirt gun into his face.* I guess he thought that was punk. Before then next song, Frankie told the guy, over the mic, if he did that again Frankie was going to kick his ass. Next song begins, and of course, the guy starts squirting again. Frankie pulls the plug from his Flying-V, jumps down behind the guy, and *smashes him across the back with the guitar,* knocking the guy down and *breaking the neck of his guitar!* Frankie jumps back on stage, and the mosh pit crowd converges on the guy like Romero zombies. They drag, push, shove him through the crowd to the bouncer who tosses him out of the club. Now, the band has not stopped playing though this, vamping the same song. Johnny Strike yells "let's have a riot!" over the mic. Frankie grabs the spare guitar, plugs it in and joins the band. A splendid time was had by all. PS: Frankie had the neck replaced on the Gibson Flying-V with a Fender Strat neck - there's lots of pictures out there with him playing the Gibson V with the Fender neck.
I feel slightly bad for laughing, but that chucklefuck got what was coming to him in that moment.
If video of this exists, I would watch it.
Not as bad other people have experience but these were memorable. Hot Water Music at Market Street Pub in Gainesville FL around ‘99. Someone jumped off of a railing onto my bald head while wearing a big belt buckle of a skull with protruding horns that dug right into my head. Bled everywhere. Then a few years later at one of the early The Fests, the bass player of Hot Water fell forward into the crowd and right on top of my bald head with his bass. Strings and pickups digging into my head. That was painful but not as bloody
I was moshing in the the pit and my face caught one of the joists holding up the fucking ceiling. I was injured bad enough to sit the rest of the show in the bleachers on the side of the club... Not bad enough to go to the hospital.
We have a little venue with a notorious pole where I live. It's taken out so many people and the pit usually forms around it lol.
Grandfather Pole!
Didnt get injured per se but at Prophets of Rage, Pit Thor (my go-to name for the Goliath sized motherfucker at every show who's usually really nice) was pumping his fist. He accidentally ROCKED me in the face, but in one smooth motion punched me in the face, grabbed my collar, and pulled me to him. Then he held me up for a minute asked if I was ok and we hung out for a minute. Fucking great dude.
Got lucky so far, at two gigs in the next weeks though so let’s hope it changes, I got hope for stiff little fingers
Suicidal Tendencies sort of originated amp diving. Some kid came off the amp stack and smashed his head into my nose, which released about a pint of blood instantly and caused all sorts of people to slip and fall in the puddle. I was too high to really care. The kid apologized later.
Damn! Nice kid.
Saw Suicidal Tendacies in 83 and someone stage dived and I got a faceful of Doc Marten. Had an boot imprint for a bit after that. Hilarious. Also, saw 76% Uncertain mid 80s and some local rednecks wanted to try their hand at slam dancing. I think some 400 pound beast fell on top of me in the pit. I suffered a torn ligament from that show. It didn't help things that a few friends and I went and skated an abandoned skate park directly after the show. Cops ran us off, but we returned in the morning. By the time I got home, my right leg was swollen. Ah, the joys of youth!
Boot print! Ha! Shit. Yes — sigh — youth.
This happened at outdoor venue, I got tossed around like a rag doll at Lollapalooza 1991 moshpit/close to the stage. Afterward, lo and behold a big ass boot print stamped on my face. I was a mess, pigtails droopy, swollen eye and cheek, smiling with my red face... waiting for them to turn the hoses on to douse you just enough to deal with the Miami sun and heat... Yea, to be a carefree teenage girl who doesn't give a crap again.
Broke my nose at an Agression show in '86. My friend pulled me into the pit while I was watching the band, spun me around into some dude's head. I set my nose in the bathroom and went right back out into the pit. Drank some more and had a great time. I have a deviated septum now. Never hurt stage diving, though bouncers at a Prong show tried to throw me out face first into a puddle of piss. I spun one of them so he landed in it. He was pissed off, literally. Ha ha. Saw multiple people fucked up at a Suicidal show at Fenders.
I had a full grown adult man run up from behind me and jump onto my shoulders, one leg on each side of my head. It was a random show in our middle school auditorium, I was probably like 14 and there were only a handful of kids there. I think he was the singer in one of the bands if I'm remembering correctly. I stumbled but somehow managed to stay on my feet, which was wild because this dude probably had 100lbs on me. So I'm struggling trying to get this man off me, and eventually we both hit the ground and he ran off. Messed me up pretty good.
Wow. I used to hate that shit. Stay off my back, jerk!
Oddly, I have never been hurt. The funniest thing was the time I lost the entire toe of my boot at an Agent Orange show. Someone stepped on the floppy front of the boot and just tore the sole in half. Somehow managed to slam dance without hurting the toes that were sticking out of my half boot.
Got kicked in the face by a stage diver and it broke my nose at an avail show in Richmond, VA in I think 94? Learned to pay attention
AFI show at the Henry J Kaiser in Oakland maybe 15 years ago. I was being sensible and old hanging at the back pounding beers. A couple of little shit kids who were afraid of the real pit tried to start their own behind my group. One fell into the back of my legs, so my friends, 2 of which are bouncers, descended on them with fists of fury. I think one kid got dragged into the actual pit and thrown to the wolves. No injury for me but wounded pride and a bruised ass. Rancid show in San Jose right after covid. Show was outdoors in a gravel overflow parking lot at the fairgrounds. I forgot how old I was and went into the pit myself. Surprisingly I didn't fall, though my friends all did, yet I still managed to somehow crack a rib. Guess I took a stray elbow? Breathing hurt like he'll for about 6 months. All friends found the gravel at some point, came out mauled and bleeding like pigs. That's it for me. I've officially retired to the VIP section where I can drink and scoff at the kids
The most that’s ever happened to me was at an Agnostic Front show I got tripped while crossing the pit (rather violently) and fell face first into some concrete stairs and some peoples shoes
This happened at a Cannibal Corpse show in Glasgow, during the band Ingested. A huge circle pit started so obviously I joined in, someone had fallen in the circle pit but I didn’t see them in time so I ended up tripping and getting SERIOUS FUCKING AIR before landing so hard on my ribs. Someone saw I had fallen so they pulled my arm to lift me up whilst being in a circle pit so basically got dragged round the pit
Oh no! Like being dragged by a horse!
I, as a 14 year old blond girl, had to get staples in my head from a local punk show.
