Music on trips

I'm not being smart ,but most off highway we do you can't play cds because of the bumps. I like good old John Farnham, Dooby Brothers,A bit of GOOD country. It seems to suit out there. Have you thought of things like Len Beadall on cd or talking books? We are going to try a couple for our next Simpson trip for the highway part. Chris.

You can't beat the 2 types of music, Country and Western :)

Kev

Because CD's do not work well on corrigations, we use an I Pod played back via the FM radio. Works a treat regadless of the road conditions or the music selected.

Yes gave CD's the flick just use a couple of USB drives plugged into the FM converter which is picked up by the Stereo, 4Gb of MP3's lasts for awhole extended trip without repeats.

Try Chad Morgan - a great outback Aussie entertainer.

I laugh my guts out everytime I hear him, as well as get emotional for a childhood in the Pilbara and Kimberlies when Slim Dusty was King and the bitumen finished at Northhampton.

Brian H,
How about Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Angels, Aussie Crawl, Baby Animals, BodyRockers, Black Sabbath, CCR, Gangajang, Midnight Oil, The Cars, Sneaky Sound System, Scissor Sisters etc etc. 26 letters in the alphabet. LOL.
Cheers,
Bros.

Good point about the Ipod ....... but don't have one (shame) so its CD's or a local radio channel if I can pick one up, if not well just have to manage without.

But do like the idea of an Ipod what they worth. I dare say Dick Smith would have them. More techie thingie's geezzzzzzzzz i'll be landing my vehicle soon not driving it lol.

Brian

Brian
Replace the CD player in the car with a MP/CD player. Put all your Cds plus downloads etc on MP 3's. We took about 20 MP3s to Wa and we didnt even listen to all of them on the drive. Mps stores heap of music and they dont skip.
Robyn

Brian H,
Gave away the CD's as too much trouble on the road. Purchased an FM modulator thingie, 2gig ipod, 3 x 256 sticks and a 256 MP3 player. The FM thingie plugs into the ciggy lighter and everything else runs through that via cord and USB connection. All nice and small and holds piles of music.
Cheers,
Bros.
PS. Then there's Status Quo, Steppenwolf, Technotronic, Whitesnake, Tone Loc, Santana etc etc.

"where to from here"

Don't turn into a Doof Doof Brian. Give music a miss - listen to ABC Radio 891 or Radio National 729 - and learn all about the weather; find out the latest with the farmers....whats the price of fat lambs.......can even listen to "talk back gardening" or Macca on a Sunday morning.........

OK, back into my shell....................

Brian H

Most of the ones you have mentioned plus a lot more. You forgot The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Elton John, Enigma, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Evanescence, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springstein, Bob Seger, Sarah McLachlan and the Pigram Brothers. To keep the wife happy Enya and Andre Bocelli.

Don't use CDs though. Have a 20 gig MP3 player and an FM transmitter. Plays thousands of songs. If you are driving long distances it is the best way to go.

Tjilpi

Thanks for all the replies....... will look into MP3 or Ipod. There are some great bands mentioned I had even forgot about some of them.

Have to admit most of my music playing is on the black top to busy looking around and stopping and taking photo's to bother to much about offroad music. Mind you I usually travell with someone, but this is a solo run and i was looking at covering any boring areas driving ........ one does not want to fall asleep and make a mess in the desert :).

Do agree CD's are not a great option for corrogations should have remembered that from The Cape trip.

Brian

Doof Doof Doof Doof(where is Eric?...lol)...4 speakers just below distortion......Arrrr I luv it .......lol

BBKing, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Macy Gray, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, Buddy Holly, 60's music, Neil Diamond, Yothu Yindi, INXS, Midnight Oil, Natalie Imbruglia etc etc

Elcheapo Easy MP3 through the FM radio. 3.5gig of flash cards

Cheers

G'day Brian
I generally go for the older music from singers who can actually sing, not just make noises in the background while noisy "music" disguises their crappy voices.
Like Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash, Nat King Cole, Connie Francis, Patsy Cline, Bobby Vinton, Elvis, Marty Robbins etc.... Very relaxing to listen to.
Some of the older blokes around with a collection of oldies on vinyl records may be interested in a little unit I found on a discount website.
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Its a record turntable with a CD player, USB slot and a SD memory card slot. You can encode vinyl records or CD s direct to mp3 on the USB or to memory card, with no need for a computer. I have just placed an order and I"ll let you know how it goes when I get it and try it out.
Ian

Not yet mentioned of the old stuff is Supertramp, James Taylor, Barry McGuire, Randy Stonehill and Larry Norman, Gerry Raferty, Boz Scaggs, Phil Keagy and did someone mention Bob Seger.

Some new stuff that has not been mentioned and maybe not heard of Paul Coleman, The Lees, Mark Petersen, Colin Buchanan, Revive. All this new stuff is home grown too. Then there is Robert Randolph and Eric Bibb.

I have a daughter who plays violin so we get Bond too. Her teacher plays with the SSO so we even get some classical stuff.

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Brian
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Doug

Brian,

You cannot possibly go bush without Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Pavlovs Dog and Pavarotti.

I'm an Eagles and Simply Red fan myself.

Although I went to the effort of loading several tunes on the iPod and have an FM transmitter to play it through the car sterio, I now find I seldom bother.

When driving from point A to B on the bitumen, yes, like to play some music, but when driving off road, something happens. I am enjoying the drive so much, I forget about the iPod.

I'm an Eagles and Simply Red fan myself.

Although I went to the effort of loading several tunes on the iPod and have an FM transmitter to play it through the car sterio, I now find I seldom bother.

When driving from point A to B on the bitumen, yes, like to play some music, but when driving off road, something happens. I am enjoying the drive so much, I seem to forget all about the iPod.

Likewise never play music when camping, but when travelling I really need sounds. I got myself a Blaupunkt system with amp, subwoofer under the passenger seat and two robust enclosed speakers in the back of the troopy. The headunit has a ipod hookup that I fed into the glove box - charges and plays directly, no fiddling with frequencies or cables. Only prob is the headunit doesn't control the ipod as it is supposed to. But if you make up a big playlist then plug it in it plays a way fine (or if it is on random). As for the music - Cowboy Junkies, Wilco, seem to fit. But then so does the Smashing Pumpkins and Belle and Sebastian... Haven't yet got the ipod to skip even on some pretty shocking African roads.
Gil

I've loaded up the PDA with about 700 MP3's with a fairly wide range of songs, mostly from the 60,70 & 80's. Pop, Rock, C&W, Classical etc.
I use an FM transmitter through the car stereo.

USB's, I pods, FM converters: Sounds great. How does one who's not savvy on these matters get into it ? Is there a link or something that an old fart, still running on steam, can familiarise himself with ?? I'm still in awe of CD's !!

when travelling with others I always found it interesting to swap music collections for part of the drive to break up the fact that you are always listening to your own collection. It also gives you a great insight into your fellow convoy members likes & dislikes and can tell you quite a lot about them.
Just for a bit of fun