SURVIVING A MOSH PIT???

I feel it's safe to assume there will be no mosh pit at a Green Day concert. Who are they playing with?

the kids still call it moshing? It was slam dancing when I first got into music, then sometimes around Smells Like Teen Spirit I started hearing moshing....

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... no moshing at a Green Day show since 1994.

Ok if it is just Green Day by themselves (with supports) move up for the start of the band before. If you are taller... hang back a bit from the front. If you are not... squeeze to the front barrier.. take a water bottle in a shoulder bag... something to drink/ tip on yourself.. it gets warm with a thousand bodies around you.

If you want to watch only, aim for a barrier position and hold on. put a jacket or something in the shoulder bag... roll it up and position it between you and the barrier... this can pad ribs from barrier crush for another song or two.

If it is a festival situation... (multiple stages , multiple bands) get in position as the last band on the green day stage finishes... crowds will thin moving to the other stage for the other band.. you can slide right up.

and wear lace up shoes and tie them tight. I lost both shoes crowd surfing once in an indoor venue...dancefloor filled with broken glass (Australia... need I say more)

be prepared to have the shirt you are wearing ripped... that is why they sell shirts at gigs.. .

Important rule... Big one. chose a meet up point for your friends you travel with so you can find them after. When I saw Nirvana, I entered a pit at side of stage right and was spat out of the melee at the rear on the left. There is no buddy system in a mosh... find them after.. get back in there!

you'll love it.

green day are getting older, but their crowd is getting younger.

Says they are playing with Rancid.

and wear lace up shoes and tie them tight. I lost both shoes crowd surfing once in an indoor venue...dancefloor filled with broken glass (Australia... need I say more)

I lost a low top con once the same way.... I wanna say it was at a pumpkins show, maybe the MCIS.... I forget now. I lost it early on and it was awful. It woulda been better outdoors, just lsoe the oter shoe, but in the old Spectrum? aand then trying to go home on the subway without shoes????

i went to starland in 2003 before My Chemical Romance was famous, and broke my nose.

How early to arrive? go for the whole show, how early for a mosh? slide up to the front with at least half of the previous band to go before the act you want to see.

pack two shirts