”Turn the music down, you’ll go deaf.”
While I’m not too hip for the room, I hope I’m not an old fuddy duddy either. As much as I hate to admit it, my parents may have been right on occasion.
I might have ignored that warning a time or two; loud rock and roll listened to through real, over the ear headphones. Concerts featuring The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Rush, Van Halen, Dokken, Yes, and a host of others and four years of exposure to jet engines and helicopter rotors have all but destroyed my hearing. Hearing, I might add that used to be EXCELLENT. All I have left is the midrange stuff, no high or low frequencies.
Why am I ranting? That’s easy. I don’t have any children of my own to bitch at. You kids with the awesome sound systems in your rides, I know you won’t listen, hellsbells, I didn’t. But you are destroying your hearing. When I can feel the pressure wave from your music, through rolled up windows, from a distance of 100 feet or more you might be a little on the loud side.
I might have ignored that warning a time or two; loud rock and roll listened to through real, over the ear headphones. Concerts featuring The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Rush, Van Halen, Dokken, Yes, and a host of others and four years of exposure to jet engines and helicopter rotors have all but destroyed my hearing. Hearing, I might add that used to be EXCELLENT. All I have left is the midrange stuff, no high or low frequencies.
Why am I ranting? That’s easy. I don’t have any children of my own to bitch at. You kids with the awesome sound systems in your rides, I know you won’t listen, hellsbells, I didn’t. But you are destroying your hearing. When I can feel the pressure wave from your music, through rolled up windows, from a distance of 100 feet or more you might be a little on the loud side.
You’ll thank me in 30 years or so…
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