![]() “Especially when you hear about people like Huey Lewis, who can't perform because of their hearing issues,” Fink notes. “I also find that other musicians I know who are in dire need of hearing aids are not getting them yet,” Fink says.įor musicians-who depend on their hearing- hearing loss is particularly worrisome and stress-inducing. Like many, he didn’t follow up with an appointment right away. In around 2015 or so, Fink realized he needed hearing aids. “I've been playing with some other people lately for fun,” Fink says-for the most part, everyone he’s working with is using custom, in-ear monitors that are molded to fit musicians’ ears and allow for the right levels on stage, he says. He had a few decades-starting in the 1990s, after his time with The Revolution, and through the early 2000s-when he was away from working as a live musician, and focused on production. Now, he’s back with The Revolution (which reunited after Prince’s death) and works in the studio as a producer and engineer. ![]() “But, you know, I couldn’t tell him what to do because he was my boss.”įink, a three-time Grammy winner, has been playing since he was around 13 years old. “It definitely was wearing and tearing on the hearing mechanism in there,” Fink says. Sometimes when the set was done, Fink noticed the effect in his ears: muffled, echoing sounds, or persistent ringing. But Prince “would just blast and wash the stage with the big speakers, and you literally felt the bottom bass hitting your chest,” Fink says. ![]() And once in-ear monitors-which deliver the on-stage mix directly into musicians’ ears-were around in the late 1980s or ‘90s, Prince “didn't want to use them,” Fink says.īig speakers occupied both sides of the stage, and Fink had wedge speakers near him, which he tried to keep at a reasonable level. Here’s the thing to know about being in The Revolution: “Back in the day with Prince, they didn't really have any in-ear monitors invented yet,” Fink recalls. Rather, Matt Fink, 64, got that moniker when he played keyboards with Prince’s band, The Revolution, starting in 1978-he appeared on stage clad in scrubs and surgical mask, sometimes donning a stethoscope to round out his alter ego. ![]()
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