Most Violent Live Band Ever?

GG Salad?

I can't believe you don't listen to The Dwarves, dude!

I NEED to see Te Dwarves but they all dead?
OH Shit NYCHC here we come. Firm as fuck.

i seen some shit at anal cunt shows

Does Seth (?) really hate the fuck and get stroppy? Do Anal Cunt have a mob?

i almost got hit right in the face w/a mic stand - many flying objects always

One that sticks in my mind is Duh! (ex Fang on axe). They hated.

The kids reckon it's Gallows.
Fucked Up, surely?

I don't know how you're gonna beat GG. Seth Putnam throws shit but GG full-on attacked people face to face. Like, by the time GG's attaching you, there is no mic stand to throw, because the mic stand is already all the way up his ass.

yah hed prob bleed aids on you too - but i never saw gg cause im not into that

well, even if he did bleed on you the chance of you getting aids from blood spilling on you at a show are extremely miniscule - certainly infinitesimally greater than if you weren't exposed to blood products at all, but

forgive me, it's kinda in my training

</exnurse>

what if tho he wounded you and his blood got in there

+Hanatarash were a pretty infamous band that was known for wild, violent live performances. There is a rumor that you drove a bulldozer through the wall of the club where you were performing. Is that true?
Eye: Yes. It was the dinosaur kind. With the back hoe scooper. Just drove it into the club.

+Was the club owner happy with you destroying the walls of his club?
Eye: Hmm. We pretty much destroyed... ruined that club. I was planning on throwing Molotov cocktails but the bulldozer I was driving tipped over and gasoline spilled out. If we threw the Molotov cocktails, we would have set the whole place on fire.

+Is that the same show where you had a circular saw strapped on your back and accidentally cut your leg?
Eye: That was a different show.

Not so much a nomination, because I had always heard that he'd actually thrown the Molotovs, but the comic timing here is just wonderful.

what if tho he wounded you and his blood got in there

as far as I know there aren't any recorded instances of this (and as far as I know GG didn't actually have AIDS) but theoretically maybe

basically if you don't have sex with or share a needle with somebody your chances of getting AIDS from them plummet to near zero

again I am sorry and should probably be ignored, I worked with aids patients when I was a young nurse and occasional have a flareup of totally inappropriate oversensitivity

Survival Research Laboratories?

How many fingers does Mark Pauline have left?

Head says Swans
Heart says Wendy O. Williams/Plasmatics

SWANS

i still say anal cunt ... throwing cinder blocks at yer audience (as anal cunt has been known to do) is downright psychotic.

again I am sorry and should probably be ignored, I worked with aids patients when I was a young nurse and occasional have a flareup of totally inappropriate oversensitivity

-- J0hn D., Tuesday, June 3, 2008 7:32 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ur not really seeming overly sensitive here

James Chance got a little up close and personal with Christgau, huh? (great pictures of that in the brilliant no wave book just out btw)

Amen? Really?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzhCiEl4RK4

I don't know how you're gonna beat GG.

j0hn d otm

it's not just this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrg0ZT6OmY4

but his longterm, focused dedication to physically attacking the audience

the dwarves did it too, but it was kind of like an encore for them

gg makes everybody else look like dabblers in the form

if we're talking most brutal live band i.e. aesthetic violence then yeah swans is probably correct answer

i'm gonna go with mayhem for the flying pig skull alone. must have hurt and, if taken out of context, is extremely bizarre.

oddly enough i'm sure early MANICS might count here cause didnt they brain and hospitalise 2 seperate security guards at 2 seperate gigs accidentally?

throwing guitars don't cut it here....

Swans? what, more than just 'oh noe, really loud'? Tell, do.

I saw the Swans first UK tour, and the band themselves kept to the stage. The audience, though, were just the worst I've ever been in, All the frenzy of a thrash gig, but absolutely none of the group behaviours that limit injury: people getting trampled and punched out all over the place.

In terms of actual harm inflicted I guess the answer is Great White.

Swans played so loud -- legend has it -- that people in the audience would actually vomit.

Actually, these are all wrong -- the most violent live band was Missing Foundation.

I read on another thread that SPK may have set someone alight at one show, and (accidentally?) thrashed a girls ear clean off using a chain.

Faust.

Hanatarash and Con-Dom might have a good shot at this

I’m Glad Jazz Faggots Don’t Like Us Anymore

We just wanted to sound like shit
But you thought we were avant-garde
You thought we went to art school
But we worked at gas stations

(Chorus:)
You thought we were cool
But you didn’t know we hate you
You thought we were cool
Fuck off all you fucking faggots!

