Whats the craziest thing you've seen at a concert!!

Lots of memorable nights....the fights and stupidity kinda get forgotten, unless I was involved.

Yngwie opening for Dio(85 ?) in Seattle, with only 15 -20 people watching him. God he was amazing back then.

Going to see Multi bill with Exodus 85-86 in an underground parking garage Tacoma,wa. There is wrecked cars in the garage and the crowd goes insane when the bands are a no show. They set the cars on fire and one of them falls off the blicks and traps my foot......trapped and with impending flame.....and no bands?. Pretty sure the whole thing had been a scam.

Again mid 80's, seeing the band Omen( early power metal) at a community center. No stage or any support, they just set up with floor monitors. It was crappy and they bravely played well, but the singer was 5'4ish and the rest wernt tall. Im 6'1+ standing with my toes touching the wedges while a short man in medieval LA metal gear us singing to my groin.

2016 I think, watching Ministry play to a 90% full 1500+ Showbox Sodo that was sooo dead that you could hear a pin drop between songs. It was memorable only because I couldnt remember seeing that disconnected of a crowd.

One last 80's one. Took my Mom to see Dio. She was a huge Sabbath/Dio fan and a guy tries to spark a bowl behind me...and sets my hair afire. Seeing the look on your Moms face while your on fire is a memorable night. Luckily I just lost 10 inches of hair one on side and no real burns, but damn it took forever to even out.

I watched someone overdose and die at a KISS concert at Cobo Hall in 1976. They came in and took the body. The show never stopped.

The Impotent Sea Snakes were the craziest thing I have seen live. My memory is a bit hazy since it was the late 90s but I seem to recall some sex on stage and other things I've not seen in other live shows. Can't remember if they were any good or not.....

No one died, but I did see a guy at a Rush concert (HOLD YOUR FIRE tour which changed my frakkin' life, by the way)... he was obviously drunk as hell, and the concrete steps in the upper arena were very steep... he slipped and faceplanted and then accidentally did a forward roll... came up to his feet and kept walking/stumbling... the sound of loose flesh smacking concrete is pretty gross...

Side note: watching Neil Peart play "Mystic Rhythms" live was pretty damn crazy... late in the song, it just looked like he was waving his hands over the drums given the ostinato nature of the rhythm and the TONS of fills... looked like magic... and Alex's clean sound on "Prime Mover" literally seemed like it was from another planet. Goddamn what a show... if I watch the laser disc of that show, I can remember how it felt being there...

The craziest thing that happened to me was, I spun out on a gravel road last winter, I hit the ditch, kartwheeled my car and then barrel rolled 6-7 times... my airbags malfunctioned and never went off... and I somehow walked away from that accident with not even a scratch. My injury solicators were shocked

oliverblack77":2222qfp5 said:

The craziest thing that happened to me was, I spun out on a gravel road last winter, I hit the ditch, kartwheeled my car and then barrel rolled 6-7 times... my airbags malfunctioned and never went off... and I somehow walked away from that accident with not even a scratch. My injury solicators were shocked

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Which concert were you heading home from?


I went to a KISS concert back in the 90s and decided to put my hitter box inside the sleeve of my jean jacket in my fist so that when I raised my hands for the frisk, they wouldn't find it. I somehow let go and it slid down the inside of my jacket and onto the floor. They confiscated it. After the show I asked the venue manager if I could have it back. We sifted through the large bucket of stuff they had confiscated that night and I got it back.

Probably Steel Panther when they pulled like 15 chicks up out of the crowd and convinced them to expose their tits to everyone

One of them happened to be this ultra babe I was standing next to in the pit so I was happy I got to see her tits


Another one is when I was at a Down show next to a hot chick and she stood up on the barricade and asked me to reach under her skirt and rip her thong off so she could throw them up on stage. That motherfucker was surprisingly hard to tear but I eventually got it done

Last year at the Korn show up here in T.O. I noticed that Parents brought their 3 and 6 yr old to the show. Sorry to say but that was one of those “stupid parent” moments. A bit of an intense concert for small children. One of them the kids was crying.

You need a license to drive a car but not to be a parent.....

BrokenFusion":3pby93ln said:

Went to see Testament in the late 90's in a real small club. Strapping Young Lads were the opener. Their singer Devin Townsend jumped in the crowd and got in a fight with a fan, chaos ensues. The club owner shuts the whole thing down and tells everyone to get out. Me and my buddies see Chuck from Testament out behind the club by their van, we start talking to him. Chucks going on about how fucked up the night has been. To my surprise my buddy asks Chuck if he wants to burn one and he's like, yea lets go in the van. So there we are smoking a joint with Chuck Billy and a couple of the other dudes from Testament in their van behind a shitty little club in Jersey.

