What is the best motorcycle song ever?

[Posh Tourer :P]

Ok, so lets put together a CD of motorcycle-related songs for the rally...

What are the best motorcycle songs ever?

these guys http://www.motorbikemusic.com/cdmotorbikemusic.php seem to have some idea, anyone got any others?

Perhaps someone with more than dialup would care to make it for me, otherwise I'll find em all and make a CD.

[Hitcher]

You could always get Radio Hauraki to market this for you and collect a royalty for having thought of the idea in the first place!

[toads]

meatloaf's bat out of hell is about a motorcyclist's last few moments of life, It probably deserves to be included just to remind us of the frailty of human life and stuff! It's a good song too

[toads]

oh yeah and uriah heep's "free me"
and Lynard skynards "freebird"

[Motu]

The Pusher,by Steppenwolf - I've pushed a hell of a lot of bikes in my time.....it's out of a bike movie,it is about bikes isn't it??

Oh but the pusher is a monster
Good God, he's not a natural man

[Skunk]

The Pickle Song - Arlo Guthrie? :Pokey:

[Kickaha]

The Pickle Song - Arlo Guthrie? :Pokey:


You sad sad man,we used to get pissed and crank that one up :killingme

Born to be Wild-Steppenwolf

[Hooks]

These are the ones that spring to mind....

Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive,
Thin Lizzy- The Boys Are Back In Town,
Sammy Hagar- Mas Tequila,
Def Leppard - Rocket,
AC/DC - Back in Black,
Triumph - Ordinary Man ....
Bryan Adams - Run To You
George Thorogood - Ride On Josephine
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Heart - Barracudda
the list goes on .....

[PeteThePom]

Silver Machine - Hawkwind
Box Hill Or Bust, Burn up, Just for kicks and a host of others from Dumpys Rusty Nuts, a top UK manic biker band
Motorhead - Motorhead

[Ms Piggy]

Born to be Wild-Steppenwolf

Definitely! And what about "All fired up" by Pat Benatar. :niceone: Or "You Aint see nothing yet" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

What the hell is "The Pickle Song"? Or is it an old persons one? Must be if Kickaha knows it :blah:

[James Deuce]

All that just goes to prove my point: there IS no "good" motorcycle song.

[jrandom]

Well, the WORST motorcycle song has to be Ride, by Joe Satriani.

[Blakamin]

All that just goes to prove my point: there IS no "good" motorcycle song.
Theres twisted sisters version of "leader of the pack" ;)

[That Guy]

Manic Street Preachers, Motorcycle Emptiness.

[riffer]

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Manic Street Preachers, Motorcycle Emptiness. Ah Generation Terrorists. An awesome album when it came out. Back when James Dean Bradfield was just angry and not so depressed.

My favourite track off that album was always "Stay Beautiful" Would have been a great track live.

[pete376403]

Definitely! And what about "All fired up" by Pat Benatar. :niceone: Or "You Aint see nothing yet" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

What the hell is "The Pickle Song"? Or is it an old persons one? Must be if Kickaha knows it :blah:

From the movie "Alices Restaurant" "Ah don't wanna pickle, just wanna ride mah motorsickle" - Arlo Guthrie

[KATWYN]

Toads,I didn't know the meaning behind Meatloafs Bat outa Hell
song - but am going to listen carefully to the lyrics
next time I hear it.

[pete376403]

Toads,I didn't know the meaning behind Meatloafs Bat outa Hell
song - but am going to listen carefully to the lyrics
next time I hear it.

Oh yeah, you ought to look at the musical credits on the album. I recall someone plays a "motorcycle guitar"

[Hooks]

Oh yeah, you ought to look at the musical credits on the album. I recall someone plays a "motorcycle guitar"


Yup ....Todd Rungren from Utopia...

[riffer]

The Motorcycle Song
words and music by Arlo Guthrie

CHORUS:
I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy...cle

It was late last night the other day
I thought I'd go up and see Ray
So l went up and I saw Ray
There was only one thing Ray could say, was:

CHORUS

This song is about the time that I was ridin' my motorcycle.
Going down a mountain road, at 150 miles an hour, playin'
my guitar. On one side of the mountain road there was a
mountain, and on the other side there was nothin' - there was
a cliff in the air.

Now, when you're going down a mountain road at I50 miles
an hour you gotta be very careful, especially if you're playin'
a guitar. Especially if that guitar is an acoustic guitar.
Because if it's an acoustic guitar, the wind pressure is greater
on the box side than on the neck side, because there's
more guitar on the box side. I wasn't payin' attention ..

Luckily I didn't go into the mountain - I went over the cliff.
I was goin' at 150 miles an hour sideways and 500 feet down
at the same time.

I knew it was the end. I looked down, I said ''Wow! Some
trip". I thought it...well I knew it was...I knew it was my last
trip, and in my last remaining seconds in world,I decided
to write one last farewell song to the world.

Put a new ink cartridge in my pen. Took out a piece of paper.
I sat back and I thought awhile. Then I started writin':
I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle

And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy ...cle."

I knew that, it wasn't the best song l ever wrote, but I didn't
have time to change it. I was comin' down mighty fast.

But as you all know, and as fate would have it, I didn't die. I
landed on the top of a police car. And he died. I drove away
on the road that he was on. I came into town at a screamin'
175 miles an hour, playin' the motorcycle song.

I came into town, I jumped off my bike, the bike went around
the corner by itself, went up on the stand by itself, turned
itself off.

I walked over to my friend. He was standin' there eatin'
pickles. I said "Hi, what's happenin'?" He looked at me in the
eye and said "Nothin'".

