Moshing

I just thought it was going to be this fun little Christian rock band playing at youth groups in Nebraska and Kansas.

We were having a blast just starting Mosh Pits.

This was back in the days before people were holding up cell phones at concerts.

The kids were just going ballistic, rocking out.

Like, we just stood out here and did nothing.

So it's funny.

Whenever there's a rap concert, I'll be honest with you, I knew it wouldn't be a crazy difficult night because people don't get as into it as the mosh pits.

The mosh pits is when you're literally saving people's lives.

I think that's a perfect way to start.

Oh, Mosh Pits, brutal music, absolutely insane and having fun.

But I understand what you're saying when it comes to playing the new album and having to focus on the live setting going through the entire thing.

And it's very similar to a conversation I recently had with Dustin from the legendary metalcore band Walls of Jericho when it talked about the live setting.

We're going to end it by saying i'll see you later

thank you so much see you later

well folks my interview with alan from distant now separate kevin's final thought so you guys know me i love the live scene you know i love being in shows and i love going into those mosh pits as well and never leaving i love the fact that it's being present in the show you're being present in the moment and you're not stuck and glued to your phone because too many times people are and too many times in life everybody else is now When we were talking about this and the band had released more than half the album, I'll admit, I thought it was okay.

They're playing the streaming game.

You're actually a jerk.

That's not what mosh pits are about.

Mosh pits are about friendship.

I would say, yeah.

Yeah,

um, volunteering and, and, uh, helping out and things like that.

Um, so I did, I did see some really great photos of you, Josh, like within live shows and like the mosh pits and stuff like that.

Um, can you tell me about some of the shows, how crazy they are, like how you feel, um, you know, they're, they're really a great space for folks.

Yeah.

It's not a place where you're there to fight with somebody and all that stuff.

Cause if things do break out, everybody's there to stop it, calm it down.

But for the hardcore shows, when I see people like, throwing kicks and punches at people that are standing there that's a little too harsh for me that I that I can't do but other than that uh regular mosh pits are pretty fun everyone should experience it once in their life

yeah I went to like well I think I talked about this in another interview or that maybe it was with the emo work that I did but we did touch on hardcore and like I went to like a warehouse show and it was I think it was um forget who played but it's like the the hardcore right like um and they're doing yeah like the what is it the windmill and all that type of stuff yeah body slamming and it was like i mean you're even if you're stepped back and you're like just in the audience um you get like uh you get a yeah some of that you know you don't mean to but like it's intense like that's why i was like whoa like it just was But the feeling was nothing that I've ever experienced because it's very different.

Like, if you went to, like, a hip-hop show.

But that was also the height of my, like, I listened to Mosh Music and The Carter 3, and that was it.

Yeah, yeah.

I remember that.

And it's like that, like, usually you end, like, you would expect them to end with, like, either the Impaler or Decimate the Weak.

Because those were the singles.

And they're like, no, we're ending with the Mosh song because you want to fucking see that place open up front to back, side to side.

Let's see this place go up like the fucking Challenger.

But stereotypically, it's like the image of kind of Rock, particularly in the early 80s, is the long hair, kind of, like, pretty much...

Perhaps slightly out of the way guys, running around, like, making devil horns, jumping around in mosh pits and stuff.

Mosh pits and stuff like that.

But...

But what you've got is that you've got Eddie Van Halen, who was one of the bigger guitarists at the time, being put onto a pop track by a black artist on a song.

even know that? So

you might have named Mosh? Yeah, well, I don't want to take, who the hell am I to take credit for something like that? We're

going to give it to you,

though.

that story? It's a sick story.

I didn't know the story.

I was just going to say the first time I heard the word was S.O.D., the Milano Mosh.

Oh, yeah, right.