Flashing Breasts At Concerts: When did people stop doing this?

This is not a thread about patriarchal ramifications or classic/dud status. It's simple social history stuff, so let's try not to devolve it into arguments.

A story:

The second concert I attended was Helmet in Tampa in 1995 and a girl next to me stood on her boyfriend's shoulders and flashed her breasts at Page Hamilton. In the following 14 years of attending shows, I've never seen this again.

Now this was de riguer in the 1980s if I am to believe music videos. I've seen artists ASK to see breasts as if it were a common occurance at concerts (Ozzy in Tampa in 2001, Ludacris in Gainesville in 2000), but no one ever complied.

Older posters: When was the moment this became passe? And why? When was the last time you have witnessed this activity? I would think this would be something that Cobain and Co. would have killed, but Woodstock 94 was very flash-heavy iirc.

great thread

9/11/2001

cobain: the marc loi of breast-flashing

is when people stopped doing this

specifically women

the only time i've seen it happen is when courtney love did it, to the audience, at lolllaplaplzozooaza 94

or 95 idk

http://www.pulpinternational.com/images/postimg/sexy%20front.jpg

when photos ended up on the internet?

I tend to associate breast flashing with hair metal, so "Cobain kills hair metal, also kills breast flashing" works for me.

i don't think i've ever seen this at a show :'(

the dr dre 2001 tour video i saw had girls doing this. so im guessing they never stopped. unless something major has happened in the last 8 years.

I still do this.

OK, not really. Don't think I've ever seen it done either.

the only time i've seen this is when i used to watch metallica concert videos in high school

also the alkaholiks concert dvd

what about men doing this?

so basically, women still do this at hip hop shows, but not at shows for arcade fire. for kid rock maybe?

actually this has happened when i was playing in the band, but it was more awkward than exciting.

I still do this.

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At Morrissey? That would scare him half to death! :-/

Last time I saw it was what's-her-name from the Dandy Warhols.

a quick flickr search shows that this tradition is alive and kicking at Motley Crue gigs.

Saw this between the Metallica and Guns n Roses sets at the Superdome in 92 ... the infamous "breast cam." As described here.

oh wait i TOTALLY saw someone do this ... at a Belle & Sebastian concert, haha.

x-postsss Yeah, Zia plays topless a lot. I've seen lady musicians do this but not actual audience members.

The only time I've ever seen this happen was at a Ween show, of all places.

figured this was tied to the woodstock 99 polls where girls were getting assaulted

not in the polls, mind you, afaik

oh wait i TOTALLY saw someone do this ... at a Belle & Sebastian concert, haha.

Really? Tongue in cheek flashing, most likely. It's almost wholesome and cute.

I saw this at a Bloodhound Gang gig circa 2000 and a Green Day show perhaps circa 2001.

yeah, b&s have a song where they sing about a girl known for showing her chest -- that's when it happened. the band seemed shocked.

that Juggalo festival is keeping the boob-flash flag flying high tho.

Yeah if WW really wants to see boobs at a concert he really does need to go to The Gathering next year.

I remember going to see the Rollins Band at the old Marquee on 21st street in 1991. The opening band was the mighty Lunachicks and halfway into their set, there was a major scuffle in the crowd. A bunch of skinheads came charging past me holding this long haired, freaky guy by the scalp. The `Chicks were summarily very appreciative, as apparently this dude had been waving his cock around at them for the entirety of their performance.

I later learned that the unfortunate gent in question was Dino Sex ... the infamous drummer for GG Allin & the Murder Junkies.

Nowadays you just get tased for that.

Deservedly

I saw this at a Bob Dylan show in 2007.

ha. I was at that Rollins show.

I was watching Download Festival on VH1 Classic, hosted by the That Metal Show dudes (god help me) and there was titty flashing all over

ICP is always spraying Faygo all over the stretch-marked titties of the world's Jugallettes.

always spraying Faygo all over the stretch-marked titties of the world's Jugallettes

okay which board should get this description

ILTMI

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/thumb/9/9a/FatJuggalette.jpg/450px-FatJuggalette.jpg

i wish dom was alive to see this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf80jYNg8Og

Only time I saw this was at a Pere Ubu show ffs. David Thomas looked less than impressed, as usual.

Cripes. Who would flash their goods at David Thomas?

maybe her?
http://scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/simpsons_CrazyCatLady.gif

The last time I saw this was at a Sebadoh show around 02 or so. Frankly I've never seen this at the smaller clubs I've been to - a bit too intimate for that behavior, I think.

Crash Worship ... lots of dongs a flappin' too

WTF WTF Pere Ubu?!?!

Only time I have seen this was at a Metal Trivia Night in Atlanta in 2003. Trivia host guy decided to see if he could get ladies to take their clothes off vying for the prize of a PBR belt buckle. The answer was yes.

