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ever tried a stage dive?
 It must be fun... 
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Re:ever tried a stage dive?
2012/09/16 13:30:56
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Onslaught, Newcastle Riverside, sometime around 1989/90 or so. I got up on stage, was blinded by the lights and dived into an empty space in the crowd. I've had lower back problems ever since. Was thoroughly awesome though.
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Re:ever tried a stage dive?
2012/09/17 08:15:56
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London, The Mean Fiddler, c1989.
Our guitarist decided to stage dive during one of his extended solos, as he launched himself forwards his forehead connected with the suspended PA stacks. He landed flat on his back, still on stage, out cold. The crowd roared thinking it was hilarious.
Our bass player was in hospital following a car crash two days before, so I was covering the bass for the night and found myself alone on a huge(ish) stage with just the drummer hiding behind his kit and the monitor engineer peering over the front of his desk from the side of stage wondering where the hell the guitarist had gone.... We kept playing.
After he hadn't moved for a few bars I thought it best to go and see if he was ok, we'd turned into a drum and bass band and it wasn't really working. I gave him gentle nudge with my boot... I think he groaned a little (couldn't hear much stood under the PA) then still flat out on the floor, eyes still closed, carried on with the solo as if nothing had happened.
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Re:ever tried a stage dive?
2012/09/17 09:46:18
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Karyn
...then still flat out on the floor, eyes still closed, carried on with the solo as if nothing had happened.
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Re:ever tried a stage dive?
2012/09/17 11:13:40
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I dropped my pick on stage once... no one caught it.
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Re:ever tried a stage dive?
2012/09/17 11:44:41
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Some of the stages I played on were in dives. Does that count?
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Re:ever tried a stage dive?
2012/09/17 11:58:31
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Karyn
After he hadn't moved for a few bars I thought it best to go and see if he was ok, we'd turned into a drum and bass band and it wasn't really working. I gave him gentle nudge with my boot... I think he groaned a little (couldn't hear much stood under the PA) then still flat out on the floor, eyes still closed, carried on with the solo as if nothing had happened. that's the spirit!
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Re:ever tried a stage dive?
2012/09/17 12:19:40
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Nope, but I have "crowd walked" before. Way back when (early 80s) we were playing at a frat after the UT/Bama game. Totally insane. And, apparently, we were the "best thing" on fraternity row as every other house crammed into the huge basement where we were playing. It was truly one of the craziest (and I've got a pretty long list) performing experiences ever. At any given moment there was a revolving phalanx of six or seven totally smashed college coeds in various states of undress on stage with us and frat boys were singing (screaming, really) into any mic they could stand next to. My Rhodes was completely drenched in beer...but it kept on working all night long. BUT...at some point after I had joined the partygoers and had even surpassed some in the "inebriation sweepstakes", I stood up on the Rhodes and just "walked" out over the crowd. I was obliged by hundreds of willing hands and although it was pretty sketchy I maintained my balance and simply walked around the room "on the crowd" and finally ended up back at my Rhodes. Actually walking on the crowd was much safer than walking on the floor as there was, no joke, about 4 inches of beer in the basement by then. And that wasn't even the craziest thing that happened that night. But more on that later:-)
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Re:ever tried a stage dive?
2012/09/17 13:33:22
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Does muff diving count? If it was an audience-participation kind of thing?
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Re:ever tried a stage dive?
2012/09/17 13:48:30
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In country bars/dives.... nope... you don't want to stage dive.... no one will catch you.
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Re:ever tried a stage dive?
2012/09/17 16:26:06
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Does muff diving count? If it was an audience-participation kind of thing?
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