1/21/2024 0 Comments Folk metal mosh pit![]() Speaker D: I remember being a sophomore in high school, walking into this club and seeing the mosh pit and understanding that these kids have no idea what they’re doing. Speaker C: The video showed people moshing in a dank, dark high school gym, and with that, moshing went mainstream. Speaker C: In 1992, Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit became the biggest song in the world. Speaker C: By the early 1990s, it had spread to the dozens of offshoots of punk as well as heavy metal and grunge. Speaker D: And invent a completely new word, mashing. ![]() Speaker D: I can assume, like, a bunch of white kids in the audience hear him say Mash down Babylon and don’t already know that phrase. Speaker C: During a Bad Brain show, the lead singer said to mash Down Babylon, which had appeared in a number of old reggae songs, like this one, performed by Leroy King. Speaker C: He says the story goes that the term originated in the early 80s with Bad Brains, an influential hardcore band whose members were Black and Ross Stefari. Speaker C: James Spooner is an artist and filmmaker behind the Afropunk Documentary and Music Festival. Speaker D: As I understand it, the word mosh comes from a misinterpretation. Speaker C: What he’s doing is basically what we think of as moshing, but in the early 80s, most people weren’t calling it that yet. Speaker D: Some people call it slamming and some people call it pogling and some call it the skang, but I just call it dancing, because that’s normally what you’re doing. Speaker C: As he’s talking, he’s demonstrating, bent over at the waist, swinging his arms and pacing in a circle. Speaker C: The young man talking is in a small, empty dingy room and he’s wearing a white T shirt and trousers and he has closely shorn hair. Speaker D: It doesn’t matter if you fall down or not, because your Budy’s going to be there to pick you up, or someone’s going to pick you up. Speaker C: Scene from the 1983 documentary Another State of Mind, about two punk bands on tour. Speaker D: And if you keep moving around in a circle like this, because that’s the way the pit moves, is in a circle people jumping on this is a. Speaker C: It was also at hardcore shows that some pits begin to take the shape often seen at concerts today. ![]() Speaker E: But while you’re in it, it’s this incredible, powerful force. Speaker E: There’s an inner peace in that storm that you find with the like minded people, and the minute you step out of that, you’re back to reality. Speaker C: The violence at hardcore shows could be a lot, but it was communal. Speaker E: I compare it a lot to Lord of the Flies, where the kids have to run their own society and it works out really well for a while and then it eventually goes to h***. Speaker C: Stephen Blush is the director of American Hardcore. Speaker E: There was nothing more taking it to the furthest extreme than destroying everybody in the crowd. Speaker C: And at every hardcore show you could find exactly that attendees going off. Speaker C: And now I have a chance to be with a bunch of my own type of people and I have a chance to go off. ![]()
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