Top Ten – LOUDEST Gigs – Ever!
This is a list iof those historical ear-benders with a few of my own personal experinces thrown in – tinnitus and dizziness aside – here is the list!
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@JKNEVER69
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
Motorhead❤❤
@youngandrew66
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
This guy is totally rocknroll on a par with the drug dealing Canterbury carrot smoking character from withnail and i
@youngandrew66
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
Such a fascinating subject.. one thing ive always noticed is that whenever I've played before a disco and been told to turn my amps down the DJ is always massively louder. It helps that the sound is condescended and compacted into two channels though and this adds to the feeling or higher levels and most importantly BIGGER BASS0
@youngandrew66
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
Weirdly🎉, despite having witnessed the usual suspects DC, motorhead, Judas priest, my bloody valentine (frightening white noise assault)… the show that made me retreat to the toilets..? Bon jovi at I forget which stadium. We were very close to the midrange area of the hanging stack pa – that's channelling the mids and uppermids (guitars) and it was just painful. My wife the jovi fan is virtually deaf in one ear due to meniere's so she was unbothered 😅
@davidbirdsong4750
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
Rush – September 12, 2007. The Snakes & Arrows tour, London, Ontario. I went with my friend Paul (a London native) into a concrete box called the John Labatt Centre to witness the only time Rush ever played in this London. It was Paul's first Rush concert and I had seen them at least 10 times, but what followed was the loudest concert I have ever witnessed. I don't know if it was the venue or if the band were just punching hard that night (I've never seen anything close to a bad Rush show) but neither of us could hear a thing anyone was saying until much later the next day. When Geddy Lee hit the high notes on the break in Freewill my head split in two and it took two full days for my skull to recover. It was so amazing half the crowd moaned audibly.
@kevinloignon7943
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
SUNN O, Jesus and Mary Chain. The ears will bleed.
@jonchilds1637
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
Lots of loud bands over the years but all pale into insignificance next to Rammstein. At Coventry in 2023 it was reported that the gig could be heard 11 miles away. The anorak in me felt compelled to research this and found that perhaps not surprisingly (and based on an assumption on speaker impedance) they had IRO 1.8 million watts (RMS – no pretentious peak shit here!) available to them courtesy of the vast number of Acoustic Solutions LA-12X 'amplified controllers' which provide their sound. There's a number of descriptive/exploratory videos about that on here but we were there – quite simply the loudest yes clearest sound I've ever witnessed in 47 years of live music. Not only did you hear it, you also absolutely felt it!!
@tomdbass1
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
A record producer that I used to work for told me the story of how he was an assistant recording engineer on one of Motorheads recordings. He said in the studio, it was turning into a volume war between Lemmy and the rest of the band. He (my friend who was assistant engineer) had to quit the project due to the volume in the studio. He described the sound as “black wind”
@arturslunga4226
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
Dio in 1998. Small venue in Sweden. Brutally loud.
@adamfindlay7091
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
The Who made it to Guinness Book…of World Records.
@MauriceTituer
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
I’ve read in several articles that Nick Cave’s firt band, The Birthday Party, was one of the loudest band on record.
@MauriceTituer
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
Thumbs up for bringing up Disaster Area.
@evelyneverettgreen
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
The remarkable thing about the Who at Charlton was whilst it was super loud it was also crystal clear, the best sound I've ever heard at a gig (cf Led Zeppelin at Earls Court a year earlier which was not as loud but was very muddy sounding and caused far longer ear ringing than the louder Who gig). Hats off to The Who's technicians. The Who were insanely good that day. Btw Alex Harvey preceded them onstage and were marvellous themselves. Oh and there was the little matter of Little Feat earlier in the day.
@stecumo6459
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
saw megadeth monsters of rock 88 at donington,could feel chuck behler's bass pedals hitting my chest.belter gig,also saw megadeth again on the clash of the titans,after slayer had finished i came out pumped with adrenaline and deaf.what a show
@floydian2007
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
My loudest concert would probably be Neil Young and Crazy Horse at the SECC in Glasgow 2001. It was just flipping loud, the guitars were like sonic knives and the bass felt like being punched in the chest.
Metallica at this year’s Download festival needs a mention as there were complaints about the volume level 10 miles away. It often feels like a bit of pride in rock n roll being loud. If you aren’t getting complaints, then you’re not doing it right.
@robertbeebe849
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
Interesting that you mentioned PiL as they would be on my list from their gig in Pasadena in 1982. A reviewer called them “bewilderingly loud”, which was a good way to put it.
@davidgrady3408
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
Ozzy Osborne ,Newcastle mayfair, 1988. My stag night. Didn't hear the mass. Still married. ❤
@BlueberryStinkFinger62
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
Van Halen 1978 and 79
@spiritualarchitect4276
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
I may have posted this before, but here goes… in March 1975 I saw Zeppelin. When the concert started, I was right at the front. I was so close to Plant that I could hear the words come out of his mouth right before they came out of the PA speaker. I was so close to that speaker that after the third song my ears were ringing. A few songs later my ears hurt so bad that by the middle of the concert, I was as far from the stage and as high up as I could be. Plant was now about half an inch tall. My ears rang for 3 days.
@a.debree6771
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
Porcupine Tree Deadwing tour in De Boerderij, had a couple of days problem with hearing. I had also ticket for 013 Tilburg but left after about 45 minutes. These where my last concerts of this type.
@andrewharding7430
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 am
AC/DC Hammersmith Odeon, Highway to Hell tour. Felt every bass drum beat in my stomach. Had to put my hands over my ears at one point. That was Sunday night – My ears were still ringing on Wednesday!
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