I went and saw a Korn concert recently as I got free tickets from my Uncle, and I used to listen to them back in Middleschool/Highschool and thought why the hell not.
Went with a friend and when we arrived we immediately got into the middle of the crowd during the first performance. Small and large goth fats all over the place, both sexes(I think). Some of them even tried to "slip" through the crowd for a better spot(as if it were fucking possible). Anyway, I stopped paying them attention and got into the music as best I could and just let the energy of the crowd lead the way.
Two bands down and Korn is up next. Crowd was already rowdy as hell during the second performance and I managed to make my way almost all the way to the front of the crowd(there were only two people in front of me to the railing). To my surprise there were a handful of fats that had either somehow miraculously made their way to the front or had gotten there early and decided they were going to stay till the end. The problem was the crowd was rowdy as hell and Korn had decided to play almost their entire first album instead of any of their new stuff. Their first album, for anyone who doesn't know, is pretty damn crazy and apparently the crowd had known this was coming so it was a bunch of people ready to just go crazy.
The show starts and a huge mosh pit forms. The crowd is swaying too and fro because of the pressure from the crowd of people going nuts behind us. This wouldn't really be an issue, as all you have to do is have good footing and brace yourself against one or two other people, but remember there are fats in the crowd. For starters I was near one and they sweat and smell even worse than the average person who was been in the crowd for 2-3 hours. However, after the crowd has been going nuts for that long the fatties apparently reach a breaking point. You could see the desperation and acceptance of their fate in their eyes. As things kept getting more and more intense the fatties start to fall during a push one way or the other causing large gaps of pressure. Basically a bunch of people starting falling because the blubber beasts couldn't hold themselves up anymore when the crowd surged one way or the other. I looked at the nearest one to me, she/he looked ready to pass out, and I just yelled if you can't handle it get the hell out of here.
Thankfully, after what seemed like forever, they slowly got elbowed and push out of the front and those of us physically able to meet the demands of the crowd enjoyed the fuck out of the rest of the concert.
That is my rant. People who aren't physically fit enough to be apart of something like that should stay the fuck out so that those of us who want to get rowdy aren't endangered by their weak and flabby bodies.
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[–] vordster 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Korn is a great band live, the energy! Sorry about the fats tho, shouting "AAAALL DAY I DREAM ABOOOOUT SNACKS!"