Nearly 30 years ago, Lewis completely lost his hearing in his right ear. It “freaked” him out, but he eventually came to terms with it and adapted to relying solely on his right ear.
“And then seven years ago, my left ear failed right before a gig in New Orleans, and it was a horrible thing. I just went on a stage and I couldn’t hear anything,” Lewis recalled. “It was devastating.”
He was diagnosed with Meniere’s disease, a condition of the inner ear that causes severe vertigo and hearing loss.
For six months, Lewis tried anything he was told could improve his hearing. Renowned ENTs. Acupuncture. Chiropractic treatments. Low salt and organic diets. He exhausted all his options, and nothing cured his condition.
“I can’t identify pitch anymore. It’s very frustrating. Tonight, I’ll have a hard time recognizing the songs that are played. I will be able to, because I know the tempos, I know the beat, you know, but it’s (been) a tough pill to swallow.”
Now, when music is playing, Lewis only hears “noise distortion.”
Make all the American Psycho jokes you want, but the man was an amazing performer with a terrific voice, so this makes me really sad.
Sad, but he left his mark with great music and videos that I grew up with, so the only disappointment is being limited in doing anything in the future music related. I guess his acting part in Back to the Future came full circle.
Btw, anyone notice the mistake? I read right past it the first time since I “saw” what I expected to see. Lost his hearing in the right ear, relied solely on his right ear. Stop using AI for proofing!
Im afraid you’re just too darn loud
Sports was the first cassette I played so much that I wore it out. I was so happy when I found a cd of it.
Maybe they should have, since this is definitely something it picks up.
My input was “what is wrong with this text if any”
Claude 3.5
Either way, losing hearing as a musician must suck extra.
losing*
Right, indeed. 😊
You may have led it to look for wrong things. What if you just input the text and ask it to proofread it. Sometimes having a more neutral prompt allows the LLM to lapse more in its predictive nature.
I mean it could have been a human that missed it too. Like I said, when glancing over it myself I didn’t see the right part, I just comprehended it was the other ear. The brain is weird.
Totally, I missed it until someone pointed it out in the comments, assumptions about a “consistent world” are kind of baked in. Your brain might implicitly flip it just to make sense.