What music (or audio) did you listen to BITD? I remember when DeLux BMX went out out to Nationals in the summer of 1982, we listened to basically a few albums in the RV on the road:

1. Scorpions "Black Out" (esp. title track)
2. DEVO "New Traditionalists"
3. DEVO "Are We Not Men? We are DEVO!"

I heard a rumor that Kevin McNeal listened to tapes of grunting noises for motivation.

Did a track (operator) or team or you personally have any favorites when you went to races?

I'm trying to think of songs people may have played at local tracks...
75-80: Big B may have liked Theme from Dukes of Hazard

I remember Larry and I went through a phase in the early 80s where we liked Ozzy and stenciled it on the back of our helmets.

devo,b-52's,police,blasters,rolling stones,etc...etc...
oh and that ewok song from star wars....

Some of the more motivational rock tunes of the day were;

no one like you

rock you like a hurricane

eye of the tiger

Mx Mug

This was probably post 1980, but I still think of the track when I hear:

Jack & Dianne - Mellencamp (Bud's BMX - Elkhart, IN) I seem to recall hearing this on an endless loop!

Centerfold - j. Giles Band - This one makes me think of Bogie Downs / East

These may not have been my songs of choice, they are just etched in my brain from that time in my life. I know there are more, but can not seem to think of them. I believe "THE POLICE" has already been mentioned.

i have never really been "into" music..
but at about my 2nd or 3rd national, someone in my family asked me what i was doing up on the gate before i set up.
....


Whatever beastie boys tune i could get in my head.. i would close my eyes.. picture me riding the track....
the whole time singing to myself a beastie song...
didnt matter which one....
I would nod my head .. back and forth.. and kinda drum my grips.....


that way i didnt see the track, or the other riders... didnt get nerveous watching others wreck or any of the other fun stuff....
It was weird and awkward, but worked well for me...
Along the samelines....
i never stood when I was in the gate....
I had both feet up balanced.... but i stayed sitting on my seat...
then would jump up and forward as the gate dropped...

Broke a set of cranks this way.... granted they were Haro.. but i still just snapped them at a gate start.!



"ALL BY MYSELF WITH OUT NOBODY,
THE SUN IS BEATIN DOWN ON MY BASE BALL CAP
THE AIR IS GETTIN HOT, MY BEER IS GETTIN FLAT"

LOL!

"ALL BY MYSELF WITH OUT NOBODY,
THE SUN IS BEATIN DOWN ON MY BASE BALL CAP
THE AIR IS GETTIN HOT, MY BEER IS GETTIN FLAT"

LOL!
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ONE lonely Beastie I be....

Gotta love the Boys entertaining anarchistic states towards internal excellence!

Right around the time Hutch and GHP started selling pink bikes I noticed our track operator started playing a lot of Smiths and Bronski Beat between motos.

lol


B-52s for sure - stuff like that for me (New Wave etc).

My other BMX buddies were into Iron Maiden and all that but who do you think looks gayest?
The guys with pink bikes or the guys dressed up in leather chaps - lol

^^^ One of the great mysteries of the Universe.

yeah and like, when construction workers act all macho and stuff.... well, um they are the guys that are dressed up like the Village People - hee hee.

Hmm, I remember "We Are The Champions" by Queen hit a few times BITD. Late '70's stuff.

Dino

The year I got my DG for my birthday ('79) I also received Supertramp Breakfast in America - an album that was all about life in Southern California, which was where I dreamed about living - where all the bmx tracks were and of course where all the Callifornia girls were! That album will always take me right back to the moment I opened my first BMXA and saw my first set of Reedy pedals, Bullseye hubs, Corona, etc.... I'm listening to that album as I write this as a matter of fact. A testiment to my love for it, 'cause I was just listening to the Butthole Surfers Psychic Powerless Another Man's Sack!

JP

Neil Sedaka, The Carpenters, Seals and Croft

I have no clue what the track played but in the beginning I was listening to a lot of Judas Priest/Iron Maiden/Black Sabbath stuff. Later I started hanging around with some other guys and they were into rap so it was Mix-A-Lot/Too $hort/NWA. The in the 90's it was all grunge or Rush. Now, old AFI mostly.

Old School BMX Howell, NJ

Funny the Cars and My Sharona playing in the background.

Howell BITD

Me and the guys I rode with were Metal heads all the way. Early eighties favorites were Maiden, Sabbath with Ozzy or Dio, Ozzy and Dio solo and as we turned the corner to mid-school, it had to be louder and faster....Slayer, Metallica, Exodus, Merciful Fate and a touch of hard core with DRI, LARM, and a local NJ band called Lethal Aggression.

I remember Dio being huge the summer I went to Woodward.

I have mellowed alot since then and rarely listen to any of this stuff anymore... I guess I was just angry as a teen

I can't remember any music played at the tracks.

LOL!!!!!!!!!