You gotta sing it with that kind of enthusiasm. Like you just
squashed a cop...

CHORUS

©1968,1969 Appleseed Music Inc. (ASCAP)</pre>

[riffer]

ARTIST: Richard Thompson
TITLE: 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Lyrics and Chords


Said Red Molly to James that's a fine motorbike
A girl could feel special on any such like
Said James to Red Molly, well my hat's off to you
It's a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952
And I've seen you at the corners and cafes it seems
Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme
And he pulled her on behind
And down to Boxhill they did ride

/ A - - - D - / - - - - A - / : / E - D A /
/ E - D A - / Bm - D - / - - - - A - - - /

Said James to Red Molly, here's a ring for your right hand
But I'll tell you in earnest I'm a dangerous man
I've fought with the law since I was seventeen
I robbed many a man to get my Vincent machine
Now I'm 21 years, I might make 22
And I don't mind dying, but for the love of you
And if fate should break my stride
Then I'll give you my Vincent to ride

Come down, come down, Red Molly, called Sergeant McRae
For they've taken young James Adie for armed robbery
Shotgun blast hit his chest, left nothing inside
Oh, come down, Red Molly to his dying bedside
When she came to the hospital, there wasn't much left
He was running out of road, he was running out of breath
But he smiled to see her cry
And said I'll give you my Vincent to ride

Says James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this world
Beats a 52 Vincent and a red headed girl
Now Nortons and Indians and Greeveses won't do
They don't have a soul like a Vincent 52
He reached for her hand and he slipped her the keys
He said I've got no further use for these
I see angels on Ariels in leather and chrome
Swooping down from heaven to carry me home
And he gave her one last kiss and died
And he gave her his Vincent to ride</pre>

[riffer]

Kick It Over (download mp3 here) (http://members.aol.com/hopeorch3/kickit.mp3)

(http://members.aol.com/hopeorch3/kickit.mp3)Mountains far and wide
Water on both sides
'Round the bend we go
Where virgin pine trees grow
Up this winding road.

Come on Darling, kick it over, I can't wait this way forever now.

Small town near the top
Carved into the rock
While the hot springs flow
This wayside bar explodes
Up this winding road.

Come on Darling, kick it over, I can't sway this way forever now.

Cross the countryside
Roller coaster ride
Through the clouds we go
Up this winding road.

My Bonnie wants to fly!

(http://members.aol.com/hopeorch3/kickit.mp3)

[scumdog]

[QUOTE=celticno6]The Motorcycle Song
words and music by Arlo Guthrie


You gotta sing it with that kind of enthusiasm. Like you just
squashed a cop...



Hey, easy, there might be some sensetive types out there - plus if you squash a cop and he DON'T die he's going to be mighty pissed off :killingme

[Bandito]

Manic Street Preachers, Motorcycle Emptiness.
gets my vote! It's a song that is always in my head when riding must some sort of trigger in my otherwise vacant cranium :niceone:

[Slipstream]

Celticno6 I noticed that you put up the words to the Arlo Guthrie song... Do you have the words to his "Significance of the pickle" version?
:banana:

[TwoSeven]

well, I sing the wombling song. Used to be the kfc song but the old bill dont like dancing and riding at the same time.

[aff-man]

highway to hell

[toads]

highway to hell

actually I often mumble that one to meself affman, it's a bit before your time tho!, smoke on the water is another one I find myself burbling under my breath, don't have sounds in my helmet, even If I did I'd never hear them being half deaf already and the noisy beast thumping away.

[riffer]

Do you have the words to his "Significance of the pickle" version?
:banana: Not to hand, but this parody of it is quite humorous:
"The Motorcycle Song (The Significance of the Cop)" Parody by Michael McVey

I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I'm not bein' fickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't have fish to fry
Just want to ride on my motorcy...cle

It was late one night the month of May
I thought I'd go up and see Ray
Because, you see, Ray is gay
There was only one thing Ray could say, was:

I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I'm not bein' fickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't have fish to fry
Just want to ride on my motorcy...cle

Just last week I was on my bike
I run into a friend I like
I like my friend though she's a dyke
She no longer has a bike.
She cries:

I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I'm not bein' fickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't have fish to fry
Just want to ride on my motorcy...cle

You know, Arlo Guthrie has been singing his stupid song for about 40 years, and only in America can you get by with singing a song that dumb for that long. And only in America can you make a living that way. But Arlo never said anything about having a companion. Guess he didn't want to get me in trouble....

But you know, even when he explained the significance of the pickle, he still didn't tell the whole story. Besides not even mentioning that I was riding with him, he also neglected to explain someting else: the significance of the police officer. You'll see why in a few minutes.

This song is about the time I was ridin' my motorcycle. Going down a mountain road, with Arlo Guthrie right in front of me. He was playin' his guitar. I was talkin' on my CB radio. We was both doing about 170 miles an hour. Arlo thought we were only going 150, but that's because his speedometer only goes to 150. On one side of the mountain road there was a mountain, on the other side there was nothing, just a cliff in the air.

Now, when you're going down a mountain road at 170 miles an hour you gotta be very careful, especially if you're playin' a guitar. Or yakkin' on the CB. I wasn't payin' attention .. and neither was he.

All of a sudden by accident, a string broke off his guitar. It broke, wrapped itself around a yield sign, and he went off the road. Luckily he didn't go into the mountain, he went other way. And I wasn't paying attention, I was just following him 'cause I thought he knew where he was going, and I followed him one to many times and went off the road with him.

