Going deaf and play in a band -consider ear plugs
What have earplugs to do with rock concerts?
So -you’ve read the title and are thinking ‘we dont need earplugs -its supposed to be loud! yup- rock and metal is meant to be very loud -enough so it breaks the neightbours glasses just through the sheer volume.
So we can’t have it loud AND protect our hearing at the same time? Without ear plugs, it will mean that by the time we’re becoming thirty and forty we will be loosing our hearing. I’d like to have my hearing so that when I get into old age I can still listen and play the music I love. ‘It isn’t very metal’ I hear you complaining – well I like being able to hear what people are saying and having the ability to listen to music in the first place.
I’ve met a lot of people who now don’t have any hearing left at all -and are thinking of hearing aids now. Everyone into metal loses some hearing- mine has gone alittle- all the more reason to protect it.
Many of the bands you go to see are using ear plugs anyway to protect their hearing- so why are you so resistant to the idea? Everyone else can go deaf in five or ten years time if they want -but you can make the desicion not to. And if you want a career in music the more you look after your hearing the longer you actually get to play it- because its quite hard to continue once you’re deaf -ask Beethoven.
Your fans don’t know youll be using earplugs at rehearsals anyway? The other people in your band are using ear plugs to. Your not the only one concerned about their hearing, plus it takes two seconds to fit some foam earplugs in and away you go.
Plus its another reason to turn up the volume isnt it? Need some hearing protection or digital hearing aids
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