Neil Young - (loud music) main reason for his "acoustic" music during
early 90's
Barbra Streisand - "Streisand has ascribed her volatile temperament to the tinnitus from which she has
suffered since she was seven." source: news.independent.co.uk
Pete Townshend
- "I have severe hearing damage. It's
manifested itself as tinnitus, ringing in the
ears at frequencies that I play guitar. It hurts, it's painful, and
it's frustrating."
Townshend is completely deaf in one ear from
an explosion when Keith Moon blew up his drum set live on stage in the
early
1960's and loud amps. He has tinnitus,
resulting partly from the band's live gigs but mainly the deafening
volume in which
he and Entwistle used to listen to playbacks
over the studio "cans." There are reports saying that he is unable even
to hear
his phone ring. The Sun newspaper reported
Townshend said his hearing got worse after the band's recent US tour.
Quote from
Pete: "The recent return to touring and to me
playing electric guitar - albeit more quietly than in the 1970s - led
to further
deterioration of my hearing," the 57-year-old
said. "My right ear, which encounters my own edgy guitar and the
machine gun
strokes of the drums, has suffered badly.
Luckily for me, I still have my left ear, which seems to be less @#%$
up. When I've
worked solo in the past five years I've not
used drums. This has meant I could play more quietly I think. With The
Who, there
is of course no way to play the old songs
without drums. I've no idea what I can do about this. I am unable to
perform with
in-ear monitors. In fact, they increase the
often unbearable tinnitus I suffer after shows." source from Sky News
John Entwhistle - According to Who scholar Andy Neill, Entwhistle was pretty deaf, and tended to rely on lip-reading.
He didn't have tinnitus but still played bass at his usual "everything on 11" volume.
William Shatner - stage/prop
explosion on set of StarTrek (during mid 1960's)
Leonard Nimoy - stage/prop explosion on set of StarTrek (during
mid 1960's)
David Letterman - T in one ear, has had T a long time: Dave mentioned that he too had ringing in
his ears, and has had it for a long time to William Shatner
Paul Schaffer - "He's got that?! I've got that!" on
Billy Bob Thornton's character with Tinnitus in 'BANDITS'
Steve Martin
- musician (banjo player), actor,
comedian. He acquired Tinnitus while filming a
pistol-shooting scene in "¡Three Amigos!" in 1986. "You just get used
to it."
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