Probably less likely to get knocked out of tune when you hit random bits of furniture or other musicians with the head, though.
You have evoked a memory from the 1970s. Let me check...
Ah, The Stranglers playing at the Locarno Ballroom in Coventry, October 1977.
Blimey... I only paid £1.60 for my ticket!!!!
Anyway... the band were playing and the densely-packed punk audience was pogoing away in front of the stage, with the occasional pogoer spitting up at the band. (Remember those glorious pre-virus days!!) They were getting a bit peed off with it and bass player Jean-Jacques Burnel leaned forward and growled into his mic... "
Right, you can pack that f*****g gobbing in! The next f****r who gobs at me gets it!!" Most of the punks had enough sense to believe him but one idiot pogoed to the front and gobbed straight at him. JJB immediately smacked him in the face with his bass! The ailing punk was escorted from the building by security and the band carried on with their set.
It always struck me how young JJB looked compared to the rest of them - he looked like a precocious teenager playing in his dodgy old dad's band!
