Loudest Gig?

rich24a · 09-02-2009, 09:36 AM

What is the loudest gig you've ever been to? My Dad saw UFO live in the 70's and said they were like a wall of sound and deafening...

Jesstaa · 09-02-2009, 09:54 AM

When I saw Ozzy Osbourne it was pretty bloody loud, and it was the second furtherest I'd been from the stage in a gig. When I left I almost had no hearing at all.

rockinr0ll · 09-02-2009, 11:08 AM

Between The Buried And Me were pretty loud as well as After The Burial.

jcmjmp · 09-02-2009, 12:53 PM

Deep Purple f***ed up my hearing for sure.

wareagle · 09-02-2009, 01:16 PM

whend u see ozzy?

most gigs now r fairly quiet now... so id have to say judas preist although it wasnt that loud.

nofearfactor · 09-02-2009, 01:40 PM

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most gigs now r fairly quiet now

I dont know about that. I'm 40 and been going to shows since I was 14 growing up in San Diego. Ive seen everybody from Judas Priest to Kiss to most all of the current metal bands,etcetc,been to Wakken,etcetc. I took my kids to see Fear Factory/Strapping Young Lad/Soil/Darkane and it was ear melting loud. And I made them wear ear plugs because we were on the floor in front right by the sound systems bins. Same as was the last time we saw LambOfGod. Ministry's last tour was pretty damn loud. The Crystal Method on the other hand was not so much loud as it was the clearest and best sounding concert Ive ever been to in my life. Same as with Van Halens tour this past tour with his son in the band in Kansas City- it was loud but really clear sounding.

In my own band work I'm standing in front of 2 1960s pushed by a 200watt 9200 Dual MonoBloc power amp playing metal,so I'm already partially deaf in my right ear(I have always,24 years, been stage left so my right has always gotten blasted. I even rehearse with my rig on my right side.My left ear is all I have left to watch TV with or answer my cell...)

MajorNut1967 · 09-02-2009, 02:54 PM

Deep Purple '74 at Cal Jam!

luekemeyer · 09-02-2009, 09:06 PM

KISS at magic mountain, 1978.

wareagle · 09-02-2009, 10:56 PM

wow all you old bastards got to see such great concerts. i have such envy for that.

idk maybe i blew out my hearing but judas preist was kinda loud nothing was really ear shattering though.

Lucifuge · 09-03-2009, 05:02 AM

The Divine Intervention concert from Slayer (with AIC as support) in Rotterdam in 94 or 95. My ears melted and my guts got scrambled...

Jesstaa · 09-03-2009, 08:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wareagle

wow all you old bastards got to see such great concerts. i have such envy for that.

idk maybe i blew out my hearing but judas preist was kinda loud nothing was really ear shattering though.

Judas Priest had a great volume when I saw them, loud that it moved some air, but not so loud your ears got the tone all muddy.

Procter2812 · 09-03-2009, 11:42 AM

Airbourne... Aussi band ( Jesstaa should have heard of em)

The played at manchester academy and had 8 marshall stacks!!!! all mic'd up haha

Monster sound... loudest ever!

Alex

poeman33 · 09-03-2009, 01:31 PM

Triumph. A Canadian band. It was late 70-s - early 80's. I was thrilled that I had managed to get front row seats to something...After the warm-up band played and they took their stuff off the stage, they started to get the PA and stage setup for Triumph. An amp was turned on standby and just the buzzing from the amp was very very loud and I knew I was in trouble. When they started playing it was absolutely painful. I had to move to the back of the arena just to avoid being permanently deaf!

luekemeyer · 09-03-2009, 07:53 PM

ACE Frehley at the House of Blues in Anaheim 2008. He had it loud enough for a stadium.My ears hurt really bad after that.

invertedjesus · 09-20-2009, 07:41 PM

Bongripper from Chicago. My phone was stolen at a show we played a few months back, so I don't have the picture of their setup, but here it is:

Stage right:
two Sound City heads
a Laney GH1200H
emperor 4x12
emperor 6x12
oversized emperor 2x12/15???

Stage Left:
two JCM800/900 heads
two marshall cabs

bassist:
two Orange heads
two Orange 4x10s

there might've been more, I really can't remember. regardless, it was the most ungodly loud thing I've ever seen. So glad I started wearing earplugs to shows before I saw them...

