It has always annoyed me. I’m about a head taller than most people, and prone to getting my face kicked by the crowdsurfer/stagediver. I’ve lost my temper over it a couple of times. Rob from Nomeansno gave me the stinkeye once because I threw a crowdsurfer to the ground after I got kicked in the head.
Crap, waffles for when David Yow does it.
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14I go to shows for the music, not to act like an assclown who has never been to a concert and doesn't care how he impacts other people's enjoyment of the performance. Let the people on stage be the performers.
It is especially shitty when crowdsurfing leads to kicking someone in the head with your fucking Doc Martens on. My 5' 2" girlfriend really loved that when it happened to her. Not.
It is especially shitty when crowdsurfing leads to kicking someone in the head with your fucking Doc Martens on. My 5' 2" girlfriend really loved that when it happened to her. Not.
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15I had some kid land hard on my shoulder a while back. I wanted to drop him in a dumpster full of rotten meat.
We're headed for social anarchy when people start pissing on bookstores.
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16Cut to me at the front of the stage during the last Pissed Jeans show being a hothead barrelling over every kid just trying to have a good time. You'll find me at the back from now on. That said I did once rescue Atsuo from a group of hipsters with skinny arms at ATP New York. Get in where you fit in.
Justice for Emily Pike, Sam Nordquist, Randall Adjessom, Javion Magee, Destinii Hope, Kelaia Turner, Dexter Wade and Nakari Campbell
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18ok that explains this.
(i mean it does but it doesn't.)
(i mean it does but it doesn't.)
Bassist Kim Shattuck opens up about being fired by the Pixies
The Muff reveals she was sacked by the band's manager over the phone, and also wonders whether an ill-advised stage-dive contributed to the split
Sean Michaels
Thu 12 Dec 2013
Kim Shattuck has shared details of her ouster as the Pixies' new bassist, revealing that she was sacked over the telephone by the band's manager. As well as confessing her shock, she also wonders whether an ill-advised stage-dive contributed to the split.
"Everything had gone well, the reviews were all good," Shattuck recently told NME. "We [all] said goodbye at the airport and the following morning the manager called me and said: 'The band has made the decision to go with another bass player.' I was surprised."
Shattuck, best known for her work with the Muffs, was brought in to replace Kim Deal on the Pixies' fall tour. Although the band didn't say much about her hiring, it was assumed they would be continuing together into 2014, including the Pixies' headlining gig at Field Day. Instead, after just three months, Shattuck was dropped.
"I get the feeling they're more introverted people than I am," she said. "There was a show at the Mayan in Los Angeles where I got overly enthusiastic and jumped into the crowd, and I know they weren't thrilled about that. When I got offstage the manager told me not to do that again. I said, 'Really, for my own safety?' And he said, 'No, because the Pixies don't do that.'"
Despite the sudden dismissal, Shattuck maintains that she harbours no ill feelings toward her former bandmates. When they announced the 50-year-old's replacement earlier this month, the Pixies implied that it was a deliberate move to keep shuffling bassists: "Working with different bass players is very new for the band, but we're having a great time doing it," said drummer Dave Lovering.
Their latest experiment is Paz Lenchantin, a bassist who has played with Zwan, A Perfect Circle and the Entrance Band.
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19Kim Shattuck was so fucking cool. One of those voices that just captivated me as a kid - how could she sound so angry and yet happy at the same time? Pixies are dorks, they never recovered from losing Kim Deal (the world's greatest living musician, by my estimation) and they chose to lose out on another badass Kim? Looooosers.
Stagediving, huh. On a big stage it seems lame, but I do have one fun anecdote.
So I'm a bigger guy, 6 foot and over 200 lbs, jumping on strangers is not my first impulse. But I was at some dirgy punk gig in a basement of Marseille, France, and a Catalan hardcore band had come over to blow our heads off. There's a mighty tall Moroccan guy in the crowd, and I have the idea that hell no, I'm lifting this fucker. Hell or highwater. I get him overhead and the crowd gets beneath me and helps parade him around the room. Once he's set down, grinning like a motherfucker, he proceeds to effortlessly raise me up and send me crowdsurfing (first and only time!) - as I was surging towards the back of the room we shared a dual flash of the devil horns.
Not Crap! Except when the At The Drive-In guy did it like 30 seconds into his set that time I saw 'em - that was CRAP.
Stagediving, huh. On a big stage it seems lame, but I do have one fun anecdote.
So I'm a bigger guy, 6 foot and over 200 lbs, jumping on strangers is not my first impulse. But I was at some dirgy punk gig in a basement of Marseille, France, and a Catalan hardcore band had come over to blow our heads off. There's a mighty tall Moroccan guy in the crowd, and I have the idea that hell no, I'm lifting this fucker. Hell or highwater. I get him overhead and the crowd gets beneath me and helps parade him around the room. Once he's set down, grinning like a motherfucker, he proceeds to effortlessly raise me up and send me crowdsurfing (first and only time!) - as I was surging towards the back of the room we shared a dual flash of the devil horns.
Not Crap! Except when the At The Drive-In guy did it like 30 seconds into his set that time I saw 'em - that was CRAP.
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20The first club show I ever went to was Veruca Salt, with The Muffs and Fig Dish opening. Was my first exposure to moshing and crowdsurfing.
I never did it, because I was too much of a square, but it looked fun. These days, I prefer to stand in the back and not have a surfer fall on me.
I never did it, because I was too much of a square, but it looked fun. These days, I prefer to stand in the back and not have a surfer fall on me.
"Whatever happened to that album?"
"I broke it, remember? I threw it against the wall and it like, shattered."
"I broke it, remember? I threw it against the wall and it like, shattered."