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with the news of the people dying at a Travis Scott concert while he did essentially nothing, i felt it necessary to list as many examples as possible of how easy it is for a band to control its fans when shit is getting out of control

While on tour in Australia, for the 2013 Soundwave festival, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park stops mid-song to help a fan who had been knocked out.

Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against The Machine stops a show in Arizona to condemn sexual harassment happening in the crowd

Corey Taylor while on tour with his band Stone Sour stops a show in Australia because of an injury, telling the crowd to back up

Chevelle tells man in the crowd at a show to stop pepper spraying people who were just enjoying the show

Kurt Cobain and the rest of Nirvana during a 1993 New Years Eve concert in California tell off a fan for sexually assaulting a woman in the crowd, and proceed to make fun of him

Layne Staley of Alice In Chains punches and slaps a nazi at a 1993 show in Sweden after the man caused trouble in the crowd. Layne then says "fucking Nazis die."

There are so many videos of Billie Joe Armstrong saving fans at shows, they can be put into this six-minute compilation

M. Shadows helps a passed out fan during the 2018 Graspop Metal Meeting, instructing the crowd to give them room

Dexter Holland, singer for skate punk band The Offspring, tells the crowd of Woodstock '99 not to sexually harass the women crowd surfing

Five Finger Death Punch reunite a lost little girl with her mother during the 2016 Chicago Open Air Festival

there are literally hundreds of videos of the proper protocol when there's a situation at your show-- ignoring it isn't one of them. fuck you Travis Scott.

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I was looking through my old cringe posts on a social media app I won't disclose (😨) but I found this gem

Song refs guys

How many can you guess???

new purchase - yay :)

People who took these photos/the light techs for these shows deserve an award

I legitimately think ratm at pinkpop '93 might be my favorite show of all time

The following might be a hot take but hear me out

Ofc ratm, Soundgarden and led zep aren't comparable genre wise but their some of my favorite bands, and I think among them ratm has the best live show

While Soundgarden and zep perform AMAZINGLY live and are absolutely up to par with the studio recordings, ratm live to me is even better than in the studio.

It's just so different in the live setting where you can HEAR their improvisations and SEE the passion, esp with Zack where he's basically baring his teeth 😭😭

Like look at him 😨

'93 ratm is the peak of swag to me (it also helps that theyre fine af 👀)

(also last note fistfull of steel live is so slept on with the dedication at the start and the "let me do the cuttin'" part)

(ok I'll shut up now)

Do you ever just

Get the urge to transform into a microphone?

Also have a muddy Chris because

I am FERAL

my bff just randomly bought me the battle of los Angeles ratm cd while she was out and I'm gonna sob I love my friends

Do you guys also pay a bit too much attention to their fingers or is that just me 😬

My favorite ILM thread.

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