Now, Arlo says it was 500 feet straight down, but I got out my handy-dandy USGS Quadrangle map and calculated that the difference in elevation was 816 feet. That gave us a little more time, but not much. It also meant we would be a little more dead when we landed, but not much.

We were going 170 miles an hour sideways and 816 feet straight down. We knew it was the end, and Arlo wanted to write one last farewell song to the world, and I didn't have time to spoof it, so I just sang it with him: "I don't want a pickle, Just want to ride on my motorsickle. And I don't want a tickle, 'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle. And I don't want to die, Just want to ride on my motorcy ...cle."

Not the best song he ever wrote, but neither one of us had time to improve on it. We were comin' down mighty fast. But as you all know, and as fate would have it, he didn't die. Even more amazingly, I didn't die either. Arlo landed on the top of a police car, and it died. And I suddenly realized I would live to mess with his new song!

I landed right in front of him, where the road went downhill for the last time, and I hit it just right so I took one bounce, landed back on the road and kept flying smoothly down the ramp. Now Arlo was right behind me. He thinks he was going 175 mph, but I knew better. My speedometer only goes to 200, so I got out my stopwatch and my calculator, timed myself between two mileposts, just like I used to do at the Indy 500, and calculated that our actual speed was 210.557 miles an hour. That was back when Indy cars only did about 180.

We drove on down the road into town. We came into town at a screamin' 210 miles an hour, both singin' the motorcycle song. We came into town, Arlo jumped off his bike, but no, the bike didn't go around the corner by itself, get up on the stand by itself, or turn itself off. Back then they didn't make motorcycles that could do all that. They still don't.

I got off right after him. We were in front of the deli where his girlfriend worked. Outside the deli was a man standin' there with a pickle in his hand that probably would have made the Guiness Book of World Records if they found out about it. Just like we would have, because I know for a fact Arlo and I are the only two human beings on planet earth who have ever driven a motorcycle at over 210 miles an hour, let alone flown off an 816-foot cliff and lived to tell about it.

As for the four pregnant watermelons Arlo talked about, I asked him how watermelons get pregnant. He said he didn't know. About that time I noticed a cord hangin' from the long end of the pickle goin' up the man's sleeve, down his shirt, into his pants & shoes, out into a briefcase he had near his feet. So it wouldn't make the Guiness Book of World Records after all, because Arlo's guitar kind of disqualified it.

I said to the man, "Hi, what's happenin'? He walked up to me, he pushed the pickle in my face and started askin' me questions. But I didn't have time to answer any of them, because right then a 3 foot 7 inch cop arrived with a five foot gun. A cop that one time must've been around six foot three, but had his dimensions seriously altered by an accident with an Unidentified Flying Motorcycle. He walked up to Arlo, and Arlo said, "Remember me"? And the officer said, "Shut up, kid."

You see, this was no ordinary cop. Arlo was referring to a previous encounter he had with this cop about a year earlier over a half-ton of garbage Arlo and his buddies, not including me, had thrown off the cliff a few miles further up the road. I thought Officer Obie was going to arrest Arlo again. In fact, I thought he was going to jack up the jail and throw Arlo under it. I thought this was going to be like Arlo getting busted by The Sheriff of Boone County Kentucky. But Arlo was lucky. Apparently Officer Obie had had enough of that judge with the seeing eye dog and didn't want to deal with him again.

So Officer Obie walked up to the other man, and with one humongous hand, he grabbed the pickle away from the other guy. He threw it - a hundred feet straight up in the air, and while the pickle was half way between goin' up & comin' down he took out his, uh, very modified gun and put a 3 inch bullet hole right through the long end of the pickle. It started comin' back down.

He stuck out his foot, which recently had gone from a size 12A to a size 27EEEE. He caught the pickle on his big toe, which was a lot bigger than he was used to, and, balancing the pickle on his big toe, he reached his huge hand into his little pocket & pulled out a ten foot ticket. He borrowed Arlo's pen. He wrote it up. I will never know what all was on that ticket, but I am willing to bet the offenses included speeding, reckless driving and damage to state property.

But I will never know, because after Officer Obie wrote it up and rolled it up, he stuffed it in the bullet hole in the middle of the pickle, took the pickle with the ticket and shoved it down Arlo's throat. Was at that very moment that the pickle with the ticket was goin' down Arlo's throat that Arlo decided he didn't want a pickle. "I don't want a pickle," he said. "Just wanna ride on my motorsickle. And I don't want a tickle, I'd rather ride on my motorsickle, And I don't wanna die, Just wanna ride on my motorcy ... cle."

And Officer Obie said, "Shut up, kid. You're lucky I don't jack up the jail and throw you under it." And Arlo got the pickle anyway. And then Officer Obie walked up to me, and I thought I was in a heap of trouble. But since it was my first offense, Officer Obie said, "Kid, I'm letting you off with a warning this time. Don't EVER let me see you riding a motorcycle with Mr. Guthrie again, you understand me, kid?"

I looked Officer Obie in the eye and said ... nothing.

And you gotta sing it with that kind of enthusiasm. I mean, the kind of enthusiasm with which we went to Alice's restaurant and told all the folks there what happened! But Arlo did most of the talking, because contrary to what he has said previously about Alice's restaurant, you cannot get anything you want there. Peppermint ice cream for one.

I was next door at the Baskin Robbins eating away, and I heard Arlo's story through the wall and how different it was from what actually happened, so I left the Baskin Robbins with the cone still in my hand, stormed though the door to Alice's restaurant and bawled out,

"You can't get peppermint ice cream at Alice's restaurant (she doesn't stock it). You can't get peppermint ice cream at Alice's restaurant. Had to go to the Baskin Robbin's store, Lucky for me it's right next door, 'Cause you can't get peppermint ice cream At Alice's restaurant."

