I Love it Loud.

Ok so I have seen some bands, I know lots of people have seen a shitload more than me, good for you however I am going to tell you about bands that I have seen or rather had my ears bleed! 

Now there’s a couple of bands that claim to be the loudest bands n the world, trust me they arent not by a long chalk, so let’s go there first and get it out of the way!

Ted Nugent, I have seen him a couple of times and not even in my top twenty loud…...ish and in his later days a bore between songs not as entertaining as in his youth!

Manowar more of the same, all talk and leather pants did I enjoy the gig, yes, I did, but loud erm nope, I have heard louder pub bands!

Talking of pub bands The Flakes who I loved and they should have been huge in various bars in and around Newcastle always loud always great!

Thin Lizzy usually crystal that’s until John Sykes joined the band, that’s all I will say on that matter!

Venom……. actually, I was disappointed, if it was a school report it would have said could do better.

Motorhead I saw a couple of times in the early days loud and clear in the later days loud and distorted it was like they wanted the reputation but not for the right reasons, hey ho that’s my opinion, what the hell do I know.

Holy Cow at Trillian’s how it should be done Loud and crystal Clear!

The Teardrop Explodes loud and sodding awful……bleurgh!

Now let’s do some of the bands that have been loud, usually they have been loud and awesome, crystal clear, and absolute perfection!

Van Morrison yes you read that right a boring gig but bloody loud, I know, I thought that as well!

Jethro Tull again I know the first time at the hall was nearly off into distorted territory, however I saw them in Birmingham and it was so loud it gave me chest pains, not on all of the set just the riff heavy ones.

Yes, always too bloody loud, except the Drama tour which was pretty damn good, I always enjoyed the gigs just didn’t want to be on Chris Squires side.

Europe, on the Prisoners in Paradise tour was sooooooooooo loud great gig just my ears were buzzing for days afterwards.

Gillan it was usually too loud when his voice was shot but crystal clear when he was in good voice (so not often then).

Stanley Clarke, I had gone to the North Sea jazz festival, I saw some awesome bands he was great for the first three songs then he just turned everything to the max, awesome and then aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh everybody ran from the hall with their ears bleeding!

Engelbert Humperdinck, I had a friend playing in his backing band so a group of us went to see him to take the piss, we lasted 6 songs then ran away with all of the old dears sitting there loving him the band were superb but it was simply way too loud for us rock n rollers!

Kiss, were always loud just not excessively, sorry I know its not what you wanted to hear……. WHAT?

The loudest band I have seen to date was Clutch, damn I had ear plugs in and it was crystal clear, but god damn it was loud, bloody brilliant but loud.

Yngwie J Wankstain was ridiculously loud the first time just about everything was pre-recorded, and shockingly awful, the second the rest of the band in the corner with a wall  of Marshalls, so sad that some one with his talent can’t be reigned in, Ripper Owens obviously got paid for every time he mentioned Wankstain Name.

Jellyfish, damn I thought it was AC DC, they learned and got better still awesome gigs!

AC DC were always loud, what can I say, just not as loud as those bloody cannons!

UFO usually had a great sound however I saw them on the mad men tour with Laurence Archer and it was pitiful.

Wasp latter gigs shit sound, first tour loud and proud!

Adam and his ants never saw them at the height of his powers I saw him on the Dirk wears white Sox tour and it was OK, then jump to about 2015/16 and yeh god’s way too loud again more than likely to hide the lack of vocal prowess.

Stiff Little Fingers awesome gig was deaf for days after wards!

TRB awesome gig my ears rang for it seemed like weeks

I saw the Who in London and it might as well have just been John Entwistle, that’s all I heard all night.

Most blues artists too loud to enjoy, they should talk a tab out of Robben Ford’s book loud but perfectly sounding!

It Bites over in Cumbria was way too loud until Francis had a strop and then it was perfect!

Black Sabbath with Ray Gillan again ears were bleeding for no reason! 

The Monkees in London around 1983, at least I think it was they would have given Motorhead a run for their money.

Be Bop Deluxe and Bill Nelson was at the sound engineer all the way through the gig, no wonder he is nearly deaf these days!

Queensryche supporting Judas Priest at the arena loud and horrible.

Richard Marx, I’m sure he was overcompensating for something!

Slade loud every time but cracking gigs!

Blue Oyster Cult…………………. the gods of rock! So loud so proud!

Most of the punk bands I saw back in the day (god I feel old) all except the Stranglers who were always loud, but oh so perfect!

Now there is a lot more that were loud, usually metal bands but hey they were loud for a reason and had a crystal-clear sound, I don’t mind loud, but bands can do it and have it clear like water! Those that do it distorted, well to me that’s just laziness on the sound engineer’s behalf!

There’s the blog slightly late but work pays the bills, so there you go, the last one was OK in numbers but it is what it is, I can live with it, as always thanks to the nice comments get your questions in for the next blog as it’s a “Now Hear This” Blog, so until then ………….Toodles!