Mike Barnes article "Come on, feel the noise" published in The Guardian, Friday 9 January 2009, poses the question 'should we take our ears more seriously?'..... let us know what you think.

"Going up to 11 has long been a badge of honour in rock music. But there's a price to pay for those decibels. Mike Barnes talks to musicians about the perils of playing loud

I want to ask one fundamental question," said Hans Keller after Pink Floyd's performance on BBC2's The Look of the Week in 1967. "Why has it all got to be so terribly loud?" "I don't guess it has to be," Roger Waters replied. "But that's the way we like it. It doesn't sound terribly loud to us."......read more

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