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Just out of interest, was that gig at Lancaster University @Neil ? Went to a couple of gigs there in the mid-late 70s and their hall had the acoustics of a fully-porcelain-tiled public convenience.
Did you ever get up to the Brewery Arts Centre at Kendal? They got some surprisingly high profile bands there but yet again the venue was one where the volume had to be spot on or it could sound awful.
Anyway he was completely wasted before he came on. He sat down, did half a song, said "Ah, fuck it" and went off. Not best pleased!
The only name band I remember finding unlistenable due to volume were The Damned in Coventry in the late 1980s. Utterly tuneless sludge of noise. Wether the guitar playing was any good I have no idea!
Still hurts almost 20 years on...
On the loudness question, the worst for me was Judas Priest at the Hammersmith Apollo. It started out OK but my ears just seemed to give up and all I could hear was a bass rumble with a brighter whiny sound over the top which was either the guitar solos or Halford's voice.
My ears were ringing for nearly a week and I started wearing earplugs at gigs after that (although I haven't been to many since).
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