― TiPoIv, Saturday, 29 April 2006 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Kitchens of Distinction - Ears ringing for two days.
Test Department - Ears ringing ringing for three days.
― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Saturday, 29 April 2006 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
was like 10 drills digging into the brainexcess alcohol and substances were of little help
― nique (nique), Saturday, 29 April 2006 05:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― TiPoIv, Saturday, 29 April 2006 06:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― TiPoIv, Saturday, 29 April 2006 06:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Saturday, 29 April 2006 06:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Loudest shows I ever saw - Manowar, Motorhead, Merzbow, Sunn O))), Swans.
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Saturday, 29 April 2006 07:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rodney's motives are beyond the comprehension of men (R. J. Greene), Saturday, 29 April 2006 08:00 (eighteen years ago) link
The Who in 1975 were pretting f'in loud too, I was in the very back of Riverfront Coliseum where the sounds rezound off the ceiling.
Saw John Cale's Sabotage tour myself, which I remember as a great show but not super-loud though he did have a "metal" gtrist IIRC.
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Loudest good band: Primal Scream seconded.
― yer mam! (yer mam!), Saturday, 29 April 2006 10:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― snowballing (snowballing), Saturday, 29 April 2006 10:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Saturday, 29 April 2006 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Saturday, 29 April 2006 11:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Saturday, 29 April 2006 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― superbadger (superbadger), Saturday, 29 April 2006 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Blue Filters (Gilkannon), Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I should also mention Big Sugar as being notable loud.
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
however, it's still one of my favorite shows i've ever been to.
― Emily B (Emily B), Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― sigmundooze, Sunday, 30 April 2006 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 30 April 2006 02:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Surly, Sunday, 30 April 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Sugar was really loud, as was a Nashville Pussy show I saw a year or so ago in a small club. I've seen bunches of hard guitar shows, but those two stick out in my head along with the Prong gig.
Tricky had the most ungodly loud bass sound I have ever heard live. It did not have that high mids cutting into your head like a hard rock show, but the bass literally would come in waves and rattle your body.
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 30 April 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
The weirdest thing happened at the ATR show I saw in Chicago. Granted it was effing LOUD - but also incredibly physical, vis a vis the "mosh pit" to use the parlance of our times. When we exited said pit, we made sure all limbs were intact and my friend Christina found she had a new pager on her belt (?!!!) She had somehow hit someone, or jumped simultaneously with someone in a way that unclipped the pager from them and re-clipped it onto her. Very strange. Any Chicago people remember loosing a pager in 2000?
― TiPoIv, Sunday, 30 April 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Black Flag (five-piece line up with Dez) somewhere in downtown LA.Curve (Cuckoo tour at the Palace)
and believe it or not... Yes (90125 tour at the Forum)
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 30 April 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― nklshs, Sunday, 30 April 2006 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― jk_ (jk@gabba), Sunday, 30 April 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Maciej Kasperowicz (Maciej), Sunday, 30 April 2006 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 30 April 2006 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Sunday, 30 April 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Aaron A, Sunday, 30 April 2006 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 April 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 30 April 2006 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
MIA was followed by LCD Soundsystem, at appropriate volume.
― dee eff (dee eff), Monday, 1 May 2006 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 1 May 2006 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― twoheadedboy, Monday, 1 May 2006 05:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― S- (sgh), Monday, 1 May 2006 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Monday, 1 May 2006 07:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 1 May 2006 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 1 May 2006 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― something less threatening (heywood), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alone, Jealous and SSRI'd (kate), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alone, Jealous and SSRI'd (kate), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Otherwise, probably standing in front of Luke's Jazz Chorus at a Rapture show. Dude sure does like the "bright" switch.
― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― antonio, Monday, 1 May 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
I WAS AT THIS SHOW. Lupos in downtown Providence, November 2001, I believe. Great show!
― Bill Magill, Monday, 1 May 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― So Ho La (So Ho La), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link
after a while my ears must have got used to it and the gig was one of the best and most powerful things i have ever witnessed with gira rolling about the stage almost completely naked. in hindsight, it was really stupidly loud. probably illegally loud but at the time i loved it.
i went to see them in glasgow the next night but it was cancelled as the venue there refused point blank to let them bring the pa into the building.
the next loudest thing was jeff mills also at the edinburgh venue circa 1997 when he played at a club night i did there. he had had some of his tracks cut onto metal acetates (which he would play and then throw onto the ground - i guess they were pretty indestructable). the process of having them cut onto metal (something i have never seen before or since) meant that they were about twice the volume of normal vinyl. the club was notoriously loud to begin with but this was just insane. i was standing behind him and smelled burning and looked round and saw that he had literally caused one of the monitors to go on fire. as was mentioned in one of the whitehouse posts above, the air took on a weird texture. for the whole night i had been unable to find my friend sam. she had been up for a couple of nights so i figured she must have gone to sleep in her car. at the end of jeff mills' set, she emerged from beneath a pile of coats under the dj riser. she had slept through the whole thing!
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link
The most OTM thing on this thread.
Most unexpectedly loud band? Cocteau Twins. The shows around 84/85 were very, very loud indeed and considering some of the venues they were in it's hard to see how they got away with it.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― not taking this seriously, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 08:24 (eighteen years ago) link
I also once played a gig with a band in Iowa called Scorched Earth Policy whose guitarist was plugged into a speaker bigger than the club's mains. During soundcheck the mix guy confidentially showed me that the power on the board was completely off and it was still completely deafening. God Bless you, Scorched Earth Policy!
― Major Bloodnok (Major Bloodnok), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link