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I don't normally, but when I do its a eclectic (sp) mix of Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Supertramp, Queen, Prince, Dave Matthews, Matthew Good and The Who.

On my last trip to Mackinac Island from Chicago and back I had my ipod loaded with Rush, Dream Theater, Led Zep, Van Halen, Incubus and John Mayer. Music definately make the long highway stretches bearable. I can't imaging doing the 450 mile interstate ride without music. I would go nuts from boredom.
Mitch

mlavin00 wrote:On my last trip to Mackinac Island from Chicago and back I had my ipod loaded with Rush, Dream Theater, Led Zep, Van Halen, Incubus and John Mayer. Music definately make the long highway stretches bearable. I can't imaging doing the 450 mile interstate ride without music. I would go nuts from boredom.
Mitch

Guess I am lucky I can't remember being bored on a bike.

olebiker wrote:

mlavin00 wrote:On my last trip to Mackinac Island from Chicago and back I had my ipod loaded with Rush, Dream Theater, Led Zep, Van Halen, Incubus and John Mayer. Music definately make the long highway stretches bearable. I can't imaging doing the 450 mile interstate ride without music. I would go nuts from boredom.
Mitch

Guess I am lucky I can't remember being bored on a bike.

Try spending 7 hours on a superslab with no real turns. That will bore you to tears.

mlavin00 wrote:

olebiker wrote:

mlavin00 wrote:On my last trip to Mackinac Island from Chicago and back I had my ipod loaded with Rush, Dream Theater, Led Zep, Van Halen, Incubus and John Mayer. Music definately make the long highway stretches bearable. I can't imaging doing the 450 mile interstate ride without music. I would go nuts from boredom.
Mitch

Guess I am lucky I can't remember being bored on a bike.

Try spending 7 hours on a superslab with no real turns. That will bore you to tears.

No it didn't.

Wordherder wrote:I don't have an iPod, but if I did, it would be:

* Bachmann-Turner Overdrive: Not Fragile
* Deep Purple: In Rock or maybe Who Do We Think We Are?
* Joe Satriani: Surfing with the Alien

Yes, I'm a fossil.

I do listen to the Cubs games on a cheapo radio -- bud in one ear only.

BTO? Damn, you are a fossil....hehehe...I saw them live waaaay back when they were fresh and new.

The Who: Who's next or Who Are You?
Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy
Rush: Fly By Night
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Pete Townsend: All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes or Empty Glass
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells One and Two or Five Miles Out
Jon & Vangelis: Friends Of Mr. Cairo
Kitaro: The Light Of The Spirit.

ceemes wrote: The Who: Who's next or Who Are You?
Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy
Rush: Fly By Night
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Pete Townsend: All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes or Empty Glass
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells One and Two or Five Miles Out
Jon & Vangelis: Friends Of Mr. Cairo
Kitaro: The Light Of The Spirit.

Wow! Tubular Bells! Visions of Linda Blair while cruising. Rad.

Dude, that list SO needs Edgar Winters' Frankenstein on there.

Funny, I remember thinking in the '80's that the '70's sucked for music and movies. But really, was there a better decade for rock music or American cinema? And by "the '70's" I mean 1968 - 1978.

tropicalhotdog wrote:

ceemes wrote: The Who: Who's next or Who Are You?
Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy
Rush: Fly By Night
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Pete Townsend: All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes or Empty Glass
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells One and Two or Five Miles Out
Jon & Vangelis: Friends Of Mr. Cairo
Kitaro: The Light Of The Spirit.

Wow! Tubular Bells! Visions of Linda Blair while cruising. Rad.

Dude, that list SO needs Edgar Winters' Frankenstein on there.

Funny, I remember thinking in the '80's that the '70's sucked for music and movies. But really, was there a better decade for rock music or American cinema? And by "the '70's" I mean 1968 - 1978.

The Exorcist only used the opening part of Tubular Bells I, I go for the whole LP. Come up to a nice fast and twisty part of the road with no traffic, fire up TB-I, sit here during the opening part revving the engine and getting psych'ed, then punch it.......even better at night.

Winters is okay, but like I said, I do album, not singles.

As for music, from about 66 to 85, it was good...after which it all went down hill.......Britney, Back Door, er I mean Backstreet Boys, Wacko Jacko (yes, I hated and still hate to this day Thriller. Hendrix must of started spinning in his grave when Jacko hit it big).....plastic pop churned out by factory bands for the mass consumption of pre-teenie girls...shudder.......completely disposable, inter-changeable and completely forgettable apart from how inane and sugary it was.....almost as bad as the crap of the late 50's and early 60's when they tried to clean up rock and turn it into homogenized white milk.......ugh.......

ceemes wrote:Winters is okay, but like I said, I do album, not singles.

As for music, from about 66 to 85, it was good...after which it all went down hill.......Britney, Back Door, er I mean Backstreet Boys, Wacko Jacko (yes, I hated and still hate to this day Thriller. Hendrix must of started spinning in his grave when Jacko hit it big).....plastic pop churned out by factory bands for the mass consumption of pre-teenie girls...shudder.......completely disposable, inter-changeable and completely forgettable apart from how inane and sugary it was.....almost as bad as the "crumb" of the late 50's and early 60's when they tried to clean up rock and turn it into homogenized white milk.......ugh.......

+1

I like to listen to the sound of my engine, the wind blowing by and when I stop, the birds in the trees and every now and then the silents.

You kids have been so brain washed with those gadgits, you don't know what real music is about.