One of the often neglected most important aspects of planning a trip

here is your theme for rolling across the Great Basin.

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Here is another Theme Song for you barbarians.

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+100 This song got me into motorcycling when I was young. It is the first song played on every trip, and when riding every new bike on the maiden voyage home.

Six Days on the Road...Taj

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5UUS0B3Gag

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hi all,
anyone tried a classical playlist while riding?
if not you should try it.......it can be quite beautiful

As I futz around with the packing and planning I keep hearing Roger Daltry's solo "Free Me" and as I start the engine and let of the clutch it's "I'm Free" By The Who

Soooo many options depending on the trip...
You Can Make it if You Try, Sly & the Family Stone
Wiskey River, Willie Nelson
Blister in the Sun, Violent Femmes
All Along the Watchtower, Dylan

Or if the vibe is a little more ominous... Touched by VAST.

Bad Company...the Five Finger Death Punch version. Makes me speed a little bit though.

http://youtu.be/Sqiff0WFWvs

Can't go anywhere in Canada without some Stompin' Tom

Getting ready to go on a trip tomorrow, there are so many great tunes out there, the one I will be rolling out to in the morning will be Simple Minds Alive and Kicking

Molly Hatchet

Flirtin' with Disaster.

Neil Peart rides a GS too.

Almond Brothers:

Midnight Rider

I am amazed no one has put this one out there yet.
Montrose "Bad Motor Scooter"

Plenty of excellent choices in this thread.

Free & Easy (Down the Road I Go) - Dirks Bentley

http://youtu.be/6_-V3LPS_TY

WORDS TO LIVE BY

Pair of boots and a sack of clothes
Free and easy down the road I go
Hangin' memories on the high line poles
Free and easy down the road I go
Free and easy down the road I go

Ragweed's rockin' on the radion
Free and easy down the road I go
So I keep rollin' like an old banjo
Free and easy down the road I go

Got the sun shinin' on me like a big spotlight
So I know everything is gonna be alright

Ain't no tellin' where the wind might blow
Free and easy down the road I go
Livin' life like a Sunday stroll
Free and easy down the road I go
Free and easy down the road I go

If you only get to go around one time
I'm gonna sit back and try to enjoy the ride

I could make a million or wind up broke
Free and easy down the road I go
Can't take it with you when you go so
Free and easy down the road I go
Someday I know it's gonna take me home so
Free and easy down the road I go
Free and easy down the road I go

Leaving town, it's always this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L397TWLwrUU

SA

Eddie Vedder - Guaranteed

On bended knee is no way to be free
Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently
All my destinations will accept the one that's me
So I can breathe...

Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know
A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul
And so it goes...

Don't come closer or I'll have to go
Holding me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you...

Everyone I come across, in cages they bought
They think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought
I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts
I'm alive...

Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead
Overhead...

Leave it to me as I find a way to be
Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting
I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me
Guaranteed

I would choose these first as my ride theme songs

Metallica - Wherever I may Roam
Bob Seger - Against the Wind
Golden Earring - Radar Love

a lot of good tunes here...but this one gets me out the door...the video isn't half bad either :eek1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrSw6VrDzEg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk52nGxF-jc
SAMMY HAGAR BAD MOTORSCOOTER

here are a few more on my playlist

red ball express Scott miller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m7Q3uJgAZw

8 miles a gallon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJBtqAM85zg

highway junkie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbYqV2U_FJc

and a lil corb lund cause he has a KLR
no roads here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDfJqTzIg6I