How loud are the Stone Roses?

msmancunia

I'm six or seven miles away and I can tell they are playing Sally Cinnamon. That crowd must be bleeding from the ears.

Yes, I'm getting old.

Kieran_Burns

My windows were rattling from Download a couple of weeks back.

I'm in Kegworth.

Yukirin

msmancunia wrote:

I'm six or seven miles away and I can tell they are playing Sally Cinnamon. That crowd must be bleeding from the ears.

Yes, I'm getting old.

I used to live 5 miles from a go kart track with just farm land between us. With the wind the right way on a quiet Sunday it was like they were racing outside on the road even with the double glazing. I worked at the track for a while, it wasnt much louder in the cafe beside the track than it was back home.

Kerguelen

msmancunia wrote:

I'm six or seven miles away and I can tell they are playing Sally Cinnamon. That crowd must be bleeding from the ears.

Yes, I'm getting old.

It's not you. I saw them at Glasgow Green in 1990 and they were ****ing loud.

gtvlusso

There is urban legend around U2 being one of the loudest bands; note for being loud it is all down to the engineers and the size of PA, the amount of air it can shift.

I saw U2 at Cardiff Arms park on the Zoo TV tour many years ago - it was soon after that gig that Cardiff Arms park was torn down and Millennium stadium put in it's place. Part of the reason for this was that structural damage had occurred during the U2 gig due to the PA being so loud and physically shaking the stadium.......

SimonAH

I remember Deep Purple opening at Knebworth and listening to it in my garden eight miles away :-D

asprilla

Tom Jones plays Sanddown Race Course each year and I can listen to the full gig in my back garden 5km away.

I get the impression Tom isn't using any form of amplification either.