From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   From what's being said, it would appear that it's the contrast between   
   playing better venues, as opposed to booze bars for drunks, where hearing   
   loss happens most, but rather places where there's more intelligence and   
   bands that are too loud will be asked to turn their volume knobs   
   counterclockwise, that's bringing this situation to the surface.   
      
   Perhaps this is new territory, without all the familiar Idiots who want to   
   go deaf while they kill the pain with booze.   
      
   It might seem disorienting to play better gigs at better venues where   
   preserving the ability to enjoy Music is preserved rather than Assaulted.   
      
   So the bottom line is probably to learn if moving up and out of  the   
   Cesspool of the Bottom Feeders is the right way to go...or whether it's   
   better to do, as Proverbs 26:11 puts it:   
      
   As a dog returneth to his VOMIT, so a FOOL returneth to his FOLLY.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)