You know you're playing too hard/loud when...

[jaywa]

When the rest of the band stops playing and you keep going cause you couldn't tell.

 

[LuckyBassPlayer]

You know when you're playing too loud, when even Motorhead complains about the noise.

 

[caeman]

...when dust gets knocked from the ceiling tiles from the 12 bass amps at your Get-Together. The Sunn 8x10 in the other room was also aiding and abetting the cause.

 

[Cooldaddee]

When my bobble head Jesus falls off

 

[caeman]

When my bobble head Jesus falls off

That is so much worthy of a bad mark in your permanent record.

 

[TomA1234]

when everything in the room moves an inch forward whenever you play a note

 

[Felpsy]

when my ears are still ringing 2 days after our gig. (only happened once so far).

 

[Gibbsalot]

The snare drum plays itself

 

[levis76]

...halfway thru the first song, somebody in the front row tosses their cookies. True story, of course it was 1:30am and the guy had been downing drinks all night. It was pretty awesome. Our singer saw it and almost lost his too. What a night.

 

[Popsicle Pete]

When your rig can blow out a candle from five feet away.

When you have string gouges in your pickups.

When you wake up the morning after a gig with bruises on your fingertips/thumb.

When you blow the house PA.

All four have happened to me.

 

[JimmyKickButt]

*Insert opening scene of Back to the Future*

 

[Vic Winters]

WHAT?!

 

[paulygonemad]

When one's guitarist is fully drowned out and left furious after the gig. Happened at an open mic some dorm had. Guess I got way too into it.

haha. Hey, it happens.

 

[JimB52]

At home, when the chimney vibrates.
At gigs, when you can't hear the club owner asking you to turn it down.
When the cops just make you stop, instead of asking you to turn it down.

 

[jtc_hunter]

When you get Christmas and birthday cards from the local shop that re-cones speakers.

Now thats funny

 

[Haysoochreesto]

When the two acoustic guitars onstage decide to join in by ringing out harmonics--and there's no one playing them.

 

[Psycho]

When your girlfriend first tells you she loves you only after you hit a nice low B.

 

[mr mastodon]

When you break your low E string ... playing "Drops of Jupiter" ...

Happened to me last night.

 

[EdHunter]

When you open up the skin on the first three fingers of your right hand from excessive chord strumming.

Had to spend a week with my right hand bandaged up or else I'd have bled all over my school...

 

[the_hook]

When you look back at your amp and there's a big hole in the floor....

When your low B sonic boom knocks the audience into the next venue...

When you look back to see yourself playing from 10 minutes ago, the sound just hasn't caught up yet...

When your rig causes a black hole on stage and your band members are all flying into it...