So I went to an emo gathering...

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So me and some friends went to an emo gathering last night at a club in Dallas by mistake. We went to see a local band (who is NOT emo, BTW) play, ended up gettig lost, got there just in time to see our local band leaving.

However, havig dropped ten bucks on admission, we decided to stay and watch the little emos/scene kids play. So the first band was actualy decent, I was pretty impressed. I don't get out to see alot of live music, so it's nice to see a little amatuer talent up close. They played al their own music, not bad really, and then we moved to the large stage, where the apparent main act was tuning up.

Everything from here on out is totally priceless comedy. This band has some kick ass metal riffs going on with their guitarists. The lead is playig a dimebag signature Dean through a JCM800 Marshall, it was really sweet. The backup was playing a Zakk Wylde LP just like mine, through a Marshall MG stack. All in all, I was getting ready for some really good music.

Bear in mind these guys are a long way from metal. These are total scene kids. Their first two songs were decent, the music was great, the lead singer went the screamo route (which surprised me, he was like 5'9" 110 pounds at the MOST), then the mosh started.

I've never seen emo or scene kids mosh. It was possible the funniest live thing I've ever seen. It looked like a seizure attack at the special olymics. So apparently this mosh isn't hardcore enough for the players, so they want to start a hardcore super mosh. They tell the room to spit into two parts, and just run like hell into each other.

So one of my friends I'm with is like 6'2", 280. He's one alot of powerlifting competitions, he's massive. So he gets back, gets a running start, and just dives into one of the poor emo kids. You see blood spray from the kid's face, and he hits the ground. My friend's like, "Dude, you alright?" The kid goes, "THAT WAS FREAKIN' AWESOME".

After that, the band proceeds to create godawful screamo versions of Sweet Child o' Mine and Comfortably Numb, and we leave. I think I'm going to go back, I honestly think that's one of the funniest sights I've ever seen.

Haha, sounds like fun.

Hardcore dancing FTW.


It's the best if you get good at it.


Yes, you can be good at it.

carl_the_sniper wrote: So was it more hardcore or emo music? They are equally as bad anyways...

It leaned more towards hardcore, but there were plenty of emo kids there as well.

yeah...

the metal, emo, and hardcore kids always get in a mess at shows...

i think its hilarious

pb125 wrote: Hardcore dancing FTW.It's the best if you get good at it.Yes, you can be good at it.

WINDMILLING WINDMILLING HEY EVERYONE WATCH ME SPIN MY ARMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's moshing somehow because I say it is.

I don't care because I listen to metal that is worse than HIM!

Small hardcore shows are awesome.

There is a band called Suicide Silence who was here a few months ago, I have never seen anything like it. Half the floor is pretending to be a windmill the other half looked like a seen from 300 where everybody was trying to kill each other. Good times.

And size has nothing to do with screaming. See Dani Filth. 5"4 and an insane metal vocalst (song: Funeral in Carpathia).

I am a avid fan of punk rock music however it is no fun to mosh with the kids who have the metal studs all over their jean jacket vests.  That just plain hurts.

White o Light wrote: DID THEY PLAY THE BLUES!?!

Oh,and you lost me with this joke.

MOSH!!! stuff kinda gets organized like that at the local club here but a good show generally means someone is getting stabed or shot. i remember this one time a guy tried stabbing me with a syringe and the bouncer had that guy up agaisnt a wall so fast no one really cared. LOl about the big guy, i generaly will go out to concerts n clubs with friends but all the girls are super small so i always end up trying to make a wall to stop them from getting crushed my moshers, will trying to mosh myself, and in the end ill be called cowardly because i wasnt moving up to the front...