What's funny is how you realize in those situations how much things don't bother you that normally would. For example, being pushed and shoved. I was so worried about getting crushed i didn't mind it at all. Being kicked in the side of the head by crowd surfers, I got kicked and just pushed their foot away and waited for the next one. No security so you can guess which row got the brunt of that. Rubbing up against sweaty people. Normally I would be like don't freakin' touch me, but I was like fuck it I'll shower. Being groped from behind by girls in the crowd....OK so that doesn't really bother me but I was with my wife and I thought it was excessive. One girl was complimenting the tattoo's on my back and I think it was her. I swear this is true, at one point I looked at my wife and said their pulling my pants all the way down. Thank goodness I wore a belt. Lastly putting my hands on the stage. For the first three bands I kept it to to an absolute minimum. The carpet was old and stained and had gum all stuck in it and it was so hot all the bands were dripping sweat on it as was the crowd up front. When the chaos was happening I was palms flat pushing as hard as I could and didn't even care what I was putting my hands into.Having water and beer and whatever poured and splashed and sprayed all over me would normally get me pissed but I was soaking wet (literally) and didn't even remember how until later at McDonald's the wife and I were discussing it and I kind of started remembering some of it. Overall crazy experience. I say all the time I'm getting too old for this shit, maybe I should listen to myself!   ...or just say fuck it you only live once! (lol)

Bud, that reminds of a story my friend told me about the 1980 BS tour

Priest played the Erie County Field House Erie, Pa

No seats on the floor standing room only with a steel bar across the front of the stage.

He was with the biggest dude from our school and lucky

because same thing as soon as Priest came out everyone pushed forward and he would have been crushed

if not for the big brute holding people back.

Nice pics HB. I hope to get there some day.

I'm not sure if I told this story here or not but since bears were brought up I'll share again. I was 18 and with 2 friends walking on a trail called "Falls Trail". It was on "Red Rock" mountain (big hill) in north eastern Pa. It went down one side of the (hill) and back up the other with nearly 30 sets of water falls along the way ranging from a couple of feet to more than 90 feet. Very cool walking trail. Along the way we were surprised by a deer drinking out of the stream that we spooked and it darted right past us. Guys being guys (you know, "macho") we started talking about what we would do if we saw a bear. "I would hit it with�a stick", "Yeah. well I would throw rocks at it to fuck with it", "shit, I would chase his ass". Comments like that but I don't think we really expected to see one. At the top of the trail we started hearing a high pitched kind of squeal and then something like a loud hiss. Then we heard something that sounded like something scratching a tree and more squeals. We get to the very end where you step out of the brush and into a field that led to the center where we were going. Anyway in a line of three the first guy opens up a brushy area to walk out ont the open field and he stopped in his tracks. he started stuttering "there there's a bear" and the other two of us looking over each side of�his shoulder saw the bear. No sticks, no rocks and no chasing, just a flat out sprint by all three of us until we got to the center about a hundred yards away. So headbanger, even if just a guess can you explain the noises. The bear we saw was a cub. I'm guessing we were about to be mauled.(lol)

The whole time this shit was going on all i could do was wonder where is security? There was none, and I'd be amazed if no one got hurt.

assholes.  being 2 feet further from the stage shouldnt bother them that much

Yeah, that bear is not huge.  probably a 1 or 2 year old.  I have seen way bigger, from closer, but like I said, I had no idea where momma was, and I dont fuck with momma

...it looks like it's not the editor but the page.

...this is why i hate this freakin' editor. now I can't read everything I just posted and if i shorten the length of the sentence and hit enter it gives me a big gap in between lines.

