i-Ram Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 I once almost went deaf after a Motörhead concert, but Naga Munchetty’s screams broke my ducking windows. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57551641 What is the loudest thing you have heard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjam Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 When I was a lad... *starts to feel like Grampa Simpson* I used to live across the road from Linton Primary School, after school finished a load of us used to go back, climb over the fence and play football on the fields, one of which was on the side of a smallish hill, but the highest point for a fair old distance. Back in those days, fighter jets used to fly over really, really low, really, really fast - they had flown past before heard them! Several times, we were messing around on the top of this small hill and these planes screamed 100ft over the top of us frightening us half to death. Nothing has come close to that noise. i-Ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 (edited) Watched a rocket take off at Cape Canaveral about 6 years ago, the noise totally filled your stomach it was awe inspiringly loud. Edited June 21, 2021 by MuespachRam i-Ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucker1884 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Back in September '79, when they blew up "The 7 Arches" (Breadsall Viaduct, pretty much where The Paddock pub now stands) the whole ground shook around the houses that looked on. Everyone had smashed windows apart from us... Dad had the sense to open windows, allowing a "rattle" as a shock absorber. The bang was so loud, it almost woke mum up... and it was her funeral the following day! ?? i-Ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagtime Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 43 Nascars starting a race at Texas Motor speedway. Because there are overhead boxes in the stand, the noise just funnels up to the top where we were seated. Watching a rocket takeoff at Cape Canaveral in 2015 was a more bassy noise that shook the insides of your body. i-Ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 I once let one go at the back of the class whilst sat on one of them plastic chairs. The teacher dropped the chalk. TimRam, Steve How Hard?, Bwash_Ram and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Mash Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Motorhead - Derby assembly rooms 1983. First ever gig. Deaf for three days. My Bloody Valentine - Sheffield Arena 1992ish Mogwai - Birmingham Institute 1999ish The Jesus and Mary Chain - Birmingham Institute 1996ish So based on that list, bands are not as loud as before or 38 years of gig going has knackered my hearing. i-Ram and I know nothing 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FindernRam Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 At an Air show where a SR71 Blackbird did a full afterburner flypast. i-Ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
May Contain Nuts Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Not sure about the loudest, but I reckon I can make the most high-pitched noise of any member of this forum. You'll just have to take my word for it though, unless you can find a talking dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bwash_Ram Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 The Undertones at the Assembly Rooms, was painfully loud my ears were ringing for a week after. i-Ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaaLocks Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 1977, when Derby became a city, a Vulcan bomber came over the centre (I'm guessing it uses RR engines) and did a vertical climb (something that all planes can now only do over the sea, for safety reasons). Maybe not the loudest thing I have ever heard but it was pretty darned floor rattling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Iron Maiden TimRam, Ramslad1992 and cstand 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade 86 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Hawkwind for me cstand and sheeponacid 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretsquirrel Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 AC/DC at the Assembly rooms only concert i have had to leave cos it was painful on the ear. i-Ram, TimRam and cstand 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Ram Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Stuck me ‘ead in a bass bin at an Edgar Broughton Band concert at the Kings Hall when I was about 16 ? Seemed a good idea at the time. Deep Purple at Coventry Theatre were loud as flip but standing underneath Concorde as it took off near terminal 4 probably tops the lot. And I wonder why I’ve got permanent tinnitus. ? cstand 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 (edited) Saxon and Motorhead for rock bands, and Dio were pretty loud too. Vickers VC10 and Concorde taking off was pretty loud too, I think. Edited June 22, 2021 by Eddie cstand and TimRam 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimRam Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 (edited) 46 minutes ago, secretsquirrel said: AC/DC at the Assembly rooms only concert i have had to leave cos it was painful on the ear. I've seen them twice in '84 and '09. Both were outside venues so not as loud as indoor although sound was excellent. Loudest indoor was Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath) and answers o/p question. Edited June 22, 2021 by TimRam i-Ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Someone once fired a GPMG right next to my head and I didn't have any ear defence on. I've had tinnitus ever since. i-Ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob The Badger Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 1 hour ago, BaaLocks said: Maybe not the loudest thing I have ever heard Phew, thank god the OP wasn't asking for the loudest thing you've ever heard. The missus once banged the car door very hard whilst in a strop. It was the second loudest thing I heard that day. Can't remember the first tbh. It'll probably come to me though. i-Ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Some of Eddie's shirts at the cricket. angieram, cstand and ThePrisoner 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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