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Post by david on Jan 23, 2024 16:10:04 GMT -5
I left a Richard Thompson concert because of the ear-splitting volume. The impact of the drum hits were palpable, bass was pounding, and the guitar had a razor-edge to it. The venue was nice, though; too bad we had to leave. I similarly walked out of a concert - Stevie Ray Vaughan. It was his damn guitar - so loud I could not discern the notes being played. I suspect that the opening act, Bonnie Raitt, also left before Stevie was done.
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Post by aquaduct on Jan 23, 2024 22:13:17 GMT -5
I have tinnitus. I blame Neil Young for doing high pitched, loud, treble solos that actually caused pain when I saw CSN&Y in Chicago. My ears rang for days. I haven’t liked Neil Young ever since. Johnny Winter. Saw him three times, in the local hockey arena, and the last time, I couldn’t hear out of one ear for about a week. Mine was Ted Nugent at Cobo Hall. A friend had an extra ticket, I think I was 19. Had seats in front of the speaker stack on the right side of the stage. It was also before underage drinking became a bugaboo. And Cobo sold some really big cups of beer. A couple days of hangover and hard of hearing.
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Post by Dub on Jan 23, 2024 22:27:32 GMT -5
I don't have tinnitus, thank God, but I'm sure I must have lost some hearing at Hot Tuna concert in the 1969-70 timeframe. It was in Chicago's Auditorium Theater on Michigan and Congress across from Buckingham Fountain. This enormous venue is both beautiful and acoustically perfect. With the theater full, the audience can hear a stage whisper without amplification. These guys were playing in front of a 50ft wall of amplifiers. All of Roosevelt University was physically vibrating.
The experience started out painfully but, 5 minutes in, as people generously shared the little cigarettes they were smoking, the SPL became quite tolerable. Needless to say, it was a great concert.
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