Nuge blew my ears out so bad in 82, I was afraid to go back again. He is an awsome performance.
I swear, I couldn't hear for like 2 days... loudest performance I've ever seen
Try George Thorogood in a small bar in Bangor, Maine...I went outside to get a little relief from the cigarette smoke, and realized I couldn't hear a thing...nearby people talking, cars driving by...nothing. It wore off eventually, but I sure was freaked for a while.
Same happened to me in the old Sandstone Ampitheater in KC in 95. I was on the NINTH row and I already had some hereditary hearing loss started. I thought for a few days I was going to be in hearing-aid central for the rest of my life.