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That reminds me of a few more cool incidents I've been involved in - passing a joint back and forth with Kirk and Phil at a Down show while they were on stage playing


Seeing Dillinger Escape Plan at the Parish Room above the HOB in New Orleans and the guitar player cut a front flip off the stage and slammed a security guard in the forehead with his pointy ESP headstock - show instantly over


Also smoked weed with Dax Riggs and his band a couple times in the early Deadboy and the Elephant Men days

romanianreaper":2903sgaw said:

This isn't a really crazy story but a few years ago I saw Whitesnake and they all had "in ears". Well the P.A. completely cut out and all of the amps were running thru it. So we go from hearing the full sound to everything cutting out except for un-miced snare, bass drum and high hat. They have no idea that the sound is gone and are still posing and rocking out. We literally could hear cars passing the venue, people coughing, and bugs flying around. It was the weirdest visual ever.

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Similar thing happened at a Lamb of God show I was at in Dallas - midway through their set a breaker or something must have tripped and everything went silent except for the drums

Fee Waybill from the Tubes pulled his cock out back in 1981 for a song. I asked him about a couple of years ago when they came to town and the whole band looked at me and started to laugh, except Waybill. He said grumpily, "no, I don't remember that" to which the band started laughing even louder. I asked about a couple of former members, Bill Spooner (the mastermind IMO) and Re Styles, not a good idea to ask a miserable fuck like Fee!

Ted Nugent, New Haven, CT 1978. Kids were streaming non-stop into the New Haven Colliseum through the roof, hundreds. After the concert, kids were throwing bottles from the parking lot on the roof to the street below literally littering the street and damaging cars below. It made national news headlines.

Crazy in a good way: AC/DC Concert about 10 years ago. Had pretty decent seats to the side of the stage. A guy on the first row had a toddler in his arm for the entire concert. The kid had on construction headphones and the dad was the most energetic guy in the crowd. Nonstop, perpetual Motion with fist in the air. Could see his big smile from where i was several rows up. Acted like it was the greatest moment of his life, and I hope it was

I would love to know the backstory. Either he could not get a babysitter and had to take the kid with him, He was trying to expose the kid to good music early in life, or he is about to divorce the mother and figured he’d go out like a boss. Either way, I still chuckle thinking of the expression on the guy’s face. Nonstop excitement for several hours.

Genitorturers, no question. A lot of bondage, big rubber dildos shooting white shit all over the place, and pornographic images on a screen in the background hammering some guys nuts to a board with a hammer and nails.

Was quite shocking and freaky. But, they kicked ass. Badass bass player, and Jerry Outlaw on guitar. Gen, the singer was pretty hot. I believe she is/was married to David Vincent from Morbid Angel. 90's in Tampa.. What a time it was!

I was in a death metal band at the time and the other guitar player took me. I had NO idea what I was getting myself into..

Iron Maiden on this latest tour. General admission on the arena floor. I didn't expect a crazy crowd. I was right up front, just off center. Bunch of old timers are behind me waiting for the show to start. A guy has his son near me. I don't think they expected a crazy crowd either. The band starts and the crowd is excited but keeps it together. Third song is 2 Minutes to Midnite. I look over my shoulder, the old timers have vanished in a whirling sea of maniacs. I can only assume they were never seen again. The kid is clinging to his Dad for dear life. After the Clansman the Dad evacuates the kid. Up over the barricade and gone. I hope they are reunited someday. It was just in time, the next song was The Trooper and things just went apeshit. It never stopped. Dad is sucked up in the vortex. He emerges a few songs later half nude. To the left of me is the circle, to the right of me is every dumbass who brings his girlfriend into a pit. I'm in the middle, stupidly holding off the entire cyclone of death for the sake of the poor fools next to me while Bruce is holding court just above us. Towards the end of the show massive fat guy was going apeshit at the front. The guards grabbed him by the shirt and attempted to extract him. His brand new $60 tour shirt was shredded but he slipped into the sea. At one point a topless chick riding her boyfriend's shoulders fell onto my face ass first. I did not mind. After the show I bumped into the fat man and we had a good laugh about this escape. I bumped into the topless girl again and she did not seem happy to see me. As the crowd dispersed I saw the kid walking with his new Daddy. Outside the venue I bumped into the couple I protected, they thanked me for being a dumbass and bought me a beverage.

I've been in a lot of pits. I was in the shit for Motorhead and the things I saw in there I thought could not be topped. But Maiden was a perfect storm. It just had everything.

