motörhead

KISS, San Antonio, 2000

my ears were ringing all the way back to Houston

The Rolling Stones Brixton Academy July 19 1995 front of stage.
During "I Go Wild" I really thought my ears would bleed......

Over the years I've seen most of the usual contenders for 'the loudest' title- Blue Cheer, MC5, Stooges, The Who, The Clash, Ramones, Motorhead..........but the hands down surprise winner was Tangerine Dream. Perhaps the venue size contributed to the effect. I saw them in a small theater in the mid-70s and my ears were ringing for literally three days afterward.

Keith Richards brought his big equipment for a small room when I saw him recording his wttw soundstage show in Chicago. We were all much too close to the big speakers. It was great.

alice cooper

Motorhead - Glasgow Apollo - June 83. My first ever concert. I was 12 and had school the next day. Couldnt hear a bloody thing for a week. I thought I was "Deaf forever".

I never thought I'd complain of a show being too loud but at Buddy Guy's Legends last week....I was shocked. My ears would tremble and it felt like my brain was shaking...my teeth rattled. I was getting nauseous. I had to put tissues in my ears to go on watching the show. I've never went through anything like it.

KISS reunion tour in 96 Vancouver. Very loud but not distorted.

Also Van Halen last month in Vancouver. I didn't think it was too loud but when I got home and went to bed and rested my head on my pillow, my ears were ringing!

Most of the hard rock bands I've seen put on loud concerts: AC/DC, Priest, Maiden, Scorpions, Motorhead, Aerosmith, Motley, etc.

Van Headache, I mean Van Halen, 1986 second row center.

Dio, very very loud!!!!

Band was playing on 11

Taylor Hicks - Greensburg, PA April 2007 No Joke, theater production with stadium sound. People were leaving, holding ears, etc.

The promoter and I looked at each other with a "WTF" shoulder shrug at the loudness.

loudest concert as a whole-Black Sabbath dallas 1978. Loudest SONG- Stones Oklahoma City 1999-Get Off My Cloud. I was on front row of lower balcony Keiths side and B stage PA speakers were pointed straight down at me. The first two songs were ok but when they went to Cloud the treble actually made me lose my balance!!

#1- constantines ( a small canadian band.. at Lees Palace in Toronto)
stood behind the sound guy thinking it would sound great... after about 10 minutes it felt like i was being smashed in the ear drum with a fine tipped hammer

#2- aerosmith 1994- skydome toronto
my first real big rock concert so im sure it seemed louder than it really was... but i recall being 13 and my ears ringing for about two days afterwards

#3- tool- 2007 (hamilton)
brutally loud in the copps colliseum... that building amplifies the sound of the bass so much too... i had ear plugs in the whole time and still left with ringing ears

mcparty Wrote:
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> The Kinks!
> Oakland, CA (Kaiser Auditorium)
> 1981?


I saw the Kinks at Brooklyn College in 1977 and they were so loud I felt my hair pushing back like being in a strong wind.

Even louder I think was the Clash at Bonds in NYC.

Funny thing about all of these load Stones shows is that at the last couple of shows I always wanted it to be LOUDER!

AC/DC --Roseland, NYC 2003.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in 2004 or 2005, can't remember.
It was Paradiso, Amsterdam.
After the gig there was this constant beep in my ears for about a week or so.

Cheap Trick - Atlanta 2002 - really almost any time ya see 'em though. I love it loud.

2nd place - Lynyrd Skynyrd 1976 - Macon, GA

3rd - KISS 1977

"No Anchovies, Please"



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Ike and Tina Turner thinks somewhere around '75 sitting on the first row with a good view at the Iketteslegs but man it was loud

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Led Zeppelin...Frankfurt '80...only time ever my ears rang the day after.

The Who...06-12-1979: Cleveland, OH, Richfield Coliseum...loud.

Van Halen....'82 Hide Your Sheep Tour....my chest rocked every time the bass drum was struck....and I was in nose bleed seat!

the shoot 'em dead, brainbell jangler!

mcparty Wrote:
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> The Kinks!
> Oakland, CA (Kaiser Auditorium)
> 1981?

wow! I was at that show can't remember it being that loud perhaps it was but I remember thinking it was great!

The Hellecasters
Belly-Up Tavern 1996

We couldn't take it anymore we moved away to the bar and stuffed cocktail napkins in our ears....great show.

Justin Wrote:
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> I never thought I'd complain of a show being too
> loud but at Buddy Guy's Legends last week....I was
> shocked. My ears would tremble and it felt like
> my brain was shaking...my teeth rattled. I was
> getting nauseous. I had to put tissues in my ears
> to go on watching the show. I've never went
> through anything like it.

I've gotten nauseous too! Never moreso than when CCR played the UGA Coliseum. They did it as a 3 piece and tried to make up for the missing guitar with volume. It was so loud and distorted that you literally could not hear anything!! Just an obnoxious roar. And who would have expected that from them??

Kiss in Helsinki on their come back tour

Goundhogs

Living Colour New Years Eve 2001/02-the Roxy,Atlanta,Ga.
I was frontstage in front of Vernon Reids rig,earsplitting night.

Coming Down Again

AC/DC Hammersmith, London December 1979. My first concert and my ears were ringing for 4 days!

Journey......can't remember the year but they were opening for ELP at the Oakland Indoor Coliseum Arena. We were on the side by the stage in front of a huge bank of speakers. Even putting my fingers in my ear couldn't ease the pain.

Ozzy Osborne - 1983 Memphis, TN - So F'n LOUD. Horrible - I had to stick my fingers in my ears.