Whos at fault?

[Lobster11]

I couldn't hear myself but I was plenty loud, the rafters were shaking, figurines were falling, the drums snares were rattling.

I want to go back to this. If you were that loud but couldn't hear yourself, I'm guessing that the amp/speakers were situated someplace -- perhaps on the floor behind you, blasting at your ankles -- where you were the only person in the room who couldn't hear you. In that case you were probably much louder than you needed to be, and the solution would've been to put the amp up on a stand or otherwise put it somewhere so it was pointing at your ears.

 

[Short4since64]

My question would be: Why was everyone playing so loud that rafters were shaking at a rehearsal? A Rumble doesn't have the capabilities of an SVT with 2 fridges! As a veteran of hard rock doing large shows with pitiful PA support, and now suffering with permanent tinnitus and a condition where both ears have profound loss in different ranges - can still hear reasonably well live but cannot understand anything over the telephone - the cost of playing too loud is far higher than a blown speaker. If the guitarist cannot turn down without losing all his tone, as it was back in the days of multiple 100W Marshall Plexi stacks, he needs to be using a smaller amp or use pedals. Same for a drummer who uses 3-S sticks and puts hard wood ball kick beaters thru heads. Blasting in a small space makes nothing but noise. The guitarist who owns the amp should have known it's not made to be played wall rattling loud.

 

[John Sparkman]

Opinions in this thread are all over the map on whose fault it is.

But it seems like a slight majority of players who have commented believe the OP should at least offer to pay for the repair.

I am in this camp.
If I were in that situation, I would immediately offer to pay for the repair.
It's a gesture that a good gentleman would be honor bound to make at the very least, and the sooner the better.

But I'm old fashioned that way.