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.