From: RXM108@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.industrial
Subject: LolopaPittsburg!Yahoo!
Date: 19 Aug 92 12:40:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: psuvm.92232.084002RXM108
Organization: Penn State University

>and by the time they played "Breathe" for the encore I thought for
>sure that my friends in the pit were dead. They weren't of course
>and from what they told me......

You are correct sir!  It got very hairy, but all is well with
bruises and cuts all accounted for!  Here is the story from the pit and
other wild areas... My personal highlights.
- I didn't care to watch Iced Beverage.. or whatever his name is, so I
went over to the Sideshow Circus to check out what was going on.  Very
wild.  I forget the lead singer's name, but he finished off the show by
jumping on a pile of broken glass.. Imagine the oOOOoos and Ahhhhss from
the crowd.  Shortly after the Circus Show was over, I ran into a friend,
don't recall how I know him... But we vaugely had something in common.
He had a long straight pin that he wanted to have put through his
earlobe so we waited for the crowd to clear and grabbed one of the band
members.  He was happy to comply and stuck it right through... with
nothig to back it!  Amazing!  He then signed our shirts as "The Ear
Stabber"  and we were all happy and content.
- Midway through Soundgarden, I stumbled back to where Steve and Mike
were and watched the growing Mosh pit. Tryly amazing because the
security guards had absolutely NO control over the situation.  Mosh pits
formed right in front of the stage by the seats, in the aisle, and
between the seat retaining wall and the sloping field behind.  This last
area proved to be the best for an all out Mosh!  The seven foot retaining
wall served as a great launch and if a guard wasn't paying attention,
you could jump forward into the seats and get right upstage.  Needless
to say the wall became everyone's friend.

- When Ministry started, all hell broke loose.  The central mosh pit had
grown to over 1,000 people easy and got really energetic.  I made five
dives and only sustained some bruised shoulders, a gash on my back,
bruised jaw and cut lip.  Standard fare... nothing broken.  Highlights
were the dismantalling of the pizza transport guy.. Who unwillingly
provided the crowd with a couple hundred mini-pizza and pita crusts, and
gallons of blood red sauce! All I think landed on me.  Then the sodding
began.. Kind of unfortunate in my eyes because that was the only *real*
destruction going on and will probably make StarLake think twice about
LolopaPittsburgh.. There was dirt and grass airborne everywhere. Most
still enjoyed it though, and the sod was mostly aimed at a few idiot
security guards who were throwing unnecessary punches.
- All in all... wow.  Just plain wow.  Pure energy and fun had by all.
If you have the means.  Go, don't even think twice about it!
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|Roderick Murchison, Jr.                                   |
|                             Penn State University        |
|                             rxm108@psuvm.psu.edu         |
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