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  • HKShooter65

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    Hal Ketchum.
    "Past the Point of Rescue" right now. The album is a masterpiece.

    A great amongst the local texas-sound genre.
    Hit it in Nashville but hung on to his central TX roots. Lives in Fischer.

    I was honored to attend the amazing benefit concert at Gruene Halle last Sunday.
    Hal is, sadly, profoundly affected by early Alzheimer's.


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    kbaxter60

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    If you have never spent an afternoon going through the amazing collection from Postmodern Jukebox, you should get started. Here, I'll start you out with one of our favorites (please note the edit, below, as the factoids are only in the second version). The little factoids that pop up are sometimes hilarious and often very interesting, historically. Other faves: "All About that Bass" and anything from Puddles the Clown. Listen on good speakers and/or headphones.


    ETA: My apologies, fellers. I did not realize until later that the "popups" were only in this special "Pop Up" version. So here is what I was originally referring to:


    This one is also worth a look. She is NOT hard to look at:
     
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    Glenn B

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    Tinnitus.
    My constant playlist.
    Tinnitus - the almost constyant companion like Arthuer I.Tis. I have suffered from it for many years; I had it only in my left ear due to me shooting a skunk that was out in broad daylight during a rabies epidemic near Calexico, CA. Like an idiot, I steadied myself on the hood of my Border Patrol Ramcharger and fired my Colt Border Patrol revolver at it (357 MAG); I did not use ear protection. I guess the sound bounched off of the windshield and into my left ear more so than it went into my right ear on which side there was just open space. Of course, being a rightie by left ear also was canted more toward the muzzle. It has been pretty bad ever since then, a constant high pitched tone in my left ear.

    Then came the radiation & chemo treatments in 2011 when I had stage 4 throat cancer. The chemo oncologist told me that should I encounter even the slightest amount of hearing loss or change such as tinnitus while being treated, I had to let him know immediately because it would be permanent and thus they would discintinue that type of chemo which contained platinum. Of course, I am that guy - the hearing loss & tinnitus came about only after the final chemo treatment. It increased by about 100% in volume in my left ear and also started newly in my right ear (at about half the volume of the new level in the left ear). Same thing in each ear, a constant high pitched tone but sometimes it varied in volume. Then about three or four years ago, there was another change - I started to hear swooshing noises like running water or what you hear when you put a seashell to your ear. At about that time of that last change, I had awakened very early one morning to go to the head. When I was getting out of bed, I realized something had changed markedly - there was absolutely no tinnitus noise in either ear. That lasted only about 2 or 2 1/2 days. It was quite the disappointment when it returned as bad as before and it was after that when the new noises, the swooshing noises, started. My doctor, at the time, told me that it was almost unheard of that it should stop like that - she had no clue as to why. I did not bother to check further because as far as I know there is no cure.

    Every now and again the left ear volume reduces markedly and the right ear in essence turns it off completely, usually only for a few hours at most. Usually it is still that high pitched tone but also, every now and then, it changes to that swishing or running water sound. It is amazing that the sounds do not drive people wall climbing, psycho killer, crowd maiming, berserk; then again, maybe it already has done so with a few folks - some of those for whom no one has ever figured a motive as to why they went on a killing spree. It certainly makes it harder to not so much hear things but to understand what you are hearing, at least in my case.
     

    BRD@66

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    Sirius XM - and if you miss the blah blah blah of commercial radio, just listen to the Pflash Pfelps show on the 60s channel for between-songs inane blather.
     
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