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Was taking a solo cruise to VS in another city. I was on a 4 ln and was stopping at another highway for a red light. Soon as my feet set on the road I about crapped myself. My mp3 had just started playing Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire. The opening sound of them trumpets scared me as I thought a car was blarring its horns at me. I even cussed out loud.  |
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« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2012, 01:18:16 PM » |
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« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2012, 02:05:02 PM » |
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Was taking a solo cruise to VS in another city. I was on a 4 ln and was stopping at another highway for a red light. Soon as my feet set on the road I about crapped myself. My mp3 had just started playing Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire. The opening sound of them trumpets scared me as I thought a car was blarring its horns at me. I even cussed out loud. I've scared myself with Close To The Edge (Yes) before... turned it way too much up because I didn't think anything was happening, and then WHAM! -Mike "I was at my house..." |
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« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2012, 02:24:23 PM » |
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« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2012, 02:47:54 PM » |
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NO.....However I have had the everlovin' crap annoyed out of me from other peoples sound system. Remeber it's YOUR music........What makes you think anybody else wants to hear it???
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« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2012, 02:53:55 PM » |
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I feel your pain Mike (Close to the Edge, got to put that on the Ipod thing before I leave, its good for 20 minutes )  and some pink floyd live that I had posted a few times Mark I agree its not like the gentle whoosh ya get from 20 tons of dynomite blowing up a rock wall I just dont get why folks have to let the whole neighborhood hear them coming, but we have some members who do that and I have pumped the zep up a few times in my day |
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« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2012, 02:56:39 PM » |
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NO.....However I have had the everlovin' crap annoyed out of me from other peoples sound system. Remeber it's YOUR music........What makes you think anybody else wants to hear it???
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« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2012, 03:36:30 PM » |
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I got the crap scared out of me in socal two week ago.While stopped under the freeway overpass at a red light I heard screeching of someones tires near me.I still don't know where it happened.Another time was a few days later while rining about 80 mph on the interstate I heard a loud noise I thought was from my engine.Thankfully it wasn't it seemed to come from a car or truck turbo winding up nearby.I thought my engine was overrunning the rpms .I let go of the throttle and pulled in the clutch to let the engine slow down to idle thats when I found out it wasn't the valk.That was scary because I was out in the desert in the middle of nowhwere.
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« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2012, 04:47:55 PM » |
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yes. i've scared my own crap out of my butt...... had the stereo cranked and a certain song came on....BANG!!!
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« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2012, 05:34:56 PM » |
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NO.....However I have had the everlovin' crap annoyed out of me from other peoples sound system. Remeber it's YOUR music........What makes you think anybody else wants to hear it???
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« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2012, 06:49:05 PM » |
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I pulled up along side of a SUV the other day with the windows all down and the roof and the doors were bouncing in and out.
I finally got the drivers attention and motioned for him to turn the volume down. He did and I kindly responded, 'thank you, if I wanted to hear that crap you call music, I'd be in the seat beside you'. I got about 4 or 5 birds flashed at me as they drove off. So, the asshole I am, I run along side of them in low gear at about 5,000 RPM, Vikings were crackling real good, they turned off, now whether that is where they were going or just trying to get away from my pipes.
We supposedly have a noise ordinance here, but it goes mostly ignored by the LEO's.
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« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2012, 07:15:24 PM » |
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I pulled up along side of a SUV the other day with the windows all down and the roof and the doors were bouncing in and out.
I finally got the drivers attention and motioned for him to turn the volume down. He did and I kindly responded, 'thank you, if I wanted to hear that crap you call music, I'd be in the seat beside you'. I got about 4 or 5 birds flashed at me as they drove off. So, the asshole I am, I run along side of them in low gear at about 5,000 RPM, Vikings were crackling real good, they turned off, now whether that is where they were going or just trying to get away from my pipes.
We supposedly have a noise ordinance here, but it goes mostly ignored by the LEO's.
Just don't go into the rough neighborhoods in and around Chicago and tell the dudes to turn their rap crap down. I still remember suburbs of Chicago ONLY once driven thru and these 2 black guys were cranking rap 'in the hood' music enough that when I pulled up beside them with windows closed and A/C on my inside rearview mirror was vibrating. My kids at the time were laughing their butt off |
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« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2012, 08:12:25 PM » |
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My original IS speakers aren't going to blast anybody out of their seat, but I still turn em down at any stop I share with others.
We had a Bump, Bump, Bump mega car stereo guy come around our corner house at 2AM several worknights a week with his windows down even in Winter (up at 0430), and I seriously considered shooting out his rear window with a .308...... from a neighbors yard. On reconsideration, I found where the car was parked, and left him a message he couldn't refuse. (Don't crap where you eat)
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« Reply #13 on: May 19, 2012, 08:29:44 PM » |
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Many years ago I was on a group ride to Kerrville (Twisty mountain roads, with a Texas accent.) I was really getting into the ride, and had put on The Rogues (A bagpipe band). Later on we came to a rest stop, and the guy that was riding behind me came up to me kinda pale in the face... "Were you playing bagpipe music by chance?" "Yeah..... Why?" "Oh thank God! I'm a Houston cop, and normally the only time I hear bag pipes is if I'm burying a co-worker. I thought maybe I was getting a warning that I was gonna get hit coming around the next corner or something!" And... speaking of bag pipes... I HIGHLY recommend everyone get at least one good CD or collection of MP3s of GOOD bagpipe music! (I'll heartily recommend anything from Tartanic - http://www.tartanic.net/ ) and keep it in their car. Whenever you get stuck next to some SOB with that annoying thump thump crap, pop in the bagpipe music, roll the windows down and crank it up. The wail of the pipes cuts RIGHT through that thump thump boom boom crap! |
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« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2012, 05:59:46 AM » |
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My Standard is somewhat like Paxton's. It doesn't carry it's own music. My Interstate has the capability, but rarely puts it to use. However, I was once crossing a lonely stretch of the Arizona desert at about 2 AM listening to what I thought was dead air when the station began to broadcast "Is There Anybody Out There?" by Pink Floyd. I learned what people had meant when they had said the hair stood up on the backs of their necks.  |
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« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2012, 08:53:29 AM » |
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Was taking a solo cruise to VS in another city. I was on a 4 ln and was stopping at another highway for a red light. Soon as my feet set on the road I about crapped myself. My mp3 had just started playing Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire. The opening sound of them trumpets scared me as I thought a car was blarring its horns at me. I even cussed out loud. I've scared myself with Close To The Edge (Yes) before... turned it way too much up because I didn't think anything was happening, and then WHAM! -Mike "I was at my house..." Close To The Edge and the Pink Floyd song with the clocks from Darkside of the Moon have both startled me pretty bad a time or two. Ridin’ home on US two in the Northwest a few years ago I was in the tailgunners position behind my son’s valk, though we were hauling ass I got a little bored and suddenly and loudly started singing a Joe Walsh tune. “We were using helmet intercoms” and my son jerked like it’d been shocked. He thought I’d just hit an elk or deer and died. Guess I don’t sing well. |
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« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2012, 12:03:42 PM » |
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How about Careful With That Axe, Eugene, by Pink Floyd.
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« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2012, 04:40:46 PM » |
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NO.....However I have had the everlovin' crap annoyed out of me from other peoples sound system. Remeber it's YOUR music........What makes you think anybody else wants to hear it???
Funny that is how I feel about pipes... |
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