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Originally Posted by The Batlord
This question is mostly for the oldies who were actually there to see this time period. Alright, so we've all seen the kind of be-mulleted dunderheads that inspired Beavis and Butthead in documentaries like Heavy Metal Parking Lot. The kind that just make you cringe, knowing that their intellectual mediocrity has been preserved on film for all of mankind to deride. But these days those types seem to mostly populate the Juggalo movement, or maybe the deathcore scene. Metalheads just seem to be nerds more than anything else now. So, with whatever dynamic that existed back then seemingly gone I've never really known just how true the stereotypes were, and in what proportions. Would the vast majority of a crowd at a Slayer show in the mid to late eighties have been made up of morons? Fifty/fifty? Would I have been embarrassed to be seen with these people?
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I don't remember any nerds at Slayer shows. I remember fire pits and bloody faces. I remember people getting knocked the **** out. The type of guys at Slayer shows looked more like Bikers then Metal Heads. The difference being those guys that would kick you in the face, would pick you back up and say are you alright and then knock your ass over again. I would say they lacked brain power from a i'm high on meth and i'm gonna dive off this balcony type more then a i can't divide 30 x 2 mentality. I remember watching Tom Araya at Redlands and watching guys spit loogies on him over and over and over until his face was a ****ing spitball, but that was just pure love man. LOL Metalheads were pretty hard in So-Cal back then. I think you are referring to the hair metal scene, that was filled with prissy bitches and women. That **** was gone the moment Slayer came back to town. They started out in a lockout warehouse playing when I was 15 in Orange Ca. I went and got my nose busted and one of my teeth knocked out first night. I went the very next night so yeah I was a moron.