Craziest concert you have ever been to?

[Dragonbreathp9d]

Alva Noto and Richard Devine in Santa Fe. Amazing, crazy, intense, and tripped out

[skygazer]

1. Elvis

I'm lucky I got out of there alive.

[begin_within]

2. The Tubes, 1979, Phoenix, handing out gifts during "What Do You Want From Life"

and almost f***ing on stage during "Don't Touch Me There"

[Bennyboy]

22. Ah, one of my faves The Tubes!

For a while they really had me convinced. I saw them at Bimbo's one night with 30 naked girls on stage and about 20 peoples in the audience, with Fee singing the Tom Jones song "Doesn't somebody wann be loved by anyone" Hilarious. I must have seen them fifty times in a few years. Funnest band and show ever.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. In terms of show, Alice Cooper; in terms of dumbass redneck turd audiences, DIO in Saginaw, MI

[AllegroRondo]

4. A punk band called DFX in Wisconsin

small venue, maybe 150 people crammed in there. Im surprized they didnt burn the place down.

[likesmountains 52]

5. Grateful Dead..Boulder..1971...

[Bennyboy]

6. Sex Pistols Winterland.

I really thought I was witnessing the end of the world. People with shit stuck through their faces, no pot smell, the band spitting on people and ther crowd loving it.

[seemunkee]

7. Stonehenge 1976

Camping in the fields around Stonehenge on the summer solstice. Members of Gong jamming, really friendly British Hell's Angels, Robed Druids. Bummer that I overslept on the morning of the solstice.

[Connonym]

8. Iggy Pop

On top of everything else that was weird about the evening, I got smacked by the cocktail waitress when I stuck my hand in my boyfriend's pocket (she thought I was trying to steal his wallet I guess).

[bedpanartist]

9. Slayer, Testament and Suicidal Tendencies

at Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio sometime around 1989.

[MonkeyFunk]

10. A Grateful Dead New Year's show in 1985

With the Neville Brothers and Olatunji.

I might've been on drugs.

[Bennyboy]

12. I was there.

Saw the GD every NYE they ever played from 68 on. I too might have been "something".

[redqueen]

11. Ramones in Dallas.

Got bounced around like a ping pong ball, but I had to get close to Joey!

:loveya:

[ironflange]

13. I'm pretty square, I've done mostly classical concerts

P. D. Q. Bach was a riot, though, both times I saw him.

[AllegroRondo]

16. I saw a crowd get pretty rowdy during Carmina Burana

that was a hoot.

[ironflange]

26. I've done Carmina a couple of times myself

In the choir. Now that you mention it, there were times when I was getting pretty worked up; that piece is a riot to do.

[SteppingRazor]

14. Phish, millennium new year. The three-day show included a 7.5-hour set...

that began at 11:30 p.m. on 12/31 and did not stop until 7 a.m. the next day. Nuff said.

[asthmaticeog]

15. Happy Grindcore at Speak in Tongues in Cleveland.

I can't even begin to describe the sheer lunacy. It would be fruitless to try.

2nd place: Caroliner Rainbow at the same venue. Again, mostly indescribable.

3rd place: Brian Jonestown Massacre, again at the same venue. Footage of that show wound up in the film "Dig." Of the 12 people in attendance, I seem to be the only one not visible in the film. :D

[LynneSin]

17. Grateful Dead in 1989 - last concert ever held at JFK

To be honest - I hated the concert and we actually left early. But I had so much fun at the pre-show outside the stadium and got pretty shitfaced on something I cannot remember. I ended up decking some guy in the face because he kept trying to put his hands up my dress

[Felix Mala]

18. Xfest 1995 - Bush, Weezer, Sugar Ray, Sponge

At Deer Creek, which may close soon, the Sponge set was especially good. We'd all gotten more than half-baked by the party supplies and the 99 degree temp. They were giving away bottled water. As Sponge went into Rotting Penata a giant food fight broke out high on the hill above the venue. (This was the "grass" seating section.) Soon bottles, pizza boxes, clothing and ever imaginable form of flotsam was in the air. It formed a large, dark cloud that slowly began to descend upon the seating area and the stage. It struck like a hurricane. We were sitting near the back and just started throwing stuff. You couldn't see anything and the storm continued down to the stage while the band played harder and louder. When it was over, 30,000 people were covered in beer, soda, mixed drinks, nacho cheese, pizza slices, skittles, mud, grass and leaves. There were places with sprayers for cooling down that became makeshift showers. Soon clothing became optional for many. The band never broke pace and had the whole place bouncing in garbaged unity by the end. Talk about grunge...

