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Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
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* I thought the 'Loudest Crowd Moment' thread on the Porch was this thread title. I'm curious to know what people think the loudest shows are.

I was at Iron Maiden at the PNE in Vancouver. I am certainly not a wuss (I have mild tinnitus from listening to music too loud), but at one point of the show, I thought blood was running out of my ears (no kidding!).

Freaking loud.

Wolfmother at the Queen Elizabeth blasted my face off too.
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  • Leezestarr313Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,374
    Soundgarden in Detroit. Hell of a show, but wow, they were loud.
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  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Leezestarr313 said:

    Soundgarden in Detroit. Hell of a show, but wow, they were loud.

    I saw them play with the Queens of the Stone Age and both bands- back to back- were definitely a test.
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  • Leezestarr313Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,374
    In one day or two days in a row? We saw qotsa in Detroit last year too. I loved it. I had an almost hallucinatoric experience during A Song for the Dead. The show was at the same venue as Soundgarden, but not as deafening. God, I wish they would come back soon. I'd love another Qotsa show.
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  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Leezestarr313 said:

    In one day or two days in a row? We saw qotsa in Detroit last year too. I loved it. I had an almost hallucinatoric experience during A Song for the Dead. The show was at the same venue as Soundgarden, but not as deafening. God, I wish they would come back soon. I'd love another Qotsa show.

    Same day. Awesome, eh?
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  • Leezestarr313Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,374
    Pretty fucking-a!
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,059
    edited October 2014
    If just openers count, Mudhoney in Missoula 2012 opening for PJ. Jesus, everyone was starting to really worry because it was so loud it was making people feel sick, lol. So that was by far the loudest I've ever heard. It was awful.

    After that it has to have been Iron Maiden, Vancouver 2008 (i think). Crazy loud! Even with earplugs it was hard core!

    Edit: just fully read your post Thirty Bills! Yup, it was fucking loud!!
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    PJ_Soul said:

    If just openers count, Mudhoney in Missoula 2012 opening for PJ. Jesus, everyone was starting to really worry because it was so loud it was making people feel sick, lol. So that was by far the loudest I've ever heard. It was awful.

    After that it has to have been Iron Maiden, Vancouver 2008 (i think). Crazy loud! Even with earplugs it was hard core!

    Edit: just fully read your post Thirty Bills! Yup, it was fucking loud!!

    That was the one.

    Great show though. Do you remember when Bruce stopped the show and gave those chicks shit for fighting?
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  • SD48277SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    Bad Religion at one of the Warped tour shows in 2009. I still have some hearing loss after that show.

    Runner up: Lou Reed at a local venue several years ago. The bass was so loud I thought my internal organs were going to burst. During one of the songs someone from the audience screamed: "Please turn down the bass! You're killing us!" Thankfully the band adjusted their volume for the rest of the show.
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  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    SD48277 said:

    Bad Religion at one of the Warped tour shows in 2009. I still have some hearing loss after that show.

    Runner up: Lou Reed at a local venue several years ago. The bass was so loud I thought my internal organs were going to burst. During one of the songs someone from the audience screamed: "Please turn down the bass! You're killing us!" Thankfully the band adjusted their volume for the rest of the show.

    I often wonder what the sound guys are doing when that's happening.

    They're supposed to be the experts. Can't you hear it sounds like shit?
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,059
    edited October 2014
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    PJ_Soul said:

    If just openers count, Mudhoney in Missoula 2012 opening for PJ. Jesus, everyone was starting to really worry because it was so loud it was making people feel sick, lol. So that was by far the loudest I've ever heard. It was awful.

    After that it has to have been Iron Maiden, Vancouver 2008 (i think). Crazy loud! Even with earplugs it was hard core!

    Edit: just fully read your post Thirty Bills! Yup, it was fucking loud!!

    That was the one.

    Great show though. Do you remember when Bruce stopped the show and gave those chicks shit for fighting?
    Uuhhhh, I wish i did because it sounds entertaining, but not at all - i guess i was completely wasted at that show (i do remember starting the party in the afternoon and drinking on public transit - I guess we had our minds set to go nuts!). I thought I remembered it all just fine, but now that you say that, who knows what else I forgot. Oops! :-\"
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    PJ_Soul said:

    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    PJ_Soul said:

    If just openers count, Mudhoney in Missoula 2012 opening for PJ. Jesus, everyone was starting to really worry because it was so loud it was making people feel sick, lol. So that was by far the loudest I've ever heard. It was awful.

    After that it has to have been Iron Maiden, Vancouver 2008 (i think). Crazy loud! Even with earplugs it was hard core!

    Edit: just fully read your post Thirty Bills! Yup, it was fucking loud!!

    That was the one.