TubeStack · 09-20-2009, 08:08 PM

Believe it or not, for me it was seeing Big Sugar (Canadian band) in a small university pub (narrow basement venue, all concrete walls). Crazy, insane levels of volume, esp. Gordie's guitar.

I knew things were loud when my ears started making computer noises... only show I've ever moved further back from the stage at, due to volume.

Great show, though!

TubeStack · 09-20-2009, 08:09 PM

As for larger bands/venues - Metallica comes to mind. Big outdoor show near Barrie, Ontario - you could hear them for fucking miles around.

donkost · 09-20-2009, 09:45 PM

David Lee Roth, Eat 'Em and Smile tour in '86 with Steve Vai on guitar. We had floor seat at the Spectrum in Philly. I saw a ton of shows there from the late 70's onward, but the sound levels at this show were brutal. Some songs with easy chord structures like Tobacco Road took a few bars to even recognize what they were playing. My ears were ringing the entire next day after that one, but it was a fantastic band (also Billy Sheehan on bass) and show.

Jesstaa · 09-21-2009, 02:14 AM

After today, I'm thinking,
If I ever get big and play gigs everywhere, watch out, cause my rig will be loud, maximum power tube distortion = awesome... But goddamn is it loud, I was in a space, only surrounded by trees and houses (All spread far apart) and I was getting natural reverberation using a halfstack with 10" speakers xD

Just imagine me with a fullstack and a full band... MWUAHAHA

mlordin · 09-21-2009, 02:38 AM

Gary Moore late 80's or something - it was so freaking loud my ears were ringing for three days after the concert

I really don't get it, music is great loud but there's a fine line between loud and painfully loud. I saw Steve Vai a couple of years ago and he's definitely one of my favorite musicians and I love his music – however, the indoor concert was unfortunately a disappointment since the guy at the mixing desk seemed deaf and figured the rest of us also being deaf or aspiring for future hearing aids

Jesstaa · 09-21-2009, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mlordin

Gary Moore late 80's or something - it was so freaking loud my ears were ringing for three days after the concert

I really don't get it, music is great loud but there's a fine line between loud and painfully loud. I saw Steve Vai a couple of years ago and he's definitely one of my favorite musicians and I love his music – however, the indoor concert was unfortunately a disappointment since the guy at the mixing desk seemed deaf and figured the rest of us also being deaf or aspiring for future hearing aids

As I said dude, a Marshall at full volume (getting full PT distortion) is very very bloody loud, and will fill a room amazingly, then, to get the rest of the band in the mix properly, with vocals, some amplification from the PA is required, making it even louder. I agree with the loudness being ridiculous, but hey, that's the way it works.

wasitthat · 09-21-2009, 11:00 AM

1. Pantera, Crowbar San Diego, 1991, far beyond driven tour, Dimebags solos (and back then he used ALOT of whammy pedal) were so loud, they hurt the bridge of my nose, some notes he would hit i would have to duck down under the level of the rest of the crowd to try to dodge the pure deafening sound. loudest of my life.

2. Pantera, Neurosis San Bernadino, 1996? great southern trendkill tour. another great concert, but with my previous experience with Pantera, i sat up in the seats and watched the show. 30 minutes into their set i was being dragged around in the pit.

3. Sepultura, Snack (my band), cir. 1997, Placentia. "Club 369" the pit section at 369 was only maybe 30-40 feet in diameter, so a lot of people were packed in that area, this was just before their japan tour with that new black singer guy, while the original singer went off and started soulfly. great gig, landed it cause we knew the owner personally. i was standing 15 feet from the drummer sidestage!

Gtrman58 · 09-21-2009, 01:59 PM

Aerosmith in about 1979 I think it was. They had a curtain up around the stage and when the lights went down they played the music to the psycho shower scene at a deafining volume. Then they raised the curtain and ripped into the first song. I swear it was twice as loud as the intro. They were all the way into the chorus before I could even tell that the song was Rats In The Cellar!

I started bringing ear plugs to concerts after that !

carnada · 09-21-2009, 06:59 PM

a lot of people get intimidated by the fake amps kiss has in the back. They dont even work, and people think they are loud cuz of that. Most of the sound comes from the fucking PA system.................it doesnt come from cranked amps lol

woodddj · 09-21-2009, 07:23 PM

testament... back in 93, my ears still ring from that concert. skolnik is a freakin wizzard on guitar.

luekemeyer · 09-21-2009, 10:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carnada

a lot of people get intimidated by the fake amps kiss has in the back. They dont even work, and people think they are loud cuz of that. Most of the sound comes from the fucking PA system.................it doesnt come from cranked amps lol

I was at some of the concerts in the 70s, KISS was extremely loud. I saw Van Halen, Rush, Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Motorhead, Ozzy, Black Sabboth.. KISS was louder than all of them. PA / Amps, they were loud. None of the others hurt my ears, KISS did. I'm not saying that is important to be a good rock band, but you can leave the 1/2 stacks to John Mayer.

thrawn86 · 09-22-2009, 01:00 AM

Hey, you might think this is lame, but I don't get to many concerts. I got to see Loverboy..........

..........YES, THAT'S RIGHT.....Loverboy......on my first anniversary. Small venue, 'bout 4,000 people, outside. Mike Reno freakin' wails. The guy literally hurt my ears and I've had plenty of damage already to them over the years. Lead guitarist (forgot his name) played a goldtop and a set of JCM 800's; hey, I'd never seen them and my wife was a big fan, so I was jazzed that they rocked harder than I expected at a small venue. They stole the show from Eddie Money

stargazer76 · 09-27-2009, 04:57 PM

1977....Blackmore's Rainbow....Migrain n' Tinnitus!!!

crunchdaddy · 10-03-2009, 11:59 PM

Ted Nugent...Mile High Stadium in Denver Colorado. 1978 I think. I know that he plays insanely loud, but the PA was cranked!! You couldn't even tell what song they were playing!! I remember that there were complaints from miles around.

I saw Aerosmith in Albuquerque New Mexico around the same time. Too frickin loud!! couldn't tell what was being played.

DaCookieMonster · 10-04-2009, 12:48 AM

AC/DC was pretty loud. I could not hear my English teacher at all the next morning. My friend went too. We were like yelling just to hear each other, and the teacher was just laughing at us.

I also saw some shitty punk rock band that had two half stacks, but it was in a very small, and rectangle room, with no windows. It wasn't as loud as AC/DC, but because of the conditions, it was pretty loud.

One time, just for kicks, I turned my JCM2000 dsl100 all the way up with my les paul. THAT WAS LOUD AS FUCK!

Does anybody have any idea how loud that is in decibels?

09-02-2009, 09:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
rich24a Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Sandhurst, UK Posts: 33	Loudest Gig? What is the loudest gig you've ever been to? My Dad saw UFO live in the 70's and said they were like a wall of sound and deafening...

09-02-2009, 09:54 AM	#2 (permalink)
Jesstaa Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Gippsland, Vic, Australia. Posts: 799	Re: Loudest Gig? When I saw Ozzy Osbourne it was pretty bloody loud, and it was the second furtherest I'd been from the stage in a gig. When I left I almost had no hearing at all. __________________ GEAR LIST Marshall JCM900 4100 (6L6) (1995) Marshall Valvestate 1965A cab (????) Cort VX-2V (2008) TUBES/SPEAKERS Power: Groove Tube 6L6GCB Phase Inverter: Sovtek 7025 Pre: V1 - N.O.S Mullard ECC83. V2 National 12AX7A Speakers: Celestion G10L-35 Marshall forever My tube amp & Real Music appreciation forum

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rockinr0ll Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,340	Re: Loudest Gig? Between The Buried And Me were pretty loud as well as After The Burial.

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jcmjmp Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 1,341	Re: Loudest Gig? Deep Purple f***ed up my hearing for sure.

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wareagle Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: new york Posts: 323	Re: Loudest Gig? whend u see ozzy? most gigs now r fairly quiet now... so id have to say judas preist although it wasnt that loud.

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MajorNut1967 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: South Pacific Posts: 710	Re: Loudest Gig? Deep Purple '74 at Cal Jam! __________________ MJN1967 aka BA (Bad Attitude) 1968 model 1987 50watt. A Baby Major (Half-Power) I built from the ground up. JTM 45 Clone combo Ground up build. JCM 800 Clone Ground up build. Custom Built Warmoth Strat 75' Fender Tele-Deluxe '70 style strat custom build w/Custom Shop 69's PU's

