Loudest Concert

kwdaley

Van Halen Montreal 2007... ears rang for 3 days (seriously thought I had done some major damage to my hearing!)

djklambake

A little off the beaten path...

DinosaurJr, 2009, Marquee Theatre, Tempe, AZ

I can semi-proudly say J Mascis gave me a case of tinnitus

Major hearing damage at that show... Deeply regret not bringing earplugs...

Right ear has not stopped ringing since.

JH6056

djklambake said:

A little off the beaten path...

DinosaurJr, 2009, Marquee Theatre, Tempe, AZ

I can semi-proudly say J Mascis gave me a case of tinnitus

Major hearing damage at that show... Deeply regret not bringing earplugs...

Right ear has not stopped ringing since.

Not off the beaten path at all - if you read through these comments, Dinosaur Jr is just passing Soundgarden as the most commonly mentioned "Band that caused me tinnitus"

JH6056

tempo_n_groove said:

JH6056 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

chadwick said:

tempo_n_groove said:

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.

tempo n groove,

same ac/dc tour but in cedar rapids, iowa @ the five seasons center. i was sure they cracked the foundation of that venue. that was insane loud & it was crystal clear. son of a!!!! seriously, cracking reinforced concrete in all directions & many, many feet thick. i figured, "ok this place is gonna collapse"

Thank you! I am surprised more people haven't been to an AC/DC show and to tell us how loud it was!

I've seen AC/DC twice, I just don't remember them at all as standing out as particularly loud. It was loud, but not "notably so".

Was it the razors edge tour? They may have toned it down since then?

What year was Razor's Edge tour? That would help me ballpark the years of my AC/DC shows...

tempo_n_groove

JH6056 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

JH6056 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

chadwick said:

tempo_n_groove said:

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.

tempo n groove,

same ac/dc tour but in cedar rapids, iowa @ the five seasons center. i was sure they cracked the foundation of that venue. that was insane loud & it was crystal clear. son of a!!!! seriously, cracking reinforced concrete in all directions & many, many feet thick. i figured, "ok this place is gonna collapse"

Thank you! I am surprised more people haven't been to an AC/DC show and to tell us how loud it was!

I've seen AC/DC twice, I just don't remember them at all as standing out as particularly loud. It was loud, but not "notably so".

Was it the razors edge tour? They may have toned it down since then?

What year was Razor's Edge tour? That would help me ballpark the years of my AC/DC shows...

90-91!

Thirty Bills Unpaid

I saw ACDC on that tour (Vancouver)!

Loved that show. From what I can recall: Angus disappeared while playing and, never missing a note, reappeared in the stands facing the stage.

I also recall- just to my right- Hells Angels beating the snot out of some guy who was standing with his shirt off in front of them when they were trying to sit down.

g under p

tempo_n_groove said:

JH6056 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

JH6056 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

chadwick said:

tempo_n_groove said:

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.

tempo n groove,

same ac/dc tour but in cedar rapids, iowa @ the five seasons center. i was sure they cracked the foundation of that venue. that was insane loud & it was crystal clear. son of a!!!! seriously, cracking reinforced concrete in all directions & many, many feet thick. i figured, "ok this place is gonna collapse"

Thank you! I am surprised more people haven't been to an AC/DC show and to tell us how loud it was!

I've seen AC/DC twice, I just don't remember them at all as standing out as particularly loud. It was loud, but not "notably so".

Was it the razors edge tour? They may have toned it down since then?

What year was Razor's Edge tour? That would help me ballpark the years of my AC/DC shows...

90-91!

Saw that tour in Portland Maine and in MD the Capital Centre. Angus came out on a small stage right in front of me.....I think that was the tour they had these AcDc bills fall from the ceiling, I grabbed a few. It was cool seeing them again when 5 years earlier I waited on the band and road crew at Denny's in VA that was the Fly On The Wall tour.

STILL no way as loud as The Black Ice tour and I had ear plugs for the first time at any show and my ears still hurt with buzz/ringing. I kept wondering how do these guys do this night after night and still have any hearing left....how!

Peace

JTH

Hard to say... I've been to so many loud shows in my life that it's expected. The first three shows I ever attended were Van Halen, Iron Maiden (March and December of 1984, respectively) and then Maiden again the following June. Before that VH show, I had no idea what I was in for and didn't realize that music could be THAT loud. And then the Maiden shows were even louder. Ever since then, nothing really stands out as particularly loud.

On the other side of the coin, I've been to some shows that were annoyingly quiet. The Jayhawks come to mind as probably the worst example of this.

BikePHL

Slint hurt me. I love loud shows but that was nuts!

WhatYouTaughtMe

Weezer at a bar in Scranton, PA. 1997 or 1998? Didn't help I was standing right up front. Head was buzzing for a couple days.

Yefa

Jesus & Mary Chain at The Ritz in NYC for the Automatic tour was loud.
Boredoms at CBGB on the Pop Tatari tour
In 2010 I saw shows on consecutive nights at Masonic Hall in Brooklyn. The first night was Boris and SunnO))) doing their album Altar in its entirety. It was so loud that I sat in the balcony the next night for Sleep. They weren't too loud but opener A Storm Of Light was absolutely too loud…ouch.
I agree with the mentions of Dinosaur Jr. They are always loud.

London Bridge

Scorpions/ACDC/Ted Nugent...........1979 Philly Spectrum

Gary Carter

Social D and Bad Religion when they opened up for pj at the spectrum in 09
Bar shows I go to see local and touring bands

Drowned Out

For me, Motörhead, then ministry, then Crüe
circa feelgood. (Whoa, my phone just added umlauts! Deadly! ).

I think KISS holds the record now....the who held it for years...

Gardenparty

Mogwai always hurts my ears

HesCalledDyer

Nine Inch Nails, With Teeth tour. Loudest, but also the best concert I've ever been to.

rr165892

Halestorm at Revelution in Ft.Lauderdale was the loudest by far with Foo Fighters in Richmond being second and Sabbath on Mob Rules tour tied with Iron Maiden on Number of the Beast tour for third.

deadendp

Darkest Hour. Mayhem 2014 First Niagara in Burgettstown. I swore that I would never hear again.

intodeep

Yeah as others have mentioned Dinosaur Jr, but he loudest was probably a J Mascis solo show on the Free so Free tour.

It was the only time i was like damn it i'm doing damage to my ears i wish i had ear plugs.

nothinasitseems

pearl jam, hartford, 2013. between the rocking set list and the crowd, it was unbelievable.