You didn’t know we were a bunch of assholes
You thought we were liberal and arty
You tried to act weird and pretend you were violent
When I whipped chairs at you, you ran off and cried

(Chorus)

Once you realized we hate people like you
You finally stopped coming to our shows
Now there's less faggots, less people with glasses
Less know it all eggheads, no more jazz fags

ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Seth Putnam

Hanatarash -- first thing I thought of. That bulldozer thing. Next level shit.

Hanatarash & GG Allin are the only real contenders here.

MAYBE one of the more notorious Oi! bands e.g. the Cockney Rejects as posted up top - but I think in a lot of those cases it was more the audience that was violent rather than the bands themselves.

You thought we went to art school
But we worked at gas stations

haha. that is pure money.

Hanatarash was notorious for its dangerous live shows. Some of the band's most infamous shows included Eye cutting a dead cat in half with a machete, strapping a circular saw to his back and almost cutting his leg off, and destroying part of a venue with a backhoe bulldozer by driving it through the back wall and onto the stage.[2]

At a 1985 show in Tokyo's Superloft, the audience was required to fill out waivers due to the possibility of harm caused by the show. The show was stopped due to Eye preparing to throw a lit molotov cocktail onto the stage. The performance cost ¥600,000 (approximately $6,000 US) in repairs.

Uh, sorry if that got posted already or anything...I had to quick scroll down because people were talking about aids blood.

SRL kinda wins it for automated violent show, especially in potential liability.

3 minutes of one of their nighttime performances in San Jose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5JhQCJBYdQ&feature=related

xpost: I saw SPK on the 'Metal Dance' tour - supposedly fairly restrained - they threw an oil drum into the audience, and Revel was whirling a chain around his head. The 'some girl lost an ear/eye' seems to be a really common apocryphal tale told about bands, though.

re: srl--is the same thing I saw in the target video preview reel at the end of the cramps dvd where they're in that mental institute? I remember there was a great quote from a spectator who was thrilled to be in mortal danger.

Oxbow deserves a mention on this thread. The footage of Eugene Robinson choking out a heckler in the Music For Adults movie (the DVD half of Love That's Last) is fantastic.

Yeah, that's brilliant.

The last time they played Bristol he apologised for decking a guy during the show the time before.

Was the time before at the Ashton Court festival? Cos I sort of know that guy

I think I remember an interview with JFA where they accused a member of the Misfits of braining a kid over the head with a skateboard deck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GISM

G.I.S.M. were widely known for violence present in their lyrics & live shows. Sakevi attacked the singer of Jagatara on national television [7]. On stage, Sakevi would often be dressed on stage wearing a balaclava & bullet belt, waving lit flares in audience members faces, using microphone stands as clubs, & attacking concert goers as Vietnam War footage was projected behind him. In the past he has attacked photographers for taking pictures of him & has chased audiences with a flamethrower.

If the thread question can be expanded from band/audience interaction to include inter-band stage violence, Trent Reznor deserves a nod.

xpost: Survival Research Labs are still very much in business at http://www.srl.org/

I don't think they've ever done a show in the UK - possibly Health and Safety regs are too tight. I remember an interview with Pauline where he said the thing was to get the local cops involved from the beginning, and they'd usually end up suggesting stuff more dangerous than SRL had originally contemplated.

"Actually, these are all wrong -- the most violent live band was Missing Foundation."

I thought it was Crash Worship. Wasn't the whole existence of Crash Worship just an excuse to throw fire and explosives at people?

how has nobody said GWAR yet??

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~seanmckeon/pics/Various/gwar.jpg

http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~gin/rock/japan/hanatarasi/hanatarashi2/hanatarashi2.html

the bulldozer show!

"how has nobody said GWAR yet??"

cuz gwar are so cuddly and cute and fun live! they are, like, the opposite of violent when you get right down to it. though i will admit that their pyro scared the shit out of me in a smallish club in philly in 1989. (the sound of it going off, that is. no imminent danger from flames or anything. sounded like a bunch of M80s going off right next to me and i jumped a mile.)

In the past he has attacked photographers for taking pictures of him & has chased audiences with a flamethrower.

The last part brought the laughs.

Was the time before at the Ashton Court festival?

Yeah, he apologised (when he came back as Acoustic Duo) because he said he hit the guy for grabbing at him and he assuemd the guy was gay, which he now realises was wrong.

Haha. That will form the basis of some mild reminiscing this weekend ;)