And Arlo looked at me and said ... nothing. And you have to sing the Motorcycle song with THAT kind of enthusiasm! So here goes... just waiting for it to come around with full orchestration ...

I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I'm not bein' fickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't have fish to fry
Just want to ride on my motorcy...cle

[Skyryder]

LAST DANCE WITH MARY JANE Tom Petty.

TAROT WOMAN Rainbow (Riseing) Loud and I mean realy loud

Skyryder

[Ash Wells]

One of the more"interesting" motorcycle songs would have to be the "Funky Moped" song as played often in the golden era of Wellington radio when Pirate FM ruled.

[merv]

Hey welcome Ash, I noticed you'd been lurking a bit in the mornings lately, I'd see you name up but not many postings until now.

I haven't been on too many Ulysses rides lately, how about you?

So you've moved to Nelson, no wonder I don't see you these days.

I see you've got a 1200GS now. Do you still have the Bimota?

[diesel pig]

Soundgarden's "kickstand" a good one and there "rusty cage" not really about motorcycles but it was the song that played on the road rash video game when you were racing on public roads it seemed appropriate :cool:
Cold Chisel's "bow river" the line "first set of wheels" two could be a set,well I always thought so.

[aff-man]

actually I often mumble that one to meself affman, it's a bit before your time tho!, smoke on the water is another one I find myself burbling under my breath, don't have sounds in my helmet, even If I did I'd never hear them being half deaf already and the noisy beast thumping away.

Really???????????????? wouldn't have though so. :msn-wink:

[Bandito]

ALICE IN CHAINS-Man in a box

[riffer]

ALICE IN CHAINS-Man in a box
Great track, but where's the motorcycle connection?

[James Deuce]

Great track, but where's the motorcycle connection?

Yes it is, but the lack of a motorcycle connection is yet more proof for my "There is no good motorcycle song" theory.

[Blakamin]

Great track, but where's the motorcycle connection?
Thats what i was thinking. went thru the song in my head, couldnt get the connection... and I love AIC!

[Hitcher]

"Tonight's the night" by Rod Stewart is a great biker song. Lyrics that speak fondly of the love between a man and his new machine as he dreams of their shared moments together on life's highway. This fondness is demonstrated by his promise to keep the new bike warm and safe in his upstairs bedroom. His girlfriend's enthusiasm for his new purchase is also revealed at the end of the song when, in French, she murmers "Well fuck me!" in admiration...

[riffer]

Thats what i was thinking. went thru the song in my head, couldnt get the connection... and I love AIC!
Methinks "Man in the Box" would probably do better in the Scottish Thread, with its references to JC and denying your maker.

[jrandom]

ALICE IN CHAINS-Man in a box

You've been reading Belle de Jour, you norty man.

[jrandom]

Being a piano-playing poofter, I know very little about the intricacies of the bits and bobs one uses to create rock music.

Yesterday I finally found out how David Gilmour did the guitar intro to Run Like Hell. I had no idea things were that complicated.

Actually, that's probably not a bad motorcycling song, either.

[TwoSeven]

Pianno can be good for motorcycle music.

I'm starting to understand Wagner now (i'm a musical luddite so has taken a while). Its great for humming and conducting to (for those that conduct while riding).

[idb]

Hunt out 'East Easy Rider' by Julian Cope!!

[James Deuce]

Hunt out 'East Easy Rider' by Julian Cope!!**cough** :shutup:

[mccool]

Don't Fear the Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult (or better still, the great Front Lawn cover)
Road Runner, Jonathon Richmond and the Modern Lovers

No direct bike connection. Its about the spirit of the thing, y'understand.

Also, She's a Mean Motorcycle, Tav Falco and the Panther Burns. Daft geezer and wack song, but he believes in mo'bikes.

[Mongoose]

Guess this thread just proved that a bunch of bikers are the same as a bunch of .... anything else that makes up the population. Ask for the favourite/best/most suitable of anything to a large group and there is no ONE, or even a list of the Best. It still comes down to someones opnion in the end.

[Jackrat]

Don't Fear the Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult (or better still, the great Front Lawn cover)
Road Runner, Jonathon Richmond and the Modern Lovers

No direct bike connection. Its about the spirit of the thing, y'understand.

Also, She's a Mean Motorcycle, Tav Falco and the Panther Burns. Daft geezer and wack song, but he believes in mo'bikes.

There's a couple of others by Blue Oyster Cult but I can't remember just what their called.I'll track em' down an get back on this one.

[El Dopa]

Yes it is, but the lack of a motorcycle connection is yet more proof for my "There is no good motorcycle song" theory.

C'mon Jim, you're a closet 'irons' fan, so you must like a bit of NWOBHM.

How about "Motorcycle Man" - Saxon?

[riffer]

C'mon Jim, you're a closet 'irons' fan, so you must like a bit of NWOBHM.

How about "Motorcycle Man" - Saxon?
Or Judas Priest's Turbo Lovers. Not one of their best tracks, but still kinda motorcycle related.

Priest had pretty much gone downhill at this point, but the track is kind of okay, in a naff way.

Rob Halford's next project, Two, was pretty interesting. But its difficult to take him seriously now that you realise the whole leather and chains thing was just him trying to express his homosexuality. And to think he fooled so many meatheaded metal fans. :thud:

[riffer]

Oooh. Jus thought of another one.

Motley Crue - Kickstart my Heart.