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luekemeyer Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Calif Posts: 439	Re: Loudest Gig? KISS at magic mountain, 1978. __________________ --------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/Earnhardt12345 JCM 2000 DSL 100 & MC412 Cab Crate Blue Voodoo BV-120H and 4x12 Cab ADA 1/2 Cab POD X3 Live VOX ToneLab Tube Screamer Flanger Phase 90 Chorus Crybaby Wah Epi Les Paul Plus Top - Dimarzio Super Distortions Dean Dime Shadow ML - Dimebucker bridge Ibanez RG - Van Halen II paint job - Dimebucker Kramer Aerostar Fender Squire Strat(From Corona Plant employee sale)

09-02-2009, 10:56 PM	#9 (permalink)
wareagle Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: new york Posts: 323	Re: Loudest Gig? wow all you old bastards got to see such great concerts. i have such envy for that. idk maybe i blew out my hearing but judas preist was kinda loud nothing was really ear shattering though.

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Lucifuge Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: The land of wooden shoes, tulips, and windmills Posts: 65	Re: Loudest Gig? The Divine Intervention concert from Slayer (with AIC as support) in Rotterdam in 94 or 95. My ears melted and my guts got scrambled...

09-03-2009, 11:42 AM	#12 (permalink)
Procter2812 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 333	Re: Loudest Gig? Airbourne... Aussi band ( Jesstaa should have heard of em) The played at manchester academy and had 8 marshall stacks!!!! all mic'd up haha Monster sound... loudest ever! Alex __________________ www.sexpistolstribute.co.uk JCM800 2203X JCM2000 TSL100 Marshall 1936 Gibson Les Paul Custom Orville Les Paul Custom Fender Highway One Stratocaster Boss EQ Ibanez Tube Screamer Crybaby Wah Boss TU-2

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poeman33 Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 432	Re: Loudest Gig? Triumph. A Canadian band. It was late 70-s - early 80's. I was thrilled that I had managed to get front row seats to something...After the warm-up band played and they took their stuff off the stage, they started to get the PA and stage setup for Triumph. An amp was turned on standby and just the buzzing from the amp was very very loud and I knew I was in trouble. When they started playing it was absolutely painful. I had to move to the back of the arena just to avoid being permanently deaf! __________________ --------------- Marshall JCM2000 DSL50 Avatar Vintage 4x12 cab Fender American Deluxe HSS Strat Ash body

09-03-2009, 07:53 PM	#14 (permalink)
luekemeyer Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Calif Posts: 439	Re: Loudest Gig? ACE Frehley at the House of Blues in Anaheim 2008. He had it loud enough for a stadium.My ears hurt really bad after that. __________________ --------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/Earnhardt12345 JCM 2000 DSL 100 & MC412 Cab Crate Blue Voodoo BV-120H and 4x12 Cab ADA 1/2 Cab POD X3 Live VOX ToneLab Tube Screamer Flanger Phase 90 Chorus Crybaby Wah Epi Les Paul Plus Top - Dimarzio Super Distortions Dean Dime Shadow ML - Dimebucker bridge Ibanez RG - Van Halen II paint job - Dimebucker Kramer Aerostar Fender Squire Strat(From Corona Plant employee sale)

09-20-2009, 07:41 PM	#15 (permalink)
invertedjesus Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Delaware Posts: 57	Re: Loudest Gig? Bongripper from Chicago. My phone was stolen at a show we played a few months back, so I don't have the picture of their setup, but here it is: Stage right: two Sound City heads a Laney GH1200H emperor 4x12 emperor 6x12 oversized emperor 2x12/15??? Stage Left: two JCM800/900 heads two marshall cabs bassist: two Orange heads two Orange 4x10s there might've been more, I really can't remember. regardless, it was the most ungodly loud thing I've ever seen. So glad I started wearing earplugs to shows before I saw them... __________________ 1990 JCM 900 MKIII 2100 1983 JCM 800 2203 mkII 1981 JCM 800 Lead Cab Epiphone Les Paul Custom (490t bridge p/u) Ibanez RG 370dx (dimarzio p/us in bridge/neck)

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TubeStack Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 182	Re: Loudest Gig? Believe it or not, for me it was seeing Big Sugar (Canadian band) in a small university pub (narrow basement venue, all concrete walls). Crazy, insane levels of volume, esp. Gordie's guitar. I knew things were loud when my ears started making computer noises... only show I've ever moved further back from the stage at, due to volume. Great show, though! __________________ "And I'm sorry but I can't be kind about this, if you are bitching about "my Marshall is too loud" or "I need a hot plate or a PowerBake to manage the volume," then you don't need or deserve a Marshall all valve amplifier! ... You're like a guy that goes and buys 1970 Chevy SS 454 with 500 horse power and then puts his golf clubs in and drives around the golf course at 3MPH..." - MajorNut1967

