I could go into my Crash Worship experiences but that would probably merit a whole topic of its own...and not all of it would be good reading for those under 18, we got pretty insane in those pits.
Don't cite Linkin Park either, they don't come anywhere close. I know because you all kept your clothes on and didn't slather yourselves in chocolate syrup, wine, milk, corn oil, strawberry jam, edible glitter, honey...(smirk) I'll let you visualize the rest, heh heh heh
Yes, it was often out-of-control. We had fire-breathers mingling with the crowd. Frankly I'm surprised I survived mostly unscathed...
I will offer a couple contrasting anecdotes, however. I've been accused of having eclectic tastes in music. Pigface, Fiannacats, and the Oregon Mozart Players.
I saw Pigface when they came through Portland. The lineup consisted of Curse Mackey, Charles Levi from Thrill Kill Kult, En Esch formerly of KMFDM and currently heading Slick Idiot, The Enigma (yeah, the jigsaw puzzle tattoo guy) from the Jim Rose Circus, Hanin Elias, Martin Atkins, Krztoff, and a couple other people who I'm blanking on at the moment. Yes, a boatload of musicians on a tiny stage, but they raged. Enigma came down into the crowd wearing a pig mask and carrying a (thankfully toothless) chainsaw during one of the encores. "What did Enigma do with the toothless chainsaw, Vrikasatma?" you may very well be asking. Here's what he was doing: GOOSING people with it!!!
Yes, he got me...I about jumped out of my frickin' skin...
Fiannacats. No, don't worry, you probably haven't heard of them if you live outside Oregon. Or maybe even Lane County. They're a local Celtic rock band that runs rings around Gaelic Storm. I say now and you can quote me, it is humanly, scientifically impossible to hold still while they're playing. They rock, they rage, they wail. They played the stage at the last outdoor Saturday Market in 2004 and turned everyone within hearing range into a dancin' fool. When they were on the stage, we vendors didn't sell a doggone thing but we didn't care, they were that good.
Oregon Mozart Players, for Wolfgang's 250th birthday last month. That was a night in Heaven. David Ogden Stiers — yes, Major Winchester from M*A*S*H* — guest conductor and narrator. He conducted the Overture to <i>The Marriage of Figaro</i> Towering, vital man with a powerful voice; when he first came out and started narration, his mike didn't work but his voice filled the hall anyway. How's that for projection?
Next Lauren Flanigan singing the "Regina Coeli, K. 127." She also did the Exsultate, Jubilate and when she hit the high note during the Alleluia just about everyone in the place fainted. David Krakaur on the Clarinet Concerto, and wrapping up the evening with the Jupiter Symphony and final scene from <i>The Marriage of Figaro</i> with students from the UofO music school singing the vocal parts. Best $25 I've spent in a very long time
in my home town of Milton Keynes, And man it was an experiance to live for...
There was everything being thrown about 
) and I tell ya, I love it!
They were great, although I early on got the feeling that I was the only one there under the age of forty that wasn't pretending to be my age (I know I smelled pot while I was there).
<-- Don't Do Crack (character from South Park)
But now it's in SLC! Yes! And I'll get to meet up with a friend that I met on a trip. It's gonna be sweet! Maybe someday you'll get tickets 
Jumping around and/or moshing is hella fun.
I hear the original guys are better but that show was a good time. It cracks me up that they were used in the Intel Inside commercials but they use Macs 