"Always got the cops
Coming after me
Custom built bike doing 103..."

[Blakamin]

Oooh. Jus thought of another one.

Motley Crue - Kickstart my Heart.

"Always got the cops
Coming after me
Custom built bike doing 103..."


Yeah, but motley crue are gayer than rob halford.... and fat and crap these days....
2 of them are about to have reality makeovers!

girls, girls, girls

friday nite and i need a fight
my motorcycle and a switchblade knife
handfull of grease and my .......



tossa'a!


up there with poison

[riffer]

up there with poison
Yeah, but Tommy Lee and Bret Michaels still got to fuck Pamela Anderson ...

and record it on video, so they're obviously not too gay.

Both those bands sucked. Tommy Lee isn't too bad a drummer - but he's no Carmine Appice...

[Blakamin]

Both those bands sucked. Tommy Lee isn't too bad a drummer - but he's no Carmine Appice...

He's no Nick Menza either.... if anything he's still just that fuckwit that screwed pammy and heather... their reputation has nothing to do with music anymore.

even kid rock screwed pammy!

theres a song... american badass... or cowboy!

[riffer]

Here's my pics (can't decide what order though):

Carmine Appice
Neil Peart
Danny Carey
Stewart Copeland
Terry Bozio

[Blakamin]

Nick menza-Megadeth 1990 -97, 2004 -
Vinnie Colaiuta
vinnie paul - pantera
dave lombardo -Early Slayer, latest slayer
paul bostaph - Middle Slayer
phil collins ;) -Every friggin body!

[riffer]

phil collins ;) -Every friggin body!
Phil Collins. Wonderful drummer. But a sad git. <_<

[James Deuce]

C'mon Jim, you're a closet 'irons' fan, so you must like a bit of NWOBHM.

How about "Motorcycle Man" - Saxon?

Saxon was always just a bit too Spinal Tap for me.

Sorry.

[Hitcher]

On the subject of good drummers, no list would be complete without:
Roger Taylor
Mick Fleetwood
Omar Hakim
Sly Dunbar

[toads]

Phil Collins. Wonderful drummer. But a sad git. <_<

yes he can't sing either!!

[vifferman]

While we're on the subject of drummers, I saw an interview with one Richard Starkey, aka Ringo Starr, and he said "I am the world's most innovative drummer" (hope I've got the quote right). I thought, "You pompous git!"
He's a very basic and not particularly talented drummer, and probably the least talented of the Beatles (although the only one that was 'famous' before they formed). Although he was good as the narrator in "Thomas the Tank Engine".

[pete376403]

Ian Paice from Deep Purple is/was pretty good. Good efforts on "Made In Japan" (esp. The Mule)

[Blakamin]

Although he was good as the narrator in "Thomas the Tank Engine".
Probably more famous for that now than he was in the beatles!

[James Deuce]

While we're on the subject of drummers, I saw an interview with one Richard Starkey, aka Ringo Starr, and he said "I am the world's most innovative drummer" (hope I've got the quote right). I thought, "You pompous git!"
He's a very basic and not particularly talented drummer, and probably the least talented of the Beatles (although the only one that was 'famous' before they formed). Although he was good as the narrator in "Thomas the Tank Engine".

Sorry mate, but as a drummer I have to disagree there. From a pop perspective he did innovate, and changed the perception of what was allowable within a pop framework. Some of his stuff is pretty darn good for someone who often gets the accusation levelled at him. I will stress that I'm not a great Beatles fan, but Ringo opened the door for John Bonham, Mitch Mitchell, Ginger Baker et al to a lesser or greater extent. I've done a lot of transcription of Beatles work for some of my older students, there are quite a few, "What The?" moments that require some serious skills in both technique and most importantly, feel. I've got too many drummer influences to even enter into a list or debate of "best" drummer. The only thing I know for certain is that you can only like what YOU like. Music is subjective, and all critique is from a subjective basis. But from the history perspective of rock and pop in the last 40 years, without Ringo Starr a pop or rock rhythm section would be a very different, possible less expressive place to be. IMO. See?

[SPman]

Nick menza-Megadeth 1990 -97, 2004 -
Vinnie Colaiuta
vinnie paul - pantera
dave lombardo -Early Slayer, latest slayer
paul bostaph - Middle Slayer
phil collins ;) -Every friggin body!
Hmmm a metal fan here.
I'd go for Dave Lombardo - best metal drummer.

[Blakamin]

Hmmm a metal fan here.
I'd go for Dave Lombardo - best metal drummer.
:done: :2thumbsup :2thumbsup :2thumbsup :2thumbsup

[James Deuce]

Hmmm a metal fan here.
I'd go for Dave Lombardo - best metal drummer.
Raymond Herrera kicks his butt.

[riffer]

As far as metal drummers go, and when you say metal, I guess you're talking post-Metallica metal here, I'd say it's a tossup between Metallica's Lars Ulrich (if we keep it to the Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets albums), and R.J. Herrera from Suicidal Tendencies - check out his drumming on You Can't Bring Me Down, off Lights, Camera, Revolution....

with a side nod to Stephen Perkins (Janes Addiction, Infectious Grooves)

[riffer]

Jim! I was just saying that about RJ!!

[SPman]

Raymond Herrera kicks his butt.
Hmmmm ...He's good, - shit - theyre all good, but at this level I guess it comes down to personal preferences.
I still prefer D L - did some good work with Testament on The Gathering - Legions of the Dead and D N R.

