Dave Grohl Details His Hearing Loss 

check out liam stops tinnitus ;-)

Yes I wear ear plugs to save what is left

@@horsthansen6959 Liam Gallagher or Liam Neeson?

Why would you use a white noise machine to drown out the tinnitus? That's swapping noise for noise.

@@roebenzwart6403 cuz it helps the brain to concentrate on something other than ringing..it is low key n u can have diff sounds..waterfalls..ocean side..etc

I've avoided earplugs for going to shows, out of fear of having it muffled/muddled, but I'm sure it's better than everything sounding that way for the rest of my life.

I was at the front row of an Elton John show. Put my fingers in my ears at times and i could hear it much better. He had his monitors at 120DB-130DB which is louder than a jet engine.

I have custom earplugs with -25db filters. Wore them for an entire festival where the range of volume was 85-105db. (92db avg.) I can hear the music so much better.

Young people... Don't listen to Dave or Howard regarding medical issues. They are both dangerous spreaders of anti-science misinformation. They also suppress any effective drug and natural remedies that can help with your health.

"Young people.. don't listen to Dave here"..WHAT?!?! Sorry, I couldn't resist 😬

Yes and if you could avoid loud environments altogether, even better. Get hearing checked every year at ENT

@@ericjay6021 Eric, you say somethin, bud?? sry, couldn't hear ya

@@betterhadit1144 hhahahaah funny

Yup lol

Indeed

I think that's what they call the "cocktail effect"

@@paulnovosel9359 Interesting

@@paulnovosel9359 indeed it is. With normal hearing your brain can better tune out unwanted noise and allow you to better single out or focus on what you want to hear and elevate that above the noise. Health conditions, aging, and especially damage caused by noise exposure make the system more passive and you lose the ability to do that.

Yep...at this point, those in-ear monitors are for his safety. Tinnitus is a tearing thing to be saddled with all the time, and it can get worse and worse.

@Rick Rutherford, where did you see that Paul wears hearing aids? I had not heard that before.

@@s2seltaeb I was reading an article about McCartney's lyric book and the interview talked about Paul walking in and when he sat on the couch a hearing aid popped out.

In fairness many 79 years olds wear hearing aids, most of them non-musos.

Dave should talk to Brian Johnson about this.

The issue with most ordinary people, is that, unlike a fairly common eye glass prescription, hearing aids are NOT covered by insurance and the out of pocket cost should make the industry blush, it's so obscenely expensive.

Sound advice (no pun intended). I totally agree.

It's very rock and roll. I'm not gonna do it- i've had tinnitus since i was a kid, and when it got way worse from playing drums and a Dinosaur Jr. concert, i started wearing earplugs all the time- but going deaf is more rock and roll.

@@SeeSawMassacre if going deaf is rock and roll than call me a jazz musician!

If you want to keep playing drums without soul, more power to you too.

I totally get this thinking ^ I wonder if there's truth in it, or if there are exceptions if it is true. I've known many a drummer to not use hearing protection and still have no soul.

@@spenomx3036 Define soul.

​@@spenomx3036 that's what will happen if you don't protect your hearing.

@@spenomx3036 I’m pretty sure earplugs has nothing to do with soul

I have MD also. Been suffering with it for 12 years, it completely wrecked my life. I'm also a musician.

I'm good to 12KHz tops now from my cymbals and snare and age. A totally quiet room is a scary place

@@erics.4113 I completely understand, I have to sleep with a fan by my bed to try and mask the tinnitus, it seems to help me pretty well

What is the best hearing protection?

@@wandajames143 Silence

So true brother testify.

That was a great movie.

And he's even clearly wearing ear buds to do this interview!!

It’s just an excuse. C’mon Dave, you’re smarter than that!

Small ear holes may also be a result of not protecting the ears. I have it too and doctors said it's called "exostosis" and may be caused by many hours exposed to cold water (ex: surfers) or loud noise (ex: from music). I went to get my ears checked because of tinnitus, btw, and since then I always use ear protection for any activities that may expose me to loud noise.

@@Skewarelol it’s obviously just an excuse. Stop diving deep into it

@@jd0879 I may have to dive deeper now just because you told me not to. Stop telling me what to do

He seems to have a pretty positive attitude towards it, though.

@@tookamooka Denial. Hearing loss is torture on a daily basis.