I'd seen the Stones, the Kinks, Ramones and the Dead, but I never saw anything like that.

[HughBeaumont]

19. Primus. Babylon A Go Go. 1991.

Had to have been 800-900 people crammed wall to wall in this hallway of a club. That pit was ridiculous thick. When you ventured above the crowd, you stayed up there for two to three minutes straight. Primus only played 40 minutes because the floor couldn't handle the weight of the people and the pogoing/moshing. The only thing that came close to replicating that was the recent Lightning Bolt show at the Grog this past spring.

Runner-Up - Vio-Lence, Empire, 1991. It was almost continuous diving and surfing from beginning to end. Vio-Lence was one intense live thrash act. Their spirit remains steadfast in Virginia's Municipal Waste.

Others:

Mr. Bungle. Empire. 1992. Best live show I ever went to, end of story.

US Grindcrusher Tour 1991 (Napalm Death, Godflesh, Nocturnus). Only time I saw Godflesh live. They played four songs of crushing industrial-metal, ear splitting and cathartic. Napalm Death was intense all the way; we made the pit three levels high, since one kid from our group weighed like 105 pounds and he was all over the place.

SOD. Peabodys. 1996. Their return to live performing was damned great fun, y'all.

[asthmaticeog]

21. I WAS THERE!

I loved Babylon A Go Go, I wish there was a central venue like that again. Pat's is fun but it doesn't get that caliber of touring band anymore.

[HughBeaumont]

25. I fucking missed all of "Jerry was a Race Car Driver" because I had to urinate.

One of the few times I've seen that song live, and I had to miss all of it. What should have taken 2 minutes took a song-and-a-half.

And when that happens, you KNOW the place is too packed to move.

Frankly, seeing Tad as the opener was a bit of a bonus for that show.

[ghostsofgiants]

20. This weekend, a few local hardcore/metal bands.

It was pretty chaotic (and fun).

[Taverner]

23. Good crazy or Bad crazy?

Bad Crazy: Slayer in 87. Saw a guy get a hammer in the head, another guy kicked in the face so hard teeth flew out, and other guy get his leg run over by a truck.

Good Crazy: Grateful Dead at the Greek in 85. Jerry's comeback concert. Ken Kesey got on the PA for an hour before the show and started tripping out.

[Rambis]

24. The Replacements 1984 Ames Iowa

The bass player was nekkid upside down in a garbage can with beer flying everywhere.
We tried to out drink them before the show. Just and fyi... Not a good idea-

[Initech]

27. Ozzfest 2005 in Devore, CA

That was of course the infamous show where Sharon Osbourne snuck eggs, beer bottles and other sharp objects and instructed the audience in the first few rows to throw them at Iron Maiden, resulting in them leaving the set about a half hour before they were supposed to be done. It was right after Slayer (the crowd was fucking crazy during Slayer's set) and shortly before Sabbath was supposed to take the stage. A lot of people had gone to the show just for Maiden and were seriously pissed at the outcome.

[Bjornsdotter]

28. Dr Hook

....I think it was 1975 in Copenhagen.....they played naked.

Cheers

[LeftyMom]

29. GnR and Metallica in Oakland 15 years ago

A show notable mostly for the condition it left the Coliseum in, since large chunks of the outfield sod were thrown around in the lawn area and onto the stage during the very long set changes.

[rucky]

30. KISS, Halloween, 1997. Dodger Stadium.

in 3-D

[HuffleClaw]

31. the wiggles ! n/t

[Orsino]

32. Springsteen, Mannheim '93

Not very crazy, I suppose, but the organizers were. Two-and-a-half hours standing on a concrete floor, pressed up against the stage. Stagehands were spraying the crowd with water to fight the heat. Finally had to pass my wife, who had fainted, over the crowd to a paramedic.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, it was a fine performance.

[DU GrovelBot]

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34. Lolapalooza, 1991, World Music Theater in Chicago...

Butthole Surfers
Rollins Band
Ice-T & Body Count
Nine Inch Nails
Living Colour
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Jane's Addiction

Need I say more?