What's with all the stage diving?

Stage diving can be an exhilarating activity at a show. As long as you're not killing or seriously injuring yourself, of course.
Over the past week, two people have died and one person was seriously injured after jumping from great heights near a concert stage. This is very sad news because music is supposed to give people joy, not misery.
Last Wednesday, a male fan at a Phish show jumped from the balcony at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, N.Y., sustaining serious injuries. The next night, an audience member at a Swell Season show in Saratoga, Calif. roof jumped onto the stage while the band was playing and was killed. Then, the next night, Friday, in Belgium at the Pukkelpop Festival, Charles Haddon, the 22-year-old singer of electro-pop trio Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, was killed after jumping from a telecommuication tower at the festival after his band's set had just ended.
Apparently, Haddon's jump was documented as a suicide. However, the other two incidents remain unexplained. Could drugs have been a factor in these leaps of faith?
Imagine being Swell Season. Just another day on the road until a person goes splat on your stage mid-song. Was their music really that bad, man?
If you're going to stage dive, then do it from the actual stage into a sea of hands. It's a lot more fun and less painful that way.

Sonic Youth is the truth

Sonic Youth makes moving music, no matter how weird people might think it is. The band went off a beaten path back in the early 1980s and luckily stayed on that path all the way to their own amazing music island.
Still, no band sounds like Sonic Youth, even after 30 years. Kim Gordon (bass) still has those simple lines that pace the music so well. Moore and Ranaldo still cut like razors. Shelley on the steady sticks.
Has there ever been a better opening track than "100%"? Only, to go into a churning number like "Swimsuit Issue?" It's like Gordon is crawling in your head, looking for help. Dirty is just one of the band's 15 interesting albums.
That was 1992, the second album after a masterpiece called Daydream Nation, that boosted Sonic Youth with wider appeal. Goo was even a great follow up to Daydream. How can a band to that? By changing the dynamic next time.
"Whereas we were just an anarchy band, and really into being loose, anything goes," Moore once said in "Our Band Could Be Your Life."
Sonic Youth retained the anarchy symbol and kept experimenting with its music. Most of it was mesmerizing.
"Our feeling is that the guitar is an unlimited instrument and for the most part people have not taken it to full advantage," Ranaldo said in the same book.
I'm guessing that the members of Sonic Youth did???