Tom,
What group was it? Just curious about your tastes.
Greg
At 05:38 PM 5/4/2002, you wrote:
>List,
> Attended a rock concert the other day at an outdoor festival. Actually this
>is one of the few concerts I've attended in the past 20 yrs., where I was
>there only as an audience member and not working.
>Maybe I'm just getting older or maybe my hearing is becoming that much more
>sensitive and accute, but as I approached the concert area the pounding of
>the decimals were defeaning. My party had reserved seats in the 10th row
>from the stage and were so proud of the view. Me, I moved back to the far
>end of the area to protect my losses. Even with ear plugs, which I might add
>I was the only one wearing any protection in our section, the sound is
>brutal.
>What I found absolutely amazing was the total disregard most rock concert
>goers still have toward protecting their hearing. They just sat there as
>though they were listening to a harpsicord concert and took the pounding
>like it was nothing.
>It's like the smoking issue, people know the harm yet they pretend the
>damage isn't going to occur. What most still don't get is that in a short 2
>hr. window severe irreprepable hearing damage can occur.
>I know I'm preaching to the choir but this issue really is still not
>understood by the masses.
>Just my 2 cents
>Tom Servinsky,RPT
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