Does loud music cause hearing problems?
You bet it does. You only get one set of eardrums (unless bionic science really leaps forward during the next 20 years or so) and, whether you subject your ears to loud music or not, they are going to deteriorate over time anyway, so you must do all you can to preserve the integrity of your hearing. Many musicians nowadays wear earplugs when performing live. This might seem a little weird, as you’d expect everybody to want to rock right out and bang the head along to the block-rockin’-beats, but when you think about it, the audience will do that every now and then, but the musicians would be subjecting their precious hearing to damage during every performance. That would be dumb. Given that loud guitar music is about 40 years old, there are a number of baby-boomer generation musicians who now complain of increasing loss of hearing, including Pete Townsend, who puts his rising deafness down to, not loud live music, but cranked-up headphones streaming that supersonic sound through the he
