loudest show you've ever been to
 

thread inspired by that bono thread saying SY was the loudest show he'd ever seen.

my loudest was probably dinosaur jr.

lightning bolt.

yeah my ears were ringing for three days after seeing them

loudest show I ahve ever been to, quite frankly, was david Lee Roth on the Eat Em & Smile Tour right after he left van halen, when he had steve vai on guitar, yankee rose and shit.

that fucker HURT

but I was only 12.

Hahaha.

Dinosaur Jr
Thurston Moore, William Winant, Mats Gustaffson, Nels Cline
16 Bitch Pile Up
Black Pus

My Bloody Valentine by a mile.
Second-loudest is probably Motörhead.

Interpol

Sonic Youth
Dino jr
Les Savy Fav.

Ride in 1991 were insanely shrill/loud. It was also one of the best shows I saw in the 90s.

Haswell & Hecker

KTL - first and so far last gig I resorted to earplugs

Bardo Pond at Terrastock 4 in Seattle was quite the barrage.

at noise agaisnt fascism in 2004 16-bitch pileup made me DEAF my ear was ringing for 3 days after fucking bad move to be up next to the stage for their set.

both of those i remember my ears hurting, you had your head practically inside of chippendale's bass drum and you didn't go deaf, still shocked

New Blockaders and Haters seemed quite loud from the back of the room at ATP

well you did have sarah b from 16bitch in your face screaming her lungs out so that didn't help

I got Tinnitus from a Melt Banana concert.

Joe Satriani (I was young :o), it was so loud we felt like being behind a jet engine
More recently Mogwai (at one moment there was a guy with a loudness meter and we saw that the light was always in the red, I guess he was someone from the concert room who noticed that it was quite loud).

Dinosaur Jr. were the loudest band I've seen. I brought earplugs because I was warned about them. When I saw Jello Biafra and The Melvins though I didn't think of doing the same and my ears rang for three days afterwards.

and i'm deeply grateful for the invention of antihypertensive drugs and perfusions.

I still have slight tinnitus in my right ear, though.

j mascis & the fog (so loud i couldn't recognize a lot of the songs)
sunn o))) & boris doing altar
merzbow
whitehouse
the prodigy

I really wish I had been wearing ear plugs when I went to see the Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza.

I'd say Acid Mothers Temple and Japanese New Music Festival (especially Ruins Alone). Boredoms probably too.
Grunt and Prurient also felt fucking devastating considering that they performed in a small theatre. the place was rumbling and shaking. the low-end frequencies were massive.

all you pussies getting tinnitus for a whole week obviously don't go to see enough loud music

Mouthus (I was trapped by the vibrations)
Acid Mothers Temple

melt banana, hands down. it was loud in every frequency and devastating; when they played their microsongs, the drums sounded louder than when they played their longer songs.

before that was slayer at ozzfest '04, they sounded like if they had their full stacks at ten in a tiny practice space but were actually at an amphitheater.

wolf eyes is by far the least loud noise show i've ever seen.

i've been to countless of shows that have hurted my ears, but some that i particularly remember now are the second time i saw ministry, the second time i saw sunno))) and the first time i saw hototogisu. also both times i saw kawabata makoto & jf pauvros (i guess that gives them bonus points) and the first time i saw atari teenage riot. bardo pond at atp 2006 as well, but that was mostly because i was so stupid to stand right in front of a big speaker stack and didn't want to leave.

it more often depends on the venue than on the band in my experience.

Dinosaur Jr. by far.

Heh. Add another one for Dinosaur Jr.

You can also chalk up that I couldn't hear properly for 3 days afterward. I had trouble sleeping because of the ringing for 2 of those days. I couldn't hear normal conversation almost at all.

Shannon Wright/Sleater-Kinney Sept 2002 @ the Highlands in Hollywood. fucking louded show ever, it sounded like I was at the bottom of a pool for the next three days!

Did you put your ears up against the speakers ? It's not the better way to listen to music, I think.

Alec Empire.

Velvet Underground

Though John Coltrane with Elvin Jones left my ears ringing as well.

I was ten feet from the edge of the stage and J and his monster rig.







This video was shot from near the back of the venue. (I didn't shoot the video. I was most closer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7aa8uOimfc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCDgv...eature=related



Just out of the bottom of the frame here.

Rusted Shut back in the day, old Houston noise rock band, still plays from time to time. so fucking loud, small clubs/bars/dives.

The Scientists - they were Sonic Youth's support band at the Daydream Nation shows. They played Blood Red River. I was in the seated area, so I wasn't that close, but I couldn't hear my friend yelling at me, at the top of his voice, "I DON'T LIKE THIS BAND!!!" It was only in between songs that I found out what he said.

Ministry two years ago .

you know i don't remember. i rarely go to shows anymore. actually when i saw the sword they were loud as fuck and the last time i saw against me! (about 4 years ago) they were loud as hell (but the club was kind of small so maybe that's why).

You sir, are an incredibly honest man!

Mine was easily Painkiller (John Zorn, Bill Laswell, and the drummer from Nuclear Assault). It was devastating, and I've seen the Melvins plenty of times, and saw SY on the Bad Moon Rising tour. Nothing compared to Painkiller. Laswell's bass was totally subharmonic, and it was only when Zorn would come in with the screeching sax from hell that I would realize how loud the music was that I was already listening to! I was going through a divorce at the time and found Painkiller to be the most aptly named band in my whole life. I still thank them for that night.

Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, My Cat Is An Alien..?

eric copeland warming up animal collective in boston was insanely loud. someone next to me described it as merzbow with melodies. and animal collective were pretty loud too.
the melvins where also loud.
oh and i saw a rollins band show at the avalon in BO and i stood right next to the speakers, the bass drum might have been the loudest thing that i have heard. and it was such a shitty show...so not worth it (but x played after them making it way worth it)