Hello to all our damaged "golden ears".

It took an M-1 rifle in basic training to give my left ear (due to the nodes of the sound, not the right one) tinnitus and really rolled off high end. Thank God, my right rings a bit, but still has a decent 12k high end. They didn't know about ear plugs in the 1953 Army basic training.

Rod Stephens

--- On Sun, 1/3/10, Charles Lawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Charles Lawson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] The Loudness Wars - NPR story
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 7:32 PM
> Steven C. Barr writes:
> >I suspect most of this resulted from
> >too many nights spent standing in front of Fender Twin
> amps, turned
> >WAY up to get desired distortion! My guess is that I am
> FAR from
> >the only musician in this condition...?!
>
> I know you are not.  Back in the days when I did more
> live sound, I had an
> argument with a rocker over his amp levels being too
> loud.  His reply: “It
> ain’t loud enough unless it makes the inside of my ears
> tickle.”  I doubt
> he can hear much of anything, now, twenty or so years
> later.  Very, very
> sad.
>
> I always carry earplugs to deal with situations like
> that...
>
> --
> Charles Lawson <[log in to unmask]>
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