which rock stars have tinnitus?

[versuviusx]

so i found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus#N ... h_tinnitus

what other rock starts and famous people have tinnitus?
would love to get a list of people.
wouldn't it be cool to make a documentary with famous people and common people, military, guitarist, etc who have tinnitus and make a dvd and sell the dvd with all the proceeds going to finding a cure for tinnitus?

[kdarr]

so i found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus#N ... h_tinnitus

what other rock starts and famous people have tinnitus?
would love to get a list of people.
wouldn't it be cool to make a documentary with famous people and common people, military, guitarist, etc who have tinnitus and make a dvd and sell the dvd with all the proceeds going to finding a cure for tinnitus?

I would imagine just about anyone who did big arena shows from the late 60's on up through the 80's, and especially drummers & big-rig guitarists.

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[TapeOpLarry]

I've got it! It's so fun. Especially late at night after mixing all day as you try to sleep.

"Discrete Music" by Eno is mandatory.

[Kindly Killer]

Brian Setzer

[swelle]

Don't know if he's a 'rock star' but Dave Pirner (ex-Soul Asylum, ex-Winona Ryder) had it so bad that he quit for awhile.

I'm not surprised to see Bob Mould on that list... seeing Husker Du at the Fillmore was by far the loudest show I've ever seen... louder than Motorhead, even. So I now I have it too! only in my left hear, the one that drops big dark wax balls every couple months.

[lancebug]

Tinnitus bites my ween. I had it coming for a long time but it was a Melvins show a year or two ago that broke the camels back. An acoustically dead space heightens the sensation. Sometimes I sleep with the fan on.

[lancebug]

Learnard Nimoy and William Shatner! I guess that bleepity-bloopity noise on the bridge of the Enterprise was a lot louder than it seemed.

[shedshrine]

..and of course Pete Townshend. (cue exploding drumset)

"Moony's drums still keep me awake at night"

[kdarr]

Learnard Nimoy and William Shatner! I guess that bleepity-bloopity noise on the bridge of the Enterprise was a lot louder than it seemed.

If I remember correctly, the Trek guys both got hearing damage from an on-set pyro/explosion effect that went a little south.

Roger Miller from Mission of Burma has it so bad they had to break up for like 20 years. Now he wears full-on rifle-range protection for shows.

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[shedshrine]

only in my left hear, the one that drops big dark wax balls every couple months.

Just curious. Is that a side affect attributed to tinnitus?

[swelle]

Tinnitus is not a disease, it's a symptom of damage... the excessive wax production is a sympton as well. More info:

http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/hearing/tinnitus.cfm


I wear plugs now at practice, but not shows... the sound on stage seems to dissipate better, while the practice room is small and I'm closer to the crash (the bane of my existence).

[percussion boy]

Tony Levin, the great bass & chapman stick player with King Crimson, etc.

btw, the drummer Art Blakey was flat-out deaf in his last years of performing -- could still feel the vibrations somehow -- kind of an Evelyn Glennie thing, I guess.

[A.David.MacKinnon]

Me. Also a sinus and ear infection at the moment.
What did you say? I'm having so much fun I can't hear you.

[lancebug]

Roger Miller from Mission of Burma has it so bad they had to break up for like 20 years. Now he wears full-on rifle-range protection for shows.

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I had seen video of them playing and wondered what was up with that.

[ledogboy]

Honesty, I'd be surprised if most rock musicians who have toured for say, ten years or so, didn't have tinnitus. I know I do. Mine isn't so bad, but I get bummed when I go backpacking and I no longer hear the sound of silence.