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1. Sail [Composer/Musician] (osirissaline@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2018 14:29:33 EST Sail [Composer/Musician]

   Hey, kids/young adults who love standing in front of their amps & PA systems during performances:

   PLEASE pay attention to the killjoys who tell you to get decent hardwearing earplugs / disposable classic foam plugs while playing.

   Because living with tinnitus will start to ruin your life in a big way, and if tinnitus gets beyond tinnitus...well...yeah it's awful.

   At the end of the day, you don't wanna be like me with 30% hearing in their left ear in my mid-20s just cuz teen me was ignorant af.

   1. brennen (brennen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2018 17:01:42 EST brennen

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      @OsirisSaline i've never played, but at 37 a lifetime of power tools, loud shows, and loud work environments means my hearing is garbage and my ears ring constantly.

      this is good advice.

      while i'm at it, i'm kinda starting to think it'd be better if we could get over this whole "if it's too loud you're too old" trip. i enjoy a crushing wave of bone-shaking sound as much as the next person, but what if maybe (maybe!) we started thinking of doing physical violence to audiences as kind of bad?