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kleinbl00  ·  4027 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Best live show you've ever been to?

For some reason they all involve destruction.

Ministry at Lollapalooza 2 in Dallas. They refused to go on until it was dark, which meant a 2-hour delay between Pearl Jam and them. The natives were getting restless. Bonfires were breaking out all over the grass. Some of the skaters discovered that if you get a whole bunch of people on a blanket you can launch people into the air. Some of the preppies also discovered this by getting on the skaters' blankets, at which point the skaters launched them into the air to land... not on the blankets. There were ambulances and police. Then Ministry came on stage and, with Gibby Haynes instead of Paul Barker, launched into an incredble, post-apocalyptic vision of Just One Fix.

Crash Worship, ADRV tour. Mixed that. We had to cover the entire club in visqueen because they sprayed the audience with flour, wine, honey, bodily fluids, gawd knows what. There has never been a Crash Worship show that wasn't stopped by the cops. Tchkung! opened for them; that was the first and last time we've had fully-automatic AK-47s loaded with blanks in the club. They sprayed the audience with burning fake dollar bills with George Bush's face on them.

Jane's Addiction & Chainsaw Kitten at the Albuquerque convention center. Three Days was s 25-minute solo and halfway through, someone ripped a fire extinguisher off the wall and sprayed down the audience. We thought we were being gassed.

Front 242, 1998. Ran lights for. JL Demeyer had the audience bouncing so much the racks were swaying side-to-side a good foot. I had to hold them up to keep them from crashing onto Patric C, who was mixing. We were fully convinced they were going to collapse the floor; it was membraning a good 6" up and down.

Queensryche, the Empire tour. First and last time Queensryche did Operation:Mindcrime in its entirety. We'd sort of moved on to other things by then but hot damn, those guys knew how to play. And sing. Geoff Tate remains an insurmountable wall of talent.

White Zombie, Pantera and Drown, again at the Albuquerque Convention Center. Simply because I've never seen that much violence at a show before or since.

I did have a fuckin' killer mix for Razed in Black. They were touring with Switchblade Symphony, who were bitchez. So I mixed the fuck out of Razed in Black. Almost got their energy up with the Front 242 show. Then F'ing Switchblade came on stage with a lame-ass coked-out rendition of Dissolve and the room emptied. It was awesome.

So many stories. At least I can't say I wasted my youth.