Weirdest Concert Experience?

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What is the weirdest/most unpleasant/baffling thing that has ever happened to you while you were watching a band?

Should make for an interesting thread.

I have some stories:

At a Fantomas gig - a very cute lil’ japanese girl started chatting me up and finding that we had a lot in common with regards to musical tastes amongst other things, it wasn’t long before we had become very ‘friendly’ very quickly and I had soon agreed to go back to her nearby house after the show was over for “drinks” etc and to listen to music.

SCORE!! I thought.

Well…Before we even got to my car after the gig we started making out and moved into an alleyway, perched behind a dumpster and made with the tongues in a big way.

Then she unbuttoned her jeans and showed me her penis.

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[shocked]

At a Half Japanese gig - some guy came up to me and drunkenly asked me if I was enjoying the show. I told him I was and he put his arm around me and started bawling his eyes out.

At a Pere Ubu gig - a security guard walked up behind me, tapped me on the shoulder and told me to “stop being a fucken asshole” or he’d deck me and throw me from the club.

It must be noted that I had been standing on my own all night, nursing a scotch and coke and hadn’t spoken a word to anyone.

At a Whitehouse gig - Watching (with some degree of delight) as skinhead youths stood at opposite ends of the room then charged into each other as hard and as fast as they could - virtually rendering each other unconcious.

Anyone else???

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Well…Before we even got to my car after the gig we started making out and moved into an alleyway, perched behind a dumpster and made with the tongues in a big way.

Then she unbuttoned her jeans and showed me her penis.

So where did she cum? Your mouth, your ass, or…?

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I can’t top the penis story.

I saw a girl get her shirt ripped off while crowd surfing to Monster Magnet (the same show I mention in another thread as one of the worst ever). I was wearing an extra shirt around my waist (it was the '90s) and I gallantly gave it to her as she was clearly freaked out in addition to being completely topless. Later, during Rob Zombie’s set, I saw her crowd surfing again. Moron.

At Marilyn Manson some guy was going down on a girl on the balcony. Mr. Manson kindly pointed this out to the rest of us.

Some biker tried to pick a fight with me for the heinous crime of brushing up against him at a Hank III show.

If I can remember anything else good I’ll post it later.

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too many. i do recall going to see NIN in new orleans and stepping across the stage to get to a secure point before the band went on, and the audience started throwing shit and yelling. bouncers cleared that one up.

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When I was in the Spectremen over a decade ago I saw lots of weird/violent/disgusting stuff.

  1. Being at punk shows you get used to the occasion thing thrown on stage, or at you. I once had a cinder block thrown at me. That will get your attention pretty fast.

  2. Seeing one of the drummer’s from another band drinking our “fog juice” thinking it was water. That was a trip to the emergency room.

  3. Seeing Man’s Ruin, an all girl skin head band, drag some obnoxious naked drunk chick on stage and proceeding to beat the crap out of her.

  4. Having someone set off a tear gas grenade at a show at the late lamented Point in Atlanta.

  5. Being disgusted at our drummer for making out with some girl who had only a few minutes earlier thrown up in a guys lap while giving him a blow job in the parking lot.

  6. At a Church show in 1999 (a band known to have rowdy crowds [;)] ) some guy with obvious mental problems was trying his best to lock everyone inside the club with a chain around the door. The bouncers threw him head first down a flight of stairs. I am not sure I want to know what he had intended to do.

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At a Pere Ubu gig - a security guard walked up behind me, tapped me on the shoulder and told me to “stop being a fucken asshole” or he’d deck me and throw me from the club.

It must be noted that I had been standing on my own all night, nursing a scotch and coke and hadn’t spoken a word to anyone.

Respect!

When I first arrived in Edinburgh I went to see the French Hip Hop group TTC @ The Blue Note Jazz Club. The club is very small and the stage is one or two steps up in height and arms reach from the dancefloor/crowd.

