The Cramps in 1991. I got to pogo on Human Fly, which was rather silly for a guy like me (I could have played a hobbit in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings). It didn't take long for me to find myself lying on the floor. Somebody helped me, I stood up, carried on dancing in a safer spot but had to stop eventually. The safe spot was close to the right speaker. And Surfin' Bird was blasting out of it. I felt really sick.
I can't remember if JSBE was so loud back in 1996, but it was certainly wild from the start (RL Burnside trying to cool things down).
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