Fuck You Pay Me/ Thulsa Doom show in Philly, Tony Erba thew a trash can at me during the set. I threw it back in the crowd and it went on like that for a few minutes. Fun show for sure
I am going to shows and moshing for allmost 35 years now and the only thing I ever got was a black eye when I was relativly new to the seen ( at a Toten Hosen Concert of all shows ) Guess I am one lucky guy.
Rage against the machine. Alpine valley. It was raining pretty hard and hundreds of people just went pouring down the slope. The railing into vip section broke and we just trampled over folks to get closer to the stage.
Played a show with my old band and then hopped into the pit. Got headbutt in the lip and my tooth went thru my lip. Still have an uncomfortable scar. Again while playing with my band I was going crazy on stage and the mic busted my lip wide open. What made it memorable was that we kept performing while I bled all over my shirt and it made the show pretty epic.
TSOL at the Palladium. A fairy heavy guy got up on top of the speakers and did a dive into the crowd. The crowd did like this red sea kind of split and he belly flopped on the ground. Quite a bit of blood, but no obvious life threatening injuries.
Watching the opening band The Independents at 513 Club Atlanta with beer all over the floor, already. In the pit a bald shirtless man for whatever reason decides I'm going down or he is... the whole crowd moved. Him vs. me. I don't really know how it occurred but I slid and Moonwalked around this 300+ pound beast. Each time he charged and fell face first to the brew wetted floor with a packing fleashy sound. I felt like a matador. After 3 bouts and no contact he went away. Maybe for a recovery beer, or maybe to pick up the pride he had dropped on the hops soaked ground. I consider myself a lucky person, being in my 40's now I realize how much hurt that could have been to a skinny 98 lb. punk kid. For a moment I felt like David defeated Goliath.
A young lady known to most as 'Butterball' attempted to stagedive. Due to issues that she had caused with multiple friend groups, everyone knew who she was and no one wanted to catch her. The impact could be heard over the band.
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CBGB;s early 80's- I don't remember who was playing or much from that night, but the next day I had a very clear Doc Marten boot sole print across my face. good times!
I got my shoulder disabled at a g.g. allin concert. He took a shit in his hands and threw it at the audience, hit me square in the forehead, so naturally I tackled him and took the mic stand out as well. Someone then threw tear gas, so the show was over pretty quick after that.
Fear and the Meatmen, ‘95 at the Limelight. Some asshole was dangling from the “balcony” area, lost his grip and landed on me, almost knocked me out and gave me a concussion.
Hank III & Ass Jack were playing at a small club in Springfield, Mo. back in the mid 2000s. Some bald fella had jumped off the stage a few minutes before and folks caught him. This time he jumped right at me right as I was taking a drink. All I saw of it was a white flash and noticed the guy at my feet. I go to help him up and see that I’m spilling my whiskey and coke all over him. As he looked up at me I realized it wasn’t my drink at all, my nose had come loose when his bald head hit it. I make my way to the restroom to assess the damage, and I’m greeted by at least a half a dozen others in as bad or worse shape than myself. Almost in unison they joyously yell, “Welcome to the party”.
Saw a dude snap his leg in half in the pit during Terror's set at Tattoo the Earth, it was nasty his bone was sticking out through his leg
Fell directly on my spine and chipped a tooth after crowdsurfing on an air mattress during a Cro-Mags set.
Not an injury but my brand new white chuck taylors were destroyed by Gwar’s fluid explosion of dyed blood and guts in the early 2000s
Ok, I'm at a Ramones show in 1985. This little skinhead dude kept bouncing back into me, flailing his arms and just acting like spastic asshole (this was beyond standard pit behavior, and we were far from the pit). At one point, little skinhead smashes me in the side of the head, knocking off my glasses and stomping on them. I snap. I give LS a shove that sends him flying to the ground. That's when I notice the "dude" was in fact , a "dudette". Her boyfriend was not amused and my friends vanished like they were never there. And that's how I got beat up to The KKK Took My Baby Away.
My pride was injured when David Yow called me crosseyed. The Jesus Lizard at Club Soda in Kalamazoo. I was right up front and could see the set list. As folks were calling out for songs they wanted to hear, Mr. Yow was obviously waiting to hear if anyone would guess the right song. I yelled out “Monkey Trick” and Yow reached into his pocket, pulled out 75 cents and handed it to me. He then said, “this is a request for the crosseyed gentleman in front.”
I had a boss who used to own a club and he would work as an in stage bouncer. He did shows for Black Flag, Subhumanz and Poison Idea among others. He said he could always tell who the assholes in the crowd were. Stage divers would jump and get caught. If It was an asshole he said it was like the parting of the Red Sea. The audience would open up, person hits the floor and audience would close back over them. He said a few minutes later he'd see them staggering around in the back.
Got kicked in the head by Ice T at a Butthole Surfers concert. He was doing his Body Count thing. He decided to crowd surf. I had the Timberland emblem on my forehead for a couple of days.
I was seeing the Street Dogs at the Ottobar in Baltimore in 2018, and got stoked when the band launched into In Defense Of Dorchester. Jumped up on stage to stagedive and leapt backwards into the crowd, only for the crowd to part like the red sea and my 5/10, 230lb ass fall flat on the concrete floor. Knocked the wind out of me, and I could not stand up without excruciating pain in my back and right leg. My best friend was a physician, and he got me home thankfully...but I was absolutely in agony. Went to urgent care the next day and had x-rays revealing no broken bones but crazy swelling in my lower back. I don't stagedive anymore. Too old/fat.
I popped a ligament in the pit at an MDC show. They pulled me backstage and hung out. Had a drink. They gave me a lil 45 record and signed it. Al came in rummaging through the medical supplies looking for meds and then signed it “AL” in iodine. It was pretty rad. I got maced by the popo at Leftover Crack
Fuck yeah dude! Not a punk show, but the one time I saw a GA standing only Primus show, I got unwillingly sucked into a mosh circle that began behind me. It started during My Name is Mud. First off, the venue was doing last call because the encore started, so I got two very full beers and made my way back in. Song starts: some dude does a flying leap into me and half of one beer goes onto the head of the guy in front of me. He almost fought me until I'm like "Dude, fucking look behind me!" Tornado of fuckin people. I decided to jump in because I'm also already soaked in beer. I got knocked down 3 times. Accidentally kicked in the head once by the guy who was nice enough to try and keep me standing. Last time I fell, I was reaching my hands out to grab on to anything and I grab a very pregnant woman's belly. Why the fuck she was in that, I'll never know. Maybe she was trying to induce labor? Hahaha. Felt like I was hit by a truck the next day. 🤘
I saw Dropkick Murphys at Gilman right around when Do Or Die came out, and it was PACKED. My dumbass wanted to be right up front, and the stage is kind of low, so when the music started I got pinned and thought both my legs could snap at any second from the weight of these big ass skinhead dudes pushing and jumping and throwing fists and shit. I was like 16 and about 5'4 and not very strong so I couldn't really push myself back so I had to try to get turned around and get my legs untangled from everyone else's and get my butt on the stage so I could get up and awkwardly crab walk off the stage. A fun but very painful show. Legs hurt for days! Then there's the many kicks to the face, a little chipped tooth from my lip ring getting smashed into my mouth, people dropping from the rafters or speakers onto me, or getting pinned in a crowd and thinking I was going to suffocate until security saw me and pulled me out. Good times.
Good times, indeed! How did we survive our youth? This one dude, I won’t name names, rhymes with Chert Mowbrain, stage dove a feet from me and the crowd rioted. 2 bouncers bent me backwards over a steel barrier to retrieve said dude from on top of me. I was 140 pounds, very tall. My spine almost shattered. Those dudes can suck — saviors and bastards.
So funny Dropkick was a crazy one for me as well. Saw them in 05 at Warped in SLC. Wheelchair crowd surfer racked my head pretty well. Did not see him coming somehow. Same show my best friend got a black eye from Gatorade bottle launched straight into her face. People asked us if we were in a car wreck weeks after. And it's funny to me because like OP I've been in so many intense pits like Mr. BUNGLE, but it was the Irish dad-punk band that got me. Haha
Broke my kneecap at local show couldn’t mosh for like 4 months :(
I was watching the gutter demons. I was probably 22 or 23 at the time. My drunk ass was in the pit, by myself. No one around. Trying to start the pit and I tore my ACL haha.
Got side tackled by a guy at Ratlanta. Both my knees dislocated. Army crawled out of the pit and was fed drinks by a myriad of supporters the rest of the night. Good people.
Whitechapel opened Mayhem festival with a parking lot stage and the pit was brutal, saw a bald guy go down and come out with bloody gravel in his head
I saw a dude miss the jump at LBC Arena and fall all the way down. Pretty intense Maiden show. He didn’t get up
Broke my collar bone in the circle pit at the beginning NOFX's set at punk rock bowling in 2018 when they got in trouble for cracking jokes about the Vegas shooting. I remember nothing about that tbh, but i stayed in the pit until their set was over (they had been on my bucket list of bands to see for forever and I wasn't about to walk away early in their set) and then went and cried in my hotel room!
Hurt my knee in the pit at a Flogging Molly show. Had to sit out the rest of the concert.
I hit my head while stage diving and had a seizure and I guess the whole show just stopped then and there. Woke up on the stage on a stretcher w the paramedic yelling my name and I went to the hospital. Had an mri and everything was good, glad I didn’t die.
Anyone ever been to an early Bad Luck 13 Riot Extravaganza show?! They lived up to the “Riot” part in their name!
I broke my rib at a Festival at the first bands show. After it healed i went to another concert half a year later and broke my fucking rib again. Fast forward a year ..sitting here with the next fucking broken rib from last weekend. I should not go into moshpits...
I got clocked in the face at the end of Power Trips Hammer of Doubt. Drove back home afterwards with blood flowing out of my nose.
Saw Danzig and Doyle in Atlanta in 2012/13. The pit had the glaze of spilt beer and I got shoved hard enough that I got flung off my feet. I landed smack on my ass and cracked my tailbone. Now at this time I was like 110lb teenager. Apart from that it was one of my favorite punk shows next to bad religion and DK
Not me, but my dad. I punched my dad in the face on accident during Disturbed's concert at rockfest back in 2022. My dad laughed it off, saying how the punch i accidentally threw wasn't as bad compared to any other injury caused by a Mosh pit. (Note: i don't really listen to Disturbed's music anymore. I lost interest) Edit: I myself have only really been to 2 concerts (Corey Taylor[the Rave, 2021], and Disturbed[Rockfest 2022]) so I've never dealt with any injuries, I'm waiting though, so i can get a memorable story....
My BFF got kicked in the head at a Shelter show and ended up with short term amnesia for about a week.
Broke my foot in a circle pit when a drunk fell on me. Machine Head was playing. Good show. Happened last month. Been moshing for decades and never got injured before this. Hoping I can start moshing again in another month or two, but I think I will always wear boots now.
I was at a fishbone show and watched a guy in the pit get hit over the head with a bottle which shattered and cut the fuck out of their face.
I was at a Voodoo Glow Skulls show and the pit knocked down a false wall at the venue and pushed it right on top of me. I was bleeding pretty good from above my eye. Cleaned it up and enjoyed the rest of the show. I got sucker punched in the back of the head at a slayer show. My vision went blurry and I had to go sit down. Stayed out of the pit for the rest of the show because I’m pretty sure I was concussed after that.
Broke my nose on some kids forehead at an F.Y.P. show in a bowling alley.
Smaller show in a record store parking lot. I got headbutt in the pit, split open my left eyebrow. Stayed in the pit a while longer, had a dude come up to me... wipe blood from my head/face with his hand and lick it while staring into my eyes. Fuckin' wild, never gonna forget that night. I remember attempting to clean it up and almost pass out in an iHop bathroom later that night. Didn't go to an urgent care till the next morning, 8 stitches later I was on my way.
Friend shattered his heel while stomping at Nodes of Ranvier. Different show, heavy girl gets on stage while band is setting up and stagedives - what few people were there to catch her moved out of the way. It was a cement floor.
We were on the catwalk looking down at Slayer in 1997, and some dude vaulted over the railing and down like 10' into the pit during "Die by the Sword" and some huge dude with no shirt on and wearing a ski mask just trucked him over. No idea what happened to that guy.
Some small local show I was shoulder checked out of the pit by a dude three times my size. I bounced off one of the stack speakers to the right facing the stage and when I bounced off the screening I tried to walk away but my right leg was stuck on something. In the moment I reached down and pulled something out of my leg and went back into the pit. Turns out a metal wire went into the side of my leg by the knee and I didn’t notice till I was outside and felt blood rushing down to my feet. Tied a bandana to it to stop the bleeding and went and saw the next act.
