Loudest Sound Ever?

@reubent   The Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway raced for the last time earlier this year and Houston Raceway Park in Baytown is closing up shop for good following the running of the Springnationals a few weeks ago. We had just crossed the state line into Florida on the way to the Gators in Gainesville in 2019 when we heard that they'd pulled the plug due to CV.

The Ramones at The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in the 1980’s. The Civic is a horrendously bad sounding room, a large cement bunker.

Prior to that, it was the night I did an 8-hr audition for a really good San Jose band, from 9 PM until the Sun came up. One of the two guitarists had placed his Fender Twin Reverb amp (fed the signal from a Guild Starfire guitar) facing right at me, about ten feet away. After the last song of the evening ended, a couple of the guys starting talking, and though their lips was flappin’, I couldn’t hear a word they was sayin’. Frightening! By the way, I passed the audition ;-) . That guitarist is very Jazz influenced, and now makes his living accompanying a female singer, performing standards from The Great American Songbook in supper clubs around the Monterey Bay area.

Dynamite used to break loose slag in a boiler.  Only half a stck.  Had on ear protection good for 25 dB reduction and it was still very loud and concussive.

Blue Cheer, Jimi H.