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:	post by xmikex at 2008-05-19 10:59:13

The way I figure it, if you've got an instrument in your hand, it's not your fault. Just keep playing, and let the crowd police the fight on it's own. Never get off the stage. Fights are generally just a cry for attention, if you stop the show so everyone can gaze at the spectacle then you're just giving right into it.

I saw an All Out War show at the El N Gee one time where the craziest fight ever broke out. I don't know how it started but a bunch of the bouncers got beat up, and at one point it seemed like everyone was either fighting, on the floor, or running away except for myself and like 4 other dudes who were still dancing (while dodging the fight) and having a great time. All Out War saw us having fun and never stopped playing even after they killed the PA.

On the flip side of that I've seen bands like Cannae, and Diecast (who seemed to always have fights at their shows back in the day) not stop playing during fights, but 9 times out of 10 they'd say something to break up the fight. It usually worked.

Some bands just don't want fighting at their shows, and they'll stop. That's respectable to a degree. But a lot of those bands take it as an opportunity to grand stand, and show off preaching a bunch of I'm-better-than-you bullshit that they don't even stand behind. It's also a shitty situation to be in because just because a kid won a fight doesn't necessarily mean he's the asshole in that situation. I've seen situations where some douchebag will run around punching girls, and then get beat up for it, and the band (who has no idea what's going on) chews out the kid who beat him up just to make a point, and look cool.

Or you could always pull an It Dies Today, storm off from the show during a fight (even though its your last song), tell everyone you're never playing there again (even though 2 people are fighting out of the 100+ people that are there), accept an apology from the kid who fought, tell him it's no big deal and shit happens, and then turn around and make a self righteous speech on the internet about it the next day. You could do that.

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