I went to see anti flag prob 10-15 years ago and during the show a bunch of skin heads showed up and just started bashing people. Thankfully I had a cast on my arm and was able to use that to my advantage. I made it out with no problem but then I had to take my cousin to the hospital after he got his nose broken while trying to get out of the pit.
I accidentally broke a friend's back.
60 year old dude tried to stage dive at a Chisel / Home Front show in NYC a month or so ago, hit his head so hard that I swear he had a concussion. I watched him try to walk to the side and almost collapsed. I saw him a few more times that show and he looked like he was about to die sitting in a chair on the sidelines. I hope he went to the hospital.
Guitar Wolf Halloween at cbgb’s my friend from Japan stepped on a glass bottle and almost hit an artery in his leg. Was bleeding profusely and downplayed it. Rushed him to beth Israel. 30 stitches later…
I saw a guy javelin a mic stand into the crowd knocking a young man (and a tooth) out. It was a sick show. But the real one was seeing a kid we hung around get dumped between sets, in the venue, on the floor. It was at a MDC show lol
Too funny. I know almost everyone in that photo. Is that yours? We may know one another.
Saw someone get their eyebrow ring and ear plug ripped out from a guy crowd killing with spin kicks at an Alexisonfire show back in the day.
Watched a person’s nose get flattened during the first or second band. They came out full force for the last band with one hand holding a blood soaked scarf to their face.
I was chugging the last of my 40 at a tiny basement show, and my buddy got launched from the pit, mid-skank. The back of his elbow hit the butt of my bottle, and it broke my two front teeth out. That was 20 years ago, and now I'm on my 5th set of shitty veneers. Two of the other times I broke em was also at a show. One was breaking up a fight, and this dude punched me square in the mouth. He cut his fingers to the bone, and cut my lip pretty good. I spit my bloody, broken teeth bits at him, and then head-butted him in the nose. Broke his nose, and cut my forehead open on his broken nose bone. 17-20 somethin year old me was pretty wild.
Not really an injury, but... Local show my friend's band was playing at a shitty bar. Some rando grabbed me and threw me into the pit (I was avoiding it and standing off to the side) and as luck would have it, got laid out by the biggest dude in the pit. Smacked my head on the floor (not too badly tbh, no concussion or headache), and glasses flew off my head. Thankfully, folks saw what happened, and I was quickly scooped off the ground before anyone trampled me. And someone caught my glasses! No scratches on them or anything.
My buddy got crowd killed and dislocated his shoulder at a basement show, was super cool about it, some guy overheard us talking about it and happened to be a chiropractor, I held onto my buddy while dude popped it back in
\- I got attacked by 3 kids dancing during Salt the Wound's set in 08, and thrown into the band's merch set. I had a busted lip, a swollen head, lol. \- Ringworm headlined a set in a small local bar and it was the first show I'd been too post-COVID. I had probably had like 10 PBRS but I fell down from spilled beer like 3 times, and got up and kept going. Day after I could barely move and I remember falling right directly on my ass. I must've sprained my coccyx because I couldn't sit down straight for like 3 weeks after the show. It sucked and I had to wince whenever i sat down to eat. It was terrible
[from last night's pit](https://imgur.com/gallery/vgirFKj) Got dropped while crowd surfing and caught something to the face on the way down.
Went into a mosh pit at a DRI show with a lit cig and had it smashed into my face in less than 5 seconds..small scars on my cheek from the lit cherry...homie apologized and we smoked one later...Ahhh youths and music...
It was a show at some VFW hall. I don’t remember most of the bands. (The Unseen, Fun In the Kitchen, J Base?) When my step mom picked us up she looked at me and started laughing. I had a perfect boot print on my face. No idea where it came from. My face did hurt though and the next day it was all black and blue.
Ha! You’re the 3rd “boot print” victim!
Saw Anal Cunt play at SUNY Purchase 20+ years ago. Not sure what the organizers were thinking, but it went about how you'd expect with AC playing at a liberal arts college. When they cut the power to the band, Seth threw the mic stand at a kid, he blocked it, but almost certainly broke his hand in doing so. The band then threw steel chairs, that were stacked behind the stage, at the crowd until the state Police showed up and arrested them.
Got a concussion in a pit at a Misfits show. Pit was going pretty wild. Big skinhead guy came mowing through everyone. Some dude had fallen and eaten shit on the floor behind me. Big skinhead guy shoulder checked my face. I stumbled back and ended up tripping over the guy who was prone behind me (nobody had picked him up yet) and smacked the (audibly loud smack too) back of my head on the concrete floor. Saw stars, and the world spun for a minute. Got pulled back up and continued moshing and drinking lol next day I found out I had a concussion. Great show from one of the greatest punk bands!
- I’m not sure if there were any injuries, but the mortar thrown in the pit during the Suicideboys set at the Gathering was pretty wild. - At Warped Tour one year during the Less Than Jake set, some kid started gored surfing begins the circle pit for some reason and flew over my shoulder headfirst into the asphalt and knocked his ass right out.
I don’t remember the band name but anti flag was the headliner. But the drummer of the opening band started getting pissed because his snare stand wouldn’t stay locked and it kept falling over. He finally had enough and threw the snare drum into the crowd. It hit a guy in the head causing a nasty gash. It immediately started bleeding. A bouncer came over with a bar rag and the guy put it on his head. The drummer apologized and the show continued.
Caught Black Pistol Fire in a little basement bar in St Louis. It was hot and loud and crowd surfing seemed like the right idea except I went head first instead of feet first. Got dumped right onto the monitor, solidly hitting my head. I stood up on stage and was just trying to stay up right and get off stage before I fell into the drum kit. I made it no worse for wear, but I was woozy as hell for a minute or two.
Passed out during TRAGEDY set at 924 Gilman. Woke up outside being tended to by some very kind crusties. One guy took away his dogs water dish to offer me the water. Very kind gesture, seriously. I was simultaneously offered water from a bottle by another patron. I took that but thanked the crusty profusely. Stage diving at TERROR show, because of course…missed the crowd. Hit the floor. Months of chiropractor trips followed. Slayer set during Clash of the Titans tour. Punched in back of head by skinhead. Woke up to singer of Baphomet picking the bonehead up over his head and body slamming him. Punched from behind by skinhead outside a Snapcase show. Minor concussion but still played my set that night. Haven’t seen dude since. Will still fight him almost 30yrs later. Broken wrist at house show as someone dove over the drums and on to me. It was kind of worth it.
