I knew someone would post about how they blare music and don’t care, nyah, nyah, nyah when I typed the OP. Its not rocket science, you can say anything online and not have any repercussions except maybe the ire of other posters. (and** Bo **i am not accusing you of this, read on)
That being said, **Snowboarder Bo **didn’t say he did it in front of houses or anything. he said he cranked it up in a challenge type thing in a redlight. People being people, this isn’t what bugs me. If he cranked it to win a stereo dick measuring contest with a stranger at a redlight, its really no big deal. Yeah its annoying, but so are old people driving really slow or not allowing you to pass or people that are so busy on their fucking cell phones they don’t see the light turn green. Its one thing that is annoying but you can live with compared to people that constantly do it as if their car won’t run unless the music is loud and the bass is shaking the fillings out of folks within a half mile radius that I hate.
He never said he blasted his music in a busy parking lot or residential area or anything. From what I’ve seen in his posts from the past he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy that gets a thrill from annoying people. We may not see eye to eye on some things, but I get the feeling hes a pretty reasonable dude, the kind that would actually turn it down if he knew he was bieng a nuisance. He can tell me if I’m wrong, but I think he would agree that blasting my goddamn beret off with bass is kinda wrong in a busy and full parking lot. You can jam out when you’re away from that kind of area.
I think Bo might not like it but he;d agree, but then only he can really make that call.
I don’t like it either but I am betting that this thread won’t put an end to it so I will just stick with my policy of laughing at the idiots who spend a fortune to produce loud lo-fi approximations of music.
That’s not my motivation. I just like loud music. I don’t care if people are looking at me or not. I just like to listen to my music at maximum volume. It sounds better that way.
I never said I cranked up at a red light in a challenge type thing. But perhaps I was unclear.
My stereo is at max volume all the time, if I’m not talking to someone: parking lots, residential streets, highway. I don’t turn it down or up at red lights. I just think its cool when some other guy who also listens to his favorite music loud pulls up next to me, and we both realize that the other guy also likes loud music. It’s a brothers-in-arms type thing, not a pissing contest.
I don’t do it to piss people off, or to get a thrill from annoying people. I just like my music loud.
My neighbor and I were talking a couple of years ago and he told me he had been working a new job for a couple of months that had him in at 4am, so he went to bed at 9pm. He told me what a pain it was for him when I was rocking out at night (our walls are only like 15 feet apart), so now I don’t rock out after 9pm on weekdays.
On weekends, tho, I usually rock out until local noise ordinances forbid it.
BTW, lots of y’all come off as real pricks in this thread.
My son used to enter competitions for best sound system and actually has trophies displayed in his home, JR, and when I asked him why that music has to be so loudm he told me it originally began as a way to simulate being at a concert, but that it later became a status symbol. :rolleyes:
I had him install a very nice Blaupunkt system in my car (I favor “classical” music), and although I know I can, I don’t turn the volume up so load it attacks the viscera and makes you wanna throw up.
My thing is clarity, not volume.
I did once play a cd of Square Dance calls (the first “rap” music) one summer day while stopped at traffic lights here in Dallas.
This is a rant I can get behind. It’s not so much the loud music that bugs me, it’s the damned bass. I don’t want to hear that shit thump, thump, thumping while I’m in my house, trying to watch TV or whatever. When I can hear it inside or blocks away, it’s too damned loud.
I can appreciate wanting to crank up the car radio. I do the same thing (with my measly factory installed stereo system in my 16-year-old car) but here’s the thing…when I’m at a stop light, I turn it down out of consideration for others. What a concept!
Too bad others can’t be as considerate but I guess when you’re the center of the universe, common courtesy doesn’t apply.
I have seen grown men with hearing loss reduced to tears out of frustration when they cannot hear what their grandchildren say. I have seen it tear families apart as the one with the hearing loss eventually becomes an observer of his own life, while it plays in front of him like a silent film.
Research shows that the magic age to get people to consider changing their attitudes and behaviours towards loud noise/music is grade four. Any later than that, and it is too late as teens and young adults just don’t care.
As an audiologist who has fitted many hearing aids in the past 18 years, I have only two words:
I had a cousin beaten to a bloody pulp one time for playing his music too loud, the guy who beat him was caught by the cops and he admited he hated loud music. My cousin deaf since birth had not realised he was pissing so many people off, he was only trying to feel his music, oh yes, I mean his music he was a very good musician, sadly not since the beating though.
Have fun with your hating loud music though I guess. Some people make me sad.
SO’s boss is a pretty hard core no bullshit kind of guy.
One day we went to lunch and got caught at a long light next to one of the thumpers. He put the car in park, got out and went over to the car. Words were exchanged and he came back and got in the car with a faceplate and a whole bunch of wires.
The light turned green and off we went.
Quasimodem, I guess what pissed me off about the whole situation was that my cousin never even saw his attacker coming. He was sucker punched and out cold. The fuckwit just kept laying into him. My cousin never owned an expensive stereo just the standard system in his old junker this guy just blew a fuse and let him have it.
Yeah at times loud stereos can get annoying to me as well but I find it much easier to roll my eyes, take a deep breath and count to ten, normally by then the annoyance has gone. Works for me most of the time, and if it doesn’t I going to burst some tweeters with Helen Reddy.:eek:
This is part of it for me. I have been completely stone deaf 3 times in my life (my ears do not drain fluid properly. Chronic persistent cerumen impaction is at times painful and debilitating.) Surgery and medication were able to correct fully 2x, but now there is some damage to my eardrums, particularly on the right side.
There is nothing so joyous as a wonderful sound, and I like to hear as many and as much as I can. As a musician, I sympathize with your cousin’s plight, Gawn.
I’m not looking for sympathy, tho. Even the times my hearing was fine, I still liked my music loud. It’s just better that way.
GF I apologize for misunderstanding your post! I took it to mean your cousin was a **musician **who just happened to be practicing too loudly because he could not hear himself.
