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Inspired by a Twitter prompt: "What's the sweatiest gig you've ever been to?"

but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:43 (three years ago)

My answer: Café Tacvba at BB King's in NYC, 2002(?). It was so packed, and the audience was jumping so hard, the walls were dripping.

but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:44 (three years ago)

Black Flag @ Fireman's Hall, Fort Lauderdale, FL, June 1985. It was so hot inside that the band stopped the show for a few minutes to give the crowd a chance to step outside to cool down and get some fresh air. Henry Rollins wrote about this in his diaries.

Josefa, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:35 (three years ago)

Femi Kuti at The Opera House in Toronto... sooo sweaty....

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:52 (three years ago)

oh man.

Exodus, 2016, The Brass Mug in Tampa, FL. this is already a venue that feels like it is operating with an air cooling system from 1927 as it is, but the AC just stopped working this day, and it was the middle of a Florida summer, with wall to wall people (as these were one-off Florida shows). I was drenched in sweat within 15 minutes, as was everybody else. It smelled like the abominable snowman's asshole by the end, and of course the floor got slippery due to condensation, so moshing was like ice skating.

I went outside and wrung out my shirt like I'd just been in the pool.

I talked to Steve Souza a few years later and he said he threw up in his Uber that night

Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 June 2022 00:03 (three years ago)

similarly, Rockstar Mayhem Fest in 2015 in Atlanta, GA. this was outdoors, but it was a type of humid like the kind we have in Florida, and I was several drinks in when my Uber dropped me off.

King Diamond and Slayer were who I was there to see. King Diamond broke into Mercyful Fate's "Evil" and I got very over-excited and started flailing around and then I got very dizzy very quickly and stopped. people asked me if I was ok as my eyes started glazing, so I went to the back of the venue and sat down and watched the rest of the show sitting on the ground, to avoid heat exhaustion, then acquired two huge waters and sipped them.

felt like I was getting sunburnt in the dark.

Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 June 2022 00:05 (three years ago)


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