Dave Grohl suffers from hearing loss.
Dave Grohl on being deaf
The 53-year-old rock star – who is known for fronting The Foo Fighters – revealed that he suffers from ringing-ear condition tinnitus and has had to lipread for more than 20 years.
He said: “I’m f****** deaf! I haven’t had [my ears] tested in a long time — I mean, I know what they’re gonna say. You have hearing damage tinnitus in your left ear, more so than your right ear.”
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Speaking on ‘The Howard Stern Show’, the ‘Everlong’ rocker went on to explain that the “worst part” of the COVID-19 pandemic for him is the mask-wearing, because he struggles to hear what people are saying to him through the cloth.
He said: “If you were sitting next to me right here at dinner, I wouldn’t understand a f******word you were saying to me, the whole f****** time,” he explained. “There’s no way. In a crowded restaurant, that’s worse.
“That’s the worst thing about this pandemic s***, it’s like, people wearing masks. I’ve been reading lips for like, 20 years, so when someone comes up to me and they’re like [garbled noise], I’m like, ‘I’m a rock musician. I’m f****** deaf, I can’t hear what you’re saying.”
However, Dave went on to reveal that despite his hearing loss, he is still able to hear every detail of a song he constructs with his band because his earns are still “tuned into certain frequencies.”
He said: “My ears are still tuned in to certain frequencies, and if I hear something that’s slightly out of tune, or a cymbal that’s not bright enough or something like that, in the mix, I can f****** hear the minutiae of everything that we have done to that song, I really can!”
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