OFF: Dumpy & Co: short review

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In a message dated 4/16/99 9:47:07 AM, daveb at HARLEQUIN.CO.UK writes:

<<I read recently of a professor of music who developed tinnitus after taking
his 12-year old to see Smashing Pumpkins.  Apparently he's now suing
everyone in sight.  There's been a spate of scare stories about how modern
PAs are so good that people are putting their hearing at risk without even
realising it.
>>

i had tinnitus for several years in the second half of the '80s on account of
being in a band...took a real long time for it to go away...i wouldnt want it
back>>>

technologically speaking, BLUE CHEER abused quite a few eardrums w/o the
benefit of contemporary PA's...

i suppose a professor of music would be unusually sensitive to his own
ears/hearing...but if he's the only one suing as a result of that gig...maybe
we should all go to mcdonald's and spill hot coffee on ourselves  (grin)

"<>"