Loudest live guitar player

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Loudest individual guitarist, in a small club, was Jake E Lee on the 2nd Badlands tour.
Two full Marshall stacks, totally cranked.
LOUD AF, but totally glorious.
You were lucky…I saw that tour. When he was doing the Wicked Alliance tour they played a small club I used to go to all the time. He had SIX 5150 full stacks and they were all cranked!!! It was unbearable and he played like shit. Left after about 4 tunes…
 
Fear factory obsolete tour . For some reason Dino grabbed me from crowd said jump the barricade . He says stand here . 5 feet from his classic jcm 800 with bottom cab directly in my face . Blasting his the best tune of all time in my face
 
Fear factory obsolete tour . For some reason Dino grabbed me from crowd said jump the barricade . He says stand here . 5 feet from his classic jcm 800 with bottom cab directly in my face . Blasting his the best tune of all time in my face
He thought you were a burrito
 
I don't enjoy a show if I can't hear shit. The Black Album tour, I'm in an echo chamber arena and as great as it was seeing them, just so loud that some of the songs were hard to make out.
 
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1982 was the year of LOUD -
 
Ted Nugent back in the day. The Little Miss Dangerous tour volume actually hurt.
 
Ted Nugent back in the day. The Little Miss Dangerous tour volume actually hurt.
it was also one of the most colorful rock shows i’ve ever witnessed. a drunken concert goer in the front row brought cat scratch fever to a grinding halt when he spit at the motor city madman.
while theodore was going on a tirade about being able to put up with alot of crap but being spit on crossed the line,
ol’ life of the party thought it best to hock an end over end pterodactyl egg yoke lunger at the nuge. through my binoculars from the 23 row it looked like a slo mo yellow water balloon pasting his bangs to his forehead.

with a scream terrible ted swung his fully cranked byrdland in the air and sledgehammered it down on mucous mel which thundered through the arena, then he leapt offstage and just windmilled punches until his white wristbands turned red. carmine appice ran from behind the kit and grabbed nuge’s mic stand and began plunging the base of the weighted stand on the back of mr bad idea’s noggin. the way that stand recoiled after every direct hit was drawing oohs from the crowd.

carmine pulled ted back onstage, ted thanked the giant samoan brothers in the front for helping him kick some a#%, then launched back into cat scratch fever.

mr 17 beers too many got carried out by security on a stretcher looking like a luau pig.
 
Stevie Ray Vaughn at the Prom Center in St Paul MN. It was before he made it big. I t was a small ballroom with maybe 300 people. I got to watch from about 15 ft from him. It was deafening. Had to put cigarette butts in my ears. The other guys had plexi glass dividers between them and Stevie. Also BLS at the Quest with Brand New Sin in Mpls
 
sunn O)))

I’m pretty sure the idea is to move your internal organs with sound waves. Sonically you can feel it in your chest.

Attempting without hearing protection is eardrum suicide.
Sunn stand apart.
They sound like a glacier carving valleys from ancient seafloor.
First time I saw them I went into a trance and have little memory of the performance. Second time I saw them was a euphoric and inspiring revelation. Then some guy next to me had a seizure & I had to carry him out
 
it was also one of the most colorful rock shows i’ve ever witnessed. a drunken concert goer in the front row brought cat scratch fever to a grinding halt when he spit at the motor city madman.
while theodore was going on a tirade about being able to put up with alot of crap but being spit on crossed the line,
ol’ life of the party thought it best to hock an end over end pterodactyl egg yoke lunger at the nuge. through my binoculars from the 23 row it looked like a slo mo yellow water balloon pasting his bangs to his forehead.

with a scream terrible ted swung his fully cranked byrdland in the air and sledgehammered it down on mucous mel which thundered through the arena, then he leapt offstage and just windmilled punches until his white wristbands turned red. carmine appice ran from behind the kit and grabbed nuge’s mic stand and began plunging the base of the weighted stand on the back of mr bad idea’s noggin. the way that stand recoiled after every direct hit was drawing oohs from the crowd.

carmine pulled ted back onstage, ted thanked the giant samoan brothers in the front for helping him kick some a#%, then launched back into cat scratch fever.

mr 17 beers too many got carried out by security on a stretcher looking like a luau pig.
That tracks, lol
 
Nugent at '77 Superfest in Buffalo. You didn't want to be in front of the 1/2 dozen Fenders he had dimed
 
Yeah, Nugent for me as well - Sept.'79 Cobo Arena in Detroit. Though I didn't hear his amps directly. So, loudest show I guess.

Me and my buddy waited outside the arena overnight and was on track to score some pretty good seats. My older sister comes along at the end and convinces us to take a piss break and get some food whatever, she's got this. Sounded pretty good.
Ended up with nose bleed tier C shit. She probably traded the tickets out with someone for some cash or whatever. Ha, another solid transaction with my sis. Did I ever get my head straight about her? No, never will.

Being in those seats, the PA volume with the reverb from the arena, it was painful.
The laced weed being passed around to us though. Pretty, pretty good.
 
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