Can't remember the exact year, but probably late 90's, I was playing an American Legion in South Florida when a customer came to the bandstand to say my sound was way too "trebly" and killing his ears. He pointed to the mixer I was using at the time and showed me how all the dials pointed extreme right. It sounded okay to me. But, I understood what he was saying and realized right then & there I had a hearing problem.

Turns out the customer who came to the bandstand was Davy Jones of the Monkees. I knew who Davy Jones was, but didn't recognize him. After the Monkees disbanded he bought a horse farm in S FL and enjoyed a quiet retirement. He passed in 2012. To this day I am grateful that he took it upon himself to alert me to my hearing problem.