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If you want to get ahead, we'll tell you to save school There's VHDs on the red line You think that we're all fools I can't read the morning paper cause it's just a little far off affair Tell me, boy, if you think that it can happen here

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And the air has become a sphere with a serrated heart It would seem rather boring to keep the peace but make it more It would seem rather boring to keep the peace but make it more Hey, people! Hey, people!

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Life today is kind of fast, I hear the people say Here and next day might be your life, so live your life the way When you hear that deaf-blind string go, no, it's not so loud If you care to watch your mind, well, you won't care to see the clown

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All right! Hey, people! Hey, people! Hey, people! Hey, people! It's quite characteristic when an individual has been exposed to high noise levels

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that a hearing loss will first appear at the 4000 to 6000 Hz or cycles per second range This won't lead to many problems but eventually the loss will move down in the frequency range so that it can finally involve what we call the speech frequencies for hearing 500 to 2000 Hz Is there any possibility that rock musicians who continue with this for a number of years

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could become deaf in time? Well, deaf is a relative term too, they could become severely hard of hearing or at least hard of hearing to a point that they were having real social problems in communicating One of the efforts of our study was to provide them with some kind of ear protection

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which they would find acceptable Before we began this study, the only thing that they had to use for any ear protection were the conventionally available commercial protectors that look like earphones that are worn over the ears These were not acceptable to them

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We had them fitted for individual ear molds at a local laboratory They were fitted with molds that are just like the molds that are worn by hearing aid users except there is no hole for the receiver for a hearing aid to attach They went down to the local prosthetics laboratory, had an impression taken of their ear

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and a mold was made to fit them This they did find acceptable and would wear them What do you find are the most important conclusions drawn from this study? Well, perhaps the most important is that we have demonstrated that hearing loss does exist among this group

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before individuals have not been tested and that something can be done to give them some protection Did you find that any of the musicians themselves following these tests were discouraged maybe enough to want to get out of the profession?

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Well, I'm not certain they became discouraged with their music but they became discouraged with some of the symptoms that they were having A couple of musicians, actually one from a nationally known recording group told us that he would be leaving the group within a period of months

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not because he had noted so much hearing loss but because he had tinnitus to the degree that it was truly troublesome for him