OT - What's the loudest concert you've attended? - OT

YukonRon

Bourbon and Beyond. 2019. 3 day event. Foo Fighters closed the show on Saturday. About 30 bands, Stevie Nix, closed it on Sunday. Lots of great shows in between on two stages, and another stage venue closer to the entrance.
Front row for most.

Cancelled for 2020. We had our VIPs already purchased for this year.

Last single stage concert; JJGray, Nashville, at the Ryman.

Legume

Always seems to be the cavernous indoor venues with crappy sound.  

Rush a couple of years ago in Austin at the Erwin Center had some of the worst sound, it just bounced around in there forever.

Any metal show at the Cow Palace in the early 80’s.  An AC/DC & I think Fastway show was super loud.

Twisted Sister, Queensryche, Dio and Y&T at the San Jose Civic were all remarkably loud in a smallish space.

My god I feel old.

Wolfpack

One of the early Lollapalooza shows in 1992 in Raleigh outdoor theater. lucky/unlucky got seats on right wing first row. Right in front of a mountain of speakers that had to project sound alway to the back of the grounds. 

Couldn’t hear for a week, but what a lineup

Main Stage: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush.

Side Stage: Rage Against the Machine (Irvine Meadows), Tool (Waterloo Village, NJ, Englewood, C0)), Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, Sharkbait, Archie Bell dancers, Porno for Pyros, Basehead, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Sweaty Nipples, Arson Garden, Seaweed, Seam, Green Magnet School, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., The Look People, Stone Temple Pilots, The Vulgar Boatmen, Skrew, Tribe, The Authority, Samba Hell, Café Tacuba, Groovement, Gary Heffern with Ivan Kral, Treponem Pal, Luscious Jackson, Shrunken Head, Sometime Sweet Susan, Temple of the Dog, Gun Cult Prophets, Doo Rag, Billyclub and Sweet Lizard Illtet.

frazzdaddy

Wolfpack said:

One of the early Lollapalooza shows in 1992 in Raleigh outdoor theater. lucky/unlucky got seats on right wing first row. Right in front of a mountain of speakers that had to project sound alway to the back of the grounds. 

Couldn’t hear for a week, but what a lineup

Main Stage: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush.

Side Stage: Rage Against the Machine (Irvine Meadows), Tool (Waterloo Village, NJ, Englewood, C0)), Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, Sharkbait, Archie Bell dancers, Porno for Pyros, Basehead, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Sweaty Nipples, Arson Garden, Seaweed, Seam, Green Magnet School, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., The Look People, Stone Temple Pilots, The Vulgar Boatmen, Skrew, Tribe, The Authority, Samba Hell, Café Tacuba, Groovement, Gary Heffern with Ivan Kral, Treponem Pal, Luscious Jackson, Shrunken Head, Sometime Sweet Susan, Temple of the Dog, Gun Cult Prophets, Doo Rag, Billyclub and Sweet Lizard Illtet.

I remember that show.

AprèsSki

Bob Mould acoustic @ Chicago's Metro, 2000ish. My companion had ear plugs and I wish I had them too. My Etymotics accompany me to most shows now.

nolaegghead

Pro-tip:  scrunch up a bar-nap and shove it in your ears.

EggNorth

Ted Nugent ... back in the Cat Scratch Fever days ... the good old days.  Also the Beach Boys, standing at the front near the speakers.

Been to most Heavy Metal 80s concerts (Judas Priest, Iron Maiden etc) but the wildest most out of control was a Kenny Rogers and Dolly show (wife likes country) which I had to go for an AC/DC concert payback -  They had to stop twice because the women were storming the stage for Kenny.   Been a fan ever since.

builderdawg

Nine Inch Nails in the Georgia Theatre in Athens, GA in 1989. They were the opening act for The Jesus and Mary Chain. It is a pretty small venue and they were so loud that my ears rang for days. 

