Unlike many of his fellow rockers, Paul Stanley has always worn hearing protection, and he's the spokesman for a national effort to get kids to protect their hearing. (A new JAMA study says the number of kids with hearing loss is up 30% from 15 years ago.) Stanley is appearing at an after school event at the Director's Guild on Thursday, May 12, to promote the cause.
The event is put on by LA's House Research Institute. Dr John House joined Off-Ramp's John Rabe to talk about the problem, and to do an in-studio hearing test.