For a (non) motorcycle song, my fav is the Hellacoptas cover of Speedfreak, by Motorhead........
"Way too fast, way too fast
Gonna be the first and last
Shoot ya down, shoot ya down
Flamin' Wreck you hit the ground"

[Blakamin]

As far as metal drummers go, and when you say metal, I guess you're talking post-Metallica metal here, I'd say it's a tossup between Metallica's Lars Ulrich (if we keep it to the Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets albums), and R.J. Herrera from Suicidal Tendencies - check out his drumming on You Can't Bring Me Down, off Lights, Camera, Revolution....

with a side nod to Stephen Perkins (Janes Addiction, Infectious Grooves)

dave lombardo was pre metallisux
suicidal are not bad
lars was never that good, in fact he over-dubbed lots of his drums to get the double bass sound.

sepultura!!! the wgole tribe on "canyon jam"


and i nearly forgot Michael "Nicko" McBrain

[Blakamin]

Have a listen to rust in peace album by megadeth... then you'll get Nick Menza!

[riffer]

Have a listen to rust in peace album by megadeth... then you'll get Nick Menza!
Still reckon Raymond Herrera would kick his butt.

Check out the latest Fear Factory album - some of his craziest work yet.

It's not just the speed - it's the precision as well.

But no room for the intricacies of drumming though - that's the trouble with metal - most metal bands have trouble with musical dynamics and resort to either incorporating pseudo-classical frippery or go all mushy ballad.

Which is why I reckon Tool are the best metal band in the world today.

With the sublime Danny Carey behind the kit.

[Blakamin]

But no room for the intricacies of drumming though - that's the trouble with metal - most metal bands have trouble with musical dynamics and resort to either incorporating pseudo-classical frippery or go all mushy ballad.

Which is why I reckon Tool are the best metal band in the world today.

With the sublime Danny Carey behind the kit.

Tool??? :sick:

Thats why you have to listen to RIP or Countdown to Extinction

or Damageplan - Vinnie Paul

or even the Glassons ad :niceone:

[El Dopa]

Saxon was always just a bit too Spinal Tap for me.

Sorry.

Yeah, take your point.

Allright, I'll have another go.

'Iron Horse' - Motorhead

Best metal drummer? Vinnie Paul would get my vote. I just had a relisten to 'cowboys from hell'. The drumming kicks arse.

[NC]

Needles by System Of Down :eek:

[Indiana_Jones]

"Danger Zone" and "Mighty Wings"

-Indy

[Skunk]

"Danger Zone" and "Mighty Wings"

-IndyAAAaaahhh! :ar15:

[sels1]

but Ringo opened the door for John Bonham, Mitch Mitchell, Ginger Baker et al .

Aha, wondering when someone was going to mention Ginger Baker...

And what about "Born To Run" - Springsteen

[onearmedbandit]

Ok, not always, but quite often when I'm out riding the song by The Bloodhound Gang with the lyrics "the drummer from Def Leppards' only got one arm, the drummer from Def Leppards' only got one arm" keeps going through my head.

No idea why.

[Skunk]

Ok, not always, but quite often when I'm out riding the song by The Bloodhound Gang with the lyrics "the drummer from Def Leppards' only got one arm, the drummer from Def Leppards' only got one arm" keeps going through my head.

No idea why.What the fuck do ya say to that? :confused:

[Storm]

Rev It Up by Jerry Harrison.
Always makes me want to to riding :scooter:

[Krayy]

Anthing by The Cruel Sea, but specifically:

"Fanging Hoons", "Black Stick", "Honeymoon is Over", "4" or the whole "3 Legged Dog" album.

Great cage-rage music too....just look out for the :Police: as it induces heavy foot or wrist twisting.

[MSTRS]

Jethro Tull's 'Locomotive Breath'. Drummer Peter Criss of Kiss had some good moments esp 100,000 Years live

[James Deuce]

Ok, not always, but quite often when I'm out riding the song by The Bloodhound Gang with the lyrics "the drummer from Def Leppards' only got one arm, the drummer from Def Leppards' only got one arm" keeps going through my head.

No idea why.Lol! The funny thing is he didn't play any differently when he had two arms.

[riffer]

Lol! The funny thing is he didn't play any differently when he had two arms.


Actually, what you mean is he didn't play any better when he had two arms.

[James Deuce]

Actually, what you mean is he didn't play any better when he had two arms.
No I meant differently. Let's not be too harsh.

[Yokai]

I know this doesn't fit into "Motorcycle Songs" specifically, but I do love listening to Placebo when I'm on the bike. Specifically the eponymous album... The last one is good too, but there's something about rocketing around twisties with Bruise Pristine going through your head.... AWESOME :headbang:

[avgas]

Jethro Tull's 'Locomotive Breath'. Drummer Peter Criss of Kiss had some good moments esp 100,000 Years live
Got my vote on this one - this song and my bike combined solved so many issues i had.
Mine and my dads fav tune from Tull.
Also Passive by A Perfect Circle.
Shism by TooL
and
Rusty Cage by Soundgarden

[Blakamin]

No I meant differently. Let's not be too harsh.
lol..... he's the best rich, one-armed, drummer that I know of......

[Krayy]

There was a great little ditty on one of the JJJ Hottest 100 CDs a few years back which I think wqs callled "I'm a m#therf#cker on a motorcycle". I keep singing that when Im riding.

[MSTRS]

Thanks for the warning Kray

[Smorg]

Yeah that song I'm a muther #$#%er on a motorcycle was a by a group called machine gun fellatio interest name.....great song :Punk:

[hXc]

Needles by System Of Down :eek:

...Is fricking easy. I admit I'm not a great drummer and suck at double kick and fast stuff and even I can play that. His best is Toxicity(the song). It's a lot cleaner and a lot more complex. Although the verse in BYOB doesn't fit the rest of it in my opinion.

