How LOUD do you like your music?

My wife is out of town and I am taking the opportunity to play all my old favorite rock stuff really loud. She hates it loud (except her damn operas). But I like it blastin' -- I don't mean UP.... I mean LOUD... almost-blow-out-the-tweeters-on-my-30-year-old-Infinity-Monitor-IIA-4-way-10-inch-woofers LOUD. It's great! Got "Sultans of Swing" on right now.... but lots of Seatrain, Iris DeMent, Cranberries, Echobelly, Lou Reed etc before that.

Anybody else a loud freak living with a soft freak?

only way to listen to rock. Then again, I'm half deaf. LOL Too much time around amplifiers.

She's always turning down the tunes.

Here's what I like LOUD:

Beethoven
The Beatles
The Grateful Dead
Camper van Beethoven
Butthole Surfers
Dead Kennedys
The Ramones
The Who


On Edit: Of course, I have Tinnitus from playing in front of monitors for years.........

Sounds great at the upper most levels of the stereos ability.

I have in my living room alone, 12 micro speakers mounted at ceiling level, on 24" downthrusting 300watt subwoofer in the ceiling flush mounted. and it is all driven by a 600 watt reciever.

But alas, my wife also enjoys the more mellow levels of music.
In fact, when she set the volume, I end up standing on a stool with my ear pressed to the speaker just to figure out whats playing now.

in your bones

We didn't have monitors and played in front of the amps, duh! Also shot pistols without ear protection, double duh! All us boomers will be deaf before we reach 60.

some bands you just have to listen to loud. if you turn down the volume while im listening to metallica or something like that, expect a punch in the face.

All the way to eleven baby. Especially when I am jamming on my electric guitar. :evilgrin:

:hi:

it's one louder.


Seriously, rock was made to be played loud. A few years ago I was the music supplier for a church singles' group party that couldn't (or wouldn't) spend the money for a real DJ. I didn't mind doing it at all, and I had a blast setting up my equipment.

The party/dance/whatever was in a really large assembly room almost big enough to play basketball in, and I wondered if my little amp was gonna be enough. So I set everything up, and put on the cd "Steppenwolf Live" that's always been a favorite of mine. Cranked it up, and oh lordy, was it wonderful. After living in an apartment for years and only getting to crank it up with headphones, it felt soooo good to blast it for a change.

Followed that up with "I'm Going Home" by Ten Years After at Woodstock and declared the sound check was good.

I loved that album (was it "Workin the Road" or was that just a song on it??). I gotta get that again. Just ordered the first two CSNY albums on CD.... so relevant now too. Just as they were in the 60's. "Wooden Ships." Great song.

and have a listen to "Freedom" by Richie Havens.

"Find the Cost of Freedom" from CSN&Y, now that'll get you in a let's toss bush mood.

of course.... but a friend had a TYA album with some crushing stuff on it. Sooooo much good stuff on those two CSNY albums.

I just cued that up while I was thinking about it, and man, could that kid play drums.

"Goin home" when I was hitch-hiking around BC and "Hello Little Schoolgirl" for obvious reasons, are my faves by Ten Years After. Those songs still get me going. Man I loved them.

Thanks! I had an....uh... meaningful encounter with that song while under the influence once back there in '69.

?????? I kind of like Hello Little Schoolgirl for the same reasons only my encounter was in the late 70's.

Watching "Blue Thunder"

at my computer programming job for a defense subcontractor. And I sing along at the top of my lungs too. In the summer I have all my car windows and the sunroof open and I get a lot of pointing and giggling from the girls and frowning from the old fogeys in the company parking lot, but I'm such a free spirit I just don't care. Plus I think I sing real good!

disturbing passing jetliners.

Or something like that. ;-)

You're too conservative! :evilgrin:

and some of the music I listen to is like getting a heart punch :)