Back in the mid-80s I saw Jason & the Scorchers with the Georgia 
Satellites opening. The Sats weren't content to simply make some 
eardrums bleed, they were out for nerve damage. We walked outside and 
stood on the sidewalk across the street from the club, and it was too 
loud from THERE. The Scorchers came on and turned the amps to 11, as 
usual, but it sounded calm by comparison. My ears rang for three days.

Good show, though.

erhoek@comcast.net wrote:

>The loudest concert I remember had to have been My Bloody Valentine at St Andrews Hall in Detroit .. Some of the show was amazing but quite a bit of it was akin to a chainsaw on sheet metal. I read in David Cavanagh's My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize book about Creation Records that main MBV guy Kevin Shields had an eerie fascination with pain thresholds to sound and was in a Joseph Mengelev sort of way doing his own experiments with his audiences as guinea pigs.
>Speaking of MBV has anyone (who enjoys the so-called shoegaze style of dreampop) heard the Club AC30 comp of neo shoegaze bands (and some original ones like the Ecstacy of Saint Theresa) doing covers of songs by such artists as Chapterhouse,Slowdive,MBV,Swervedriver,Ride,Lush,Telescopes,etc?
>It is called Never Lose That Feeling  Volume 1 and can be had for around 13.00 from Parasol which is currently having a 15% off sale on every cd in stock:
>http://www.parasol.com/catalog/catalog.asp?words=club+ac30&qsearch=all
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...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the 
lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in 
strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing 
behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice 
kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch, 
and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing 
from your heart. 

                    - John Millington Synge