If you're a new jack in a Nu Metal pit, all they do is bounce around and knock each other around. Depending on the show, if you don't want to get hit, get out of the pit. "The (concert) industry could solve these problems tomorrow, but they don't want to take responsibility and they don't want to pay for it."ġ.
"It's all so common sense," Wertheimer said. Specific bans and regulations are up to a promoter's wishes, Smith said. Tom Smith of Denver's D&O Entertainment Services, which handles security for promoters like House of Blues, said he has a special staff to work mosh pits. NIPP also banned wallet chains and spiked bracelets from shows because they saw fans getting hit with or caught on them. Promoter Nobody in Particular Presents now puts barricades around the pit, places four to five guards to watch it from the front and one on the stage stairs to watch from above. When fans began suing for their injuries, it told the concert industry that fans no longer would accept blame for their injuries.Īnd some promoters are taking extra precautions. Or they get smacked by people in the slam pit who suddenly came out of nowhere," Wertheimer said. It was the cheerleader, the 'A' students and the other people near the stage who had paid their money to hear the music and got hit by a 250-pound crowd surfer from behind. "When litigations started going way up in the '90s and people where suing, it wasn't the hard-core moshers in the slam pit. The pivotal point, he said, is to separate moshers from nonmoshers.
(Complete guidelines are posted at He said he thinks promoters and venues should seriously consider enacting all the guidelines. They include separating moshers from nonmoshers, limiting pit capacities, padding the floor and all hard surfaces, not allowing people younger than 18 into pits, banning stage diving and crowd surfing, and banning certain types of clothing and accessories worn by moshers. He presented mosher-friendly guidelines at the 1994 International Crowd Management Conference in Seattle.
0 kommentar(er)
