Show Stories

*stolen from the b9


-When I saw Bulldoze in 2001/2002 in Manchester NH They Opened with Beatdown and the place turned into a brawl. Once the first chord struck I immediately got kicked in the stomach. My friend who is a big d.ude got smashed in the face and was bleeding badly so he went to the bathroom and I went to check on him and the bathroom looked like a WWII hospital...bloody guys everywhere getting cleaned up. The crazy part is I'm 6'1 and I was one of the smaller guys there. Hatebreed headlined and pretty much did SITDDOF in its entiretey plus Filth, under the knife, and smash your enemies.

-i def remember a spitting teeth show in seattle where these crusty gays had a sit down protest over a certain mexican in my gangs bl13 "shut up bitch" shirt so when they decided to sit down and protest the band about 20 of us decided to run through them kicking their faces like soccer balls. it was like a wet dream come true for me.

-Nothing Personal reunion show in Virginia Beach. Some huge ass skin from Ohio (I think) being a tough ass got jumped the worse way. A couple kids who went to that show got their wigs split. A lot of blood spilled that night. Still one of the best shows ever. Also, the On Broken Wings show at the same venue. A lot of shit talk and a lot of fighting. Was still enjoyable to watch. I laughed. Now that I think of it, there has been a pretty good bit of violent shows around here.

-I went to Cleveland with a buddy of mine in 2000 and ended up stopping in Toledo and saw Cold As Life, Hatebreed and some other bands. During Cold As Life this guy got jumped so bad by 6 guys, they drug him out in the street and beat him until his face was unrecognizable. There was a river of blood down the block in the gutter. We left after that happened. I haven't seen anything like that in Denver except maybe in the 90's when Nazis used to come to shows like at Oi! Fest at the Azatlan in 1998 when this Nazi got jumped by a bunch of us in the bathroom and his head broke the urinal.

-Manic Hispanic at Safari Sam's in LA earlier this year. Big fuckin' ese inside is in the pit acting like a total jackass, throwing wild punches, hitting my frined in the face, trying to start shit running his mouth etc. Skins, cholos, sketchy looking guys...you get the picture. You got the sense something bad was going to happen. At one point the band stopped the show because of the fighting. Now this is also the same prick who earlier outside while waiting in line grabbed some girls ass and did the whole "did i do that? i'm sorry" act. So after the show, we get outside and a brawl breaks out in the parking lot, like 20 people. I see some guy getting smashed on the ground, blood all over. The same big fuckin' ese inside who was starting shit is all "who wants some? who fucking wants some? who fucking wants a piece of me" Well he got what he wanted. It's fucking chaos and the next thing I see is this guy run right up to him and stab him in the throat. Blood is just gushing out everywhere. Just a fucked scene. I think the guy died right there before the ambulance and police could get there.

-Blood for blood soccer riot. I brough kei from have heart(namedropping) to that for one of his first shows. he didnt talk the the whole way home. that place looked like a school shooting.. i'll never forget the cops outside with riot gear who didnt dare come inside. I got my eye punched shut and gashed open during diecast that night.. haha i handt even been watching them i came in for one second then BAM! i bled for three days and had to hide from my parents for like 2 weeks so they didint see it.

-the roadie from bury your dead got stabbed after a show here, only time ive ever heard of a band needing a police escort out of town

-bonehead who was apparently bribed by some pussy nazis to start shit at a Blacklisted show in Atlanta. idiot tried to pull a gun and literally got stomped into the ground. my friend and i dragged him outside unconscious, frisked him and then found a big knife on him as well. fuckin' ese had shoe/boot prints on his forehead. when he came to, spitting teeth and blood, he proceeds to tell s few of us outside about how he got beat up just as bad at a Slayer show somewhere in Europe. we just told him to leave and not come back if he had any sense (which apparently he didn't), but fortunately he didn't come back. Blacklisted didn't stop playing.

-i only saw the aftermath of this, but at Hellfest 2004 during NRSV i believe, some nazi got nearly killed. i had decided to rest during their set, just stood near the back. i went to have a piss and as i was washing my hands this black shinhead comes in to wash up complaining about how he got this fuckin' ese's blood all over his fred perry. i asked what happened and he just said "fuckin' ese had a swasi on his chest." so i walk back into the room where NRSV was playing and there was blood everywhere. janitors had to come mop up the blood. never saw the actual guy, but needless to say he didn't fare too well.

-1995 DOWNSET, MADBALL, 25TALIFE, ONE4ONE/BULLDOZE
i suppose most of you can imagine how unreal this show must have been easily over 500 people. tons of sketchy old dms dudes (i was 17 most of the crowd had to have been at least 5-8 years older then me). during 141 i got snuck for no reason probably for being a pouser, though i was shaved down in cargo's and a champion hoodie the fuckin' ese was rocking overalls a blue bandana rocked lowdow to his eyes no tshirt sleeved neck tattoos and weighted winter gloves (maybe brass knuckles even) saw stars fell to the ground and prayed for my life. friend dragged me up a minute or so later i hid in the corner for the rest of the night. during downset i would say their were officially 4 "pits" dudes getting messed up right and left broken bones, bleeding faces, people screaming/begging for help...wild between 25 and madball i saw these two brothers who were "n@zi's" get a beatdown and a half by the dudes in 141 & bulldoze, i always assumed it was over some previous beef cause they just walked up to the dudes and started beating on them without even making eye contact.

-studio 1 was always good for outrageous violence. saw a cigarette machine laid on top of someone catching a beating. also saw some fuckin' ese get beat with his own sneaker as three guys held him down. any 3 floor club that has guido's, longhairs, hardcore kids & sketchy bikers would have to have been wild.

-the last couple of pipeline shows where bad scenes. one way system played one night and all these skins showed up to mess with the punks. lots of people went to the hospital that night for sure. but the last show there ended with random street violence, a homeless guy getting a forty ounce broken over his head and coming back 3 hours later with a pistol, 5 skins stomping a fuckin' ese with in inches of being dead and leaving him on the sidewalk down the block in a puddle of blood the size of a childs swimming pool. some chick got slashed by another chick across the throat boxcutter style for god knows why?

-Fury of Five in Manchester NH sometime around 1997 ... mad fights, bouncers got beat (by Fury of Five, LOL) ... lots of blood... a tire iron... State Police stormed the building and locked it down.

-singer of Bros Keeper stabbed during Until the End at CBGB

-earth crisis show at the palace... 1996? the tour with VOD and damnation AD. basically saw a fuckin' ese get wrecked with an 8-ball in a sock, a chain, a bat, and a few grocery dividers. at least 25 people fighting.