Anyway TTC’s first 12" on the label Big Dada had a strange man with a pumpkin head…

…during the last song one of the emcee’s went backstage then came back out wearing a massive pumpkin mask…this in turn caused some rather large dude in the crowd who was obviously on some sort of potent drug to completely freak out and jump on stage, bear hug the hapless emcee then fall over crashing off the stage onto the dance floor with a massive thud while still bear hugging the emcee. The other two emcee’s and DJ jumped into the fray and rescued their pal…after a slight scuffle and much confusion TTC jumped back on stage and finished the set. What was quite funny was the fact the mask was huge and once the guy slammed into him he couldn’t see shit as the mask kind of ended up sideways on his head! Strangely enough security were no where to be seen?

That was TTC’s first and last visit to Edinburgh.

Another hilarious moment was when I went and saw UK Subs here in Edinburgh at the Citrus Club. Vibrators were support and basically everyone was at the back of the club during their set just drinking and chatting…EXCEPT two rather hardcore looking punks who were obviously boyfriend and girlfriend…the boyfriend by the way was quite fucking large…they were obviously pissed out of their heads. Anyway they were jumping around gettin rowdy and kept turning around to the crowd at the back and yelling such things as “get out and pogo you fucking pussies!!”…you get the idea.

Anyway after about 20 minutes of these two abusing the civilised crowd waiting for UK Subs, some guy just came fucking roaring from out of nowhere and absolutely wiped the rowdy boyfriend punk out with a massive shoulder charge. The crowd all burst into EXTREME laughter.

If that humiliation wasn’t bad enough a bouncer then dragged the downed punk’s ass out of the venue…it was a great episode as this punk’s girlfriend jumped on the bouncers back and was wacking him on the way out. So sadly for that pair they missed UK Subs due to getting OWNED.

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Don’t know if these are weird experiences but sure hey:

Waiting in the line for a metal gig (Slayer, Sepultura (who cancelled) and Biohazard, circa 2001) a guy behind me is dared to piss into a bottle and then drink it for £20. Whoever was daring him to do it was to give him the money first and then he said he’d so it. He pisses into the bottle, full to top. Then for some reason decides to knock back the whole thing before the exchange of money. He drank the whole thing in about 10 seconds. He never got his money. We all laughed.

At a summer festival few years ago. The place was a mudfest, complete washout. A group of delinquents out of their heads were throwing themselves into a mud pit and flinging the shit everywhere. They then got one of the girls from their crew, who was beyond pissed, and threw her into the pit. She splashed into the thing face down and didn’t move. Someone else rushed in and pulled her out. She was knocked out and her front teeth were fucked, dark blood everywhere. She was a goner if there was no else but her dickhead “friends” around.

At another festival a group of us pretended to “stick up” a burger van in a campsite. The people working there, who were obviously not drunk or at least not drunk enough, took us more seriously and they started offering free burgers to us. Overwhlemed with guilt, we paid them for it and tipped them just to be sure.

Going to see Ministry on the Fornicatour I was still 17 and underage at the venue they were playing. To be sure of my entry I dressed in what I guess could be called “mature” clothing. When we got there they were as lax about it as they could be, ie. didn’t give a fuck. I was getting stared at a lot before Ministry came on as most of the others looked liked they were dying on their feet. They must have thought “there is one eccentric fellow”.

Forgot to mention at a Muse gig 2008 there was a girl on her bf’s shoulders in front of me and others. They were getting in the way alot. A girl beside took the liberty to go up and bite the annoying girl on the ass. It was the best part of the night.

As for weirdness it will be hard to top the Japanese penis methinks.

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Left a show in 96 before the first band started due to a paranoid psychosis induced by a very hard, week long abuse of hard drugs and lack of sleep (clean from that crap now). I thought everyone was talking about me. Unable to reach my roommates from the payphone because they were fed up , I bolted the Santa Monica Civic and trudged down Lincoln for a good two hours in a downpour. Ended up in a rehab a few days later (on my birthday no less) and had the pleasure of experiencing Shelly Winters…she was in my group. We called her Parallel Shirley because she was doped up half the time from pills her private nurse would smuggle in for her. Ugh, very embarrassing moment in my life.

More light hearted strange experiences…getting piss drunk before a Ministry show in 99 and making a bet with my friend that I’d just grab this ugly girl we had just met through a friend and make out with her. I won the bet. Ugh, booze.

