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I have a general music question that I will put here. It relates to live music.

Last night I went out to meet some friends in a local tavern, there was a band of some local musicians that my musician friends thought were good. The music was so loud it I found it painful, I couldn't even hear what they were playing even though they were familiar covers of Zeppelin, the Stones, and so on. People I was with said it was loud but not uncomfortable, there were even people sitting about ten feet away from them. I was in another room (the place had an L shaped layout, the band was in the banquet room part of the L) and it was still so loud I couldn't hear any conversation, but it wasn't painful at least.

It was staring at the sun kind of pain. Why the fuck is the music so fucking loud? Do people think if they are louder they are better? Are they deaf as posts? Have they thought of using a decibel meter to set the volume at a comfortable level, like we do with thermostats for heat?

It's not because I'm getting old. I hated too loud music even when I was young.