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Are you kidding me? Like you I have been to many gigs in my lifetime but I have never been at a gig where the audience was calling for the volume to be lowered. It must have been nuts

No kidding me old water baby. It was too loud man, too loud. I don't mind a gig that's loud but this was just off the scale. I remember for a good few days the ringing In my ears was terrible. I believe Jeff has suffered with this condition for years. No real surprise there?

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If your ears didn't ring for days afterwards, it wasn't a good concert!

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But, in saying that ............ that was an expression and experience of my youth.

Now a days i'm more inclined to smirk inwardly and roll my old knowing eyes at ...........

I wince when I hear folk using headphones in public and you can hear their music blaring, although my demon side chuckles with glee cos one day they'll be suffering like me. Twats.

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I wonder if Jeff always plays at such punishing volume. I'm excited to see him play live later this month (my first time seeing him - at last!); I'll be sure to take some ear plugs along - thanks for the tip!

I have suffered on and off with this for a few years. I reckon it was a Jeff Beck show I saw sometime in the 90's that did it for me. It was the only gig that people were shouting to turn it DOWN. He plays very high on the fret and it made me dizzy when he soloed. Terry Bozio's drums were that loud that it was like a punch to the stomach every time.

I saw loads of gigs in the 70's onwards. Many far too loud obviously. Then with the onset of a Sony Walkman that probably did it. Anyway a couple of years ago I was cycling to work and lost my balance. I visit to the doctors and an ear, nose and throat specialist found I had narrow passages in my ears and this was causing the imbalance.

About 3 years ago I was trying to sleep and I could hear a humming in my head. It got worse over a few days. So bad in fact that it was like a washing machine in my head which went in different pitches and it was dreadful. Another visit and a syringe of my left ear relieved it - to a point.

I get high pitch noises from time to time which goes after a few seconds and when I sleep I can hear a distant buzzing - a bit like an electricity sub station. I have learnt to live with it. I go for check ups occasionally to see if the wax is building up again, but it hasn't.

I know people have it much worse and constant. There's no cure for this debilitating condition and I have read horror stories of what people suffer. I now tend to avoid gigs but Mrs CP does tend to ask me to turn down music or the TV as it's always too loud.

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I dig classical music too. I'm no troglodyte. Sometimes classical music can be pretty darn loud too though. I was front row at a Philharmonic Beethoven concert once and it damn near blew my hair back, literally.

Speaking of hair, at a White Stripes gig once I was foolishly standing in front of the battlement of speakers and the sound physically moved the hair on my arms. Weird. That's never happened to me before or since. The more common experience is the bass 'n drums shaking the organs inside of one's body. Not as fun as it sounds neither! :)

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On 7/30/2013 at 4:10 PM, chef free said:

I hear a very high pitched whine in my ears. Sometimes much worse than other times. It makes it hard for me to pick out voices, especially female voices, in noisy environments. I have noticed that caffeine and alcohol aggravate it. Sometimes loud music makes it worse but not always. Sometimes it makes listening to music unpleasant. Does anyone else here have this problem? What makes it better? What makes it worse? I think mine was caused by lots of exposure to very cold conditions while winter mountain biking and lots of really loud Zeppelin through a pair of AKG 240 headphones!

NOT SURE  if you are still here?  I also have this and was diagnosed this past year.  That is when it came on.  It SUCKS!!!!  But one thing that is for sure, if you are laying down it brings it on.  During the day I do not hear it or notice it.  Its in my right ear.  So at night I use a noise machine.  White noise at its called.  My noise of choice is Ocean Waves.  It works wonders.   Respond if you are on?

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Is it tin-eye-tis or is it tin-it-is?

Pete Townshend says tin-it-is and I always say tin-eye-tis.  

I don't think I have this....

 

wait a second the phone is ringing, I'll be right back

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23 hours ago, chef free said:

It's been pretty bad this summer.  Lots of smoke from all he fires has made my ears clogged with snot.  Only guaifenesin (Mucinex) relieves the ear fullness and takes the edge off the ears ringing... 

I hear you on that - no pun intended. Last spring down here was the worst between pollen and smoke from brush fires. I’d wake up some mornings almost completely deaf. Went to the doc got them cleaned out and that stopped my ringing too. Best money I’ve spent in a while. 

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On 8/23/2018 at 2:31 PM, Walter said:

I hear you on that - no pun intended. Last spring down here was the worst between pollen and smoke from brush fires. I’d wake up some mornings almost completely deaf. Went to the doc got them cleaned out and that stopped my ringing too. Best money I’ve spent in a while. 

could have just taken a bath and saved a doctor visit.

 

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