Just what song does it for you in the poolroom?

Grateful Dead

Any jammin' song by the Grateful Dead. It takes me back to college when I used to play a lot of bar-box 8 ball, and do pretty well against my fellow students at the hippie pub. I remember one night they tried to get an advantage by putting a "special" sugar cube in my pitcher of Budweiser. It didn't affect my game in the least. I said something like, "This games even easier when the balls leave trails!" :thumbup:
 
bigskyjake said:
hahaha, it was a bit before my time, I'm only 24
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Oh, then it must have been me I was thinking of...lol

Not quite, but it was dead smack in the middle of my time, and I was into all the hair metal.
To answer the original question...
Any Ac/Dc...especially the Bonn Scott years

Any Metallica, but preferably the older stuff (Kill Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master) Fuel is a great song.

Anything off of Motley's Too fast for Love or Shout at the Devil

I'll include Great White in honor of MarkGW, who posts on this site and is their guitarist... they have some great songs too. Rock Me, I Don't Wanna Face The Day, Stick It, Once Bitten Twice Shy,

As mentioned above "Low" by Cracker, is a great song

RadioHead has a bunch of good songs

The Police...Synch II, Roxanne,

Seger... The Fire Down Below, Turn the Page, Main Street, Night Moves, Rock n Roll Never Forgets.

Skid Row....Monkey Business, Slave to the Grind

any song from Van Halen's 1st album (has to be the best debut album by any band in history. It's ridiculous how good they were at that age)

I'll stop here, but I could go on for days.
 
CharlesUFarley said:
Oh, then it must have been me I was thinking of...lol

Not quite, but it was dead smack in the middle of my time, and I was into all the hair metal.
To answer the original question...
Any Ac/Dc...especially the Bonn Scott years

Any Metallica, but preferably the older stuff (Kill Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master) Fuel is a great song.

Anything off of Motley's Too fast for Love or Shout at the Devil

I'll include Great White in honor of MarkGW, who posts on this site and is their guitarist... they have some great songs too. Rock Me, I Don't Wanna Face The Day, Stick It, Once Bitten Twice Shy,

As mentioned above "Low" by Cracker, is a great song

RadioHead has a bunch of good songs

The Police...Synch II, Roxanne,

Seger... The Fire Down Below, Turn the Page, Main Street, Night Moves, Rock n Roll Never Forgets.

Skid Row....Monkey Business, Slave to the Grind

any song from Van Halen's 1st album (has to be the best debut album by any band in history. It's ridiculous how good they were at that age)

I'll stop here, but I could go on for days.
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Now that is what I'm talking about. I could listen to that stuff all day playing pool.
 
doesn't matter - 99.9% of the time I have something else playing in my head anyway....IF the two overlap (jukebox & my head), I hafta sit for a minute, til they are in sync. When I do notice what's playing on the jukebox, I laugh....Sunday nite for instance, I heard - All I do oooh oooh oooh oooh, oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh....I went back to blocking it out. lol
 
"Rack Um Up" Jonny Lang
"Highway to Hell" AC/DC
"Dirty Deeds Done Cheap" AC/DC
"Big Balls" AC/DC
"Friend of the Devil" Grateful Dead
 
trustyrusty said:
doesn't matter - 99.9% of the time I have something else playing in my head anyway....IF the two overlap (jukebox & my head), I hafta sit for a minute, til they are in sync. When I do notice what's playing on the jukebox, I laugh....Sunday nite for instance, I heard - All I do oooh oooh oooh oooh, oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh....I went back to blocking it out. lol
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If I hear that song once more, I'm gonna poke someone in the eye with a needle, or break off a glass rod in someone's a _ _.
 
My Favorite Grateful Dead Joke

9 on the snap said:
Any jammin' song by the Grateful Dead. It takes me back to college when I used to play a lot of bar-box 8 ball, and do pretty well against my fellow students at the hippie pub. I remember one night they tried to get an advantage by putting a "special" sugar cube in my pitcher of Budweiser. It didn't affect my game in the least. I said something like, "This games even easier when the balls leave trails!" :thumbup:
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Q: What did one DeadHead say to the other DeadHead when they ran out of pot?
















A: This music sucks!
 
The clicking of the balls, and quiet whispers, with NO music playing. (And I'm a musician).

I like it old school. Dark, quiet, and smokey. :thumbup:
 
its got so bad

I take an ipod and listen to Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles and some 80's
metal and a tad of funk ..... That's the coolest thing ever that the guitar
player from Great White post on here .I loved that song Rock Me !!! Some
of the newer rock they play at the pool room here is great guitar but the
vocals are so off and bad I cant take it .......its so bad .....
 
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14oneman said:
The clicking of the balls, and quiet whispers, with NO music playing. (And I'm a musician).

I like it old school. Dark, quiet, and smokey. :thumbup:
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I dunno man, if it's toooooo quiet then everyone can hear all of the f-bombs and "noooooo, slow down"s going around


plus, I used to not notice it but since I quit smoking going to the poolhall makes my eyes and nose burn like a mofo
 
I have a WIDE variety of favorites....I like to play the Chili Peppers version of Higher Ground while warming up (at a local place); it kinda reshuffles a playlist in my head....then anyone else can play anything they want on the jukebox - I'm set.

I'm a HUGE believer in everyone having a natural rhythm to whatever they do. Take a look around the poolhall (or where I noticed it first, on the golf course). That's why some have "their songs". If you allow something or someone to get you outta that rhythm....not good.

Good thread for reminding me of this!
 
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True story. I was twenty two games down at $20 a game on the barbox and getting ready to quit. The guy who was putting up most of my money raised the bet to $100 a game and put on "Turn the Page" 12 times in a row. See, the guy I was playing was listening to rap and just running around the table. That's another story. Let's just say he had a lot of "energy."

Oh yeah, I think I won in the neighborhood of $4 or 5oo? I have it written down in my black book. That's been a long time ago. One of my all time best comebacks. Probably the best.
 
I once wrote an article in All About Pool that dealt with this subject I listed songs that belonged in the juke box's in pool rooms and why:
Here's some that come back to my mind:

Hit Me With Your Best Shot: What the object ball says to the cue ball
The Long And Winding Road: The losers side of a double elimination chart
Beautiful Loser: Nobody I know
Shooting Star: Self explanatory
Some Guys Have All The Luck,Some Guys Get All The Breaks, Some Guys Do Nothing But Complain: The Pool-Players National Anthem
 
Most of the early seventies back

Mo-town, country, or rock from the early seventies back mostly all work fine. The long version of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven can make me forget it isn't 1973 and that I have forgotten how to play pool.

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Oh, I left out Eric Clapton, I could play pool to that music for hours...

Also Nirvana, Live and Unplugged in New York....
 
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