Do you sing?

[Ariel Badger]

In the bath, In the pub, at the footie, at funerals, at weddings, Karaoke, in church etc.
I went to a carol concert today ( no, the god botherers have not got to me, my friend Becky is in the choir and I went to support her) No way was I joining in though. I was told at five that I should do the world a favour and never try to sing in public and I have paid heed that advice ever since.
Your opinions and experiences please.
____________________
Bikers make great organ donors, get 115 on your licence today.

[MaybeGuy]

i sing like fuck in my helmet.
i also make up some awesome improvised ones about whats going on as i ride along.

traffic lights can be awkward
____________________
Blue_SV650S wrote: it was a sh1te wheelie, but it proves that he can get it up in 3rd and can do angles. In summery, mattsprattuk is a gobby little sh1tebag, dopehead tw4t, but sadly for all of us, he probably isn't THAT full of sh1te!!
Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

[Flip]

[WildGoose]

I like to sing, but not around others, haven't the confidence as I can't stand hearing the sound of my own nasal Watford-esque voice.

I play Ukulele and sing to accompany that, I enjoy it, but doubt i'd ever really be able to do it in front of many others. Strange in a way, as I chose the instrument based on the ability to sing whilst playing it.

There were many other reasons though.
____________________
So in other words, he stopped you for being flagrantly in posession of a motorcycle in direct contravention of the Hippies, Darkies and People Whose Face I Don't Like The Look of (Police Powers) Act. 1976

[Itchy]

The trick is to find songs which always sound good no matter what,

The Russian national anthem is a song that always sounds good from drunk off their head russians it sounded faily good.

In China a song called blood stained glory a propaganda song is also excellent

Hong Lowai here sings it in terrible mandarin,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yac7tNWaeok&feature=related

Yet the underlying bits the song writers wrote makes it jerk at the heart strings of every Chinese person. Same with a song called Tomorrow will be better (a Taiwanese propaganda song).

For english songs many rolling stones songs are good as they are virtually spoken rather than sung, Paint it Black it a virtual monologue with a bit of shouting in it.

You can buy Karaoke machines that plug into your TV which have a scale on the screen on the practice modes which allows you to adjust to where you are failing.
____________________
Spain 2008France 2007Big one 2009 We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. In the end, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.

[Redoko]

Never. The only exception being when I'm riding. I stop when I slow down because people might still hear me.
____________________
"Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing."
Sudika Sportsman SK50QT > Gilera DNA50 > Honda CBR125 RW7 > Kawasaki Zephyr750 > Suzuki GSXR600 > Honda Hornet CB600F '51

[The999Kid]

Im a choir bod... or used to be after being blackmailed into it by my music teacher because i was singing for my music Alevel.

I then found out it was because he needed a tenor to lead that section of teh choir.. aswell as do numerous solos for his newly creasted disasterpieces...

Though solo.. i've done a few things...
____________________
NDB 19/10/1989 - 1/11/2010 |Nowhere.Elyseum wrote: I get the distinct feeling that Tim should be our secret weapon for future trolling. I don't know many people that can rip the piss in Iambic pentameter

[Flip]

[Ariel Badger]

This was a very middle class gig at Birmingham Town Hall. There was a very mono-cultural theme to the choir and audience ( too many white people in the same place scare me) and most of those there embraced the singing. In fact a lot of the audience seem to be the kind of people that live for Christmas in all its Anglo-Saxon splendour. My working class mouth was kept firmly shut.
____________________
Bikers make great organ donors, get 115 on your licence today.

[The999Kid]

[Ariel Badger]

[The999Kid]

[stinkwheel]

I sing a lot. Used to be a karaoke league in my town before the council put a stop to it by insisting that all pubs that held it bought a public entertainments licence at the cost of several hundred pounds (thereby negating the whole point of having it which was to get people through ther door on quiet Tuesday nights in winter).

I used to specialise in paint it black, Homeward Bound and Catch the Wind.

If I was feeling in particularly good voice, I'd do Vincent or something by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers (did californication once on request, now that is a difficult song to sing!).

Feeling in bad voice, Passenger by Iggy Pop was a shoe-in.

I'm trying to work on my falsetto. I reckon I could manage something by Sparks but nowhere near the range of the Darkness yet. I showed off at a carole concert I was dragged to the other weekend by singing the descant part to "Good king Wenceslas" followed by the bass in the next verse.

I also like a good Scottish folk song round the campfire. Mingulay Boat song, The Dark Island and The Rape of Glencoe being favourites.
____________________
“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[st3v3]

[Alexio]

I sing one heck of a lot, it is one of the largest part of my life.

Grew up singing in a church choir, sang and acted the lead male part in my primary school musical, sang in the royal albert hall at 11 years old, have been broadcasted in insignificant things before, am addicted to karaoke singing everything and anything, play my guitar and sing every day, do open mic nights and recently I've been singing in my band doing local gigs etc.