And loss his best friend

I don't feel sorry for him. He still can start using protection now and save his hearing before he has very serious issues, but he choses not to. Grohl is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and can afford the best hearing protection on the market but willfully choses not to wear any protection. This is on him so I will not feel sorry for his personal choices.

You learn to get used to it lol. After first year or two you better😂

If it were my ears, I'd use anything possible to protect my ears. No excuses.

Hey Pete! I love your demos!

Why not have made a set of hearing pads. They are a tailored fit and reduce the incoming sound by a specified number of decibels.

I agree

Totally but some people don't care about it and get on where some people really go full depreaaed

@@matthewnorman9803 It's really amazing how positive he is about the whole thing. He just seems to power through it.

Same here. Left ear. It's getting unbearable!

@@ZekeThePlumber86 mines completely fucked at this point. It screams 24/7

I agree it’s fucked up and Howard Stern should have told him the same thing

@@jd0879 100%

It's rock and roll 😅

I didnt pick up any glamorizing. He's just explaining his own justification

Whatever

Yeh strange that he's so massively pro vax to the point of playing to segregated audiences yet disregards his health with regards hearing... odd.

They're talking about in ear monitors, not hearing aids.

@@Cloud007. what?

But he needs hearing aids now

@@dogsense3773 more than likely . He’s being selfish

@@Cloud007. no, they’re talking about his hearing problem .

No hearing protection at all as far as I know

The sound isnt as loud on the stage as it is in front of the stage.

You sounded ignorance obviously It’s not loud on stage as compared to foh

@@wan8655 "You sounded ignorance."

@@EVILIVE245 Exactly. How ironic! lol

Sean it’s just 5g

@@seanfitzgerald8575 i love music and listening through headphones as well. one thing i’ll strongly suggest to you though is to try not to blast them. don’t use them to drown out sounds around you. listening at a more reasonable level will let you comfortably listen to music the rest of you life

@@cammyscomet504 ​ @Seán Fitzgerald Yes, I read an interview with Pete Townshend where he says he believes the initial wave of his hearing loss actually came from blasting his headphones in the studio while tracking and mixing.

@@seanfitzgerald8575 it is tinnitus and if you're starting to get it, stop using in ear headphones now. Get some over the ears and listed at normal volumes. My tinnitus when from just a little every now and then to loud 24/7. It wasn't gradual.

@@morganghetti over the ear headphones at normal volume sounds good... however finding comfortable ones can be a struggle

It's a completely different thing when you're trying to make music and just talking.

As a total amateur and occasional drummer at jams, earplugs was a bit disorienting, not being able to hear completely what I'm playing. I suppose at the level of professional bands, the whole drum set can be mic'ed and triggered, to put the whole mix in ear?

I think Dave knows the damage is done but I also don’t know why he doesn’t try to limit future damage. Once it’s gone it doesn’t come back.

@@Waverunner21 Past a certain level, when you have hearing loss it becomes very hard to care anymore. I've suffered with worsening hearing loss my entire life and I no longer do anything to protect my ears. It's totally irrational, I can still almost function normally at my current hearing level but I know it's gonna get worse and soon it'll impede my life pretty seriously, but it's a weird sort of acceptence where you become okay with just letting that happen. I totally understand his choice even though mine is medical and his is because of his own actions.

Give Dave a call.

GETS older?!

-What do you want to be when you grow up? - Deaf

Wait until everyone finds out he chainsmokes. Then all hell will break loose.

Hopefully tinnitus doesn't get too loud for him, since when it's permanent, he won't fully hear the audience nor his bandmates.

What’d you say?

@@y488 And the more profound his hearing loss becomes the louder the tinnitus will seem.

@@CBrolley .... not everyone gets tinnitus along with hearing loss.

Wear better ear plugs.

The state of the genre or the limited scope of Howard Stern?

@@JohnnySeven *_Both is the correct answer here._*

it is sad no art anymore in music most likely due to the inability to profit without nonstop touring, yet if you can hold a paintbrush you can make a million through NFT's. Ridiculous.

Different strokes for different folks. But Dave is a cool guy, so it's not surprising.

@@pearlrival3124 don’t think anyone sensible goes in with making money

it is still not the same.

He doesn't need 'hearing aids".

I think he is wearing ear phones not plugs

@@tookamooka Same concept.

Phil Collins' hearing is shot too.

You're so cool!

Thanks for commenting, Dave's Mom.

@@Vertigo11 Not really. I've done it myself many times.

It's based though