This post is from one of several previous incarnations of this site and probably doesn’t quite fit the current format. In a former life this was a group blog and a tumblelog before it became a static jekyll site. If anything looks broken or is worded oddly that could be why. Pardon the dust.
Grand Royal magazine puts forth the argument that the word “Mosh” has it’s origins in hardcore, more specifically HR of the Bad Brains and his admonitions to “Mash it up!”.. who’da thunk? If only the print version of Grand Royal had kept going longer. 6 or 7 issues was nowhere near enough. To ease the loss there’s more bits and pieces from the online verson here.