I sing to strangers rather a lot, it's a fun thing to do. I'm going to try X-Factor next year for a laugh I think!
____________________
will never give up his CG. I look at my fuel gauge more as a progress bar than a fuel gauge.
G: With my GSXR I do often effectively use it as a scooter with a clutch in town.
ms51ves3: why does it need 500 miles? Are you teaching it how to be a piston?

[lostboy]

Used to help my mate out a bit with his karaoke sets at the local pub, I have been told I'm quite good and entered a few competitions actually lost one stars in their eyes type contest on the basis that the judges didn't know the effing song, the guy running it did and said I should have won but got a few drinks vouchers in return.
Do a reasonable Richard Marx, Ronan keating, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Cliff Richard, Roy Orbison, Chris De Burgh, Elvis Presley and with my youngest bro the Bee Gee's. He too is a pretty good singer but has his own voice where as I tend to impersonate.
Once got offered a gig singing with an ex who was also into karaoke but she backed out we used to do some great duets, The problem with me is that I don't have my own singing voice so never bothered with the talent shows though I always thought about trying one for a laugh.
____________________
Never invite a vampire into your house you silly boy!

[GhostRider]

I can do a pretty damn good Shaggy impersonation, however I have yet to unleash it to the masses. I was at my missus work
colleagues 40th birthday the other week and they tried to make
me do it but I bottled it, mainly because I was in a room of complete strangers, had it been a majority of people I know (and hence people who know I'm a twat already) then I'd have bellowed out a selection of his best hits.

Othe than that I think I could pull off 'Starlight' by muse, based purely off my attempts at home and within thr confines of my helmet.

When I was still commuting, my walk to the train station was largely a mile and a half barely seeing anyone, so I used to sing at full volume with my headphones on, occasionally checking that there was no one around. This worked fine until my ex asks me one day if u sing when I'm walking to and from the station, I cautiously confirmed this but asked how she knew. She told me that one of her friends and her boyfriend had been walking behind me for a good mile or so whilst I randomly blurted out verses here and there (bear in mind I listen to a lot of heavy metal and on occasion will attempt to replicate a Hetfield growl or Anselmo Scream). I can only imagine what that must have looked like, and how much they eould have been pissing themselves laughing.

GhostRider
____________________
I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

[Skudd]

My younger sister does Opera, she has just come back from Germany doing a few concerts, but that singing gene has passed me by.
____________________
Famous last words of Humpty Dumpty. " Stop pushing me "
Petty Anarchists look at "1984".............. The Visionary looks at "Animal Farm".

[pyx_e]

Yes, a lot, at the drop of a hat. Work and pleasure.
____________________
Shiney!
Kawasaki: ER5, Versys, VN900.

[D O G]

Yup, I sing loads, 99% in the house, mostly to the kids.

It was only yesterday that I was singing 'I believe [Child's Name] can fly', whilst picking her up and flying her round the room, getting the old 'spread your wings' on the go etc and getting her to flap her arms.

I sing a lot of nonsence rhymes on the spot too, about eating dinner, going to the park, that sort of shit. Sing to the missus etc.

Mostly on the amusing side of things.

I've done karaoke a couple of times (twice), and it was alright, would do it again, but I wouldn't hunt it out.

I think I'd be distraught if I could never sing again.

[Ariel Badger]

Gosh you are a musical lot!
I think I would rather poo in public than sing, far less embarrassing IMHO.
____________________
Bikers make great organ donors, get 115 on your licence today.

[The Shaggy D.A.]

I used to sing backing when I gigged, but I've now started singing lead. I've a problem with polyps now though, and sound nasally and flat unless I sing higher than I'd like to. You can hear it here in Stop the Cavalry, but Nobody's Diary is bearable. I do the multiple backing on Funeral for a Friend/Love lies Bleeding, but intend to redo it singing lead too, as the guy who did it hadn't heard it before (and kills it)
____________________
Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
Currently : Royal Enfield 350 Meteor
Previously : CB100N > CB250RS > XJ900F > GT550 > GPZ750R/1000RX > AJS M16 > R100RT > Bullet 500 > CB500 > LS650P > Bullet Electra X & YBR125 > Bullet 350 "Superstar" & YBR125 Custom > Royal Enfield Classic 500 Despatch Limited Edition (28 of 200) & CB Two-Fifty Nighthawk > ER5

[Annabella]

In private I sing all the time, I sing to myself, sing along to whatever music is playing or sing when I play the piano... next to master is singing whilst playing the violin.

Outside the safe boundary of my home, car and helmet I don't do singing. I was forced into singing in school and university choirs and vocal ensembles which has damaged me for life.

Singing is good for your soul
____________________
Avast! Pirates ahoy!
I did Cadwell!
www.bikepics.com/members/bella

[yen_powell]

There is one song that anyone, even the tonally challenged can join in without disgracing themselves.

Crazy Horses, impossible to get wrong, especially after a few drinks!
____________________
Blackmail is a nasty word........but not as nasty as phlegm!
XT1200Z and a DR350 in bits

[aaronb74]

Used to be in the choir at primary school, until I found out those who weren't in it were allowed out to play football instead.

These days I only ever sing in my car or helmet
____________________
Current bike - 2006 ZX6R