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Rick1 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 14 2020 Location: Loughborough UK Status: Offline Points: 3187 |
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Volume seems to be a recurring theme here. It can go the other way - at HRH prog in 2010, Steve Hackett was too quiet!
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Nogbad_The_Bad ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Offline Points: 21867 |
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I take earplugs to every show, including jazz, too much Motorhead and AC/DC as a teen
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
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DoobieBrother6 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: February 04 2025 Location: Ontario Status: Offline Points: 262 |
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Orchestral Manouvers In The Dark.
Agree 100 %. I've never seen them live. Can't understand anyone wanting to - unless they are alien lifeform. A drippy load of NOTHING. One of the worse bands ever. .... Strange. Just this morning whilst (futilely) thrifting the vinyls, and as usually coming up with nothing - yep, there it was, the "Organization" lp. Good to see it in the company of Nana, Phil Collins and Engelbert lps. It belongs there. |
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Tapfret ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 12 2007 Location: Bryant, Wa Status: Offline Points: 8647 |
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1999 International Progressive Music Festival in San Francisco. Day 2 I walked out of both Lana Lane and The Rocket Scientists as well as Porcupine Tree. They were both too "glitz", for lack of a better word. The rest of the acts were a little more quirky and fun. But those two took themselves way too serious. Which is saying something given they shared the bill with Magma. Porcupine Tree seemed like they were set up to play Wembley, not the borderline intimate setting of the Palace of Fine Arts.
Also walked out of Public Enemy when they did the crossover tour in the early 90's with Primus and Anthrax. I was very interested in seeing them, but every single track had a maximum volume siren in the background that just drowned everything else out. I stepped out until Anthrax came on. They and Primus saved the evening for me. Most recently The Dear Hunter headlined a gig where I actually went to see the opening act, CHON. When CHON finished their incredibly intricate guitar work, The Dear Hunter just did not hold my interest. Maybe on a different bill that more matches their motif, but it just didnt work for me. Didn't help that I had a long drive home. |
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omphaloskepsis ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 19 2011 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 7036 |
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Tool 2011. We had bad seats...upper left balcony.
The stage was dim and dark, and the lead singer seemed to be hiding. My husband said, "Let's split and I'll take you to any restaurant you want. I'd rather listen to a Tool CD than strain my eyes to make out human specks." |
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cstack3 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: July 20 2009 Location: Tucson, AZ USA Status: Offline Points: 7747 |
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I noticed! Back in the 1970s, I think bands used to compete for decibels! Deep Purple was once rated as the loudest....I have a friend who went to a Blackmore's Rainbow show & said that was the loudest he ever heard! Bringing earplugs is always good advice! |
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UMUR ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 3083 |
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Manowar...terrible and ridiculous macho stage presence, which I couldn´t stomach. I know it´s their schicht, but I found them pathetic and unwatchable...
I think it was in 1999 and they shared the bill with Dio and Motörhead as far as I remember. Edited by UMUR - August 20 2025 at 01:58 |
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Cristi ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Crossover / Prog Metal Teams Joined: July 27 2006 Location: wonderland Status: Offline Points: 47300 |
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I wouldn't go to a Manowar concert even with free tickets, transportation, accomodation etc. Godawful band... ![]() |
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Jacob Schoolcraft ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 22 2021 Location: NJ Status: Offline Points: 1301 |
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My first Rock concert was horrible.. 😃
1974...Spectrum...Philadelphia Brownsville Station..Jo Jo Gunne...Slade It was not a seated event and there was vomit on the floor..( in various places too)..just don't say I didn't warn you Brownsville Station had the single "Smoking In The Boys Room" They were a Rock trio and they definitely had a garage band sound. Cub Koda...the guitar player/lead singer...while singing "Smokin' In The Boys Room" was hit in the eye with a cigarette. He grabbed his eye and was in pain from the burning sensation. The 2nd band on was Jo Jo Gunne. I wasn't into that style of Rock..however the band SOUNDED good and you could tell they were a bit seasoned on their instruments. As they played...the monitors began to cut out. Jay Ferguson apologized to the screaming crowd after stopping the song and he began talking directly to the sound tech. He responded by saying..."You guys really need to fix the problem..we can't play like this" The problem was magically fixed and the band started again. This time feedback began roaring through the monitors. Jay Ferguson stopped the song and said..."You need to fix this problem or we're walking" " " We are professional and we're not putting up with this" One more time....the monitors cut out again..Ferguson stopped the song and said.."Are you playing games with us?" "That's it..we're walking!!" Then the headliner SLADE were too loud...I didn't care for their music..so I walked |
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cstack3 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: July 20 2009 Location: Tucson, AZ USA Status: Offline Points: 7747 |
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How about concerts that the BAND walked out of??
I saw Led Zeppelin on July 6, 1973 at the late, great Chicago Stadium! Since this was just a few days after our July 4th "Independence Day" celebration, many in the crowd brought all sorts of fireworks, some of which were quite powerful! At the end of the concert, someone fired a very powerful skyrocket at the stage, and it exploded right over Robert Plant's head onstage! He was PISSED!! He said "see you next year!" and walked off, with the entire band. (I think they might have played for a bit longer, at least, if that hadn't happened). Edited by cstack3 - 12 hours 49 minutes ago at 19:06 |
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^ Zep hated fireworks with a passion, even their own onstage fireworks. That's why at one point in TSRtS when a huge timed explosion goes off Plant says "It's alright !"--- he was concerned people would be scared. That was when in-concert pyrotechnics were still fairly new.
There's a story about them hanging out before a show and CS&N were shooting beer cans with pistols from the seats. "Americans and their guns" one of them supposedly said. |
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richardh ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 30756 |
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I liked them in their early days of Enola Gay, Electricity and Maid Of Orleans (Mellotron!) but they did get bad very quickly with Tesla Girls (ugh!) and the like. |
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