[Music] Heavy metal deafness.

[AmexRuislip]

I know it is serious about ACDC frontman, Brian Johnson being told to stop touring or become totally deaf.
But you have to admit that there is certain irony about about loud head banging music that does make your ears bleed occasionally.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-...told-to-stop-touring-risks-going-deaf/7229224

 

[Was not Was]

What? Speak up!

 

[studio150]

Think we've all been there with ears ringing for a couple of days after a gig.

I must be suffering or its something to do with my musical taste, but always been told to turn the volume down by the wife.

 

[pasty]

Think we've all been there with ears ringing for a couple of days after a gig.

After a Deep Purple gig I think mine were ringing for nearly a week !

 

[KVLT]

After a Deep Purple gig I think mine were ringing for nearly a week !

Mine ring constantly and have done for years as I have tinnitus as a result of long term exposure to loud music. It's a horrible thing to have and even causes discomfort when I'm exposed to loud noises. It's quite a shocker when you realise that you can't have people next to you clapping in a football crowd without sticking your fingers in your ears.

Watch your volume folks.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Sorry?

 

[Foul Play Rocks]

I've recently started wearing ear plugs when gigging and wished I'd done it years ago. I don't have any problems that I'm aware of so I just hope I haven't already done the damage for later life.

 

[vegster]

He's been deaf for years, if he heard his own singing he would have quit years ago.

 

[hart's shirt]

Watch your volume folks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc

 

[Ameliaance]

He's been deaf for years, if he heard his own singing he would have quit years ago.

Yay!!

 

[happypig]

I'm 52 & I've got hearing loss, have to wear hearing aids. The audiologists I have seen have said it is almost certainly due to loud music; I went to a lot of rock gigs between the ages of 16 & 25 (2 or 3 gigs a week) but the hearing probems didn't start until I was mid 30s.

Oh and as anyone with hearing problems will tell you, saying "pardon" or "sorry" is, quite simple, the absolute funniest and most original joke anyone has ever come up with

 

[matbha]

Ringing in my ears from Iron Maiden wish id used plugs !!

 

[AmexRuislip]

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Oh and as anyone with hearing problems will tell you, saying "pardon" or "sorry" is, quite simple, the absolute funniest and most original joke anyone has ever come up with

Pardon?

 

[METALMICKY]

Either Brian is a bit thick and/or they need to employ a new sound engineer. Surely he should be wearing in ear monitors which allow the desk to control what sort of mix he hears and crucially at what volume?

The volume the crowd hears is not the same volume that the band hears on stage. Whether they are using wedge monitors or the more common in ear versions there is no reason why they should be deafening themselves.

 

[happypig]

Either Brian is a bit thick and/or they need to employ a new sound engineer. Surely he should be wearing in ear monitors which allow the desk to control what sort of mix he hears and crucially at what volume?

The volume the crowd hears is not the same volume that the band hears on stage. Whether they are using wedge monitors or the more common in ear versions there is no reason why they should be deafening themselves.

He's been doing it for 36 years with AC/DC, The damage may have been done some years ago.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I suspect there is an innate vulnerability. I have been to over 1000 gigs. I remember leaving the Dome with my ears ringing (Family, early 70s, was Brutal). And I do 3 hours every day on the iPod, travelling to/from work. But my hearing is perfect. I suspect a lot of it is in the genes, and as with so many things, we can but hope that the blind croupier that oversaw our sperm and ovary dice roll was in a favourable mood at the crucial moment . . .

 

[fork me]

I went to Donington in 1988, Iron Maiden, Kiss, David Lee Roth, Megadeth, Guns 'n' Roses and Helloween.

My ears stopped ringing yesterday...

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

I've recently started wearing ear plugs when gigging and wished I'd done it years ago. I don't have any problems that I'm aware of so I just hope I haven't already done the damage for later life.

Same here. I went a couple of years between gigs and realised that the post concert ear ringing seemed to be getting worse / longer. Purchased some proper musicians ear plugs and they seem to work really well. If you look around at rock gigs with the older generation attending, you'll be surprised how many slip in a set of ear plugs just before the start.

Of course, the other problem is that your memory goes as you get older and you have to remember a) to pick them up before you go and b) where you left them!

 

[Foul Play Rocks]

Same here. I went a couple of years between gigs and realised that the post concert ear ringing seemed to be getting worse / longer. Purchased some proper musicians ear plugs and they seem to work really well. If you look around at rock gigs with the older generation attending, you'll be surprised how many slip in a set of ear plugs just before the start.

Of course, the other problem is that your memory goes as you get older and you have to remember a) to pick them up before you go and b) where you left them!

You're so right and that why I keep mine in one of my drum cases so they're always there. I'm using Apine ear plugs. They come with 3 different inserts for noise control and a handy little case to keep them in. Bloody brilliant.