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Brue
The WHo> at Capital Centre December 79. First concert I saw with the speakers hanging from the ceiling, and they were pointed directly at me and I couldn't escape. Had to lip read for at least a week.
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Milan
Motörhead, Belgrade/Serbia, 26. VII 2002. Proper hearing came back in 3 days if memory serves.
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stupidguy2
Lollapalooza at some race track outside Houston in 92, 91?. During Ministry's set, I laid on the dirt ground and literally tried to tune it out. It really did sound like an industrial explosion.
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stupidguy2
Lollapalooza at some race track outside Houston in 92, 91?. During Ministry's set, I laid on the dirt ground and literally tried to tune it out. It really did sound like an industrial explosion.
I saw Ministry on that Lollapalooza tour...that was '92 (I remember 'cuz it wasn't long after my divorce). Ministry was indeed friggin' LOUD!
They were one of my favorite bands during that period, and I really enjoyed that show. It was one of the wildest concerts I've ever been to. It was outdoors, of course, and I was towards the back, up on the lawn area. There was a mosh pit raging down front...apparently everyone in the mosh pit knew each other and had a plan. At a certain part during the second or third song Ministry played, everyone in the mosh pit all ran out and scattered in the crowd, and the whole place turned into one big mosh pit. I've never seen anything like it.
A lot of people had blankets out on the lawn. Some groups of guys were holding blankets tight up in the air, and throwing people way up in the air with them, like trampolines. Other people started setting fire to their blankets, and there were fights and topless women everywhere. While all this was happening, a police helicopter was circling low overhead, but they were pissed off because they couldn't do any crowd control from up there! That was one hell of a wild time.
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The logistics where I saw it sucked though. It had just rained and if you've never been in Texas in the summer......humid as hell and mudddy. SO it was uncomforfable, but crazy. I also remember the Chilli Peppers and L.L. Cool J.
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lettingitbleed
I honestly don't recall ever thinking a show was excessively loud. Do we all understand that ringing in your ears is normal after a show??
I would like to state that they quietest show ever was the Stones! My first time seeing them was in the Bridges tour in 1997 at Sun Devil Stadium. Now this was also the first stadium show I had been to and to this day, the only one I have seen that had no roof. It was so quiet that it kinda ruined the experience for me. It didn't sounds loud enough to be a live concert. My seats were pretty far up there but anytime you are at a rock show and you can talk normally to the person next to you during a song, something is wrong! It was like I was watching on TV or something. I've had more volume in a movie theatre.