Originally Posted by iSpyCams

Well look, I am an aging former rock band front man with minor hearing loss and I can tell you that for a singer that's a big fucking problem. My own hearing issues are so slight they are not even diagnosable, just slightly south of ideal and I can still throw the whole show off if the stage sound setup isn't optimal.

And I would NEVER try to tackle AC/DC or Rush or most Zeppelin tunes or any of that high pitched stuff where going slightly pitchy sounds like a cat being tortured.

I am not saying they made the right decision, I am just saying that if they ruled him out based on him being completely deaf and he turned out to be only mostly deaf, that's still not a surprise for me.

If a Pornstar gets a mastectomy, a guitarist loses fingers, a runner breaks an ankle, a chef loses his sense of smell - if they persist we may or may not give them an A for effort but things are just not gonna be the same. We may appreciate their previous contributions, but not everybody can adjust to their new limitations and it's not really reasonable to expect them to.