Whats your concert experience?

[Neil]

Wife and I first saw them at the Brixton academy, 2 nights in a row Berlin Wuhlheide, Cardiff CIA Reise Reise tour. Dortmund 2 nights in a row, Mannheim following night, Berlin 2 nights in a row Wulhheide, sonisphere LIFAD tour. Friedrichshaffen, Munich, London O2, Dublin O2 so far on MIG tour ( got tickets for Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston.) Would loved to have seen them on Mutter tour (just to have heard my favourite tune Halleluja) A music lover all my life never has a band had such an effect on me (us)

[RZK-1]

I've seen them twice, the last time was the LIFAD tour when they went to the ACC in Toronto, and it was pretty incredible. I got floor tickets last time (and for their upcoming concert in May) and managed to push and shove my way to the front of the stage. It was so incredible, to be blasted with heat then with cold air, and the feeling of thousands of other fans behind you. The mosh pit was really fun too.

[Krisensen]

My first Rammstein concert was at the 2009 Skive Festival. Looking forward for the 2012 Herning concert

[Snake]

sorry to be off-topic but the two new forums in the affenknecht section don't open up on my computer. one of them is about the possible bug so just wondering if there's any connection? probably not seen as my pc is a piece of crap that is tempermental as hell but still....

So far, it seems to be fixed.

[Tyler Squirden]

I saw them live for the first time last May, in Tacoma. I had bought two floor tickets so my brother could fly down and see em too. He's not much for the crowds so he was able to get some great pics from the periphery, but I'm all about front and center. It was a massive crush of humanity, I thought I was going to pass out at some point from the combination of heat from both bodies and flamethrowers. In my experience of live concerts I would rank it a close 2nd place behind Amon Amarth (more a fan of death metal than industrial). INCREDIBLE experience, I hope to see them in Europe soon.

[cannibal_wotsit]

^body armour....that may be a good idea.

sorry to be off-topic but the two new forums in the affenknecht section don't open up on my computer. one of them is about the possible bug so just wondering if there's any connection? probably not seen as my pc is a piece of crap that is tempermental as hell but still....

[-Zwitter]

^Hell yeah I am On next February (when they come to Finland) I need at first to travel 14 hours to Helsinki (ah train<3 I don't know why I'm not flying...) and hell yeah I'm going to be there on first row. And live in the moment. Rammstein means to me more than I could actually never expect O.o

[Snake]

I'm starting to think that I should bring body armor for the Birmigham gig.

[cannibal_wotsit]

^I think it's safe to say you're pretty dedicated to the band!!

[-Zwitter]

I have seen Rammstein only once. It was on LIFAD- summer festival tour, and they were in Provinssirock. I travelled first in 9 hours to Seinäjoki, I didn't sleep at all (clock was 4 am on Sunday morning when I was in Sjoki with my friend), and I was pretty sleepy whole day. So I waited 17hours only Rammstein. I was at the first row and front of Richard. And god damn it, I can't scream like a little girl but when the German flag dropped down and I saw Richard, oh my god, I haven't ever _EVER_ screamed so loud. Never. And first of all I guess I fainted for few second during Rammlied... Gig was awesome, it was pure love. It was pure Rammstein, then I thought my life was complete. For real! After the gig I really thought that my life stopped :'D It was weird feeling, but needed to handle. During the gig I almos drowned to a water pint, I tried to drink from it so I looked "cool" but I failed so badly that Richard watched me and LAUGHED AT ME. Not sorry for that, he looked so pissed of on the first songs so... And during Sonne, tralalalaaa I cried like a baby, it was just awesome and I lost my hair during it... It all was worth it. But they didn't play Engel. I only wanted to see those wings Till was pretty mad because they couldn't play it... Thanks to staff in Provinssirock.

And two days later I was at hospital because I broke (during Rammstein) my already broken knee and my already bad back was f**ked up ... And I needed to work with them But all of this was worth it. Awake over 35hours and everything...

[vbarrett]

Abendwind - I just got turned on to Volbeat - saw them on the Revolver Awards show on VH1. Really like their song, Healing Subconsciously. They are great - I was watching the show because Rammstein won the Best Live Show award - but they were not shown on VH1 - which totally sucked. They left out the best.

[abendwind]

That's true what you said Snake! Front row definitely has its own risks. Actually I have some experience about that myself too.. I was at this big three-day-long music festival Provinssirock two weeks ago, and on the third day me and my friends queued from the early morning because we wanted to see Volbeat & System of a Down from the front row. (For me Volbeat is my second favorite band, so another reason for the queuing.) We made it to the front row, and I felt good until SOAD started to play. First 30 minutes of the gig were absolutely awesome, but after that........ not. I felt like my ribs would break any second and I couldn't breathe properly. D: Well I had 30 000 people behind me so the pressure was huge.

As long as the people act like humans front row is a good place to be in my opinion. From a further distance you can see the gigs amazingly too.

Vbarrett, I don't have any particular tips for you.. just the usual ones - queue for a good while if you want to make sure you'll make it to the front row. And when the gates/doors open, run like crazy. : D I've always done that and seems that it has worked.

[Snake]

^Thats nice to know. But you are still safer in the balcony.

[RZK]

^You know, front row has its limitations and risks. You don't get to see the whole stage, and you might get hurt from some stupid bastard doing crowd surf, or if a mosh pit breaks out.

I got some personal experience of that. At the gig in Helsinki, February 2010 I was in second row, there was some pushing and a few times I almost got flatten. There was this bald head guy behind me, he was waving his fist in the air, and it hitted me a few times on the back of my head pretty hard. I think it was during Ich Tu Dir Weh (pretty ironic) when he hitted me in the back a couple of times more. Next thing I remember was that some of the arena's staff members were waking me up at somewhere at backstage. They didn't let me go back to the arena...You could just imagine how frustrated I was. But then I thought, damn I'm pretty happy to even get to see them live. After that at the Provinssirock in June 2010 I still went to the second/third row, and I got to see the whole concert. After that gig and that I got in a picture with Till, Doom and Flake, that previous gig don't irritate me so much anymore

[Snake]

^You know, front row has its limitations and risks. You don't get to see the whole stage, and you might get hurt from some stupid bastard doing crowd surf, or if a mosh pit breaks out.