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Philippec74
I m very surprised with all your answers but i respect them of course.
the benefit of taking a 5 year old boy to see AC/DC?
if i go to Paris i would prefer my son to see Angus Young instead of Mickey Mouse
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liddas
I tend to agree with Philippec74.
It is true that large venues can be dangerous. But it's also true that there is a way of doing things. Nobody said that you have to bring your child first line of the GA section in front of the PA speakers!!!
Besides that, there are thousands of other thing that are accepted as "normal" that are way more dangerous, at least from a statistical point of view. How many kids drown? Or are injured (or worse) in car accidents? Or because their parent lost control of the bicycle? And so on and on.
Children love music (at least, my two daughters do). And live music (all kinds of it) is what they enjoy the most.
Today's society is a strange one.
Lots of parents divorce when their children are still very young, or never spend time with them, feed them with shit food, let them stay hours in front to the TV, don't care for their education, have nannies even when they could take care of them personally etc.
Everything is allowed.
But, but God forbid, if for once you forget to put the seat belts or if you take your kid out sailing or to see the stones you get crucified with no trial.
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Philippec74
if i go to Paris i would prefer my son to see Angus Young instead of Mickey Mouse
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Naturalust
Marlon was at many Stones shows as a young kid, exposed to lots of loud rock and hard drugs, he seemed to turn out allright.
I think it's a personal choice to expose your kids to concerts and as long as they have hearing protection for loud venues/shows, no worries. It's certainly no more dangerous than driving in a vehicle, eating a McDonalds kiddie meal or a thousand other activities.
What I don't like is the way people and society tries to dictate what is right and wrong for activities that really boil down to personal choice. It's so easy to get emotional about children and what we perceive as improper parenting.
I hope the lawyers don't start getting involved and we start seeing things like "no children under the age of.." on concert tickets and promos. Some of my best and earliest childhood memories are at music festivals and concerts with my parents. Of course one could argue this was responsible for my future nefarious ways....
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TooTough
My son was in his mummy´s womb when we attended Köln 1999.
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Naturalust
Marlon was at many Stones shows as a young kid, exposed to lots of loud rock and hard drugs, he seemed to turn out allright.
I think it's a personal choice to expose your kids to concerts and as long as they have hearing protection for loud venues/shows, no worries. It's certainly no more dangerous than driving in a vehicle, eating a McDonalds kiddie meal or a thousand other activities.
What I don't like is the way people and society tries to dictate what is right and wrong for activities that really boil down to personal choice. It's so easy to get emotional about children and what we perceive as improper parenting.
I hope the lawyers don't start getting involved and we start seeing things like "no children under the age of.." on concert tickets and promos. Some of my best and earliest childhood memories are at music festivals and concerts with my parents. Of course one could argue this was responsible for my future nefarious ways....
peace
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MileHigh
The last few times I saw the Stones there was no problem with the volume at all. This is the "future" and I have to assume that they check the sound pressure levels with meters throughout the venue when they set up. You may have noticed that they have the mids and highs on separate speakers spread throughout the venue to ensure that the vast majority of people hear direct sound and not reflected sound.
It was just plain stoopid for rock bands to crank the sound up so loud that it went into the threshold of discomfort and even into the threshold of pain.
The psychology and physiology of how you hear sound means your body adapts anyway.
Thank God the era of "Look at My Big Dick" sound is over. At least for the Stones and I assume for all other major touring shows.