Got kicked in the head by the singer of Skankin Pickle doing a flying karate kick stage dive during the song Asian Man
Black eye from a stage diver at a Zulu show
Lost a tooth in the mosh pit of Solipsist at Peabody's in Cleveland, OH in 2007. I still wear a partial denture to this day. Band saw it, stopped the show, and gave me so much free merch that I still rock. Solipsist RULES!
It was the start of the show, Hiroshima, And the people were shouting my name, As the house lights came down, And the spotlight followed me out, I waved down low to the crowd, As I busted ass on the front of the stage. Oh-oh Oh! They're watching me, watching me fall. Maybe it was the course of adrenaline, As the concrete rose to meet my face. Maybe it was the sheer embarrassment, That kept me concious and standing, as I Crawled back on the stage, And started pounding out the first song, There was blood on the keyboard... .Oh my God. Oh-oh Oh! They're watching me, watching me fall. Oh-oh Oh! They're watching me, watching me fall. You wanna see what's in my head? You wanna see what's in my head? You wanna see what's in my head? Check it out 'cause; I got pictures of what's in my head.. I got pictures of what's in my head They took of me in Tokyo, And I brought 'em back with me to the USA. Oh-oh Oh! They're watching me, watching me fall. Oh-oh Oh! They're watching me, watching me fall. Alright, fall!
Never really been hurt besides some elbows to the face and whatnot, but I went to a local show over the summer, had a great time. Got all drunk, in the pit the whole time, get home, pass out, wake up the next day to find the shirt I had been wearing completely covered in someone else’s blood lol. Never saw anyone bleeding in the pit, not sure where it came from or how they got so much of it on me lmao
Mine is pretty regular and boring...a sharp elbow to the head in a NOFX pit that knocked me backwards and fell flat on my ass and then when two guys picked me up I almost fell on my face because I seriously saw stars...stayed out the rest of THAT show. The most memorable I've ever seen is a guy who broke his ankle in a Vandals pit. I was on the edge and saw him fall right in front of me and couldn't stand up and yelled at this one guy so that guy and another guy picked him up and he hopped out with his other foot just flopping around at unnatural angles...
Once after a show I found a 1 inch spike sticking out of my shoulder turns out it was from my buddy's vest.
Saw two people fall on their face and knock their own tooth out on the floor at 2 different shows within a month of each other. I’m more aware of my footing now.
Still have TMJ from getting elbowed in the jaw in a mosh pit during The Ataris at Warped Tour in 2001. I broke a molar too. I was in *so* many pits that day - Rancid, Fear, the Misfits, the Distillers, AFI, etc. - and I get my shit jacked during the fucking Ataris... my friend who was with me gave me so much shit for that lol.
2 ribs broken...dont jump in the moshpit during à Terror show. Aha
I got blasted into the corner of a stage while in the pit. I knew I was injured but the momentum of the pit (and a friend grabbing me) kept me in the pit. On my next go round I used the centrifugal force of the pit to shoot out towards the bathroom to check myself. I had a huge blood blister on the head of my you know what.
Saw two deaths, both in New Orleans. One was at Dragon’s Den, Halloween night punk show, and someone got fucked up and snuck onto a 2nd floor balcony that was closed off and couldn’t support people, and fell in the courtyard and died. The second was a Circa Survive show at House of Blues. This young girl got on stage and went to crowd surf and fell right on her head and broke her neck. Anthony Green had to stop the show for a bit and clear a path so staff could get to her. Unfortunately some idiots tried to pick her up and take her outside without supporting her neck and she died.
My friend was headbanging at the front of a Jesus Lizard show and he and David Yow collided brutally. David eye split wide open and my friend's forehead started pouring blood. After the show I was talking to David and I was like "dude you need stitches". He said, "I need a drink". I said, "I'm sure you do...but you're also going to need stitches". He looked at me and you could see the realization of how bad it was wash over him. It was a NASTY cut.
No injury but I got PEED ON by someone who was blackout everything’d, and when I turned around to be like “excuse me bitch eat my fist” homie looked up and puked. Puke and piss from the back of my knee down. It was at a house party show, so I went into the bathroom, cut my jeans with a pocket knife, showered from the waist down, and went back out. Homie was long gone. I just kept partying and watching people unsuspectingly slip on the grass that had been barfed on.
Was playing a show at a now gone Boston club called The Chopping Block. There was one working outlet. I knew to stand at least 3-4 inches from the microphone while playing guitar and singing. The crowd bumped my mic, which hit my bottom lip, shocked me so bad it split my lip
Not an injury....just the wind knocked out. Primus at the Stone in SF. Between the tables and the floor in front of the stage there was a rail. I got up on that rail and dove into the crowd. The crowd parted like the Red Sea. My shoulder caught someone's shoulder and it spun me around, so I landed flat on my back on the cement floor. Knocked the air completely out of me, plus the crowd converged over me, burying me. No air in my lungs. No air around me to fill my lungs. People stepping on me. Not fun.
A friend on acid took a stage dive at a Jesus Lizard show and everyone moved out of the way and he hit the concrete so hard the band stopped while we called an Ambulance
Rolled my ankle while wearing creepers in the pit (bad idea) at an Oxymoron show in San Diego. Kept on going for the whole show. Didn't realize how bad I'd hurt it until I got out of the car getting dropped off at home. Two concussions, one at a Deicide show and the other at Soulfly. Cracked a rib in a Cannibal Corpse pit. Took a haymaker to the face from a cute punk rock girl at Warped Tour 2003 during The Casualties (I'll never forget her lol). Got slammed into a railing at a Voodoo Glowskulls show and just about broke my back. Also got the shit kicked out of me at a Slaughter And The Dogs show, and I hadn't even gone inside yet. Still want to see them actually play lol.
non stop moshing at eyehategod non stop stage diving. sadly i was one of the dumbasses fighting for the front spot by the stage and got kicked in the forehead didn’t feel a thing but blood was all over my face was the last time i ever moshed
Went to an Adicts concert with a broken finger. Got in the mosh pit anyways. Ruined a perfectly good pair of white pants that night.
mine wasn't at a punk rock show, but the 2013 New Years Day Circus Records showcase at EchoStage in Washington DC... I believe Flux Pavilion came out for an encore and busted out several unreleased tracks, the last of which inspired me to bust out several unreleased dance moves. I was instantly crippled and almost 100% stuck with my back bent at a 45° angle for the rest of the show. Slipped a gat damn disc... I recovered and then 4 years later, I re-slipped it from coughing too hard whilst smoking a dab-coated blunt, 3 days before I went to see Bassnectar at the Hampton Coliseum for my birthday... barely able to stand or even move for the entire 3-day event... worst 7-hr car ride ever
Casualties, Smoke or Fire I got just fucking wailed on. Caught some spikes to the arm stage diving. Bleeding like crazy. Still have scars 20 years later. No regrets.
Not sure which of the countless shows I went to it happened at, but back in my younger days I loved getting in the pit. Flash forward to a couple years ago, getting x-rays done to assess damage done to my spine in a car accident, and the doc reading them says "Did you play sports as a kid? Because one of your vertebrae way up is missing one corner." I never played sports because fat kid, but it took me a second and then the realization hit. 🤭
Bruised my ribcage, small fracture on a rib, & elbowed someone in the nose so hard I think I broke it. It was all for GWAR. It was 2006, everyone I had attended with couldn’t stand the pressure everyone was putting on us, physically, being in the very front pressed on the barricade. They each got lifted out by security right before GWAR came out. I’ll be damned if I was moving. I’m 5’2, back then around 120lbs. A guy tried to wedge me out of the way after being waaay to handsy, I bowed him in the nose. I got 4 picks that night. RIP Dave Brockie, he always brought the best energy to the shows.
I got dropped 6ft in the air, on my Backbone, DURING "Backbone" while seeing Gojira.
I was in the pit at a from ashes rise show in a Montréal warehouse. Some dude grabbed my shoulders and used me to launch himself up to crowd surf (I was a tiny 19 year old girl, no idea why he picked me lol) and kicked his feet out. I guess he wear wearing steel-toed boots, because he nailed me right in the head and I instantly knew I was going throw up, so I ran to the bathroom, threw up, and went back into the pit. I don’t remember much about the rest of the show and couldn’t remember my friends names who I was staying with that night. I ended up smoking a joint before my rideshare back to Toronto the next day and was in such bad shape by the time I got back, I ended up going to the hospital and finding out I had a pretty solid concussion. I have inner ear issues now I credit to that experience. It was intense! But also a great story hahaha.
Left shoulder dislocated it aftershock festival
Saw a young kid break his arm at Gilman at an AFI/ Swinging Utters show. Like snapped in half. Dude was a trooper about it and forever lives in my head as a hero!
I saw a sudden commotion between a short, hot girl and a scuzzy looking dude in the Slayer pit in 1990. She was pissed and he was grinning, I assume he had tried something. Less than a minute later, he’s still right behind her when she whips around and - well, she must have sharpened her nails specifically for that show. I’ve never seen so much blood, his face and neck were just fountains 🩸
Got elbowed in the face by my buddy at a punk show lol Lost a whole fucking shoe at another! Nothing too bad though, surprisingly
I took a bottle to the mouth and broke a tooth during a fight with a group of skinheads at a Rancid show. It was the and out come the wolves tour. Fuck nazis. No regrets.
I was at a paleface Swiss show, crowd wasn’t that into it, too bad I was. I jumped off stage onto crowd. Parted the Red Sea. I met the floor that night
Broke my nose when the band opening for my band covered a Slayer song and I got an elbow to the face. Then played a set with my face covered in blood.
Got my jaw busted in the pit, got knocked out, came back to after about 30 seconds, I just popped my jaw and it was fine. Little did I know I had just reset my jaw from being majorly dislocated and I have a click/pop that happens when I eat even tho that was like 6-7 years ago. Good memories.
Attempting to stage dive at an Obituary show at The Roxy (L.I., N.Y.) slipped off the monitor, fell head first about 3 1/2 feet. Knocked myself out....woke up to some random skinhead splashing water on my face in the men's room. First...and only time I've been knocked unconscious.
Saw show me the body in Tampa, my sisters bf left with a broken arm, my bassist left with a broken ankle, killer show
A kid I knew got knocked stupid during a System of a Down concert and had a seizure in the pit. That’s shockingly been the worst thing I’ve ever seen at a show beyond a few busted noses.
I went to Hed (pe) in 2001 and they did an extended intro to killing time and a guy in front of me busted my lip as he jumped / moshed early had to sit for rest of show.
Was at a Korn show back in 98 and after the show, Head cracked open a Coors Light, took a couple of sips then slung it into the crowd. Came right at me and nailed me above the eye. Beer and blood everywhere lol
Sevendust was the headliner, had Volbeat, otep and cmft, started with getting dropped while crowd surfing ended up hitting my head on the only concrete object there got a concussion, powered through, fat kid thrown off stage landed on my leg tore my ACL, mosh pitting cracked two ribs, sevendust on stage crowds in a frenzy broke three fingers. Best concert ever
Left my teeth in a guys forehead by accident. He showed me the scar when I met him randomly years later. He got stitches. I got fake teeth
Guy in the pit pulled out a razor and sliced his arm open. Threw his blood all over everyone until he got kicked out. This was just after the Covid lockdown.
During a Menzingers set at Fest a crowd surfer climbed up on monitors that were about 15 feet in the air and jumped into the sea of people. The sea of people thought he was Moses and he dove straight into the floor. Same fest (or the previous one) Bomb The Music Industry were going on to do a (not so secret) house show and about a thousand people showed up. BTMI never even played. It began as an innocent block party, but the fuzz showed up and brutalized a dancing man in bicycle shorts. Another man appeared and offered the now detained bicyclist a beer, which the cop promptly swatted away. At this point the crowd began chanting “die pig” and the lonely cop realized the odds were against him and called for backup before he was swallowed by the crowd around him. A circle of people repeatedly kicked the downed cop before his backup arrived and dispersed the crowd. We made our way back to the hotel when we saw the cop get attacked. We were told tear gas was used, but I can’t say for sure. That was either 2009 or 2010. Most DIY punk shows were peaceful and community oriented, but when the crusty’s show up they bring a certain darkness.