    Great show though. Do you remember when Bruce stopped the show and gave those chicks shit for fighting?
    Uuhhhh, I wish i did because it sounds entertaining, but not at all - i guess i was completely wasted at that show (i do remember starting the party in the afternoon and drinking on public transit - I guess we had our minds set to go nuts!). I thought I remembered it all just fine, but now that you say that, who knows what else I forgot. Oops! :-\"
    Maybe this'll refresh your memory. Maybe this was you! :))

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9KuPASJmUk
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,059
    edited October 2014
    :)) I was worried for a second! ;) But, while even that video isn't triggering the memory (shamefully), I know I didn't get in a cat fight in the pit because I was in a seat near the side of the stage. Phew! :P
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  • Empty GlassEmpty Glass In Rob's shed Posts: 12,329
    Buzzcocks. My buddy was pulling the arm over one ear and fingers over the other =))

    I saw that and said, "let's go" :))
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  • ikiTikiT USA Posts: 11,057
    edited October 2014
    The loudest concert I ever saw was in 1991, David Bowie's Tin Machine at the Orpheum Theater in Boston. It was sonically clear, pure really, it wasn't at all distorted, but in terms of sheer volume, it was WAY too effing loud, it felt like my head was pushed inside a jet engine. I bailed after a song and a half. The second loudest, was in that same building, Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos, December 5th 1988. That one was just really really REALLY loud, but it was Keith, so I sucked it up.

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    After the Tin Machine experience, nothing has been too loud.
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  • shortstackshortstack Posts: 2,339
    fastbacks with pj

    pj in toledo, vote for change. i was behind the stage to the side. at one point my hearing went out and everything went silent. it also felt like there was no air in the room. good times.

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  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    edited October 2014
    Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Zombie (same show) left me with an intense ringing in my ears as well.

    Kiss in a smaller venue did the same thing.
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  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 42,341
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  • cp3iversoncp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    Chili Peppers in a club. 200 people tops and it sounded like they used their Wembley Arena setup. Ringing for days
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,496
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    * I thought the 'Loudest Crowd Moment' thread on the Porch was this thread title. I'm curious to know what people think the loudest shows are.

    I was at Iron Maiden at the PNE in Vancouver. I am certainly not a wuss (I have mild tinnitus from listening to music too loud), but at one point of the show, I thought blood was running out of my ears (no kidding!).

    Freaking loud.

    Wolfmother at the Queen Elizabeth blasted my face off too.

    I've heard Maiden is really loud!

    I went to ACDC during the Razors Edge tour at MSG, 91 I think? The drummer is working the snare, movie theater style lights come on, guitar barely starts Thunderstruck and crowd goes bat shit crazy! I couldn't make out the song until it was halfway through. The crowd was that loud! So loud that it went silent. Eerie felling.

    Same show, Hells Bells. Big huge bell comes down and Brian Johnson hits it with a sledge hammer… multiple times…

    …Still the same show… For those about to rock and that cannon… Dear lord that was loud. I actually covered my ears.

    My ears rang for 3 days after this…

    2nd place goes to Metallica later that year at Nassau Coliseum. I brought ear plugs, decided not to use them, I was 14, what the hell did I know. Ears rang for a few days after that show too. One intro with the gunfire and pyro technics was loud.
  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,468
    My Bloody Valentine is the loudest I've ever heard and no one else comes close. They hand out earplugs to everyone in the audience haha.
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,935
    Pearl Jam in Brooklyn last year was the loudest by far I've ever heard them sound. Eddies voice during Footsteps was piercing
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  • badbrainsbadbrains Posts: 10,255
    Bad brains Whiskey 95 (deftones opened)
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,201
    By far the loudest concert out hundreds I've seen has to be ACDC the Black Ice Tour 2009 in DC. I took my daughter who wanted to see them along with "friend" from her school. I heard how loud their shows were on that tour and for first time I bought ear plugs and it STILL was loud.

    However, the show that gave some damage to my ears has to be Def Lepperd the Hysteria Tour. I was front row right side directly in front of a bank of low speaker/amplifiers. The sound was going directly in my ears after 4 songs I had to leave, found some seats in the stands. I didn't mind it was the second or third time seeing that tour. To this day I don't hear all that well out of my right ear.

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  • samjamsamjam New York Posts: 9,283
    There's a band called Sleigh Bells and I don't know if I'd have eardrums left if I hadn't worn earplugs at that show! Foo Fighters is another loud one, especially front row at a small club like I saw them earlier in the year. Also at Made In America I was 2nd to the rail and earplugs were 100% necessary, which makes sense since they need to project the sound to however many thousands of other people were out there. The Who in 2008 surprised me too, despite getting up there in age, they turn that shit to 11!
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  • badbrainsbadbrains Posts: 10,255
    Tool radio city, was pretty fucken loud
  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,059
    edited October 2014
    Oops.wrong thread. :)
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • andyzoffhegoesandyzoffhegoes Posts: 388
    Pantera ,white zombie ,deftones , I hate god. It was outside and my ears hurt for days.
  • hrd2imgnhrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,902
    Soundgarden metro Chicago. I think they blew my eardrums. Matisyahu there as well the metro is soo loud
  • FrankieGFrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    Soundgarden in Prudential Center, Newark, NJ. They walked off stage for the encore letting their guitars reverb against their amps...and din't turn them off for like 10 minutes... My ears rang for several days after and really woke me up to the dangers.
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