Let’s talk about how to don’t enjoy a long awaited concert: I appreciated Tortoise for decades, now and this would have been my first time seeing them alive, but...
As a picture says more than one hundred words…
… this couId be enough and self-explanatory!
In 60 years of concerts-going, I never, ever experienced such an offensively, hideously exaggerated volume at any concert, period.
The lacking of empathy for audience ears and auditive health was absolutely first rate: never heard a whole theater shaking like during an earthquake for the entire concert and it was unbelievable!
With a dB meter app I measured 109/112 dB peaks while (briefly) seated at second row… after moving - thanking the kindness of theater stewards - at the last rows, peak were still >103 dB!
A strong and painful feeling of quantity-over-quality was felt.
Despite wearing ear-plugs all the time, I “enjoyed” the concert quietly seated on a red sofa chatting with my friends Linda and Flavio who simply felt my very same discomfort… BUT outside the theater, in the lobby, where the seismic tsunami was bearable.
For the Tortoise’s music… I’ll much, MUCH better enjoy it at home, appreciating all the nuances and subtleties of their craft in all its glory.
Those assholes at mixer (for willingly ruining a nice concert) and the group, itself (for their implicit agreement for the unbearable SPL imposed to the audience) - both guilty of this offense to the senses - simply doesn’t deserve any excuse.
In my opinion and all considered, one of the WORST concerts of my life.
My sincere thanks to the extremely professional and kind theater personnel (also baffled by the unbearable SPL) and to the organization for those life - i.e. ears - savers.
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