Best Concert Story
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Public Enemy
Hong Kong 1992Good bands coming through Hong Kong were few, and very far between. Wham and Bryan Adams come to mind.
My first ever realy show was seeing Public Enemy at the So Kon Po amphiteatre.
(That is if you don't count seeing LOUDNESS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou…) there a year earlier - which I don't because I was totally wasted up the back trying to get my hands down Claire Jackson's pants...)
They were so fucking loud (PE - not LOUDNESS...who were also pretty fucking loud btw...) that when i got home I couldn;t sleep all night due to the ringing in my ears.
Anyway...about halfway through the set...everybody is standing up on their seats - and Chuck D between songs starts saying that the management of the venue asked him to tell us not to stand on the seats but that he 'Didn't give a fuck what we did'. He then led the crowd of predominantly white middle class english kids into a resounding chant of 'Fuck The Queen!' before ripping into 'Fuck Tha Police'...at which point all fucking hell broke loose as seats were ripped up and thrown around and the whole amphitheatre erupted into a giant mosh pit.
The look on teh faces of the chinese management was just pure brilliance. They hadn't even hired any security. Flava Flav went backstage and came back out with the biggest looking blunt I have ever seen. I was in teh 5th row..he took a couple pulls and then passed it to some guy in the front row - and 5 minutes later it was in my hands. I took one big draw and almost passed out.
Ahhhh...good times...good times!
Oh and incase you were wondering - I did manage to slip Claire Jackson the hot beef injection at that loudness show....