Re: [Harp-L] Loud amp for loud band

[Vince Meghrouni <Foomcorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, since you brought it up, why don't you just glibly tell Dave  
Grohl to quit what he's doing.

Do you think it is big news that people go deaf playing loud music?   
The article didn't say Grohl has quit playing loud music, did it?   
No, it didn't.  So your point is, what, that loud music adversely  
effects hearing?  Well then, you are right.  But yes, to advise  
quitting a band or changing it out or whatever automatically because  
it is loud is glib and facile, regardless of your ability to find a  
snippet of an interview saying that Grohl has to have his wife repeat  
herself.

Coincidentally, I happened to play drums for a couple tours in a band  
whose drum chair the prior tour was occupied by Grohl.  It was a very  
loud couple of tours.  The drum monitors were as loud as some loud  
bands I've played in.  It was after that tour that my lifetime  
relationship with tinnitus first began.  But I got the chance to work  
with some artists that I consider it to have been worth it to have  
worked in those circumstances.

Maybe you would not work in extremely loud situations no matter what,  
and I think it's wonderful if you've managed to preserve your hearing  
through that policy.  I certainly would not recommend that anyone  
work in an extremely loud circumstance without considering the very  
real repercussions.  But for some, the particulars of the artistic  
aspect of the situation are not so easy to turn down and I personally  
wouldn't have had it any other way, and feel the same way about the  
loud situation that I am currently playing harp/sax in.  Sometime to  
do the thing itself is worth what it takes in order to do it.

And of course, there are always earplugs.


On Nov 12, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Special20 wrote:

> Ask Dave Grohl if I am being facile or glib:
>
> http://www.deafness-and-hearingaids.net/2007/09/21/dave-grohl-talks- 
> about-his-hearing-loss/
>
>
>
> On Nov 12, 2007 5:38 PM, Vince Meghrouni <Foomcorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
> > It's easy to say "If your bandmates won't lower the stage volume, I'd
> > quit the band", without hearing the band.
> >
> > I play in (among others) a very loud band with extremely creative
> > musicians writing unique music I dig.  It's not just a matter of
> > "remove harmonica-player unit from music machine A and place in music
> > machine B which features all attributes of machine A except for
> > volume aspect".
> >
> > Sometimes you accept the negatives of a situation for the positives
> > inherent within it.  To say "find a new band" or "I'd quit" is
> > facile.  It's glib.  Easy to say if you don't know the particulars.
> >
> > Hendrix played real loud.  If he'd asked you in the band, would you
> > have turned him down because it was too loud?  Maybe you would.
> >
> > Rex "T for 'Tempest in a teapot" Tobago
> >
> >
> > On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Special20 wrote:
> >
> > > Earplugs?  In-ear monitors?
> > >
> > > Life is too much fun to be crippled with hearing loss or tintinitis.
> > > If your bandmates won't lower the stage volume, I'd quit the band.
> > > You can still have a high FOH SPL, but you don't have to ruin  
> > > your own
> > > ears to sound good.
> > >
> > > -Spec20
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