Seeing Snog with about 15 people was kinda odd, I don’t think I’ve ever been to a Ticketmaster show with that few people.

Guy getting knocked out cold in front of me in a pit (Ministry, of course) was pretty surreal. Never seen anyone get knocked out in real life and this was from a couple feet away. Big drunk guy was having a good time, bumping into people in the pit but obviously aware of his size and not hurting anyone. He bumped into a little guy with a Napoleon complex who took offense to the bumping. Little guy takes a swing at big guy, misses, big guy throws one lazy, slow looking George Foreman punch and knocks out chicken little cold; one punch! He was friggin’ snoring, laid out, for a good two minutes, eyes rolled back…crazy for me, hadn’t seen something like that before.

There are some others but I don’t want to write a novel here.

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On the tour where Danzig played the Misfits set with Doyle, this short dude crazed on drugs wanted to occupy my spot on the floor in front of the stage to the point that he wanted to fight with me. Apparently, he had an entitlement issue.

A different short dude walked up to me and started hitting on me after a RHH/LSS show when we (my two guy friends and I) were still inside the venue. My two guy friends made fun of the short dude for being short, I charmed the short dude with my magnetic personality (sarcasm), and my friends and I left the venue.

Went to a show and one of my guy friends also showed up (was not pre-arranged). This dude with a black leather jacket passed between my guy friend and I. The dude must have grabbed my guy friend’s ass. After the show, there was a couple having sex in public outside the venue. They were at it for about 45 minutes.

At the Palladium NIN show, a big dude needed to get pulled from the pit. He lost not only his trousers but his shorts! Imagine a pile of junk passing by your face.
Plastic fun bags bouncing off my back during “Closer.” It was the only song she knew. Her bf explained to her that there was no way she was getting in front of us because we had waited in the line outside all day to get our spots.

Observed a guy getting thrown out of HOB during Rob Zombie. The bouncers carried him out and he had lost a shoe.

I hate getting hit in the face by crowd surfers’ feet/boots/shoes at shows.

I nodded off in my balcony seat for several seconds at the NIN Fonda show due to exhaustion and dehydration.

Going to see Gen at an 18+ show and seeing a teen girl there with her parents. [shocked]

My best friend’s husband’s band had serious technical difficulties the first time she and I went to see them play. Since they could not play the gig, it lead to him sitting down with us and striking up a conversation. The rest is history.

This weird little dude looking to buy a sold out Slayer ticket outside HOB. He had on ugly girl eyeglasses from the 1980s and acted like he was trying to get a ticket to resell it for more. I sold my extra ticket to this other dude outside who looked like a real fan dying to join his friends inside the sold out show.

A chick in the ladies room at the state theater during a KMFDM show who was comparing herself to Lucia and ripping her down. I seriously don’t know how you guys put up with chicks like that.

I’m sure there are more.

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So where did she cum? Your mouth, your ass, or…?

Um…to finish the story, I actually burst out laughing and made a comment along the lines of ‘um…just my luck…blah blah…this is so typical…’.

S/he says…‘You don’t like penis?’

I say…‘No, no I’ve got one thanks…don’t need two’.

Gave s/he a ride home and drove off.

You’d have never guessed s/he was a guy. NEVER. S/he looked like a cute jap girl…tits, cute ass, pretty face and everything.

I’ve never told anyone that story til now.

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hahahahahahaha

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Maybe she/he was truly both male and female - a hermaphrodite/chimera.

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I had a ‘weird sex encounter’ after a Ween gig in '97.

Pick up cute girl.

Go back to cute girl’s house.

Get naked in cute girl’s bed.

Cute girl says she has a dildo and wants to get crazy with it.

Cute girl walks stark naked into little brother’s room and says Hey, sleepy head, I need my dildo back…got a hot guy back there and we wanna get funky with it

Incidently, that Ween gig was where my friend met his future wife.

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[reply]
So where did she cum? Your mouth, your ass, or…?

Um…to finish the story, I actually burst out laughing and made a comment along the lines of ‘um…just my luck…blah blah…this is so typical…’.

S/he says…‘You don’t like penis?’

