It is. But people mean well when they tell you that.

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Originally posted by remotepush:
was at a gig last night. the loudest i've been to in a long time. DJ before the band was playing noise, and it was louder than most bands. so the band were just about this wall of guitar noise. I feel so deaf today.

You have to start wearing hearing protection, remote. I never go to a gig without something to protect my ears, even if it's just some tissue I've chewed up and stuck in them. I often do it in nightclubs too. I've always liked to stand at the front, next to the speakers and I used to think I hadn't had a good night out if I could hear the next day. But after one too many days when I was scared that I'd damaged my hearing permanently I started being more careful.
Too many of my friends have significant permanent hearing loss and by the time you notice it going, it's too late.

Please get some earplugs.

I just bought some ER 20s and you should too.

Wanderer, Hasa, you too.

He speaks the truth. I'm mostly deaf in my left ear due to lack of hearing protection when it mattered. The deafness is nowhere near as annoying as the permanent tinnitus, which for some stretches sounds almost exactly like a smoke alarm going off in the next room. 24 hours a day. I can't sing as well when playing guitar sometimes, because the sound in my left ear is so distorted that nothing sounds right.

Get some ear plugs. Earloves work nicely for me.

Yep, earplugs for every show for me. If correctly adjusted they can leave all frequencies coming through but just cut the intensity by about 90%. Which actually means you can hear the music *better* - and you still get the visceral feeling of the volume through your whole body. (And yeah, fuck tinnitus, no fun at all.)

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Originally posted by Sentinel400:
Please get some earplugs.

I just bought some ER 20s and you should too.

Wanderer, Hasa, you too.

Aye, and going to that Machine Head gig and then next month the festivals start up (graspop in a month, and i'll probably swing by one or two more during the summer). So i was already halfly planning on stopping by the music store to pick some decent earplugs up. They sell Alpine Musicsafe earplugs.

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Please get some earplugs.

I just bought some ER 20s and you should too.

Wanderer, Hasa, you too.

I remember to plug my ears most of the time. I usually go for the rolled up tissue paper. Commercial earplugs have a tendency to be forgotten at home. I didn't always do that. An ear doctor once told me that I have scars in my tympanic membrane.

They sold earplug at the entrance for Mogwai.

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Originally posted by editengine:
alright striv I give up, where are you holding the camera?

baby bro set it up with a timer. that would be the one right next to me.
the one dead center is the middle one about to become a doctor and yep, that is what 6'7" looks like.
and why we call baby bro 'shorty'.

You can laser your ears better, apparently: Tinitool

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Originally posted by Chris H:
Drew the curtains in the lounge this morning and the curtain rail came off the wall.

I've just broken a tooth on my lunchtime sandwich. The earliest I can get to see my local NHS dentist is August.

Ever get those days where you wish you'd stayed in bed?

Chris H

Somedays it just isn't worth chewing through the leather straps-

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Originally posted by Bravus:
You can laser your ears better, apparently: Tinitool

You know at one time i would have cringed to hear such an idea- But, after having a black and decker going for yur brain, you are not really bothered by much else-

I would be interested in that tinnitus laser thingy, but 230 quid???

The whole thing sets my snake-oil detector quivering.

Didn't read it in a huge amount of detail but it seemed as though it was claiming to stimulate growth of skin in the ear. As I understand it skin is not the problem...

And if it's not part of the problem, it's part of the solution! XD

As far as I know, the tympanic memebrane is the only part that can be fixed.
I think the most fragile part is very tiny "hair" behind it. Once they're fucked, so are you.

I always wear ear protection when needed (i.e. most of the time)

I'm pretty much sure that my tinnitus is caused by computer fans, not metal concerts, though.

regards tinnitus, i undoubtedly already have it, to some degree, thankfully, so far, slight. i should have worn protection years ago, and did every so often. always got a box of ear plugs in the house, i work in industry, so picking them up isn't difficult. i don't find them comfortable most of the time, and find they block certain sounds, though of course recognise i just need to get used to them for the most part.

over the last few years i hadn't been to very many gigs. last year i think i was at a total of two. this year i've been to a lot more. the volume at most has been reasonable, and i have experienced no problems. which is why i wasn't thinking on sunday night, though i should have been, it was just absolutely taking the piss loud. hopefully it didn't do too much lasting damage!

was just drinking from a 2l bottle of chilled water. as i lowered it, clipped the edge of the table, jarring the bottle. giving me a face full. blergh. loverly.

Spent the day relaxing and playing various video games. The highlight was beating my friend at Starcraft. My lovely Protoss crushed his disgusting Zerg.

I have been working on clearing out my lungs lately, with a view to a possible rebirth of the singing career I perhaps stupidly walked away from 36 yrs ago. I've never stopped singing, I just stopped singing in front of people. So... Tonight I was posted at the old casino, a mostly derilect property across the highway from the new one. We keep a presence there 24/7 to discourage vandals, thieves and the homeless. It's an isolated, lonely and sometimes spooky place to spend eight hours. I plugged in a small boombox and started playing c.d.'s to sing along with. What I do used to be called "shout singing". It's old school Chicago blues style. I sang 28 tunes in all with one small break when another officer brought me an iced coffee. My lungs are clearing out nicely, and I outdid myself artistically. I feel fantastic. Sat in with a local blues band of oddly mixed talents last summer, and sang three songs. It seduced me. Now I have tinnitus, not so much from the boombox, as from my own bellowing.( that little thing couln't be heard over the shower. ) Also some odd goings on which I will post in write something now.

remotepush: smooth moves,brother. smooth moves.

limbojim: Rock on. And continue with the rocking.

can't beat that old uncordinated geek chic baby