Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil says he wishes he had listened to The Who as he is losing his hearing. Tinnitus sufferers Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend warned Simon many times that he was damaging his lugholes at the volume he was playing.
The Who legends famously ended up impairing their own hearing after years of loud touring. Simon revealed: “I do have problems with my ears now. “When we played with The Who, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend took real exception to the volume of my guitars. “To be fair they found out the hard way why you shouldn’t be that loud.” Simon and bandmates James and Ben Johnston were twice told to sort out the volume by The Who, the second time at Scot- land’s T In The Park festival.
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