Bill Wyman's Hearing Loss and the Steel Wheels Tour Monitoring Solution

By the late 1980s, Bill Wyman’s hearing had deteriorated so badly from decades of stage volume that conventional wedge monitors were useless to him. For the 1989 Steel Wheels tour, the Stones’ sound crew rigged a custom bone conduction system: a transducer clamped to the neck of his bass that sent vibrations directly through the instrument into his collarbone