{"id":8920,"date":"2016-02-07T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T04:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?p=8920"},"modified":"2019-12-19T02:56:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T10:56:52","slug":"riot-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?p=8920","title":{"rendered":"Riot Volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rock &#8216;n roll and heavy metal concerts are terrible.  They have always been terrible and they&#8217;re getting worse.  They&#8217;re so loud you can&#8217;t hear anything except a prescribed hours-long barrage of semi-dizzying percussive blasts, which are caused nearly as much by the guitars, bass, and vocals as by the drum set.  If a person doesn&#8217;t wear ear plugs, his ears are ringing for the next two or three days&#8212;perhaps longer.  If he does wear ear plugs, everything comes across sounding muffled and unarticulated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?attachment_id=8926\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8927\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8927\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?attachment_id=8927\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/riot-volume-000000-formatted.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,332\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"riot-volume-000000-formatted\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/riot-volume-000000-formatted.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/riot-volume-000000-formatted.jpg\" alt=\"riot-volume-000000-formatted\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8927\" srcset=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/riot-volume-000000-formatted.jpg 500w, http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/riot-volume-000000-formatted-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/riot-volume-000000-formatted-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How the hell did it become acceptable practice to wear ear plugs to music performances anyway?  Isn&#8217;t that the same as strapping on leg braces before going skiing, or ordering non-alcoholic beer at a brewpub?  Don&#8217;t people go to concerts to experience the music?  If the vast majority of people cannot properly experience the music, with or without earplugs, how could they possibly be enjoying themselves?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?attachment_id=8929\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8930\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8930\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?attachment_id=8930\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/riot-volume-000001-formatted.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,357\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"riot-volume-000001-formatted\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/riot-volume-000001-formatted.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/riot-volume-000001-formatted.jpg\" alt=\"riot-volume-000001-formatted\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8930\" srcset=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/riot-volume-000001-formatted.jpg 500w, http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/riot-volume-000001-formatted-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/riot-volume-000001-formatted-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are also a lot of sweaty, stinky SOBs at these concerts too&#8230; and the tickets can be absurdly overpriced.  Here&#8217;s a prime example:  it costs between $145 and $366 to see a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=malcom+young+health+issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">geriatric version of AC\/DC<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/icon-external-link-12x12.png\" alt=\"icon-external-link-12x12\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/icon-search-12x12.png\" alt=\"icon-search-12x12\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" \/>.  This is a band that hasn&#8217;t released a good rock &#8216;n roll album since around the time John Lennon was assassinated, yet people are willing to blow a car payment and risk a case of tinnitus for one more chance to &#8220;hear&#8221; classic songs from a bygone era resurrected in a live setting.  <em>Crikey!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock &#8216;n roll and heavy metal concerts are terrible. They have always been terrible and they&#8217;re getting worse. They&#8217;re so loud you can&#8217;t hear anything except a prescribed hours-long barrage of semi-dizzying percussive blasts, which are caused nearly as much &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?p=8920\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[841],"tags":[211,327,132,136,647,326],"class_list":["post-8920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-acdc","tag-concerts","tag-hard-rock","tag-heavy-metal","tag-musings","tag-rock-n-roll"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DQCb-2jS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20840,"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions\/20840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}