09-20-2009, 08:09 PM	#17 (permalink)
TubeStack Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 182	Re: Loudest Gig? As for larger bands/venues - Metallica comes to mind. Big outdoor show near Barrie, Ontario - you could hear them for fucking miles around. __________________ "And I'm sorry but I can't be kind about this, if you are bitching about "my Marshall is too loud" or "I need a hot plate or a PowerBake to manage the volume," then you don't need or deserve a Marshall all valve amplifier! ... You're like a guy that goes and buys 1970 Chevy SS 454 with 500 horse power and then puts his golf clubs in and drives around the golf course at 3MPH..." - MajorNut1967

09-20-2009, 09:45 PM	#18 (permalink)
donkost Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 64	Re: Loudest Gig? David Lee Roth, Eat 'Em and Smile tour in '86 with Steve Vai on guitar. We had floor seat at the Spectrum in Philly. I saw a ton of shows there from the late 70's onward, but the sound levels at this show were brutal. Some songs with easy chord structures like Tobacco Road took a few bars to even recognize what they were playing. My ears were ringing the entire next day after that one, but it was a fantastic band (also Billy Sheehan on bass) and show. __________________ 2009 Marshall JCM2000 DSL100 w/MC412A cab 1988 Mesa/Boogie Mark III 60W combo w/EV12L 1988 Gibson Les Paul Custom 1998 Peavey Wolfgang Special 2008 Gretsch G5120 2008 Ibanez RG2550Z 2009 Epiphone Zakk Wylde L.P. (bullseye) Jonesing for a Strat ever since reading "Blackmore tone" thread Pedaltrain PT-Pro w/numerous stomp boxes

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Jesstaa Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Gippsland, Vic, Australia. Posts: 799	Re: Loudest Gig? After today, I'm thinking, If I ever get big and play gigs everywhere, watch out, cause my rig will be loud, maximum power tube distortion = awesome... But goddamn is it loud, I was in a space, only surrounded by trees and houses (All spread far apart) and I was getting natural reverberation using a halfstack with 10" speakers xD Just imagine me with a fullstack and a full band... MWUAHAHA __________________ GEAR LIST Marshall JCM900 4100 (6L6) (1995) Marshall Valvestate 1965A cab (????) Cort VX-2V (2008) TUBES/SPEAKERS Power: Groove Tube 6L6GCB Phase Inverter: Sovtek 7025 Pre: V1 - N.O.S Mullard ECC83. V2 National 12AX7A Speakers: Celestion G10L-35 Marshall forever My tube amp & Real Music appreciation forum

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mlordin Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sweden Posts: 67	Re: Loudest Gig? Gary Moore late 80's or something - it was so freaking loud my ears were ringing for three days after the concert I really don't get it, music is great loud but there's a fine line between loud and painfully loud. I saw Steve Vai a couple of years ago and he's definitely one of my favorite musicians and I love his music – however, the indoor concert was unfortunately a disappointment since the guy at the mixing desk seemed deaf and figured the rest of us also being deaf or aspiring for future hearing aids __________________ Marshall JCM 2000 - TSL 100 with Marshall 1960A 4X12 Peavey Classic 30 MB450H with two MBC115 Ibanez Prestige Ibanez Iceman Washburn Falcon Yamaha Pacifica .. and some pedals... --- everything louder than everything else ---

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wasitthat Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 48	Re: Loudest Gig? 1. Pantera, Crowbar San Diego, 1991, far beyond driven tour, Dimebags solos (and back then he used ALOT of whammy pedal) were so loud, they hurt the bridge of my nose, some notes he would hit i would have to duck down under the level of the rest of the crowd to try to dodge the pure deafening sound. loudest of my life. 2. Pantera, Neurosis San Bernadino, 1996? great southern trendkill tour. another great concert, but with my previous experience with Pantera, i sat up in the seats and watched the show. 30 minutes into their set i was being dragged around in the pit. 3. Sepultura, Snack (my band), cir. 1997, Placentia. "Club 369" the pit section at 369 was only maybe 30-40 feet in diameter, so a lot of people were packed in that area, this was just before their japan tour with that new black singer guy, while the original singer went off and started soulfly. great gig, landed it cause we knew the owner personally. i was standing 15 feet from the drummer sidestage!

