From anton.chovit@mayfieldsenior.org Thu Sep 11 13:44:59 2003
Subject:Re: Deep Purple

I remember reading that at one Pink Floyd concert (near a lake in
Switzerland maybe), the sound was soo loud that fish were killed in
the lake and were floating to the surface.

I know that at a Roger Waters concert, at the end of Welcome to the
Machine, the sound was slowly modulated lower and lower and louder and
louder until you couldn't hear the sound anymore (subsonic), but my
chest was throbbing and bouncing like crazy! I thought I was going to
die! My ears rang for a long time.

--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, Doug B wrote:
> -Doug
>
> jake92028 wrote:
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, rick155@a... wrote:
> > In a message dated 9/10/2003 3:04:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> dougb415@y... writes:
> >
> > > When I saw Deep Purple in June '73, they *all* were using
> > > Marshall stacks. Man, what a LOUD show!
> >
> > I saw them back then too. Didn't they have the distinction of being
> The Loudest Band In Rock N Roll at some point?
>
> I don't think that distinction was Deep Purple's. It was a long time
> ago, but my well-worn memory downloaded Grand Funk Railroad or Ten
> Years After. Whoever it was with that title supposedly had special
> knobs made for their amps that went to '11' instead of '10.' Whether
> that's BS or not, who knows - they came onstage walking past their
> amps while reaching out and rolling the volume knobs all the way
> clockwise (could be a stunt more than one band used).
>
> Loudest I ever heard was Pink Floyd playing a surprise free afternoon
> concert with gear spread out overflowing the wide steps and veranda
> of (could have been the library) a building at UCLA. Their setup was
> in front of a half block quadrangle of grass with some shade trees,
> for a rapidly-growing crowd as news spread via word-of-mouth and
> radio stations KMET, KLOS, KROQ(?), etc. They had a wall, literally,
> of Orange amps, fronts about the size of 4x8 sheets of plywood, two
> cabinets high, eight (or so) stacks across. This would have been
> very early 70's, on tour for a second/third album - since they were
> playing songs from Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, including Intersteller
> Overdrive. In the middle of one of their amazing creations, the
> whole sound made like a Hammond wheel brake winding down as the main
> circuit breaker for the building overloaded. Music stopped for about
> 20 minutes while the roadies ran more heavy-duty power cables to a
> second building's outlet. My ears hummed and head rang for a week,
> but I wouldn't have missed it - pure luck. Pink Floyd was a great
> band long before the commercially succesful stuff like Money and The
> Wall. I think they lost someone (to the rubber room per psychoactive
> substances?) from the 1st album's original group but continued
> without a replacement. Whoo, I must be gettin' old! WJ
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