LRAD - part 2

Whoa! - it's all coming back to me now. In the late 80's I took some of my boys (12-15 yrs. old at that time) down to the old Grady Cole Center ... down by CPCC to see a band touted to be the loudest band in the world at the time (I remember Spinal Tap was on hiatus)... anyhoo ... Since I was an old acquaintance of the road manager, we went down and picked up our VIP/backstage passes and prepared ourselves to be astonished.

Now Grady Cole was built for basketball and was totally hard. I mean it was harder than hard ... harder than remembering the name of the band ... concrete slab floor, solid concrete walls, concrete balcony all the way around it kinda like the Blue Horizon in Philly if you've ever been there and of course the exposed steel trussed roof.

Great! ... listening to the loudest band in the land in this teeny little concrete and steel bunker and I mean to tell you, it was loud! They may well have approached the 150 db level. I didn't notice it at the time but no one in the band had any facial hair! Perhaps the db level did blow their whiskers off! And then. After the show was done. And it was really a great show. I wish I could remember the band's name. The drummer was un-frickin-believable.

I can remember his name. It was Dave Lombardi or Lombardo. And so after the show we're walking through where the mosh pit was, and lying on the floor among the torn tennis shoes, ripped underwear and whatnot was a ponytail, completely intact. Just as if it had been blown off by an LRAD or something worse.

So I think you may be onto something there with the whisker deal but as far as content goes ..oh!Slayer ... it was the band "Slayer". yup. You know, Slayer music would be a good candidate for using with their "death ray" machine. Kenny G., Pat Benatar and Don Henley while truly abysmal musically, in the long run, may just make everyone feel sort of gooey. You have a great weekend, too.