Have you ever worried about the long-term effect of extended exposure to high volume music on your hearing? What do you do to protect yourself? And have you insured your ears? Teamhead
Anybody who works in, as you call it, “high volume music”, at this point in time knows what the risks are. Back when we started, that stuff wasn’t so clear. And the volume wasn’t so high. But a ton of blokes work in factories where there’s a lot of banging and such. They suffer more than we do and as far as I know they don’t get nearly as many women. I have not been able to insure my ears, but I have insured my head. My barrister assures me that when and if the time comes, we can make a good argument that my ears are part of my head.
As a musician, botanist, moustache-wearer and pipe smoker, who are your greatest inspirations? In that order, please. BlondeOnion
Nat “Hands” St John, master bassist of the early skiffle combo the Rhythm Busters. [The 19th-centuryhorticulturist] Luther Burbank. Pirates in paintings. And my dad, Donald “Duff” Smalls, who sanitised telephones for a living. I was nearly a teenager before I discovered my dad put nothing in the pipe; he just liked having something hanging from his mouth.
