Or so it would seem.

When sitting listening to my mp3 player through my in ear headphone things, I have to adjust them periodically to get them back into the optimum position for full frequency response. Basically poking them back into the ear canal. Now just after this delicate manoeuvre, I often hear a loud “Beeeeeeeeeeeeooooowwwwwwwwwzzzzz” sound in my left ear!

Just like the first note of “Tom Sawyer” by Rush (only classic rock fans will know this one)

That note was made, as far as I know, by the Taurus Bass Pedals of Geddy Lee.

It is actually just the sound of the rubber ear-plug vibrating as the air pressure changes in my ear canal when my jaw moves, but its quite odd.

It makes it sound like some roadie has come into the studio to pass another freshly peeled Groupie with her navel stuffed with Skunk and her nipples dusted with cocaine to the lead singer, and he has drunkenly put his foot in the wrong place on the equipment strewn studio floor!

Which I have actually seen happen at rehearsals.

Bloody lead singers get all the perks and all the keyboard player gets is some fat tattooed ex bike gang member standing on his equipment.