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Gtrman58 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: St. Louis, Mo. Posts: 148	Re: Loudest Gig? Aerosmith in about 1979 I think it was. They had a curtain up around the stage and when the lights went down they played the music to the psycho shower scene at a deafining volume. Then they raised the curtain and ripped into the first song. I swear it was twice as loud as the intro. They were all the way into the chorus before I could even tell that the song was Rats In The Cellar! I started bringing ear plugs to concerts after that ! __________________ 2009 JCM 2000 Dsl 100 MLB MC412A 1951 Fender Deluxe 2006 Hot Rod Deluxe 1995 Blues Junior 1994 Blues Deville Vox Path Finder 1982 Legend A 30 1980 Gibson Herritage Cherry Sunburst Standard 1980 Explorer White with gold HW 2000 52 Telecaster USA RI 1983 57 Strat LH USA RI 2003 57 Strat USA RI 1960 Silvertone Danelectro 1994 Fender P-bass 68 RI Acoustic guitars....not enough space to list !!!!!

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carnada Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: 22 Acacia Avenue Posts: 662	Re: Loudest Gig? a lot of people get intimidated by the fake amps kiss has in the back. They dont even work, and people think they are loud cuz of that. Most of the sound comes from the fucking PA system.................it doesnt come from cranked amps lol

09-21-2009, 07:23 PM	#25 (permalink)
woodddj Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: alabama Posts: 259	Re: Loudest Gig? testament... back in 93, my ears still ring from that concert. skolnik is a freakin wizzard on guitar. __________________ AVT50X and AVT20X MG15MSII

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thrawn86 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Far Nor Cal USA Posts: 426	Re: Loudest Gig? Hey, you might think this is lame, but I don't get to many concerts. I got to see Loverboy....................YES, THAT'S RIGHT.....Loverboy......on my first anniversary. Small venue, 'bout 4,000 people, outside. Mike Reno freakin' wails. The guy literally hurt my ears and I've had plenty of damage already to them over the years. Lead guitarist (forgot his name) played a goldtop and a set of JCM 800's; hey, I'd never seen them and my wife was a big fan, so I was jazzed that they rocked harder than I expected at a small venue. They stole the show from Eddie Money __________________ Drivin' faster in my car... 02 DSL 401-Ei's 02 1960b 02 Gibson LP Studio Silver 03 PRS Santana SE Holy Grail reverb Originally Posted by J. Robert Oppenheimer "We knew the world would not be the same."

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stargazer76 Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Dallas, Texas Posts: 42	Re: Loudest Gig? 1977....Blackmore's Rainbow....Migrain n' Tinnitus!!! __________________ JCM 900-4100 JCM 800-2204 1960A/G12T75 1962RI Stratocaster

10-03-2009, 11:59 PM	#29 (permalink)
crunchdaddy Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 50	Re: Loudest Gig? Ted Nugent...Mile High Stadium in Denver Colorado. 1978 I think. I know that he plays insanely loud, but the PA was cranked!! You couldn't even tell what song they were playing!! I remember that there were complaints from miles around. I saw Aerosmith in Albuquerque New Mexico around the same time. Too frickin loud!! couldn't tell what was being played.

10-04-2009, 12:48 AM	#30 (permalink)
DaCookieMonster Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Santa Cruz, Ca Posts: 73	Re: Loudest Gig? AC/DC was pretty loud. I could not hear my English teacher at all the next morning. My friend went too. We were like yelling just to hear each other, and the teacher was just laughing at us. I also saw some shitty punk rock band that had two half stacks, but it was in a very small, and rectangle room, with no windows. It wasn't as loud as AC/DC, but because of the conditions, it was pretty loud. One time, just for kicks, I turned my JCM2000 dsl100 all the way up with my les paul. THAT WAS LOUD AS FUCK! Does anybody have any idea how loud that is in decibels? __________________ Guitars: Gibson Les Paul Standard Goldtop. "Tess" Individual push-pull coil taps. Fender Stratocaster "Sadie" This guitar is built of strat parts I bought on ebay. All new, and all American though. Gibson SG Faded red. Angus Young signature pickup(s) Amp: Marshall JCM2000 (Broken as of August 13, 2009)(Fixed as of September 29, 2009) Fender 4*12 Cabinet R.I.P. Les Paul

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