THE best metal drummer would be Lars!!! No matter what people say about him he's a legend. Yes he may over dub in studio but live, he is fricking awesome.

Following closely is Matt McDonough from the legendary metal band MuDvAyNe. They are all awesome musicians. It's good to see more and more people are getting jazz degrees and doing something other than jazz with it. It goes to show that if you learn jazz you improve out of sight!

[hXc]

Shism by TooL

Don't you mean Schism

[Hitcher]

Is this the way to Amarillo?

[MSTRS]

Is this the way to Amarillo?
Not quite - but there be dragons.

[Rincewind]

There's a Neil Young track, called "Dream Machine" which is awsome I have a live version on a bootleg album called "Ride my Motorcycle" it would be well worthy of inclusion in such a project..

[Pickle]

MOTORBIKIN - By mid 80's Aussie band The Johnny's

[Squiggles]

shihad-alive , shihad-run and and the feelers-larger than life :D

so smack me one :D:D:D

[raster]

What about Axel F by Crazy Frog

Better Quality http://crazyfrog.medlounge.co.uk/crazyfrog_axel_f_movie.php

I'm trying to find a downloadable version.

[soundbeltfarm]

call me the breeze by JJ Cale is way cool.
Free bird by Lynrd Skynard is good. the live version.
some prodigy stuff is good
i reckon theres heaps of bloody good riding tunes but it depends on how you
feel at the time.
i like some of Vanessa mae tunes but im not into classical.
but just hum a couple of them somtime while on the road.

[RiderInBlack]

For me (probably been mentioned :whocares: ):

Wanted Dead Or Alive

Born To Be Wild

[Dafe]

Funny that! My favourite alltime cruising song is "Sober" by "Tool".
I used to have a 2000watt stereo in my old VR4 cage. Nothing sounded better than that song pumped!

[gav]

Jimmy Barnes wrote "Freight Train Heart" for the Wayne Gardner - World Champion doco/video.
JJ Burnel bass guitarist for teh Stranglers had a solo album with a track called (I think) "Triumph of the new city" (or something like that), just had this old Triumph Bonne start up and idle away for the whole track, with a little bit of music intertwinned in it, very well done.

[pyrocam]

A ring ding ding ding ding ding ding ding

I always have that playing on my mp3 player whenI go riding

A ring ding ding ding ding ding ding ding


hehe

[NordieBoy]

Rob Zombie - Superbeast.
As used by Veggie Dave on IQ 18's Mental Militia dvd.

[soundbeltfarm]

Jethro Tull's 'Locomotive Breath'. Drummer Peter Criss of Kiss had some good moments esp 100,000 Years live

great tune that one.

[bkrwench]

if you give me a list of what you want i can download & burn it off no problems.

[hXc]

Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden
Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden
Du Hast - Rammstein
Keine Lust - Rammstein
Down With The Sickness - Disturbed
Stricken - Disturbed
Everlong - Foo Fighters
D.O.A - Foo Fighters
Dig - Mudvayne
Happy? - Mudvayne
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Sad But True - Metallica

Now that sounds like a bloody good mix. *Makes mix now*

[riffer]

Getting back to the topic of motorcycle songs...

how about Straightjacket Fits - She Speeds?

Maybe not a motorcycle song, but it kinda fits (and its a kiwi track too):

But she -
she speeds
Elusive as a thief in the night - stealing away
She rides the wind, she burns, burns
Yeah she rides the wind, she burns, burns....

[Hitcher]

But she -
she speeds
Elusive as a thief in the night - stealing away
She rides the wind, she burns, burns
Yeah she rides the wind, she burns, burns....
Are you sure this isn't from Ricky Martin's She bangs?

[riffer]

Smithers - release the hounds... :oi-grr:

[idb]

Getting back to the topic of motorcycle songs...

how about Straightjacket Fits - She Speeds?

Maybe not a motorcycle song, but it kinda fits (and its a kiwi track too):

But she -
she speeds
Elusive as a thief in the night - stealing away
She rides the wind, she burns, burns
Yeah she rides the wind, she burns, burns....
Snapper had a good motorbiking video for .............the name escapes me for the moment.........shit.....it's on the tip of my tongue......
Anyway they were riding Triumphs, Harleys, Ducs out on the Otago Peninsula.

[idb]

Snapper had a good motorbiking video for .............the name escapes me for the moment.........shit.....it's on the tip of my tongue......
Anyway they were riding Triumphs, Harleys, Ducs out on the Otago Peninsula.
The song is 'Buddy'

[SARGE]

i'd have to say

1) Bad Motor Scooter - Sammy Hagar

If you get lonely on your daddy's farm
Just remember I don't live too far.
And there's a red bridge that arcs the bay, yeah
You'll be at my place in less that a day.

So get on your bad motor scooter and ride
Up over to my place and stay all night.
First thing in the morning we'll be feeling all right
Get on your bad motor scooter and ride.

Ooh, the last I seen your face
I swore that no one would take your place.
Now since you've been gone I've been feelin' bad, yeah
I'd come out to your place (but)
I'm afraid of your dad. So you...

