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Originally Posted by bonjovi90
Up until the end of 2019, he was still wearing them and had similar pitch issues since about 2015.
Richie said (I think it's even a quote in the WWWB book) that he is half deaf after all the years of touring and he had been using floor monitors for a few tours before his departure.
Not sure if that's a personal preference or them both having abandoned in-ears really is connected to potential hearing problems.
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That's true, but at least from the few clips I've watched from this tour it seems like his pitch issues got worse compared to 2019 and prior, so I wondered if the fact that he's hearing himself differently this tour might be a factor there. Of course it could also just be further physical decline.
Hearing problems could certainly be a factor, although, intuitively, I would assume that a singer with hearing problems would be even MORE likely to use in-ears as opposed to floor monitors since they're probably easier to adjust to a person's specific auditory needs 🤔