LOUDEST Concert and Tinnitus


This is a two part question.

1. What is the loudest concert (or event) that you have attended?

2. How long have you had tinnitus, is it getting better or worse and how are you dealing with it?

Personally, the loudest concert was UB40 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver. Loudest event was drag racing at SIR (Seattle International Raceway) which was like sticking your head in a jet engine.

Regarding tinnitus. Over the past year or so I have noticed a constant high pitched "sound" in my ears. Mostly the left ear. At this point I don't actually know if it is constant or whether I just forget about it sometimes. I know use a white noise box when I go to sleep. Otherwise I tend to fixate on the ringing.

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Someone mentioned a Clapton show from the Journeyman show. Saw one of those at the Hartford CC and while not loudest I've heard, the sound was extremely harsh and I had to leave well before the end.

Had 3rd row far left seats at the Beacon Theater for an Allman Bros. show in the 90's. We were right in front of a speaker stack on the stage and I couldn't hear a thing when the show ended. Good sound but really really loud.

I've been to over 100 Grateful Dead and Garcia Band shows and the sound was great at most of them. Sometimes it would take the sound guys a few songs to get things just exactly perfect but once they did it didn't get much better. Often extremely loud but the sound was so clean it rarely felt uncomfortable. And when Lesh's bass was dialed in it was heaven.

I've had pretty severe tinnitus for at least 40 years, mostly due to having a lot of ear infections and other issues when I was a kid. All the concerts probably haven't helped but I don't think they've made it much worse either. The brain is usually pretty good at blocking it out most of the time.