your hearing...what concert did it in?

[Joffrey]

NOuveau Riche April 10, 2010.

 

[acidboy]

pearl jam + mudhoney 1994

 

[globetrotter]

I wish, firing way too much ammo and standing too close to firing big guns and landing shells is what did my hearing in.

 

[hendrix]

Dillinger Escape Plan and Meshuggah within a month of each other. totally worth it.

 

[oneeightyseven]

Rock The Bells 2008.

 

[willpower]

Originally Posted by Joe E Taleo

Sugar sometime in 1992. This was the first concert I'd ever gone to at the old 9:30 club, and I was totally unprepared for the volume. I think Swervedriver opened, or something? My 19 year old ears ached for a week afterward. I fortunately adopted earplugs after that, but I think the damage was already done.

Actually, it might have been the Connells that really wrecked my ears back in 1991, when they opened for the Replacements. ****, that was just ridiculously loud, and that was at Lisner Auditorium.


Bob Mould is almost completely deaf.

 

[Michigan Planner]

I've been to hundreds of concerts but the loudest was a Ted Leo show in Ann Arbor, Michigan a few years ago. I think cranking the amps up to 11 combined with ultra low ceilings in the venue really did a number on my hearing. My ears were still ringing about 48 hours after the concert.

I always thought rock bands should turn down the music so you can actually hear the lyrics but that rarely seems to happen. I guess they figure that enough volume and distortion will cover up the fact that they're really not that talented.

 

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by willpower

Bob Mould is almost completely deaf.

I totally believe this. After Husker Du and then Sugar - easy to see.

BTW: I think he's well on his way to becoming this generations Beethoven. Except for that whole business of writing songs people want to hear.

 

[rvan]

I think it was the first Buzz Beach Ball festival 2005 in Kansas City, KS. I was way too close to the speakers at Vedera set before Weezer went on.

 

[Jokerman]

The Black Keys in a Small venue some time in 2008.

 

[whiteslashasian]

Was totally Saliva and Nickelback, NYC, 2001.

I actually haven't been to many concerts lately; the Phoenix and Passion Pit show was pretty loud...

 

[Infrasonic]

The Prodigy used to take it to the max.

A PA company I did some work with used to be their supplier in the earlier days, and it was a good gig for them as their entire warehouse of EAW KF850 would be emptied for each Prodigy tour, literally leaving the cupboard bare!

 

[willpower]

Originally Posted by Thomas

BTW: I think he's well on his way to becoming this generations Beethoven. Except for that whole business of writing songs people want to hear.

His audience is..selective

 

[dusty]

Originally Posted by Jokerman

The Black Keys in a Small venue some time in 2008.

Wasn't in Cincinnati was it? I may have been there.

 

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by willpower

His audience is..selective

Actually I was quite a fan of his until...hmmm...The Last Dog and Pony Show.

True story (like I tell any others...) I bought TLDPS and 'Frank Black and the Catholics' many years back, when Mrs. Thomas and I were engaged and living together. Mrs. T had some friends over (which meant I was banished) and I'd left the discs in the player. They didn't bother to check what was in there, and when I got back Mrs. T accosted me with "What kind of sh!t do you listen to?!?".

And her friends taunted me about it during our wedding day and afterwards.