Quote from dingobass on November 13, 2012, 15:38
Quote from dmac on November 13, 2012, 14:50
...on stage, in rehearsals and practice, and in the workshop. And maybe even from your partner.
I do bring it up a lot, and I will not stop bringing it up.
Protect your hearing. Hearing loss is a sneaking thing and irreversible. At one stage I taught OH&S at a music business course, and they got tested. Even loud iPod buds are affecting a generation.
You reckon I'm joking? Here is shredmeister and all round nice guy Paul Gilbert from not that long ago, who started wearing these on stage after he realised that years of 100 Watt Marshalls is causing him
real hearing loss.
Do yourself a favour. As Vai says, protect your hearing more than your "bits". (Signed Uncle dMac)
(There is also something unusual about the bottom neck. You can work it out!)
More words of wisdom from dMac!
Many moons ago, I was an apprentice boilermaker. This was in the days before OH&S so my hearing was damaged by the hammering and grinding noise....
Now I am paying the price, sometimes I find it difficult to hear what people are sying to me, especially when they are turned away or there is background noise...
As for ear buds, they are the worst invention ever!
So often I can hear the noise coming out of random teenagers ear buds, even with my hearing loss.... I often think to myself how dumb are they, but being teenagers you can't tell them.... kind of reminds me of a younger me :?
BTW, it looks like some kind of funky string set up on the lower neck...