Hit the road for 400 miles yesterday, love to go old school pop this one in from 1989 & crank it......




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DEFTONES-AROUND THE FUR
PANTERA- 101 PROOF LIVE
TOOL--OPIATE
SOUNDGARDEN-BAD MOTOR FINGER
QUEENSRYCHE-OPERARTION MINDCRIME

Nevada desert, middle of night.
Radar Love. Full volume.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw9CzSSk218

saturday night fever soundtrack, repeat.

Flying in a blue dream is one of the best Satriani tunes out there, but my favorite version is the one he did on his Live in San Francisco CD...just kicks a bit better than the studio version. There is a guy named Harry Troupe who plays at Cheeseburger in Paradise in Lahaina on Maui. Dude can't sing worth a [censored], but he can play Satriani like a madman. If anyone on the board is ever in there when he's playing, ask him to play some Joe......he'll gladly oblige

Haha,
A couple years ago, I had to take my work truck (fish liberation tanker truck) to downtown Portland for a convention. As I tried to pull into the hotel, a large motor home blocked the entrance. I voiced my feelings about being stuck in the entryway, blocking traffic. Pretty soon, the motor coach pulled forward, and a little dude came running back to my truck.

"Do you know you just made ZZ Top move their tour bus for a fish truck?" the guy said.

"I don't care! I need to get this thing out of traffic!" I replied.

Yeah Hank, Steppenwolf was played in the 8 track. Ah, the 60s, sex, drugs, and rock & roll! Life as it should be lived.

If I pop LA Woman by The Doors in, turn it up to '11', the farther into the song, the more foot on the gas pedal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo6Es-itLg0

For a mellower ride, depending where I'm going, Peter Tosh's 12+ minute live version of "Rastafari Is" has a nice groove: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4e7khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo6Es-itLg0UgSQ00

For some reason Creedence Clearwater's Born on a Bayou seems to work,that and Allman Brothers Midnight Riders. Or Slayer

Listen to a lot of these guys on my travels recently.

Good stuff!!

Forgot this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxoO5yrabfc

The Who rock!

This song has been covered a bunch of times. IMO the Black Keys do the best one, followed by The Sonics.

As an avid lover of music (and puns), this thread strikes a chord for me.

There are exceptions, but in my estimation, the only thing that makes just about everything good better is the right music. Obviously, that means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.

For me, there are a number of factors that determine what music is best suited to a given situation. When driving, the main factors seem to be the surroundings, the time of day, the weather, the destination, and, when all else fails, the mood I'm in.

There's some stuff that more or less always works (classic rock comes to mind immediately). Some music seems to lend itself to more specific situations. For example, when driving through open country, I really enjoy listening to some real country music. No, I don't mean that pop with a cheesy steel guitar line or violin sequence they call country on the radio. I'm talking about something like Hank Williams or Johnny Cash, or any of a number of more obscure examples of artists following in their footsteps. Try the Flatlanders while driving through Eastern Washington (which looks a lot like parts of West Texas, from whence the Flatlanders hail). If you've never appreciated hearing a musical saw, this will bring it all together for you.

I also like country rock quite a bit when on the open road. A few examples would include Wilco, Drive By Truckers, The Jayhawks, etc. On a rainy night, in the middle of nowhere, I can think of few sounds more appropriate than Son Volt's first album, Trace. Talk radio can be good at night, too.

When driving around town (any town), I tend to prefer rock (classic, hard, indie, or otherwise). Seems to fit the hustle and bustle better than anything else.

When driving through the mountains or on logging roads, lots of different things work, but I generally tend toward straight music (little or no singing) for such locales. Something I got into while in college that seems especially well-suited to mountain driving is Indian classical music. Training the Western ear to properly hear this sort of music takes time, but coming over the top of a pass at the intense peak of a 45-minute raga really seems to maximize the drama and beauty.

Of course, now that I have kids, I can't usually listen to some of this stuff while driving. The wife and kids basically subject me to whatever they want to hear. It's not always bad (my kids like some of my wierd stuff), but I don't like driving as much as I used to....

I just have my favorite co-pilot (a GREEN eyed ladyy named mary ;)) and the lion king sound track

Haha