I say…‘No, no I’ve got one thanks…don’t need two’.

Gave s/he a ride home and drove off.

You’d have never guessed s/he was a guy. NEVER. S/he looked like a cute jap girl…tits, cute ass, pretty face and everything.

I’ve never told anyone that story til now.
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I still would’ve hit it. Props, though.

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Gotta say, Peligro, you handled that with a very mature amount of panache. I can’t say I would’ve been very adult as you. Not saying I woulda resulted to violence ('cause I’m sure I wouldnt’ve) but as far as running screaming from the alleyway or maybe barfing on the younglady/man, I can’t say that wouldnt’ve happened were I in that situation.

That’s fucked up! what s/he did to you was way outa line! If one wants to be/is gay, cool, whatever, but tricking someone into shit like that is way foul! Although, I am kinda curious as to know if s/he had both set ups.
Wonder if s/he was hoping to get head?
Good story though!
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grmpysmrf

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Maybe Peligro was giving off the wrong vibes?

Oh oh I know maybe he has Aspergers and didn’t read the cues?

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Man, I feel like I have been looking at other shit while at the shows I’ve been to. I don’t have nearly the stories you folks have. these are probably my top 2:

About the strangest thing I’ve seen/been involved with at a concert was some midget trying to get me to drink some of his beer. He kept trying to put his cup into my face, (which was closer to my upperchest/neck area) “C’mon man just drink with me… just one drink!” I kept saying “no thanks buddy, no thanks, Na’h I’m good” Damn that little fucker was persistant. Finally I had to tell him I was a member of A.A. and I just hit my 1 year and then he got all apollogetic. My wife was laughing through the whole thing, which meant I couldn’t look at her cause I woulda started laughing too and he probably woulda been pissed I lied to him… and you know, being a straight punch to the nuts away probably isn’t good thing. this was all pre show for Social D.

Other than that, experiencing an almost mini riot at Inland Invasion When the Axl Rose band (Still known as Guns N’ Roses but I know better) decided to go on 1:15 minutes late. People were throwing bottles of piss as well as lighting stuff on fire and then throwing that. one of the sound towers almost came down, it was fucked up!
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grmpysmrf

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Maybe Peligro was giving off the wrong vibes?

Oh oh I know maybe he has Aspergers and didn’t read the cues?

Hey, now! Peligro does come off a bit snobbish at times, but when he has his moments, they are delightful! His story is case in point! Man, that’s a great tale, and I’m shocked he parted with it. I’m not sure if anything that embarrassing/humiliating ever happened to me that I could retell it. I doff my hat to you sir, Peligro! Excellent thread too!
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grmpysmrf

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That’s fucked up! what s/he did to you was way outa line! If one wants to be/is gay, cool, whatever, but tricking someone into shit like that is way foul!

I don’t think she ‘tricked’ me. More of a case of perhaps she really liked me and was too shy to mention anything. Perhaps she hoped that if she could first win me over, then she’d explain later and had her fingers crossed that maybe I’d be into it or something.

But I gotta confess, she was cute and yeah she had tits and I was turned on in a big way. I’ve done some freaky ass shit in my time (shit that would make you barf and run away screaming, grmpy) but I’ve never been with a transexual before.

I’ll not lie, I often think about whether or not I made the right decision that night. There’s a part of me that yearns for fucked up shit like that to happen.

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That’s fucked up! what s/he did to you was way outa line! If one wants to be/is gay, cool, whatever, but tricking someone into shit like that is way foul!

I don’t think she ‘tricked’ me. More of a case of perhaps she really liked me and was too shy to mention anything. Perhaps she hoped that if she could first win me over, then she’d explain later and had her fingers crossed that maybe I’d be into it or something.

But I gotta confess, she was cute and yeah she had tits and I was turned on in a big way. I’ve done some freaky ass shit in my time (shit that would make you barf and run away screaming, grmpy) but I’ve never been with a transexual before.

I’ll not lie, I often think about whether or not I made the right decision that night. There’s a part of me that yearns for fucked up shit like that to happen.[/reply]
LOL! it’s posts like this that make me think you’re a regular dude! right on brother!
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grmpysmrf