I have a concert experience to share that i think some here will actually enjoy hearing. I went to the MRH "Oldschool" show last night and what started out as a fantastic event turned into my worst concert experience ever. Got early entry to watch the sound check and that was pretty cool. Only got to see a couple of songs but there were only about 100 people so we could see great and it was comfortable and it was cool seeing them play not wearing masks or costumes. They offered a food spread and then went to an outside fenced in patio area to meet and talk with everyone. Got to get pics with everyone and they gave us tshirts and posters and we had them signed. Went back in and got a spot right up by the stage. Thought it was going to be great but during the last band before MRH the crowd started pressing forward. I was up front for them before so I thought I was prepared for what was to come and stayed up front. During the intermission the crowd started thrusting forward and I had to use the stage as leverage to hold everyone back. By time the lights went down I was reduced to using my knees pressed against the stage and palms flat on it to hold people back and was in a postion where I couldn't get out of the crowd. It got so bad that I could only turn my head to look at wife and I told her I didn't think this was going to go well. When the band started it was chaos and a everyone behind us was pressing forward. I ended up flat against the stage screaming out in pain because my legs were getting crushed and I was totally spent and couldn't do anything. All I could do was reach for the band and ask for help. At first I think some of the members just thought I was trying to touch them and ignored it. Then one was over top of me using a hose to water the crowd and he noticed me in anguish and he tried to pull me up. I was getting smashed so bad I couldn't move and he started trying to push people off of me and he was giving it everything he had. Finally I felt a gap and I pulled myself up on stage. Then some of the other members just thought I jumped up and were trying to get me to jump into the crowd. Then the crowd was yelling at me to jump and I just stepped in. Then people trying to help were like why didn't you jump. I couldn't hardly breath or talk and just shook my had. Luckily trying to get out of the crowd people were just shoving toward the back. My wife had to be pulled right after me. Yeah it sucked. Moral of the story. Lift weights if you want to be up front at a MRH show. Fuck!!!

Cool pics. ...but that looks a little bigger than the small bear I (thought) you mentioned. Whoever the chick is that's funny. Obviously someone with a sense of humor...or no shame!(lol)

trying the new editor in IE 10  whatever, starting to get used to chrome, using it for more sites than just this  but it works\

Amon Amarth

Here. When I click on to post a message I can't write anything. Underneath it says if you are having trouble with the standard editor then click the newer version. Everything is different on the new editor and I keep making mistakes.

I can't wait to hear the debut from "Newsted". I saw them @ Gigantour last week and thought they kicked ass. Some of their stuff reminded me of early Metallica. They were selling a signed EP at the show but I already bought the new Megadeth and later when I decided to buy it it was sold out. (my luck) Last friday at "Mayhem Festival" I saw a couple of bands that I thought were really good live that I didn't care to see and only watched becaused nothing else was going on. I was only expecting to like Rob Zombie/5 Finger Death Punch on the main stage and Machine Head on the side stages but got a few surprises instead. First surprise was Mastodon. I saw them before but didn't care for them. I thought they rocked out at Mayhem. Another surprise was Children Of Bodom. I listened to them before and I thoughtI didn't like them but they were great live. I love their guitar work. Great guitar players. Lastly Amon Amarth. Never cared for so called "Viking Metal" or whatever you want to call it but they were badass. Great guitar work and I didn't mind the vocals and of course the giant viking ship was cool. I'll post a pic. Motionless in White wasn't bad but I'm still not sure I like them. Friday's concert put over 250 shows I've been to and over 400 different bands I've seen live. ...and I'm supposed to be slowing down. (lol)

My first cd was "Painkiller". I wouldn"t buy them when they first came out. I loved my albums and didn't want to switch up.

I'm glad you brought this up. I was going to argue the point with you just for the sake of it and i got my ipod out just to look at the songs and i realized that you are right. my only disagreement would be that "Dr. Feelgood" is good also and I can find 3 or 4 songs that at worst are listenable but basically I agree. One reason that I'm glad you brought it up is that when I checked my ipod I didn't have "Dr. ..." on there. I need to correct that.  And the more I think about it (and I like Motley Crue) the more I realize that they only had about three really good albums and have survived off of that all these years. ...i think I was played. (lol)

@Headbanger.

I was going to wish you well on your trip before you left but after that awful curse you left on us ...you know The "Trixi can post for you" one (thank goodness for ignore) that�I was hoping for more of a bear encounter than just seeing a cub from a distance.(lol) I was going to remind you that Yellowstone is an active volcano that goes off like every 100,000 years or someshit and that it's in a rough timeframe of a due explosion but if something happened then�I may tend to feel bad if you were blown up in a volcanic explosion so I'm just going to say that I hope you had a good time. Yellowstone is a place I'd like to visit also. Life's short and so is cash so i'll probably never make it though.

 Wow, you are very clever!     You are so funny and very intelligent!   

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