RiverBBQ

Lynrd Skynrd at the Macon Collesium, near 1996-97
with Tommy Shaw and Peter Frampton

northGAcock

Cookbook_Chip said:

northGAcock said:

The location was a bar in Columbia SC. It was on Rosewood Drive, but don’t recall the name of the establishment. .....Band called Head East. They were a hard driving rock band back in my much younger days. It might have escalation  as I was right in front of a speaker stack.....

A strong second would be Black Oak Arkansas. Loved those guys. I did not attend a Grateful Dead show during the wall of sound tours. I am certain they would have made the list if we were given a could-a been vote. 

Dundee's!

Ding ding ding. 

Thanks

dmchicago

Without a doubt, Ted Nugent in 1978. 

Sam Houston Colisium, Houston, TX.

General Admission on the floor and we were pretty close.

My ears are still ringing.

mEGG_My_Day

Ted Nugent at the Fox in Atlanta circa 1983? Not sure you are allowed to say Ted Nugent anymore, but what the hell.  I may post a pic of a pork butt or some such, so hopefully I’m forgiven for my transgressions of 37 years ago. 😀😀😀

Also - to cleanse the palette - About that same time, I saw the Romones at the Agora ballroom across the street from the Fox - That show was crazy loud.  I still have a guitar pic that Johnny threw out to the audience that night. RIP Ramones!

JustBuggin

All these Ted Nugent posts makes me sad I never saw one. Must have been a great show.

White Zombie in the mid 90s for me. Think it was about the time of the Astro Kreep album and to this day still the best concert I've been to imo.

bradleya123

Loudest, Ted Nugent at a bar in Plymouth, Mi in '79... 

Zippylip

I walked out of so many concerts back in the day numb from the neck up it’s hard to say, but the one that stands out that actually hurt in real time was Aerosmith, Philadelphia Spectrum 1980 something, can’t recall the exact year, but damn I’m pretty sure that show was a healthy contributing cause of the tinnitus I now experience nearly 40 years later

YukonRon

Sorry misread the op....the loudest by far, ears hurt hurt for days, The Nuge, front row.

GATraveller

Leif Garrett - Six Flags over Georgia
August 6th, 1979

nolaeggheads_squirel

Yanni at The Acropolis.  @thetrim was down front and threw his panties on the stage!!!

Herky

AprèsSki said:

Bob Mould acoustic @ Chicago's Metro, 2000ish. My companion had ear plugs and I wish I had them too. My Etymotics accompany me to most shows now.

I've seen Bob so many times I can't count and most of them are very loud.  The Last Dog and Pony show tour he played 3 nights at First Ave.  The first night was so painful that I brought earplugs the next two. 

Teefus

Black Sabbath at Cobo hall in Detroit about 1981. I’d been to a lot of loud shows, but this one was LOUD. My ears rang for three days. 

Mickey

Creedence Clearwater Revival In Austin long ago

TrippleRipple

Ted Nugent in Kalamazoo, MI 1994 tied with Pantera in Fayetteville, NC in 1997. Both small arenas. My ears rand for a week.

northGAcock

GATraveller said:

Leif Garrett - Six Flags over Georgia
August 6th, 1979

I would make something up before I would post this one. 

Thatgrimguy

I went to a local radio stations rock festival in 9th grade and my head hurt for a week and my ears have rang with tinnitus ever since. Definitely not worth it.

lentsboy007

Zeppelin... Knebworth .... 1979

dmourati

Kid Rock, before he became big, probably 1998/1999. I wasn't feeling it. It was the only concert I've walked out of.

smbishop

Foo Fighters / Green Day,  Seattle Coliseum, They literally just screamed into their mikes....

Mattman3969

AC/DC back in late 80’s.  For those about to Rock was the last song and when the cannons went off it was unreal. 

Scott805

Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes.  Small bar in Norman Oklahoma.  So loud, when heading home we put on an eight track in the car and none of us could hear it!

ColtsFan

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain 

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