Foo Fighters rocker Dave Grohl details hearing loss

The identical scene has been taking part in time and again in Dave Grohl’s life throughout COVID: Somebody comes as much as him in a masks and says one thing, however he would possibly as properly be listening to the instructor from the Charlie Brown specials.

“That is the worst factor about this pandemic s***, it is like, individuals carrying masks,” the rocker advised Howard Stern final week on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Present. “I have been studying lips for like, 20 years, so when somebody comes as much as me… I am like, ‘I am a rock musician. I am f***ing deaf, I am unable to hear what you are saying.”

Grohl defined that he hadn’t had his ears examined in “a very long time,” however he knew what the docs would inform him about their situation. “‘You have got listening to injury… tinnitus in your left ear, extra so than your proper ear,'” he anticipated them to say. (The American Tinnitus Affiliation describes the situation as “the notion of sound when no precise exterior noise is current,” reminiscent of ringing, buzzing, clicking or hissing.)

The Grammy winner, now 53, has performed in rock bands since he was a youngster. And, luckily, he can nonetheless hear the music.

“My ears are nonetheless tuned in to sure frequencies, and if I hear one thing that is barely out of tune, or a cymbal that is not vivid sufficient or one thing like that… within the combine, I can f***ing hear the trivialities of the whole lot that we now have accomplished to that tune, I actually can,” he defined.

But it surely’s not that approach all over the place.

“That being mentioned, like, if you happen to have been sitting subsequent to me proper right here at dinner, I would not perceive a f***ing phrase you have been saying to me, the entire f***ing time,” Grohl mentioned. “There isn’t any approach. In a crowded restaurant, that is worse.”

He mentioned in-ear screens, which many artists use to filter some sounds out and shield their ears whereas performing, did not work for him. He felt that it took him out of the “pure environment sound,” the place he can higher hear the viewers and the opposite musicians. “Plus, I’ve little f***ing ear holes and people issues, after I put ’em in, they only come out,” he mentioned.

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Nonetheless, the sound he hears onstage is “f***ing good,” he mentioned, due to his “monitor man,” Ian Beveridge, who has been with him since his days in Nirvana.

Grohl additionally spoke to Yahoo Leisure about his new horror film, Studio 666, final week: