Dancing. It's making love set to music,… playing.That is of course if you're listening to Frank Sinatra, otherwise its pretty much a hot mess. Let's focus on the art of rock dancing. Lets start with a song like "I'm No Angel" by Greg Allman, this is a sway your head with a beer in the other sort of dance. You look dumb and you're just trying to get laid by the waitress in the flannel shirt. Lets say that's Country Rock. Enough said on that one. Gross. Next.
Lets go to say.. The Fray or NickelMaroonFiveSuckStained. You dancing at those concerts? I'm thinking you're chair swaying or your standing up and screaming the lyrics at the band.
There isn't much dancing rhythm in rock. Techno yea that can have a danceable beat but mainstream rock, not so much. Aerosmith? All you can really do is pretend to be Steven Tyler, cant really woo you're sweetheart while dancing to "Love in An Elevator"
So then lets get to hardcore shall we? The 'mosh pit', the mosh pit evolved from slam dancing punks who thrashed themselves at each other. On behalf of my rib cage, you're welcome. See now there is the 'wall of death', basically the dance floor splits in two and charges at each other, or 'crowd surfing' which basically means the crowd will manhandle your ass and anything else til a fat security guard throws you over the barricade like a tuna at the fish market.
The 'skank' again from the old punk days is basically doing a drunken rendition of Riverdance while flailing your arms, not unlike a seizure only you look less intelligent.
I love the empty circle in the center of the floor of a good hardcore show. Three beefy roid boys with angry faces on shoving each other. Its playground fun and always ends up with one kid losing a shoe and a tooth. Its inevitable and its fun to watch.
I like being an adult in a pit. Theres the 'what do we do' look they give each other. No one really wants to mosh their mom but then again I am not afraid to shove right back. This does provide me a great spot to watch the show though. I think maybe in all my adult days of going to gigs Ive been intentionally slammed maybe twice. I got a kick he will never forget that's for sure. Don't fuck with me, I'm not scared.
A right of rock and roll passage is being able to say you crowd surfed. Again one of the stupidest things to watch but its somewhat fun to do. Why back in the day.. never mind its unimportant but basically you really do just lose your spot on the floor and end up at the back of the crowd, so g'head you're clearing my vantage point.
I worry about kids today they don't have much good rock to dance to. There's no Bill Haley and The Comets. No organized dance moves to swing about and dip to. Sad really.
Dance parties are more of a grind your ass into my crotch affair, good times I suppose. A bit messy but it's all they got.
Slow dancing is a lost art and brides today are having to take dance lessons cuz they have no idea how to dance their 'first dance' without a jello shot being sucked off their stomach first. Meh, life goes on.
I miss watching Soul Train when they formed that dance line. Every now and then a rock tune would get hung up and they would have to improvise some soul move like The Sprinkler to try and scurry past. I think that's when that guy ReRun would just do flips., You just cant dance to it.
I guess thats why theres always the air guitar.