When they are 17 they join a band. They use their screaming talents and add in amplification and Dad funded bass, bass amp and cabinet . . . <br /><br />
I fell asleep in the front of a 8 inch howitzer in Viet-Nam. They forgot to wake me and when it went off it threw me in the air and I could not hear for a week. I still have hearing loss from it
Rolling Stones, 1975, the Star-Star (a.k.a. Goats Head Soup) tour. My ears rang for 3 days.<br /><br />Emerson Lake and Palmer, their 'Works' tour only left the ears ringing for a day or so.
Teenage girl screaming while jaws of life rolled the dash off her crushed legs.<br /><br />or<br /><br />The nine year old boy who found his dad (who was ejected from a rollover, died of major head trauma) before we got there.... that kid never said a word but I felt it stronger and louder than any words could have ever been.
Had a 300 psi donkey boiler "puffed" once in the auxiliary engine room aboard ship due to a mis adjusted burner electrode.Me and two others were just feet away.Blew the stack periscope lenses and and endbell gaskets.Me and two other shipmates ears were ringing for at least a week.I think the OOD on the bridge had to change his shorts.We were on spec ops at the time in Hai Phong Harbor.<br /><br />Second loudest was Hendrix at the Filmore.<br /><br />Gotta agree though,those three year old screeches at point blank can be deafening.
I enjoy setting off 2 liter pop bottles filled with various mixtures of compressed explosive gasses. (in unpopulated areas of course) They tend to be a little noisy.
