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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Rick1 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2025 at 04:38
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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I take earplugs to every show, including jazz, too much Motorhead and AC/DC as a teen
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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.

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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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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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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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote cstack3 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2025 at 00:24
Originally posted by Rick1 Rick1 wrote:

Volume seems to be a recurring theme here. It can go the other way - at HRH prog in 2010, Steve Hackett was too quiet!


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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote UMUR Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2025 at 01:57
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.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2025 at 03:31
Originally posted by UMUR UMUR wrote:

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.


I wouldn't go to a Manowar concert even with free tickets, transportation, accomodation etc. Godawful band...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Jacob Schoolcraft Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2025 at 13:43
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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote cstack3 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 hours 7 minutes ago at 18:48
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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Atavachron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 hours 35 minutes ago at 21:20
^ 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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 3 hours 15 minutes ago at 04:40
Originally posted by DoobieBrother6 DoobieBrother6 wrote:

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.



It belongs there.


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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