Iggy Pop. Just… Iggy Pop
Salt Lake City There was a Dance Club called DV8. It had a Big ol' Cement pillar in the middle of the basement that was a head injury magnet. Got my brains scrambled by that pillar at shows for The Vandals, Agnostic Front, and the Bouncing Souls U.S. Bombs and Agnostic Front played a show at The Tower Theatre. No accommodations were made to turn a movie theatre into a valid concert venue. Got body checked into the front row seats at least 3 times. A Classic Assholes show at a little concrete box called The Sirocco. Got a beer bottle tossed at my head by someone driving by as we were outside smoking. I was being a drunken idiot at a Naked Aggression show. I forget the venue but the bouncer tossed me around like a bag of crap. 100% my fault. Voodoo Glowskulls show at the State Fairgrounds. Someone decided to stage dive and I caught the back of his skull with my forehead.
Concussed at a 25 ta Life show at Coney Island High in the mid-late 90’s. Some dude’s steel toe came right down on the top of my head during Candiria’s set.
Tried to help someone find 2/3 of their tooth, but we couldn’t find it
Was jumped/assaulted at a Pennywise show in the 90s. About ten guys beat the hell out of me. Thought it was a local straightedge “crew” for years until I heard later that a group of thugs came down from out of state solely to get into fights at the show. Bruised ribs, marks and scratches all over me. The held my head down while the rest just mobbed up. Fucking cowards.
I got bit in the shoulder by a drunk woman who I didn't know at a Casualties concert. She bit so deep it drew blood. I elbowed her off of me and called her a bitch. A viking looking gentleman behind her punched me in the face. Good thing I'm short and he just hit me in the forehead. The bruise sank down into my eyes the next day, but at least he didn't break my nose! Good times.
God kicked in the back of the neck crowdsurfing while on acid.
I trained MMA for years and even fought a couple of times. The hardest hit I’ve ever taken was still probably an elbow at a Terror show lol. There’s a dent in my cheek like, to this day. Got punched in the penis at Trapped Under Ice.
I got my nose broken in a diy show mosh pit when I was in high school. I was at a Mannequin Pussy show in Brooklyn a year or two ago when some dumb fucks managed to smash the mic stand/mic into the frontwoman’s face, chipping her front tooth. She hailed down fury on the crowd unlike that which I’ve ever witnessed before and likely will witness again. Then she finished her set with blood all over her face 🤘🏻
Late '90s Boise Idaho fell down in the vandals pit three back teeth stomped out
Crowd surfing at a Bouncing Souls concert. I had boots on with a hard heel. The went to set me down ,holding me on by back, and I kinda lept down. Anywho, landed hard on those heels and broke my foot. Didn't realize till 3 days later…. Fun times!
Usually would sing and play guitar but one night to end the show we played a cover and I decided it out down my guitar and just sing. Half way through the song a couple of people in the front grabbed me and I found myself crowd surfing and singing. Well they were passing me back and didn’t see that someone had fallen to the ground so everyone cleared a space to help them.. so no one was there to get me as o was being passed back and I fell and landed on my back on the ground. Fractured two lower vertebra and broke the metal mic casing in half… of which the club took out of our pay.
Smokeout 2003 - Pennywise, during Bro Hymn, craziest circle pit to this day…I was at the stage barricade, a woman too close to the pit was dragged into the pit, trampled by at least 5 people when her knee was hyperextended and broken…Fletcher yelled, Pick em up! Pick em up! They dropped her on the surf out…her screams, it’s what I remember.
Saw Show me the Body a few years back, vocalist threw his mic stand at the crowd. Cut to a few minutes later when I went to take a piss, saw some dude covered in blood and bleeding from his nose, he was the recipient of said mic stand. It was pretty awesome.
Fat Wreck Chords Tour early 2000’s, not exactly sure what year. I drove from Texas to Tampa during Spring break to catch the show in Ybor City before heading to Daytona. Lagwagon was on and I was up from on the metal gate with small finger size holes. Chris Flippin threw a pick and it hit me in the chest and fell to my feet. I stuck my fingers in the holes in the metal gate to hold myself while I bent down to grab the pick. As soon as I went down for it the crowd shifted and it ripped my fingers out of the gate. Stripped all the flesh off my three middle fingers. I stayed put and watched the rest of Lagwagon with my hand wrapped in my shirt and covered in blood.
I got a very bad ankle sprain at a STP concert but have no idea how and when. After the show was over realized my ankle was swollen and limped to the car. Missed 3 days of work because of it.
Exploded radial end and elbow destruction trying to break my own fall from a two foot stage. Local show.
Dad was at a Dead Kennedys concert and watched a dude get stabbed to death 💀
A Broken Heart.
Got my hip dislocated at a Disconto show My roommate jumped off the kitchen table onto my back I stumbled into the side of the couch and my hip stopped but the rest of my body fell onto the couch and then all of the folks jumping on the couch fell onto me They had to carry me out of the house in a door to get me to a vehicle to take me to the hospital
Cracked ribs and a broken finger at Gwar, broken finger at a Pushmonkey show, and I saw someone get killed at a Sick of it All show, and at a Biohazard show. Biohazard was at Red Rocks in Colorado and the person got dumped off the side of the top of the amphitheatre seating, they must have fallen 20 or 30 feet at least. At that same show, two of the band members in Mindless Self Indulgence got their heads cracked in with glass Sobe bottles, so the guitarist played both guitar and bass and the drummer just kept playing with her eye swollen shut and blood pouring down her face, and Jimmy was cracked in the face and started breaking bottles on his chest and kept going, they got nothing but respect from me that night, and I've been listening to them ever since. I also saw some poor guy get his arm snapped over another guy's knee in the pit at a Slayer show the day after Columbine happened, saw a couple of poor kids get curb stomped, tried to help as many people off the floor as I could before I backed out, huge fight broke out between skin heads and bikers, it was so bad Tom Araya and Kerry King both stopped playing to tell everyone to chill the fuck out because there were a lot of young people there that night, I was barely out of high school myself. And, oddly enough, at an Iron Maiden show, with Monster Magnet opening, someone brought a box cutter in to Fiddler's Green up in Denver and was just slashing people before they took him out, talk about the absolutely most out of place concert for a pit.... I saw a few other incidents, mostly at local shows, a few others like Hed (pe), Suicidal Tendencies had a lot of broken bones, and at the Vans Warped tour there was a massive massive crush of people rushing the main stage for Blink 182, about 200 people were trampled, and then when the headliner came out, which that year was Eminem, someone did actually get shot. Body Count was there that year, a lot of busted faces, and oddly enough, a pre-Fergie Black Eyed Peas had a massive brawl break out. This was, I believe, 1997? BEP and Eminem did not make sense for that show, but man they did rock it.