Does naked Butthole Surfers dancer in 1987 count?

...used to happen at CFL games....

holy shit is that what rodney carrington is like?

First google result for flashing breasts at concerts (no quotes). Second page for flashing breasts (no quotes).

when i saw my chemical romance in 06 gerard way went off on a rant against emo bands that ask for girls to flash them and i was like "...who is flashing cobra starship" but apparently people do/did?

xpost: two women got up on stage naked on the first Pere Ubu reunion tour date in Edinburgh. Thomas looked appalled. It must have become a tradition.

I recall this at Ozzy shows in the 90s.

Also, I flash my bare chest when my friends are playing to distract them.

That Oasis live album, possibly?

(not much of a story, someone did, Liam went wor, cameras picked her out...)

Mike Skinner was getting girls to bare their breasts when I saw The Streets a few years ago.

At the Ricardo Villalobos/Zip show at Mutek this year, a girl threw her bra on stage at Villalobos, and flashed him quite intentionally putting it back on after he (like the kind gentleman that he is) made sure it was returned to her.

I never thought I'd see breast flashing at a mnml show.

Probably around the time Sleater-Kinney broke up.

lol @ villalobos

this happened at coachella in 2004, i think during the cure show, and the breasts were broadcast into the desert night on the two huge screens

Never seen this happen; and it's legal for women to go topless in public here (Ontario). But then, I don't attend too many shows.

Legal but too cold

accidentally saw the killers at benicassim... loads of tittiez.

Saw boobs on various warped tours. On the other hand, one time a teenage boy flashed his junk at the singer for Save Ferris. She wasn't that shocked.

But to answer the main question, I imagine the fall in flashing is directly tied with the rise of cell phone cameras.

I think the more pertinent question is: What can we do to bring this fad back?

In 1999 I saw flashing at the Metallica show in St. Pete.

was lars drunk?

they weren't even out yet. there was a long delay prior to them taking the stage and these girls just went to town flashing. and then two of them started making out...

I thought this still happened a lot at metal festivals. Well it does if Download Festival is anything to go by: watched the streaming live footage of that and some bird kept getting her boobies out during Korn and Faith no More.

some bird

Thats right.

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/amc0828l.jpg

at live aid, during the first number or so (status quo) a girl flashed and the camera zoomed in. a furious geldof told the bbc vision mixer/ camera op bods or whoever that this wasn't in keeping with the spirit of the ocassion and put a stop to it.

birds don't have mammary glands!

basic biology, trayce! sheesh!

From a Woodstock '99 review:

Two of the trademarks of Woodstock were already in full effect by the time Jamiroquai began his set - mudfights and topless women.

The mudfights had already begun, as there was a broken water main that someone managed to turn the water flow on to. Amidst the mudslinging, and Jamiroquai singing "You gotta get down", a wild-eyed teenage boy had one question - "Where's the speed?"

Meanwhile Jamiroquai is rocking Woodstock with his own personal style of funk - freestyling his lyrics during "Traveling Without Moving" to include a repetition of the chant for "more breasts" and including a comment that "American breasts are the best breasts... thank God for American breasts."

Not breast flashing, but at Springsteen's recent Vienna concert a girl near the front got up on someone's shoulders and took her T-shirt off – she had a bra on. It was shown on the big screen that the shirt had "JERSEY GIRL" written on it, so this was basically a ruse to get Springsteen to play her request (which he did, of course).

AC/DC, 2000. It seems they have a longstanding ritual of using a particular song (I forget which one) to focus on women flashing their breasts, and featuring them on the giant video screens. Has anyone seen their current tour? Do they still do it?

I imagine the fall in flashing

I misread this as a reference to someone flashing The Fall, which would probably be an event

"I see your breasts-ah"

AC/DC, 2000. It seems they have a longstanding ritual of using a particular song (I forget which one) to focus on women flashing their breasts, and featuring them on the giant video screens. Has anyone seen their current tour? Do they still do it?

Yes, they do, during "The Jack," but when I saw them this past year in NYC and then in Dublin, nobody actually flashed; it was just all these thirtysomething or middle-aged Irish women looking vaguely embarrassed to be on the big screen.

Amidst the mudslinging, and Jamiroquai singing "You gotta get down", a wild-eyed teenage boy had one question - "Where's the speed?"

isn't this the synopsis for a best-selling novel

i kind of love the thing of referring to the twat from jamiroquai as jamiroquai. could totally work with some other bands

Reminds me of an immortal quote by dumbshit roommate while we were watching TV in 1992:

"So which one of these dudes is Quantum Leap?"

http://thisisphotobomb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/129086654147345542.jpg

lol

Is that dude our very own Krakow?

http://i.imgur.com/4EaPt.jpg