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Good or bad stories from concerts and festivals.

My friend got choked out by some guy at a Japandroids concert and the band stopped the show and the guy got kicked out. The guys in the band signed his shirt after. The best part is when the bar owner wrote up about it he called the guy an asshole for "picking on the smallest dude in the bar" which we still use to make fun of my friend.

Been to a few concerts. All of them were great experiences, but you cant go to a concert without seeing some shit going down with coked up people.

Went to see Disturbed live….also got to see gratuitous amounts of vomit. Someone mixed too many beers, burritos and weed or something and slimed vomit all over the entire floor. The movement mixed it all around

Not sure how people fell in that, probably a lot.

In that same concert, a fight broke out around the middle of stadium. A bunch of assholes through it would be cool to throw their whole bodies around in the crowd to get it moving. Jumping left and right, using their whole body weight. Not everyone thought this was fun and retaliated. Security did nothing, but they probably figured that the fist throwing is just how Disturbed fans mosh. All I could do was flee from the D or get crushed

But I meet Disturbed backstage so it was worth it.

I saw a System of a Down/Deftones concert at a waterfront amphitheater once, and some drunk guy fell into the water during Deftones's set. A couple other guys and I helped pull him back up. Oh, and when SoaD came on, Serj made a joke about it.

I've never been in the pit at a concert, I've always been up in the nosebleeds. So nothing too crazy to report. Craziest thing that happened to me at a concert was when I went to see The Who in '09. While waiting for the show to start someone a few rows above me threw a small empty bottle of Malibu coconut rum that landed right on my arm rest barely missing me. If it hit me in the head it would've been quite the story to tell for my first concert, but oh well.

A month ago I went to a Paramore/Fall Out Boy show. Now, at the two concerts I went to before the smell of weed was obviously there, but at this show the whole place fuckin reeked of the stuff. At least some of the people there had the good quality shit that didn't smell terrible. It was a nice change after smelling all the skunk weed any time I step foot on my campus.

I'm so jealous of you, Blue. I've never been to a Disturbed concert. Although I did see Device at Rockfest 2013, which is the next best thing for me. But I'm going to talk a different concert experience: Rockfest 2010, my first concert going. For those of you who don't know, Rockfest is an outdoor music festival that takes place every year in Kansas City. 15 bands and 50,000 people. It's a big crowd. I remember seeing a guy so wasted, he passed out before the first band even finished. I also saw two guys get into a fight. Security showed up and got one of them in zip tie handcuffs, but the other guy was resisting so all the security guys had to hold him down. They weren't paying attention to they guy who was already handcuffed, so he took the opportunity and ran back into the crowd. Security never found him.

my first non-local-band-concert was dream theater in 2009, it was also my most expenive and biggest non-festival concert…
best concert i've been to lately was thy art is murder, it's already their 2nd time in europe this year and they'll come back in november, they are seriously the hardest touring band i know right now.
they always play small venues when they're here, last time CJ, the vocialist, gave away the mic to people form the crowd for about 3-4 entire songs, CJ just goofed around in the crowd or pretended to play the backup guitar :D i really love small venues, they feel much more personal and you can actually chat with the band members, but on the other hand you want your favourite bands to be successful. what i really hate are closed stages, even in not so big venues, seriously, where's the problem with people stagediving etc.?

i think it's a shame that i've been to so many -core concerts lately, mostly australian or american bands, but european bands like children of bodom, decapitated or dark tranquillity rarely tour here and mostly just appear on bigger festivals like wacken or wff…

I've never had a crazy experience at a concert before. The craziest thing that has ever happened at a concert I've been to was, during a quiet part of Béla Bartók's Divertimento for String Orchestra, a loud ambulance drove past outside the building .

I went to Qlimax, Sensation White, and Dance Valley, and I'm going to Dance Valley again this weekend. I've also been to other events, but those aren't anything notable enough to mention here. All of them are Dance/Edm events. Not one band, just various DJs.

Most of my 'fun' stories involve just other people there who had too much of this and that. So people throwing up, not being able to walk, etc. Nothing out of the usual. Only thing that tends to happen often is that we buy too many drinking tokens, so then when the event is about to end we buy around 20 beers at once for just 4-5 people and start chugging because it's a waste to throw away and you can't get your money back for the tokens otherwise.

There was one guy who really flipped his shit because he got a smaller croquette at a food stand than another guy. The stand couldn't really help this, as they were just different sizes, but the guy just kept demanding a bigger one and wouldn't take no for an answer. He didn't got one and gave up after 10 minutes because security started to close in.

Apparently at the Gogol Bordello concert I went to last week, the drummer was standing behind me and my sister while the opener played. A couple months ago at a concert for The Knofe this dude next to us got kicked out because he kept taking his shirt off after security repeatedly told him that he couldn't do that.

But the most interesting concert I've been to was last summer at a free Blue Öyster Cult show. The first thing was that there was a guy who brought an acoustic guitar. To a rock concert. He wasn't there for very long I don't think, but he seemed like a douchy hipster type. More notably, though, was the family in front of us. God, if I knew what Cringeworthy was then I would have taken their picture and put it online. They seemed to be big Disney fans, as evidenced by the mother's tattooes of what I think was one of Snow White's Seven Dwarves? She was also kind of large and wore a polo shirt with her name embroidered on it. Whenever a song was over, instead of clapping, she rang a cowbell. You know, since "MOAR COWBELL" is still funny apparently. Thankfully it was a good show, so uh… yeah.

About two years ago, I went to see a hardcore band called Rotting Out. Since there was going to be another event going on immediately after, the show occurred in the front area of the venue instead of the usual stage area in back. As a result, there must have been at least 100 people crammed into a rather small area for the headliners. And boy, did it get crazy. In addition to slipping and falling on someone's shirt, I was also rocked in the ribs twice in the span of about half a minute while in the pit. That was a great night.