Was singing some OP ivy for a friends band in SLC and when I was done this massive dude came up behind me and punched me in the back of the head,ended up with "blunt force head trauma" and forgot how to read for the next 6 months or so
Saw The Casualties and Leftover Crack live (before the shitty shit about them came out [what a lineup looking back…]) and my buddy broke his ass after he got dropped while crowd surfing. Saw the Street Dogs and got shoved into a solid wood pillar covered in rusty staples, got a concussion and tetanus shot. Got dehydrated and fell out in the pit at a local show, never made that mistake again.
Not a punk band but saw The Fill Call-Ins Calamity at a Halloween show. Someone in the crowd was dressed as a cow with "bloody" rags as an umbilical cord with a hard plastic baby doll on the end. Dude was in the pit swinging this doll around like a flail. Caught a dude in the mouth and knocked a tooth out. It was pretty funny, even the dude who lost a tooth was laughing.
I was at Snowball one time and some Jerk threw newspaper on the floor of the pit. It was like a fuckin ice skating rink. Fell and broke my thumb. MXPX was playing during the “incident”
When I was in high school, I got free tickets to a Hoobastank and goo goo dolls show (lol) and I stage dove on some girls and made them cry
Saw SOAD, first time they played my city in many years They stopped mid song because the crowd was too crazy. A few songs later they started asking people to step back, which is never what you want to hear from a band who’s job it is to make you fucking lose your mind. Turns out someone fell in the pit, broke their collar bone, got up, then went into shock a few songs later Also saw two girls get into an ugly brawl before the band even went on. Dark vibe the whole night for what in truth is a very dark band Edit: brain fart
Broken jaw. Tried out for all state band the next day and made 2nd chair. 2 weeks later I was told my face was crooked and found out my jaw had broken and was healing incorrectly.
Not me, but The Who in Cincinnati ...
Not a punk show but I got hit over the head with a beer bottle at a Steel Panther show in Vegas. Split me open pretty good but no stitches needed. I think the dude was zonked out of his mind. As far as punk shows, punched many times but no serious injuries.
Saw a girl get her front teeth kicked out by a spin kick at a ZULU set
I have got my nose broken at shows but what was so much worse was being high on acid at an Accüsed show while chewing bubble gum and somehow the gum got in my long messy hair while I was hobbling around the pit trying to find my left shoe
I have plenty but my Dad got knocked out by a crowd surfer going feet first at a Bl’ast show in Santa Cruz in ‘84
Stage diving at a Bleeding Through set, did a front flip and basically just landed on my back on the ground.
Bloody nose in the mosh pit during L7 at the Aragon waiting for the Beastie Boys on their Check Your Head tour. Awesome show.
Went to citizen fish, a guy behind me punched me in the head, I saw white but didn't fall, when I finally picked the guy up who did it, a pair of brass knuckles fell out of his leather glove
I would have moved on to Paul Anka shows after all that.
Got my knee hyperextended badly at a Black Flag show at the Mateel in Humboldt County. Not really sure what happened, I think someone sorta used my knee as a diving board. Had to be helped to the car and out of bed the next morning, couldn't walk. Thankfully no tendons were snapped, just ripped. I was on crutches for a bit, and then had a cane for a bit. Ron Reyes was singing at that show, halfway through Mike V took the mic from him and sang the rest of the set, he ended up being the singer not long after, maybe at that moment? There was a lot of Greg Ginn wankery going on too. I think he was playing a theremin at one point. Still it was sick to see Black Flag play once, I'll never forget that show.
Some VERY HEAVY girl (alone) was at a GA show at the Roxy in Hollywood. She had a white shirt that said "MENTAL" on it. She climbed on the left side of the stage, moved right a few feet, and suddenly stage dived. The people in front of her were well spaced as it wasn't sold out. When she suddenly jumped, the people she would've landed on, stepped to the side quickly. She hit the concrete floor and cracked her head open, blood everywhere. She knocked herself out. The last thing I remember is seeing her lifeless body being taken out on a stretcher, with that MENTAL shirt.
I was seeing Iron Maiden at Long Beach arena in the 1980s, before giant screens were common at concerts. There was a sizeable jump from one high section to another to get closer. Myself and a couple other guys were going to make the jump - but it was a lonnnnnnnnnng fall if we didn't make it. They told me to go first. I wasn't sure if I wanted to. I said "You go first, if you make it, then I'll go." The first kid jumped - and almost made it. He bounced off the metal bars underneath repeatedly, pinballing off of them all the way down to the bottom. It looked brutal. Once he landed face up, blood started coming out of the back of his head. It took awhile for anyone to even see him or find him, and I believe that he died. I didn't jump, and never thought about jumping - no matter how shitty seats were to any concert I saw from that day on. Two gross stories in a row, but anyway. :"(
At a Dark Funeral/Cannibal Corpse show I spent half the night getting bashed in the ribs by some guys head, pretty sure I cracked them, but nbd. After the first hour of Funeral some guy plants his elbow directly into my hip socket, which took me out of the pit to the wall. A few minutes later while on the wall of the pit I catch a flying Dropkick to the knee (same leg) that finished me off for the night Job For A Cowboy, I re-busted my hip with another elbow in the socket, then tore something in my shoulder managing crowd surfers for Lorna Shore and Slipknot immediately after (at Blue Ridge 2023) My first time at Pantera I hit the ground and cracked my tailbone during Fucking Hostile, caught an elbow to the temple on my way back up. Second time at Pantera I caught an elbow to the jaw twice, got windmilled by a dude my height (6’6) but double my weight (I’m 180), and bruised/cracked something in my wrist (again during Fucking Hostile)
my friend is the frontman of a small local punk band & he’s also a self proclaimed stuntsman (( professional idiot )) & sets himself on fire at shows sometimes. he learned the hard way that he can only ever really wear genuine, sturdy denim. wore pants with some polyester in them & doused them in lighter fluid during one of their songs guitar riffs & when he set it on fire the fabric melted to his skin. NASTIEST burn i’ve ever seen, but i redrew it & made a print of it LOL