[Red Badger]

Black Sabbath for me......................

[dayglored]

Way too late for me, since I started deafening myself in garages and basements with an electric guitar at age 15 and I'm 72, graduated from grarages to bars and clubs and moderate venues... and although these days I play at lower volume most of the time, I still like it loud.... and I require multi-thousand-dollar hearing aids so that I can hear my daughter's and wife's voices.

But perhaps these findings can help somebody else.

Unless they're like me and ignore the good advice I was given as a teenager: "Turn that shiite down yer gonna go deaf!". Oh well....

[Big Red Clay]

Mine is Bachman Turner Overdrive. I saw them in 1986 opening for Van Halen. I was on the floor at a Fillmore style show and worked myself down to the front of the stage and stood right in front of the bass players rig. Bad move. Couldn’t hardly hear for two days after and my hearing hasn’t been the same sense. Takin’ care of business my ass.

[telescope115]

A Chase concert for me. I went near the stage to snap a few pictures, stood in front of one of those huge speakers and was literally pushed sideways.
Plus having partial hearing loss from birth ain’t helping either, or working in loud factories…

[gitmo]

For me it wasn’t loud music. But I did stand in front of roaring lions many times. That was as damaging, maybe worse. (I was a zookeeper).

[MayflowerMadam]

Engelbert Humperdinck for me.
Just kidding.