Well, I'm the type who can't hear the music unless I'm listening for it, so I completely tune it out when I'm shooting. If you MUST use something to lower the volume of the jukebox, I'd suggest earplugs over an iPod, as the latter (or any form of headphones; a bluetooth cell headset especially) may be banned from some tournaments.
distractions while playing (how do you deal)
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if it's just a loud jukebox....put in a $10 bill and play the crappiest music you can find on the thing, and I'm not talking just crappiest in "your tastes", I mean stuff you would never hear coming out of a jukebox EVER!!!! That way, at least, you aren't the only one hating the music....there, even playing field!
i have thought about doing that... tried it one time ... but it would appear that some one gets there early and pumps about 100$ into the juke box ... i can get there at 7 and not leave till midnight and not hear a single song that i put on to play .
i have some earplugs now, that cut out about 35db .. should be enough to drown the music out a bit .. but me still be able to hear the people next to me when they are talking...
When you're playing good, you never notice anything. When you're playing bad, you notice everything. And that's the name of that tune. :wink:
oh i know that to be sooo true ... hah! ... i haven't gotten back into the 'groove' so to speak .. since it has been close to 16 years since i played regularly ... (just joined a league about 5 weeks ago and still re-learning)
I find that locally, after I kick the crap out of 4 or 5 people for being annoying, the rest just kind of fall in line
Man, we'd get along fine. Not that long ago (last weekend) I was playing Drater (Eric) that owns Shooters from Greensboro. I was giving him the seven and one game, the first break in an eight ahead. I was dogging it pretty bad. (I came back later). This guy who was 6'2"? was hitting on Eric's girl, and laughing every time I'd hang up a ball. We were definitely betting enough to piss me off. I plainly, in front of everyone, told him that I love to drink and get crazy, too. That doesn't bother me. But, one more laugh and point, and I was gonna make sure he hits the floor. Now, I don't know what happens after he hits, but he was gonna hit. Might not see me coming, either. The dude believes he can do anything and noone will say anything to him. Oh well, another night.
When I played league there was a guy on a team that would be really loud in proclaiming bad shots, leaves, give percetages of getting a hit from a safe, etc. etc. etc. He didn't just do it when I was playing, but did it to everyone (even when his teammates were on the table (didn't know any better?). I was playing his best player and he hooked me pretty good. He was giddy in anticipation of me kicking two rails thru a cluster to go for a hit. I called timeout, and walked over to him and asked if he'd ever seen that guy Jeff Dunham with the puppets, Peanut, Achmed, and the grumpy old guy Walter?? He laughed and said "yeah, love that guy!" I said that he'd look just like the jalapeno on a housestick if he didn't shut the F up when I was at the table. 
Not a peep the rest of the night....I apologized after the match, and told him I take my shooting pretty seriously, and can get pretty riled up if distracted; he said he understood, and I bought him a beer. The next time we played him he was toned down quite a bit...lol
Not a peep the rest of the night....I apologized after the match, and told him I take my shooting pretty seriously, and can get pretty riled up if distracted; he said he understood, and I bought him a beer. The next time we played him he was toned down quite a bit...lol I think an ipod could help almost anyone inprove their game, I know when i practice i use one and not only does it help with loud annoying music but it also stops people from coming and chit chatting while I am trying to hit balls...............I will never understand the stigma with the ipod, I look at it like i just pumped $20 in the juke box and im playing all my music, not cheating in any way
well since this is my orig post and i am on the same issue now figured i would just reply to it instead of making a new one ...
still playing with the local APA (yeah, yeah i know, but hey its about the only organized play in my area) ...
for the most part i have gotten into a routine at the place we shoot at most all the time to where the music there does not distract me much at all ... and i have found out that enough complaints to the management gets the jukebox turned down ...
BUT... on occasion we have to play at other sites ... had to do that for a recent 8 and 9 ball tournament for the end of the session ... and at each one of them, they had the annoyingly loud music ... and i found it hard to adjust quickly to it ...
this past Thursday we had to go to a new bar to shoot, and it just so happened that Thursday night is also their Karaoke night .. meh ... plus it was a large concrete room ... even after pulling out my earplugs and shoving them as far in as i could heh ... i could still hear (enough to hurt my ears) ... the music ...
i am coming to the conclusion that loud music + drunks + pool does not work well for me hah ...
still have a headache from the music that night.
still playing with the local APA (yeah, yeah i know, but hey its about the only organized play in my area) ...
for the most part i have gotten into a routine at the place we shoot at most all the time to where the music there does not distract me much at all ... and i have found out that enough complaints to the management gets the jukebox turned down ...
BUT... on occasion we have to play at other sites ... had to do that for a recent 8 and 9 ball tournament for the end of the session ... and at each one of them, they had the annoyingly loud music ... and i found it hard to adjust quickly to it ...
this past Thursday we had to go to a new bar to shoot, and it just so happened that Thursday night is also their Karaoke night .. meh ... plus it was a large concrete room ... even after pulling out my earplugs and shoving them as far in as i could heh ... i could still hear (enough to hurt my ears) ... the music ...
i am coming to the conclusion that loud music + drunks + pool does not work well for me hah ...
still have a headache from the music that night.
playing crap music
For folks considering playing their own awful music, it is a good idea but you don't have to find a bunch of awful songs, it is even worse if you play the same song over and over! Somebody played a song, I don't know the real name but the hook was "just pass me another bowl of them good ol' butter beans". After hearing it forty-seven times in one night I still hate that song. I'm totally tone deaf and was singing along just for spite after the first forty times it came on!
Can you imagine playing achy breaky heart twenty or thirty times? I'd leave if I owned the place!
Hu
For folks considering playing their own awful music, it is a good idea but you don't have to find a bunch of awful songs, it is even worse if you play the same song over and over! Somebody played a song, I don't know the real name but the hook was "just pass me another bowl of them good ol' butter beans". After hearing it forty-seven times in one night I still hate that song. I'm totally tone deaf and was singing along just for spite after the first forty times it came on!
Can you imagine playing achy breaky heart twenty or thirty times? I'd leave if I owned the place!
Hu