The WORST THING EVER in my concert years ...
Joan jett.... night ranger. Killer bill right?!?
Night ranger. Rocked out!!!
Played at a Indian casino. The ‘stage’ was like 2 feet off the ground. Flat floor.
Card table chairs for seating. If you don’t stand .... cant see!! SUCKED!!
Soooo Joan Jett comes on. Me and the wife we stand. Jamming out. With hundreds of others
I get a tap on my shoulder. ‘Sir you and your wife need to sit down the people behind you can’t see.’
I turn. Some 450 pound slob buried in a chair giving me the stink eye.
Told the usher .’well tell her ass to stand up or roll herself into the isle and she can see!
FAST FORWARD....., 10 minutes later.
I’m in the pisser. Actually mid stream taking a piss. Hand on my shoulder.
I turn look (still pissing). Indian casino security guard.
Simply said ‘Get your hands off me Mother Fucker!! Or someone will get hurt! And that someone won’t be me!’
So he backs off. We go back to the security office (concert still going on)
I explained I spent $80 a ticket. Wanna see the show. Are we done?!?’

Two fat slobs.... ‘yes your FREE TO GO..’
I said ok then FUCK YOU GUYS!! (Middle fingers up)


Went back to the show. But night was ruined.

Found out later. If it wasn’t on ‘indian land’ I could of won thousands in damages.

Oh well. Should of turned and pissed on the security guy.

stephen sawall":174rci72 said:

I watched someone overdose and die at a KISS concert at Cobo Hall in 1976. They came in and took the body. The show never stopped.

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that happend at a Slipknot show at harpos in 2004 too. a girl od'ed on xtc, and they just scooped her up, took her outside, ems called it. sad shit to see, but thats life when you fuck around with hard drugs.

Devin":tdxheufn said:

Probably Steel Panther when they pulled like 15 chicks up out of the crowd and convinced them to expose their tits to everyone

One of them happened to be this ultra babe I was standing next to in the pit so I was happy I got to see her tits


Another one is when I was at a Down show next to a hot chick and she stood up on the barricade and asked me to reach under her skirt and rip her thong off so she could throw them up on stage. That motherfucker was surprisingly hard to tear but I eventually got it done

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I saw Steel Panther do the same thing at a show. But the one girl who tried to take the spotlight was very drunk and had a ton of hair in her cleavage. Weird!

It was before the show, but snuck into a Rush soundcheck on the Roll the Bones tour in Stuttgart. I had seen them a week earlier in Cologne, so I knew what the passes looked like. I had been living in Germany for a year by then, so I had no accent knew how to look like I belonged. Snuck in through the production parking lot, watched them play about four songs in their normal street clothes, while Primus played frisbee on the empty arena floor (no chairs, all GA). That was fun.

the rossness":jzabxwzg said:

I saw Steel Panther do the same thing at a show. But the one girl who tried to take the spotlight was very drunk and had a ton of hair in her cleavage. Weird!

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I wouldn't say craziest but I've got alot of stories. I've seen / worked over 350 shows during my life. Here's a few although their pretty mild.

Metallica - Sod fight, must just be a Metallica thing but it happened at Starwood in Nashville as well. And then they started setting whatever they could find on fire. In the middle of the lawn seating there was this giant bonfire and people dancing around...surreal.

Kiss - Farewell Tour...never seen girls just openly posing naked. My friend had his little instant camera and the girls sitting around us were literally disrobing for him, top to bottom. And to beat all, he lost the damn camera. Same show, Ace is out of his mind and while trying to hook his guitar to the prop that takes it to the ceiling he just drops it, full on feedback and everything. Ace also tried to play Shock Me twice, Paul strolls up to the mic and goes...yeah Ace, we just played that one lol.

Skynryd - Some drunk crashes his car into the main power transformer, concert goes dead quite losing power. They pull the plug on the show and the fans rioted, busted all the windows out of my box office, threw trashcans, trees etc... anything they could get their hands on threw the windows.

Lots of shows - as people would be entering the pavilion and getting searched there was a fence near the line, after the shows you could walk the inside of the fence and find every drug imaginable, syringes, beer, knives and one time a freaking gun.

Quiet Riot / Whitesnake...this guy takes a tumble down the entire section of seats coming off the floor. Now this arena (Roundhouse Chattanooga) is steep as hell. He falls from the top, hits everything in site on the way down, bounces up as the crowd applauds and limps off. We're on the other side of the arena and watch every grinding hit laughing our ass off. Didn't know it at the time but the guy turned out to be our best friend and broke his ankle in two places.

Kiss - watched Gene drop kick a roll of toilet paper and it was perfect. This was on the Creatures tour, crowds were light, Gene was pissed. But at one point some dude launched a roll of toilet paper from the upper deck...was like in slow motion and the thing is unfolding perfectly and right after it hits the stage Gene in perfect fashion drop kicks it right back out in the audience. Minor stuff but the visual was cool as hell.

My personal favorite experience...Journey on the Departure tour. Me and my buddy find an open door into the arena (Knoxville Civic), sneak in and take in all of Journey's soundcheck. We're sitting in the risers right off the side of Neal, guy comes on the PA and asks us to leave, Neal responds back on the PA - it's cool they can stay. Dude played to us for the rest of the soundcheck and he's been in my top 5 fav guitarists since lol.