The John Entwistle Band, playing in a tiny club in 1998. I stood about eight feet from John's massive bass rig, which he dubbed "Little Manhattan" because it resembled several skyscrapers. My ears rang for 72 hours afterwards.

Second place goes to the recently reunited Cactus, whom I saw in the very same club in 2007. So loud it hurt. Ears rang for 48 hours afterwards.

Buzzcocks, Bristol Beirkeller. Couldn't hear a thing for hours after.

Stranglers, Glos. Leisure centre. So loud it was painfull!

Not great really as I'm now as deaf as a post with tinnitus

G3 - Fripp, Steve Vai, Satriani. Satch was so @#$%& loud i couldn't stand it and i had to left show. Vai was superb as Fripp

1995, Warren Zevon at the Paradise in Boston. RIP Warren

Johnny Winter, 1970 Univ of Waterloo, Canada. They subsidised all gigs for students back then. Cost me the princely sum of $! to get in. .You could buy a bottle of Canadian wine for that back then....

Saw Leonard Cohen that term as well, quite a difference. Half way thru his gig his dog stood up in the middle of the stage (we hadn't noticed it as it was lying down), stretched a bit, looked around as if to say 'haven't you finished yet?', then lay right down again in the middle of the band...classic moment...

Lee scratch Perry - actually had to go to the doctors the next day.

Todd Rundgren - played like he was at a huge outdoor festival but was actually in the royal festival Hall.

ouch

Hi,

Motorhead,Manchester Apollo,November 2002.

Good grief.

Cheers,

Si.

The Finnish group Tasavallan Presidentti, in Sweden ca 1974.

I once read somewhere that Pink Floyd at a concert in Britain 1970 played so loud that all fishes in a nearby lake died!



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I'll give an honorable mention to a Who concert at Madison Square Garden back in the 70s. We had lousy seats, nowhere near the stage, yet sometime during the encore, my friend, who liked his music even louder than I do, turned to me and screamed "I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN TAKE ANY MORE!"

He hung in there, though. What a trooper!

The Stones in 1990 - Valle Hovin, Oslo.

Nowadays, the sound is better - and lower

WHAT DID YOU SAY!?

I've heard he mighty Motorhead are loud!

Another Honorable Mention:

Aerosmith, without Joe Perry, but with Brad Whitford and another guitarist, playing a surprise club gig in 1980. They brought the EXACT SAME PA they were using for ARENA GIGS at the time! It literally filled the club, wall to wall and floor to ceiling. I was about ten feet from the stage for the first set and five feet from the stage during second set. Close enough to see the guitar strings vibrate and look down Tyler's throat.

I never saw Aerosmith again after that night. What would be the point?

Sabbath with Dio. Blue Oytser Cult as openning act. Buffalo, NY

Rage against the machine for sure

AC/DC Glasgow SECC 1990/91.

Special mention has to go to The Wall show by Pink Floyd, Earl's Court, 1981. Loud as hell but still incredibly sharp with no distortion. 360'sound system.

The Black Crowes in Paradiso!

Great concert though!

The Kinks!
Oakland, CA (Kaiser Auditorium)
1981?

The Tragically Hip at HSBC Arena in Buffalo. We FELT the music. By the end our ears could not take it, everything sounded too distorted..Gord's vocals lost in the mix.

Subsequently saw them in another venue, at a better, clearer, decibel level and they were great.

Another great Canadian band that never quite made it in America or elsewhere.

The Sex Pistols, July 20th 1977, Oslo.
I actually thought my ears were bleeding. They were not.
But I think that's whan my hearing was slightly reduced.

Motörhead.

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Rolling Stones Seattle 1975

Led Zeppelin Seattle 17/3/75

Van Halen last DEC...ouch

The Ramones at the Channel Club in Boston. A small venue, but they had every amp they owned on the stage and I was about 10 feet away from them. You know how when you are swimming underwater in a pool and you can kind of hear people having conversations above the water? That's what my hearing was like for hours afterwards.

I really think that it caused some hearing loss.

Iggy Pop 1992 Rotterdam Ahoy

Motorhead and Slayer

nowadays we have an awfull decibel restriction here in switzerland. 93 dezibel...pffft ridicolous!

the cult in rotterdam as a warm up for the who

what year?

The Black Crowes at the Olympia, Paris, 2001. 1st row just in front of Rich's stack. My ears were hurting even before his amp was fed to the main sound system. That larsen at the beginning of the show really spoiled the show for us, and we almost had to leave. We were relieved when the show was over. It may have been because they didn't have an opening act to train the ears.