SUPOSED TO BE BATTALION OF SAINTS

PIT ETIQUETTE

 I said I would revise this page when I received a reply and I received an honest and valid one to my previous post. I must say I see the clubs point of view and though my previous post wasn’t meant to talk neck, I was pissed about the generalizations the 86ed bulletin had made about so many of my friends. By the way a lot of my friends that have grown in leaps and bounds in how they act. Anyway clubs are a business and the doll hut in particular has had some great shows, great pits,,, and turned the other cheek to plenty of mutual combat beefs. I have been going there since the 80’s and have to say it has stood the test of time to be punk rock. After the reply I received and all of my encounters with lulu have been good ones and other than the time at Alex’s with a drunken guy she knew and after that was squashed they have all been beyond fair. So I apologize to her if my last post sounded as if I was talking shit and as I re read it I was a lot zealous and I still feel the same way I did I just could have worded it better so here I will try again!!!

We are so tired of fad following idiots with there freshly sleeved arms who’s Idea of a pit is a Bon Jovi concert bringing their drinks into a pit or cheap shotting because they got nailed by the surge! Or worse yet never even getting in the pit but standing right behind the very people protecting them from getting nailed and elbowing them in the back because a surge of ten guys pushes them backwards into them. Then that same pussy because he has some beer courage thinks some polite good advise from someone with 25 friends there telling them to cool their jets, then a second warning to fucking quit it and on the third time gives them mad dog look before he gets clocked up side the head AND HE IS NOT CONSIDERED THE PROBLEM????

What I am tired of is that the polite one that did the warning and then the schooling is the one that gets blamed for starting it! The clubs point is any complaint to the cops creates a police report and then the people that control if they can serve liquor or not get notified and there livelihood is in jeopardy! So to all my friends before we get the good bars like the hut shut down by the governing government agency let’s just take the dicks out side and off the property like the time at the lbc pizza place WHERE IT WAS ONE ON ONE UFC:) or just put them in it and play pinball.

And to you fucking assholes that stand right behind the people on the front lines that are keeping the pit in the pit, they are doing you a favor instead of them just getting in it and destroying the whole crowd! So instead of shoving them get a good footing and back them up and let them know your there for that! and before you throw your drink on these people or elbow them in the back or if it is someone like a couple of the women I know that are handling theirs while you are grabbing their ass. YOU MIGHT WANT TO think about how many people they are standing with out side smoking and realize that if you are buzzed and doing Stue shit and you are not even in the pit you are asking to get lumped up. If your in the pit your GONNA get blindsided at some point that is the pit shake it off and go back at it! but if you are not in the pit keep your eyes open because sometimes the surge will break the lines ! if you want to drink, SHOOT THE SHIT AND NOT watch the action and not get bumped stand in the back or the side there are plenty of safe spots! if a surge spills your drink realize it was not the person that was standing next to you trying to save you they were pushed by 1000 pounds of humans run amok!

Why not try thanking them for trying or back them up instead of throwing an elbow, a drink or copping a feel and there won't be any problems!! That shit happens at every show and it is getting worse people standing behind people that are facing 20 rampaging knuckles and they are pitting with themselves and hitting us in the back!!OR TRYING TO HIT ON SOMEONE WHEN 3500POUNDS OF PEOPLE ARE DOING THERE BEST TO PLAY RUGBY WITHOUT A BALL RIGHT NEXT TO THEM! dude the chick wants to watch hit her up between bands pinhead!

It is grounds for an ass whoopin so quit that shit! Maybe you should just be pointed at and instead of getting a beating and ruining the show you will just be tossed in the middle and be the one with the ball and we will play a good old fashioned game of smear the queer!! I think I like that plan that was a great game!!!

You will probably never get squished if you pick a good spot and stay there but if you are not willing to accept that you may get a surge of grown people catching you off guard then go to a Barry Manilow show! Stop blaming a whole bunch of good humans that have a political view because some over zealous youngsters have the same view. 85% of the fights I have seen form and then come to a head and blow in the last 3 years have been because a buzzed idiot took the first polite advise as weakness disregarded the real warning and the third strike they made they just puffed up their chest and mad dogged as if they were gonna beat 25 guys and they got stomped for it! Well to me that is more than fair. There have been 3 or 4 that were a bit quicker because the asshole caught someone on the wrong night at the wrong time and got worked but 3 or 4 at 8 different bars in 3 years when I go to 2 shows a week most every week for 3 years is pretty decent. Anyway that is not just my opinion it comes from over 10 of my friends that go to more shows than I do and I don’t care if you are the biggest and baddest mother fucker on the planet if you are just being a dick because a pit at a punk show bumped into you and you insist on being a drink or an elbow throwing asshole you will at some point be lumped up it is just punk rock!

Sorry if it didn’t come out right the first time lulu and thanks for all the kick ass times!!

Chris and a few of our mutual friends!!!!!