Who guitarist Pete Townshend has an odd warning for the generation of earbuds and iPods: Keep the volume down and save your hearing. Townshend has hearing loss that he attributes to years of using studio headphones. Wait, wouldn’t years of touring with one of the loudest rock bands of his era have a little something to do with it? Anyway, he makes a point.
I’m thrilled that widespread portable music playing has gotten many of us really listening to music again (you hear things with ‘phones that you just don’t hear with over-the-air playback), but it can come at a cost if you rock too hard. So, no crankin’ it to “11,” there Nigel!
Read the short AP piece here.