A great warning from Pete Townshend
Pete Townshend Warns iPod Users
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=211176>1=7538
LONDON -- Pete Townshend has warned iPod users they may face hearing problems if they don't turn down the volume.
Townshend, guitarist in '60s rock band The Who, said his hearing has been irreversibly damaged by years of using studio headphones and he must now take 36-hour breaks between recording sessions.
\"Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired,\" he said on his Web site. \"If you use an iPod or anything like it, or your child uses one, you MAY be OK. ... But my intuition tells me there is terrible trouble ahead.\"
The Who were famous for their earsplitting live performances, but Townshend, 60, said his problem was caused by using earphones in the recording studio.
\"I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal components deaf,\" he said.
Referring to the increasingly popular practice of downloading music from the Internet, Townshend said: \"The downside may be that on our computers — for privacy, for respect to family and co-workers, and for convenience — we use earphones at almost every stage of interaction with sound.\"
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=211176>1=7538
LONDON -- Pete Townshend has warned iPod users they may face hearing problems if they don't turn down the volume.
Townshend, guitarist in '60s rock band The Who, said his hearing has been irreversibly damaged by years of using studio headphones and he must now take 36-hour breaks between recording sessions.
\"Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired,\" he said on his Web site. \"If you use an iPod or anything like it, or your child uses one, you MAY be OK. ... But my intuition tells me there is terrible trouble ahead.\"
The Who were famous for their earsplitting live performances, but Townshend, 60, said his problem was caused by using earphones in the recording studio.
\"I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal components deaf,\" he said.
Referring to the increasingly popular practice of downloading music from the Internet, Townshend said: \"The downside may be that on our computers — for privacy, for respect to family and co-workers, and for convenience — we use earphones at almost every stage of interaction with sound.\"
Comments
IPOD users should avoid doing this also.
James Hetfield is also sposed to be deaf.
im halfway there, being tonedeaf.
Not so sure it was the headphones, Mr. Townshend
Funny how musicians-people who you would expect to cherish their hearing-tend to abuse it more than anyone else.
-Tod
The Who at 140db,wow...I had a hard time getting the clubs P.A. up past 120db without the waitresses coming up and kickin me :P
IPOD users should avoid doing this also.\"
I agree. Thank you. I shall be vigilent in keeping my head away from explosive drums while listening to my IPod
Ya he got busted :oops: what a Perv :!: I bet during his experimentation through out the years he got somthing else stuck in his ear and thats what cause all the hearing damage :!: :shock:
Guess we should all call the Police before testing out our LIVE Rigs at Home, \"Well I told ya It was gonna be LOUD Officer\"!
TY
shando
Can't say that I blame them though...
I don't know of anybody that would have wanted to follow Hendrix after that performance...
I was around back then and I remember 2 distinct types of people..
There were Who people and there were Zep people...
I was a Zepper....
\"Do you think that I creep in the night and sleep in a phone booth?\"
Frank Zappa:
\"The Other People...\" :P
I believe Mr. Townsend has said say that he is more of a song writer and less of a guitar player but I'll never forget seeing him at another gig in '65. He did a move with his strat that, to this day, I still can't believe! He held the guitar vertically allowing gravity to determine its' attitude. Now while holding the guitar like this, using gobs of nasty distortion and amplitude, he began to shake it violently on a single note for about ten seconds! - the most remarkable electric guitar vibrato ever heard - I wish you had been there!
Oh I wish I were there all right... but not... um... as a teenage boy. :twisted:
Is it not amazing the interaction between musicians in England during the 60s and 70s? Not just sexually, but partying together and jamming together. Drummers at that time had a strange reputaion as hard drinking crazy f@#kers. Drinking themselves to death unfortunately. Oh and the drugs... :roll:
So did your pal Pete happen to show a propensity for homosexual pediafelia back then? :twisted:
Yeah a great songwriter, but don't let him take Johnny Jr. on a weekend fishing trip. :shock: Although... he might write a song about it. :twisted:
Ya know... that's what I like about this place. A fella... um... er... person can speak frankly and openly about weird musicians and their music and stuff.
I heard Jimi was bi, but it wasn't teenage boys was it? :?
I just have to believe that his posts must be true..
With all his credentials and the obvious esteem Record producers, musicians, music promoters from all over the world place on Johnny Jaded his posts obviously must be true..
Don't tell me LuredMaul that you've never heard of him before getting on this board.... :shock:
Well, come to think of it, :?
Neither have I.
It!?! Implying what? Harsh.
I used to be a regular. I thought I had acceptance, friends and comradery, maybe even a chunk of my fanbase here. :? I mean man... The whole Johnny Jaded aka The Jaded One aka The Jademeister General aka Dr. John E. Jaded, etc, etc. started right here... er... there... on the old GNX forums. Where has all the love gone?
I've just been busy. It aint easy being me. So much imagination, so little time. Gotta prioritize. The spare time bends toward the studio where I continue to record and mix. With luck, I'll fill a cd before too long and have something to promote and talk about. :twisted:
Man... nobody knows me here anymore. Now I have to re-establish myself and my unique sense of psuedo-humor... just to get some of you more conservative types to chuckle. I know I must be an aquired taste for some people who are easily upset.
A few Johnny Jaded songs on Acid Planet?
http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?AID=336331
Lord only knows what my avatar is right now.
I've been around since the old board and I've read a lot of your posts...
And yes, we do miss your biting wit and humor...
And I do believe you when you say that it's tough to be you..
I can only imagine..
By the way,
Checked out your tunes on your site.. 8)
Very nice mixing and compositional skills... 8)
Never heard your stuff before and was pleasantly surprised... 8)
See Ya,
Tal
The love is still around bro
Cheers,
Thomas
LMAO
KT