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I realize that I'm old and that I've been listening to loud music at home for over 40 years and at concerts for over 30 years, but I can only recall one concert I've ever been to where the sound was so horrible that it was difficult to make out what song was what. That was the Replacements concert at Crawford Hall, UCI, and that place is a horrible venue for LOUD music apparently because I had already seen three awesome Replacements concerts in smaller clubs. Even at the Soundtrack of Our Lives' concert at the Avalon in 2005, which I believe to be the loudest concert I've been at, it was easy to hear the music and differentiate all the words and instruments, and I stood in front of 20 foot tall speakers. I don't really know what to say. The only time it has been a chore for me to go to a concert, it was because my feet hurt because I was too stubborn to buy comfortable new tennis shoes.
I'll admit that I may be strange because I used to spend hours doing jumping jacks, sit ups, alternate toe touches, etc., to my record albums, so dancing or pogoing at a concert was easy and enjoyable for me in my younger days. People just don't get into their bopping as much nowadays, but there I go again ruminating how it was better back in the day. Shut up, mark!