[Dixielandjazz] Loud Bass

[Patrick Cooke]

>Do you think musicians loose their hearing and just don't realize how loud 
>they are playing?

This is sometimes the case, especially among the rockers who play maximum 
decibels all the time.
  When I was playing shows, we did Bobby Darin for a week.  He brought his 
own drummer who sat right next to me.  He had heavy sticks and instructions 
from Darin to play LOUD!!!  And he did just that, apologizing all the time. 
Nice kid, and a good drummer when he was using his own judgment.  I used to 
stuff wads of Kleenex in my ears.  If I had to play that show for very long, 
I know I would have suffered some permanent ear damage.
     There are some who work in industrial environments where noise of a 
selected frequency is common.  They will lose some of their hearing of 
sounds at or near that frequency.
     Pat
--- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thompson" <rebecca.e.thompson at verizon.net>
To: "'DJML'" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 7:30 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Loud Bass


> Jim and I were in Fritzel's in New Orleans one night the bass player (not
> Pat!) had his amp turned up so loud that it hurt our ears.  If any of you
> have been there, you know the venue is small and really no need for the
> music, especially the bass, to be that loud.  We attempted to tell the
> player and he would "play" with the controls, but never brought the sound
> down so that it didn't interfere with sound coming from the other players.
>
> Do you think musicians loose their hearing and just don't realize how loud
> they are playing?
>
> Rebecca Thompson
> Flower Mound, TX
>
>
>
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