So get on your bad motor scooter and ride
Up over to my place and stay all night.
First thing in the morning we'll be feeling all right
Get on your bad motor scooter and ride

Ride, ride, ride.
Come on baby, ooh yeah.
Crank it on up!
)

2) Rhino Bucket - Ride with yourself



Queen of denial, sex plain Jane
I'm a little bit crazy, but you're insane
Two lane highway, take the middle lane
Forever in hurry, always being late
Walk like a lady, talking like a man
You say that you're a princess, but they call you a madame
Take a long, long ride with yourself
Do you like the company
Take a long, long ride with yourself
Do you like what you see
Teasin' old men, pleasin' little boys
You say that you're discrete
But you're makin' too much noise
Run up a tab, pullin' down your top
You say it's time to party
But you don't know when to stop
Take a long, long ride with yourself
Do you like the company
Take a long, long ride with yourself
Do you like what you see
Take a long, long ride with yourself
Take a long, long ride
Take a long, long ride
Solo
Take a long, long ride with yourself
Do you like the company
Take a long, long ride with yourself
Do you like what you see
Take a long, long ride with yourself
Take a long, long ride
Take a long, long ride

Take a long, long ride (ride with yourself)
Take a long, long ride (ride with yourself)
Do you like what you see (ride with yourself)
Take a long ride (ride with yourself)
Take a long, long ride (ride with yourself)
Let's see how you ride (ride with yourself)
Take a long ride (ride with yourself)
Well you can ride on this (ride with yourself)

[SARGE]

Ok, not always, but quite often when I'm out riding the song by The Bloodhound Gang with the lyrics "the drummer from Def Leppards' only got one arm, the drummer from Def Leppards' only got one arm" keeps going through my head.

No idea why.


didnt the drummer from Def Leppard lose his arm in a bike accident?

[SARGE]

are there any KB' Guitar Players in Henderson West Auckland that would like to take a 13 year old and teach him to play? .. hes got about a year of very basic instruction so far and he's not bad.. just needs a good teacher

PM me if you are keen.. willing to pay and feed

[NordieBoy]

didnt the drummer from Def Leppard lose his arm in a bike accident?

Car accident.

[James Deuce]

didnt the drummer from Def Leppard lose his arm in a bike accident?

As mentioned by Nordieboy it was a car, and his girlfriend was killed, and he was off his face. Interestingly he plays better with one arm than two.

[DogBreath]

"Leader of the Pack", by the Shangri Las.
Used to give me goosebumps when my older sister used to play it on the old mans grammaphone (the 45 of course)

[scumdog]

"Leader of the Pack", by the Shangri Las.
Used to give me goosebumps when my older sister used to play it on the old mans grammaphone (the 45 of course)

Reminds me of Nelson slot-car track 1967...that and bloody Snoopys Christmas, arghhh!

[Macktheknife]

Bohemian Rhapsody, Who wants to live forever? QUEEN. (or anything else by Queen)
Paradise by the dashboard lite, or Bat outta Hell, Meatloaf.
Dirty Deeds, ACDC
And strangely.... King of the road?!
Just a few for the hell of it

[Macktheknife]

Are you sure this isn't from Ricky Martin's She bangs?


AAAHH yes the lyrics..... she bangs, she bangs, like a dunny door in a gale, a gale. etc..

[Hitcher]

Paradise by the dashboard lite
Ohh! I thought it was "Pair of dice by the dashboard light"...

[James Deuce]

You know, this thread has been floating around for a year.

No one has yet posted a decent motorcycling song. I rest my case that there are none.

There are songs that people like to listen to whilst motorcycling, but there are no songs specifically about motorcycles or motorcycling that are anything other than exploitative fluff.

[vifferman]

You know, this thread has been floating around for a year.

No one has yet posted a decent motorcycling song. I rest my case that there are none.

There are songs that people like to listen to whilst motorcycling, but there are no songs specifically about motorcycles or motorcycling that are anything other than exploitative fluff.
True dat. :yes:
I used to find that listening to Pat Benatar while driving made me drive faster/more aggressively; does that make it driving music, or the opposite? I've never listened to music whil riding (and have little desire to do so), and all the songs that are supposedly about bikes or mention them are, as you say, fluff. Or crap (e.g., "Born to be wild", one of Steppenwolf's more commercial and crapper songs.)
If I was to choose summat, it'd be by someone who was into bikes, but not specifically about bikes, like Duane Allman (before he died in a bike accident, of course. Dunno about any of his later stuff... :whistle: )

[The_Dover]

On the subject of drummers you gotta appreciate that speed is not everything!!

Listen to some of Carter Beauford's drumming with the Dave Matthews Band, incredible. Chad Smith, Brad Wilk, Herb the Ginseng Drummer, Mike Bordin, Jimmy Chamberlain................

As for metal drummers!! I don't think I've ever heard anyone with the power and precision of Chris Kontos on Machinehead's first album. Fucking brutal. But Big Vinnie is a almost tied on that one! He is a beast live.

[James Deuce]

I've been drumming for 30 years.

Don't presume to lecture me about feel and taste as opposed to outright speed. I've had twelve year old students that don't drag the feel of a song as badly as that Def Leppard chappy.

I've done a Master Class with Mr Beauford in the UK and he is a true Gentleman and very modest and great fun to be around. He has a very lateral spread-around-the-kit-New-Orleans- 2nd-line approach that stems from the Zigaboo Modeliste school, but he's definitely made it easier for drummers everywhere riff expressively whilst playing for the song. His fusion chops are unbelievable, and he has a much nicer touch than say, Dennis Chambers.

:nya:

[The_Dover]

Yeah, ok. Where the fuck was my lecture? I was just pointing out to the metallistas amongst us that just cos Lombardo and all the other metal monsters can play at 100bpm they are not the best drummers around. You seem to agree with my opinion on Carter so why come over all fuckin "I've been drumming for thirty years" shit on me? Get off your high horse Mr Pompous........