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richardh 
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 Posted: August 16 2006 at 02:04 |
The Sweet at Nottingham Rock City 1980.Horribly loud...couldn't hear a damn thing for 2 days after.
I never saw any band in the seventies but my friend who saw a lot of bands in the late sixties and seventies rates The Nice at Wolverhampton Civic Hall 1968 as the loudest gig he ever witnessed (ahead of even Hawkwind!).
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KazimirMajorinc
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Posted: August 16 2006 at 00:27 |
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The loudest band I've heard personally was Slovenian punk band Pankrti.
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OpethGuitarist
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Posted: August 16 2006 at 00:24 |
 Barla wrote:
In loudest do you mean heaviest ?
In that case, some extreme Black Metal would win: the haviest that
come to my mind are Cryptopsy, Belphegor and Anaal Nathrak,
but are a lot out there.
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no, they dont mean that, and Suffocation is "louder" than Cryptopsy, although Cryptopsy's drummer is freaking unbelievable.
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OpethGuitarist
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Posted: August 16 2006 at 00:24 |
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Well I take that back, Deep Purple was really loud.
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Barla
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Posted: August 16 2006 at 00:21 |
In loudest do you mean heaviest ?
In that case, some extreme Black Metal would win: the haviest that come to my mind are Cryptopsy, Belphegor and Anaal Nathrak, but are a lot out there.
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OpethGuitarist
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Posted: August 16 2006 at 00:18 |
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Suffocation wins easily methinks
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 23:39 |
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Hey I used to make a similar joke about VanHalen 25 years ago when Eddie was getting gobs of attention for his guitar tone. At the time the rock press was calling it the "brown sound". Not being a big fan (and given the subject of the previous post) you can imagine how I interpreted that.
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Csejthe
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 23:28 |
lightbulb_son wrote:
You guys are forgetting a lot of major bands.
Sunn O))) are frighteningly loud, I refused to go to their concerts
because of the horror stories I heard. (They play so loud that you crap
your pants, literally no joke) |
Actually, the theory isn't that they play so loud that you
defecate, but so low. It's called the theory of the "brown note"
and has never been proven or extensively documented.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note
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GoldenSpiral
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 23:26 |
kebjourman wrote:
Ty1020 wrote:
I've heard Mogwai is literally deafening live if you don't bring earplugs. |
i heard that too,
also MY BLOODY VALENTINE and the JESUS AND MARY CHAIN |
Yeah post-rock and "wall of sound" shoegazer bands can get really loud. I've seen tons of metal bands, but the loudest concert I've been to was Mono. They can build a song from almost silence to the most deafening clamour. The guitars have so many looped layers the sound is literally more punishing than any metal band could ever be.
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kebjourman
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 22:55 |
Ty1020 wrote:
I've heard Mogwai is literally deafening live if you don't bring earplugs. |
i heard that too,
also MY BLOODY VALENTINE and the JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 22:40 |
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I used to own a SUNN 0))) amplifier. That was the name of the company ND the Logo. Last I heard Fender had bought them out. I wonder if the band has the permissin to use both name and logo. It was a fairly major brand name in the late 60's and early 70's. Not particulaly loud though.
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lightbulb_son
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 21:48 |
You guys are forgetting a lot of major bands. Sunn O))) are frighteningly loud, I refused to go to their concerts because of the horror stories I heard. (They play so loud that you crap your pants, literally no joke)
Another band that was way loud was the Swans (the police shut down many of their concerts because it was a health hazard.)
Sleep and their guitarist Matt Pike's next band (High On Fire) are both insanely loud.
And of course you have the classic example of Motorhead.
Edited by lightbulb_son - August 15 2006 at 21:50
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When the world is sick
Can't no one be well
But I dreamt we were all
beautiful and strong
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Paulieg
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 21:34 |
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Deep Purple!!!!!
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Dr4Wazo
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 20:21 |
SLEEP with their GREEN and JERICHO amps 
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Garion81
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 19:50 |
composer wrote:
Garion:
I saw Foghat and Thin Lizzy on that same tour as well. I had the same reaction to Foghat. They played about an hour and I still don't know how many songs they played because it all ran together. |
Exactly there was no guitar, bass, drums or vocals it was just a din. Totally awful. TL smoked though. 
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 19:36 |
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Garion:
I saw Foghat and Thin Lizzy on that same tour as well. I had the same reaction to Foghat. They played about an hour and I still don't know how many songs they played because it all ran together.
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 19:36 |
Led Zeppelin 1979, my head was buzzing for two days and Rush 2005, it's one of my favorite bands but I went to the toilet a few extra times to escape from the 100 plus decibels, aweful and a disgrace to such a band  ...
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Garion81
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 19:09 |
The only concert where I walked out of with ears ringing was a show in 1978 Foghat and Thin Lizzy. Foghat was loud it was just a din you couldn't distinguish anything. Thin Lizzy was loud but not that loud. I had to leave as it was actually painful. I was there to see TL anyway Gary Moore was playing with them.
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maani
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 19:02 |
Robert Fripp wears earplugs, so he doesn't particularly care.
Mystic Fred is correct: the Guinness Book lists Deep Purple as the loudest band ever in concert: they were measured at 132 decibels - louder than a jet plane at take-off when standing 30 feet away.
I saw Led Zeppelin: they were not overly loud. Just loud enough...LOL
Peace.
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Liquid Len
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Posted: August 15 2006 at 18:01 |
The loudest I ever heard was a Robert Plant gig, I swear I could feel my heart shuddering!
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